UNCLASSIFIEDS cost 50 cents per line per issue. Figure four words per line. (A word is a word including one and two letter words. A phone number is a word. Street numbers are words. Abbreviations should be sensible. DISCOUNT RATES: …
Search results for: John Sinclair
Open City Meeting
by David Gaynes
Fifth Estate # 73, February 20-March 5, 1969
On Monday evening, February 20th, Alvin’s Delicatessen hosted the second “official” meeting of the OPEN CITY project.
Letters to the editors
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 358, Fall, 2002
We encourage your participation in this project with your comments on the publication & its perspectives. While we will read every letter, we will usually print the most enticing & engaging. E-mail letters or letters sent on disk are appreciated. …
Larry Miller
by Larry Miller
Fifth Estate # 11, July 30, 1966
First, I would like to thank the editors of The Fifth Estate for asking me to contribute. Folk music and the new music, called Folk-rock are my own areas of endeavor, and I hope I will be able to add …
Last of ’68
by Dennis Raymond
Fifth Estate # 70, January 9-22, 1969
Every Christmas season, the movie market is positively flooded with the year-end glut of new releases, and 1968 proved no exception.
Ten Million
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 99, February 19-March 4, 1970
Returning members of the Venceremos Cane Cutting Brigade encountered their comrades who will take up the work of the first contingent of the brigade in the sugar cane fields of Cuba. The Venceremos Brigade is a group of young Americans …
Vietnam Summer
by Frank H. Joyce
Fifth Estate # 32, June 15-30, 1967
There is, even though you may not have noticed it lately, still a war going on in Vietnam.
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 344, Summer, 1994
Welcome to the Summer 1994 Fifth Estate. Our center eight pages feature the return of the once-a-decade Daily Barbarian, which last appeared as an FE supplement in 1984. Just wait until 2004! Also, this 40-page issue is the largest in …
Films
by Dennis Raymond
Fifth Estate # 82, June 26-July 9, 1969
“The First Time” (Studio-North) When you see “The First Time” you begin to think that this “Graduate” bit is becoming a pretty poor excuse for a movie. This time the striking Jacqueline Bisset has the Mrs. Robinson role, and Wes …
Do Unions Raise Wages?
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 273, June 1976
Although unions have long been identified by left revolutionaries as auxiliary organs of capital whose function is to regulate the sale of their members’ labor power, the myth still persists that they are “defense organs of the working class.” Even …
Justice: Not Conditioned in Heaven
by Tom Martin
Fifth Estate # 406, Spring, 2020
The cornerstone of traditional anarchism has always been a revolutionary critique of the concept of justice in all its variations, particularly as it relates to the state’s repressive apparatus and the oppressive nature of capitalism. Today, that has been extended …
Let’s Eat!
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 295, November 3, 1978
Ford Surgery Fails Inside sources have reported that Betty Ford, formerly of state furniture capital Grand Rapids, Michigan, has fallen into a deep depression since her celebrated plastic surgery at a laetrile clinic in Tijuana, Mexico. Unknown to most people, …
Medium
by Emil Bacilla
Fifth Estate # 64, October 17-30, 1968
A lot of changes have been taking place lately on the local independent underground film scene. Ralph Pickett, of the Indian Pickers, has left the Detroit Repertory Theatre. Bill Unger is now in charge of the film showing. It’s interesting …
Events Calendar
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 278, November, 1976
FILMS Cass City Cinema—First Unitarian Church (Cass and Forest), $1.50 admission, 7:30 & 10:00 p.m. Nov. 19 & 20: “The Twelve Chairs,” (Mel Brooks). Nov. 26 & 27: “Emitai” (1971 from Senegal). Dec. 3 & 4: “This Man Must Die” …
Honkies Can’t Dig Soul Music
by Bill Kerby
Fifth Estate # 39, October 1-15, 1967
FE note: The following is excerpted from an interview with Mike Bloomfield, lead guitarist of the Electric Flag. In deleted portions of the interview, which will appear in its entirety in the next issue of Scene magazine, Bloomfield traces his …
Sounds
by Wilson Lindsey
Fifth Estate # 56, June 19-July 1, 1968
Children Of The Future: The Steve Miller Band (Capitol) Capitol Records thought so highly of this West Coast group that they saw fit to shell out a reputed $50,000 in advance to record them. On record Steve Miller’s band is …
Huey Sentenced
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 63, October 3-16, 1968
OAKLAND, Calif., Sept. 27—Huey P. Newton, Black Panther leader, was sentenced today to a prison term of 2 to 15 years for the voluntary manslaughter of John Frey, an Oakland cop.
News Shorts
by Bill Rowe
Fifth Estate # 94, December 11-24, 1969
Blacks Stand Up At Harvard Blacks at Harvard University seized the Administration Building December 5 demanding more black workers in administrative and service areas. Six hours later, the blacks gave up the building after an Administration promise to discuss the …
Black & Red Books Now Out-of-Print Influenced the Fifth Estate
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 398, Summer, 2017
Although many of the influential radical titles from Black & Red Books, printed at the Detroit-based Detroit Printing Co-op between 1970 and 1980 are out of print, their relevance hasn’t lessened with the passing years. It is hoped there is …
Black & Red Books Now Out-of-Print Influenced the Fifth Estate Read More »
Underground Incorporated
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 59, August 1-14, 1968
New York, July 23 (LNS)—Former Supreme Court Justice and UN lackey Arthur Goldberg will defend Rev. William Sloane Coffin in the upcoming appeal of his two-year draft conspiracy conviction. Radio Station WBAI said that Goldberg left them with the impression …