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The draft resistance action at the Cadillac Tower Selective Service headquarters on October 16 and the busloads of people from Detroit who joined the assault on the Pentagon in Washington, DC brought the first winds of the new turn taken …

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The Fifth Estate 1107 W. Warren Detroit 48201 EDITORS Harvey Ovshinsky Peter Werbe NEWS EDITOR Frank H. Joyce EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Cathy West CIRCULATION MANAGER Tommye Wiess ACE REPORTER John Sinclair ART AND LAY-OUT Gary Grimshaw Carl Lundgren FILM EDITOR Joe …

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Happy hippies and costumed peace freaks assembled behind DeRoy Auditorium on Wayne University’s campus for the 2nd Annual Halloween March the night of Oct. 31. Led by John Schwartz, alias Jacob Odaryan, the march was to bring an absurdist dance …

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The anti-war movement has recently become actively involved in the type of resistance protests that has brought a violent reaction from the forces of law and order. One has only to witness the police terror perpetrated on demonstrators at Oakland, …

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Fifth Estate Issue #42, November 15-30, 1967 WEB CONTENTS ALL FIFTH ESTATE ISSUES FIFTH ESTATE HOME

The next project of Abigail Susik, author of Surrealist Sabotage and the War on Work, investigates the radical connections between anarchism and surrealism through the little-known figure of Jonathan Leake and his work in the 1960s with the magazine, Resurgence. …

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Energies of the West Central Organization, since its formal emergence on the Detroit scene in June,1965, have exploded the myth of “apathy” inherent in the behavior of “poor folks.” Human beings—Negro, white, Mexican, Maltes, and Puerto Rican—who have never fully …

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“The bombing won’t stop us. We’re still going full speed ahead with our plans.” Jack Weinberg, a member of the Vietnam Day Committee, said this quietly only hours after he and 10 other VDC members had narrowly escaped death in …

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Washington, March 29, (UPI)—The Defense Department called today for the drafting of 34,600 men in May. It had asked for 21,700 for April. The Army still needs 90,000 more men to complete its buildup for the Vietnam war. The new …

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Fifth Estate Issue #8, May, 1966 WEB CONTENTS ALL FIFTH ESTATE ISSUES FIFTH ESTATE HOME