If there’s anything more disgusting than a person who has no guts, its a person who has half-guts. For example, Rep. John Conyers, Jr. For the past several weeks I’ve been writing about the wonderful job he was doing in …
FE Author: Sol Plafkin
Off Center
by Sol Plafkin
Fifth Estate # 33, July 1-15, 1967
The ridiculous bill in the U.S. House of Representatives to penalize flag-burners passed by a whopping majority (385 to 16) last week—but in their haste, the patriotic legislators forgot to include the specific term “burning” in their prohibition. They did …
Council Rejects City’s Bike Ban
by Sol Plafkin
Fifth Estate # 33, July 1-15, 1967
Intelligence finally reigned supreme recently when Detroit’s Common Council tore apart Ray Girardin’s stupid proposal to ban motorcycles from city parks without a special permit. The proposal was immediately condemned by the American Civil Liberties Union as unconstitutional and in …
Off Center
by Sol Plafkin
Fifth Estate # 7, April 1966
Drums are rolling early and heavy in the Michigan Democratic Party’s forthcoming internal civil war with Detroit’s 37-year-old Mayor Jerome P. Cavanagh pitted against just-retired Asst. Sec. of State for African Affairs and former governor, 55-year-old G. Mennen villiams.
Off Center
by Sol Plafkin
Fifth Estate # 61, Sept. 5-18, 1968
The rabid anti-Communist vultures are now having a field day. They are suddenly showing a concern for the people of Czechoslovakia which they never exhibited for the Blacks in Rhodesia and South Africa or the Orientals in Vietnam.
Off Center
by Sol Plafkin
Fifth Estate # 60, August 15-September 4, 1968
One of the most noticeable things about the primary election this month was the unusually low turnout especially for a Presidential year. The excitement of a forthcoming national election contest generally creates among the electorate a greater interest in the …