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Anti-war demonstrations, April 27, 1968
by Liberation News Service
Fifth Estate # 54, May 16-31, 1968
Washington, D. C., April 28 (LNS)—Hundreds of thousands of Americans demonstrated against the war in Vietnam and in some cities against racism yesterday in parades and rallies in 17 American cities.
The Hungry Sheep Look Up And Are Not Fed
by James John Bell
Fifth Estate # 360, Spring, 2003
Related: see “Anarchy, food and sustainability” (theme intro) in this issue. “But what can they hope to gain by attacking the only company that devotes itself exclusively to pure foods? “My guess…Maybe collect data on as many slip-ups as …
Rubin vs. Ochs
by Jerry Rubin, Phil Ochs
Fifth Estate # 53, May 1-15, 1968
In the aftermath of L.B.J.’s sudden shocker,* a heated dialogue between Phil Ochs, folksinger, and Jerry Rubin, Yippie organizer, took place on the subject of America, Johnson, Kennedy and the movement. Perhaps it was not untypical…
Detroit: A Progress Report
by Harvey Ovshinsky
Fifth Estate # 14, September 15, 1966
After closing the office on Plum Street and selling my last “Sterilize LBJ” button, I walked downtown where the old Vanguard Theatre used to be. It provided a few minutes of indecision because two skin-flicks were playing and I had …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 304, December 31, 1980
The FE Bookstore is located in the same place as the Fifth Estate and can be found at 4403 Second Ave. Detroit—telephone (313) 831-6800. The hours that we’re open vary quite a bit, so it’s always best that you give …
Fascist Youth Gangs Plague West Coast
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 322, Winter-Spring, 1986
In the last few years there has been a rapid increase of right-wing white gangs in Southern California’s white, middle-class suburbs. Known as “white-boy gangs,” they are not as territorial as the traditional cultural gangs in black or Mexican urban …
The Torch Drive
by Dennis Witkowski
Fifth Estate # 267, November, 1975
The Fifth Estate has published information exposing the Torch Drive hustle for the past several years. In keeping with this tradition, the following article presents an up-to-date account of what the Torch Drive is really about; how they initially get …
Off Center
by Sol Plafkin
Fifth Estate # 34, July 15-31, 1967
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 …
“We Have No Country!”
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 5, March 6-20, 1966
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is an edited transcription of a press conference held in the Greenville office of the Delta Ministry Tuesday evening, February 1, 1966. The participants include three spokesmen of the over 70 poor Negroes who occupied the barracks …
Calendar
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 17, November 1-15, 1966
The calendar will be a regular FIFTH ESTATE feature. We know that there is more happening in the Detroit and Ann Arbor areas than what we have listed, so we need your help. Send us information about what your group …
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 290, March 2, 1978
Ammunition Books shares space with the Fifth Estate Newspaper and can be found at 4403 Second Avenue, Detroit, Mich. 48201 (telephone-313-831-6800). Our hours vary, but we are generally open on Monday and Thursday afternoons (from 1pm to 5pm) and at …
How to Support Anti-War GIs
by Walker Lane (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 367, Winter 2004-2005
As Bush’s Iraq quagmire begins to take on the same qualities as the war in Vietnam—fighting an insurgent population, mounting US casualties, increased slaughter of civilians, destruction of the country to “save it,” no exit strategy—so, too, does military opposition.
Calemdar
by Karen Kovac, Naiomi Epil
Fifth Estate # 42, November 15-30, 1967
The calendar is prepared by Fifth Estate calendar girls, Karen Kovac and Naomi Epel, [Naiomi Epil —Web Archiver] with cooperation from Detroit Adventure. Copy deadline is the 6th and 22nd of each month and should be sent to the Fifth …
All Isms are Wasms
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 365, Summer, 2004
Introduction by Sunfrog As one of the more outspoken non-atheists in the FE collective, it’s fitting that one of my early memories of the project was an argument about religion. I was hanging out in the office under the auspices …
Tales from the Planet
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 355, Fall-Winter, 2000
Quick! Call the Anarchist Anti-Defamation League (AADL). It’s bad enough when every corporate media outlet uses anarchism as a synonym for chaos, but now an English company has gone even further.
Expose ’67
by Frank H. Joyce
Fifth Estate # 40, October 15-31, 1967
The Fifth Estate has obtained a copy of a letter, one paragraph of which states: “As far as I am concerned, the local police in every community must be prepared to draw fast and not let the bleeding hearts again …
Utah Phillips (1935-2008)
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 378, Summer 2008
The IWW and the labor movement lose a troubadour Utah Phillips, a seminal figure in American folk music, who performed tirelessly on two continents for 38 years, died May 23 of congestive heart failure in Nevada City, California, a small …
League of Revolutionary Black Workers
by Fifth Estate Collective, John Watson
Fifth Estate # 79, May 15-28, 1969
This interview was conducted and transcribed by Dena Clamage. [Part 1 of the interview appeared in FE #78, May 1-14, 1969.]
Off Center
by Sol Plafkin
Fifth Estate # 42, November 15-30, 1967
The Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) had its long-awaited dinner at the Rackham Bldg. recently, only a few days after anti-war demonstrators had clashed with the warmakers and local gendarmes in the same locals.