A strange polarization (or maybe it’s a natural one) seems to be happening with rock and roll fans right now, with white teenage audiences turning toward either total freek scenes or greasy reactionary hostility when confronted with the revolutionary guerrilla …
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Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 90, October 16-29, 1969
To John Sinclair: Hey John, I’ve been digging your doings way back since 1965. I have always respected and, I might add, shared, your point of view on this whole pig establishment.
In the High Schools
by Dave Watson (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 81, June 12-25, 1969
To high school students who are going to be free and happy this Summer, remember the future; the Man will come in the Fall and lead you back to the zoo where he can watch you and work on you …
What’s On
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 6, March 20-April 1, 1966
SUNDAY FILMS: The Bank, The Tramp, A Woman and Police, with Charlie Chaplin (1915). Henry Ford Museum Theater. 2 and 4 p.m Adm. chg. 3/20 MUSIC AND READING: The Detroit Contemporary 4 and reading by David Sinclair. Artists’ Workshop. 7 …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 86, August 21-September 3, 1969
Dear Editors: The letter in your August 7 issue [FE #85, August 7-20, 1969] from the corpsman in Da Nang harbor has prompted me to relate a similar experience to you.
Other Scenes
by John Wilcock
Fifth Estate # 75, March 20-April 2, 1969
NEW YORK—Marijuana smokers are “significantly more likely” to report attending happenings, reading underground newspapers and participating in mass protests.
Non Serviam
by John G. Rodwan, Jr.
Fifth Estate # 415, Summer 2024
Not going to do it Or even pretend. . Go to church and swear Obedience to inscrutable Deities whose very existence Strains credulity? . Not going to do it Or even pretend. . Made-up stories starring Anthropomorphic, jealous Super-creatures with …
Grimshaw not Obscene
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 81, June 12-25, 1969
LANSING—Justice moves slowly. Two years ago Gary Grimshaw, who at that time was art director for the Fifth Estate, was arrested in the Artists’ Workshop office on John Lodge for displaying an obscene kite. The kite had on it an …
City Lights Journal 3
by Carl Robb
Fifth Estate # 35, August 1-15, 1967
a review of City Lights Journal Number Three. San Francisco, City Lights Books. $2.50.
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 38, September 15-30, 1967
Dearest Hippie Editor: I think you guys at the Fifth Estate are the biggest clot of hypocrites I have ever had witness to. Some people wrote some letters to the Editor in your Aug. 15-31 issue. They called you hypocrites. …
Film
by Emil Bacilla
Fifth Estate # 16, October 16-31, 1966
Maybe film was only playing possum. It sure looked dead, though… Nothing was happening. The few people I had managed to find that were interested in film were leaving town. Most of the good theaters were closing. There was obviously …
AnarchoShorts
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 394, Summer 2015 - Technology
It was fifty years ago this summer that the lead singer of a band from a working class Detroit suburb screamed into a mic, “Kick out the jams, motherfucker,” inaugurating a wild ride into rock history.
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 70, January 9-22, 1969
To the Editors: John Watson and the Fifth Estate are revolutionaries and that’s why they support the Teamster workers. [See “The News Gets Ready,” FE #68, December 12-25, 1968.] Revolutionaries remember 1937 when industrial workers in Flint fought the …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 72, February 6 - 19, 1969
To the Editors: William Leach from the Black Panther Party is absolutely correct (“The White Left—Serious or Not?” FE #70, January 9-22, 1969) when he points out that white so-called revolutionaries have not organized anyone in the white community—we …
Pigman Meets the Super Media
by Thorne Dreyer
Fifth Estate # 68, December 12-25, 1968
NEW YORK (LNS)—The media of the revolution is mushrooming through America. The growth of the underground and movement press is phenomenal. Equally notable is the outrage and fear which it creates in those whose interests it opposes. As the radical …
Gary Grimshaw 1946-2014
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 391, Spring/Summer 2014 - Anarchy!
The passing of graphic artist, Gary Grimshaw, is mourned by his family and all those who knew him, as well as the rock and art community.
Festivals All Over
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 82, June 26-July 9, 1969
Mike Quatro, the producer of the “Detroit Pop Festival” last April is bringing us another festival, complete with at least seventeen local and national rock attractions with a carnival-festival atmosphere.
Off Center
by Sol Plafkin
Fifth Estate # 30, May 15-31, 1967
One nice thing about public feuds between politicians is that it gives everybody a rare chance to see part of what’s going on inside governmental circles. We learn, that at least to some extent, many decisions are made on the …
Right for America
by Durruti
Fifth Estate # 91, October 30-November 12, 1969
Six million Jews did not die in Germany during World War II, anyone should know there was but sixty thousand of them in all of Europe. Franklin Roosevelt was a dirty commie. John Sinclair is a dirty commie. Water fluoridation …
The Beatle in the Circus
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 70, January 9-22, 1969
LONDON (PWS) Beatle John Lennon is scheduled to head the list of guest stars set for the Rolling Stones’ first American television special, “The Rolling Stones’ Rock and Roll Circus.” Lennon, along with Eric Clapton, Keith Richard, and Mitch Mitchell …