Citizens for Peace in Vietnam, an organization of Detroit area residents opposed to U.S. involvement in Vietnam, was re-activated recently with the holding of its first general ‘meeting since last March. “There has been a widespread demand for the re-convening …
In March of 1966 Michigan Bell Telephone sent the following notice to its customers: “Your telephone bill reflects an increase in the federal excise tax on local and long distance telephone and teletypewriter services. “The increase is a result of …
The Fort Hood Three Defense Committee announced that civil liberties attorneys Stanley Faulkner and Selma Samols went before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, Dec. 13, to argue once again, in the case of Pvt. Robert …
Firestorm Books, a fifteen-year-old collectively-run anarchist bookstore and community event space in Asheville, N.C., is sending back thousands of children’s books banned from the Duval County Public School system in Florida. The queer- and trans-owned bookstore has given away thousands …
As a follow-up to the Nov. 8 elections in Alabama, and as a result of black people voting in those elections for the first time in their lives, the white landowners are retaliating by evicting large numbers of black farm …
The Court Theatre has announced the cancellation of its scheduled production of Marat / Sade due to its revival in New York. As an alternate the Court will present the Detroit premiere of Joan Little-wood’s London hit, “Oh, What A …
Anti-war forces in Detroit are preparing to respond to a call for a national mobilization called at a meeting last month of anti-war groups.
Fifth Estate Issue #21, January 1-15, 1967 WEB CONTENTS ALL FIFTH ESTATE ISSUES FIFTH ESTATE HOME
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EDITOR & PUBLISHER Harvey Ovshinsky MANAGING EDITOR Peter Werbe NEWS & POLITICAL EDITORS R. Fleck & F. Joyce ART & LAYOUT Gary Grimshaw EDITORIAL Assistant Cathy West CIRCULATION Wilson Lindsey PHOTOGRAPHY E. Bacilla, Wilson Lindsey, Magdaline Sinclair TRAVEL EDITOR Sheil …