There is an obvious need for revolutionary media in the black community, states editor John Watson in explaining the creation of a new newspaper for the black community.
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Bach on Rock
by Franklin Bach
Fifth Estate # 20, December 15-31, 1966
It was a Thursday night, December 8, at Wayne State’s Community Arts Auditorium. I was about to hear Lyman Woodward play for the first time…Mustachioed John Sinclair came out of the wings and quietly told us Lyman was going to …
Leary Busted (and other briefs)
by Liberation News Service, Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 71, January 23-February 5, 1969
LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. (LNS)—Dr. Timothy Leary, his wife and teen-age son, John, have been arrested here for possession of marijuana. The long time and old time guru said that the arrests were part of a continuing campaign of police harassment. …
Trans-Love Offers Services
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 58, July 18-31, 1968
The Trans-Love Energies commune is now offering three new services in which you may be interested:
“Negotiation Now” Drive On
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 36, August 15-31, 1967
A statewide Negotiation Now campaign, sponsored by the Metropolitan Detroit Chapter of Americans for Democratic Action, is now in operation at full speed, according to John A. Fillion, director of the campaign. The Negotiation Now effort—sponsored nationally by prominent civic …
Plymouth Legal Battle Rages
by Victor Mansfield
Fifth Estate # 89, October 2-15, 1969
PLYMOUTH—With the deft hand of a club wielding savage, Garden City District Judge Richard Hammer, sat in Plymouth District Court Sept. 9, and summarily dismissed a suit against the city without allowing the complainant a chance to present his case.
Beatle Squashed
by Liberation News Service
Fifth Estate # 65, October 31-November 13, 1968
LONDON (LNS)—Beatle John Lennon and his girlfriend, avant-garde filmmaker Yoko Ono, were busted in London recently for possession of marijuana. The pair were arrested when police raided Lennon’s fashionable apartment at Montague Square in the Marylebone district of the city. …
The Louie Love-in
by Ben Habeebe, Richard Lone Eagle
Fifth Estate # 32, June 15-30, 1967
1. by Ben Habeebe You should have seen Louie’s face. He was beaming like the hero they were trying to make him out to be. Boy, were they laying it on him. The Detroit News (which pitches: “If You …
Other Scenes
by John Wilcock
Fifth Estate # 73, February 20-March 5, 1969
Performer James Brown is one Negro who’s certainly managed to come to terms on his own with Black Power. First he gave a cozy, bear-hugging endorsement of Hubert Humphrey (himself just back from hugging Lester Maddox) and then, when HHH’s …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 79, May 15-28, 1969
To the Editors: We just finished reading your paper “the 5th Estate” dated April 3-16, which couldn’t be classified as good trash. After wasting 4 books of matches we finally got your paper burning so we could heat our …
Grande Gets Ready
by Mixed Mead-Ear
Fifth Estate # 57, July 4-18, 1968
Unaccustomed though I may be to giving advice which will earn money for someone other than myself I feel duty bound to give you some information concerning two forthcoming attractions at the Grande Ballroom.
“Get the big stuff”
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 35, August 1-15, 1967
“The chickens are coming home to roost” —Malcolm X, Nov. 22, 1963 Malcolm was right, of course, and the chickens have come home so many ways since that grim day four years ago. Vietnam, Malcolm’s own death, riots across the …
Human Be-In
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 30, May 15-31, 1967
A Human Be-In in the Flint area will happen on Sunday, May 21, from 10 a.m. until dusk at the Byram Lake park outside of Linden, Michigan. Organized by Trans-Love Energies of Flint, the Be-In will take place in a …
Today’s Television Programs
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 279, December, 1976
MORNING 7:00 channel 2 Bozo the Clown Bozo and Mr. Houdini are joined by Lyndon La Rouche (aka Lyn Marcus) of the U.S. Labor Party for kiddie games and a masquerade. channel 4 Sesame Street The Fonz (Henry Winkler) shows …
Thee Column
by Larry Kaplan
Fifth Estate # 98, February 4-18, 1970
HELP: I’ve got the clap, but because of night classes, I can’t get to the Open City Free Medical Clinic. Is there anywhere I can get treatment during the daytime? —J.M. City of Detroit to the rescue! The Detroit Social …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 91, October 30-November 12, 1969
Dear Editors: I just finished reading your latest “words of wisdom.” Isn’t it about time you knocked it off? Words are works, I agree, but more appropriate adjectives may be found in any pocket dictionary.
Editors’ Notes
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 67, November 28-December 11, 1968
Reading the Fifth Estate last issue was sort of a magical mystery tour with none of the teasers on the front page corresponding to the proper pages and a number of other horrors. This was caused by last minute surgery …
The Coatpuller
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 12, August 15, 1966
It’s good to be back with you again. The Festival Sunday was one of the most beautiful things I have ever experienced, and I think a lot of the people there had the same experience as myself. There were SO …
Detroit Poets Challenge DCEW, Artists’ Workshop
by League of Revolutionary Poets
Fifth Estate # 14, September 15, 1966
Conformist Logic & The Political Question (An open letter to the Artists’ Workshop and the Detroit Committee to End the War in Vietnam.)
Riots Revisited
by Peter Werbe, T. Fulano (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 376, Halloween, 2007
“July1967” by T. Fulano, from FE 326, Summer 1987 It was a full scale beggar’s banquet, the return of the repressed, a surprise party. The city people, young and old, black and white, went through the pawnshop windows like meteorites. …