“If we want to do much more fucking, we’re going to have to start fighting. If we want to be able to live we have to start fighting and not let ourselves be fucked around any longer by this shitpile …
FE Author: John Sinclair
Rock & Roll Dope
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 67, November 28-December 11, 1968
People need music to live. We know that and act on it, all ways. Only straight people—honkies—think music is superfluous, that it doesn’t make any difference what you listen to, and their lives demonstrate their ignorance. Music shapes us and …
White Panther Statement
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 66, November 14-27, 1968
First I must say that this statement, like all statements is bullshit without an active program to back it up. We have a program which is on-going and total and which must not be confused with anything that is said …
Rock and Roll Dope
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 64, October 17-30, 1968
Hi kids, sorry I wasn’t here last time but I got a little depressed by Cella Alderson’s letter and just couldn’t get it together in time for the deadline. The only reason I write this shit is because people seem …
Prison Letter from John
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 90, October 16-29, 1969
Sept. 30, 1969 Dear People, Sorry I haven’t written in so long but I wanted to get settled up here before writing you again. There seems to be a lot more going on out there in the streets than happens …
Poem for Warner Stringfellow
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 85, August 7-20, 1969
Detective Lieutenant, Detroit Narcotics Squad, who has been single-handedly responsible for busting me on two separate occasions for possessing and selling marijuana . and who stumbled into my new apartment last night by accident over a year since the last …
Letter from Prison
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 85, August 7-20, 1969
John Sinclair Southern Michigan State Prison Jackson, Michigan Dear Leni & Everybody:
The Coat Puller
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 59, August 1-14, 1968
Editor’s note: Brother Sinclair’s Coatpuller column is re-printed here exactly as it appeared in this paper one year ago. It was written at the height of the July Rebellion and contains one of the best impressionistic sketches of that week.
Pigs Attack Sinclair
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 59, August 1-14, 1968
Poet John Sinclair and MC5 guitarist Fred Smith were brutally assaulted, beaten, MACEd, and arrested by members of the National Security Police and the Oakland County (Michigan) Sheriffs Dept. while performing at a Michigan teen-club on July 23rd.
Flash
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 58, July 18-31, 1968
Pun Plamondon is still in jail in Traverse City in lieu of $20,000 bond. We haven’t been able to get an attorney to work for him for free, and we can’t possibly get the bond up. If there are any …