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Beast #3
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 88, September 18-October 1, 1969
BEAST # 3 A POEM FOR JOHN SINCLAIR we are lonely we will attack you w/ our smallest uttered parts we will move w/ the mask of darkness w/ simple weapons & slit the bellies of yr women we will …
Cass-Forest Unitarian Church rocks
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 60, August 15-September 4, 1968
The weekend of September 6th, 7th and 8th will provide for diggers of radical-rock an unusual and revolutionary concept at the First Unitarian-Universalist Church, in the heart of the Warren-Forest Community (corner of Forest and Cass).
Outlaws Forever, Forever Outlaws
by Pun Plamondon
Fifth Estate # 98, February 4-18, 1970
Editor’s note: The following message from White Panther Minister of Defense in exile, Pun Plamondon, was read by his wife Geni at the Eastown Theatre, Jan 25 as part of the Free John Sinclair Day benefit. “The beginnings will not …
Film
by Emil Bacilla
Fifth Estate # 17, November 1-15, 1966
Well you see it was something like this. Larry Weiner (formerly mentioned in this column), Detroit film-maker, has finally gotten everything together for his long planned sequence for his long in the making film. The sequence involves some junior executive …
The Woodstock Nation
by Joyce
Fifth Estate # 87, September 4-17, 1969
WHITE LAKE, N.Y. (Good Times/UPS) —The Woodstock Festival was a huge nonviolent explosion of people and music. The New York Times called it a nightmare but it was more of a fantastic dream. True, there were low scenes—three accidental deaths, …
Abandon Automobile
by Fifth Estate Collective, Jason Kohser
Fifth Estate # 357, Summer 2002
poems like distilled scenes from the grey of a city whose lettuce days are just stories of a drunk at a vet’s bar poems whose hope defies common sense poems like old friends loves memories that haunt with each page …
New Laws may Reform Michigan Dope Statutes
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 100, March 5-18, 1970
The laws regarding the use of marijuana may become significantly less stringent if several bills before the Michigan State House of Representatives are enacted into law. A series of bills introduced by Rep. Dale Warner, Eaton Rapids Republican, would reclassify …
5th Estate Filling Void
by Victor Taranta
Fifth Estate # 4, February 12-March 1, 1966
Reprinted from The Daily Collegian Looking for something different in newspapers? Like to see current topics treated from a new angle? Interested in cultural events that don’t appear in the major papers? You might take a glance at “The Fifth …
Calendar
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 31, June 1-15, 1967
Thursday June 1 JUSTICE! Judge Gillis’ Courtroom 1326 St. Antoine. Trial Preliminaries concerning the “great reefer raid” of January 24th. John Sinclair and others will be up before the bench. Friends and sympathisers are urged to attend. 6/1 FILM: “Ipcress …
R.W.P.
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 94, December 11-24, 1969
Reprinted from Fire I. Necessity The average Amerikan cannot help but read several hundred thousand words per day of pig shit in the form of advertising, slogans on police cars, etc. Revolutionary wall painting effectively combats this totalitarian bombardment of …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 62, Sept. 19-Oct. 2, 1968
Editors: In regard to the events of Chicago during the convention week, I would like to submit the following information: On August 26, 10:30pm, a friend and I went to Lincoln Park. At this time a large group of people, …
Letters to the Editor
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 21, January 1-15, 1967
Open Letter to Frank Kofsky: Your article called “The Jazz Scene in America” [FE #18, November 15-30, 1966] was three columns of misinformation. For your information, of which you need much, there has not been a succession of saxophone …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 77, April 17-30, 1969
Brothers and Sisters, I’ve been watching all the shit going down around Detroit and our revolution either means we’re fighting for communism or black supremacy. I am not prejudiced, but want equality for all; not white or black supremacy. And …
Support Grows for City District System
by Frank H. Joyce
Fifth Estate # 31, June 1-15, 1967
The Rev. Charles Williams is a conservative, Negro, Republican Baptist. Robert Tindal is the executive director of the tradition-bound Civil Rights Organization to The Establishment—the NAACP. The Rev. Albert Cleage is a militant black power advocate and chairman of the …
Music as Revolution
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
The Fifth Estate has, since its inception, been inspired by radical music and various collective members have composed, played, produced, and reviewed music. In the first issue, the lead story lamented that Bob Dylan had given up folk music for …
The Coatpuller
by John Sinclair, Magdalene Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 10, July 15, 1966
“any image around which any people concentrate & omit themselves is a usable one just because it is theirs.” —Charles Olson, Apollonius of Tyrana
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 278, November, 1976
To paraphrase an ex-president; we won’t have The Detroit Sun to kick around anymore—the city’s “hottest paper” collapsed financially after its Oct. 22 issue, ending several months of weekly publication. In a desperate attempt to raise needed cash (the staff …
Editors’ Notes
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 82, June 26-July 9, 1969
As we go to press word has reached us that Recorder’s Court Judge Robert Colombo has dismissed charges of sales of marijuana against John Sinclair. His trial on the charge of possession began on June 24 and may be in …
Narks Bust Trans-Lovers in Ann Arbor
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 57, July 4-18, 1968
The Trans-Love commune of Ann Arbor (late of Detroit) was plundered by police June 18 when Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s Deputies took into custody Lawrence “Pun” Plamondon on a warrant charging him with “sale and dispension of marijuana” in Traverse …