The SEE, the new concerthouse opened last month by Trans-Love Energies Unlimited of Detroit, closed its doors after only two weekends in operation. The hippy-run coffeehouse, which featured music by the MC-5, the Spikedrivers, the Passing Clouds, Billy C. and …
All those charged by police in the January 4th “Great Reefer Raid” have by now been arraigned and examined and, with one exception, bound over for trial in Detroit Recorder’s Court. The exception is Magdelene Sinclair, charged with possession of …
Ronald Powell crouched inside the car. So did the other four men.
Outside the Detroit Recorder’s Court in July 1969, supporters gather at the trial of White Panther leader and former FE columnist John Sinclair.
After two years on the corner of John Lodge and Warren Avenue the Artist’s Workshop (now known equally as Trans-Love Energies) has moved to the campus side of the expressway and will set up shop in a long-vacant former doctor’s …
The White Panthers arrested in New Jersey after the Woodstock Music Festival have all been released on bond and are back in Ann Arbor.
FIFTH ESTATE #31, June 1-15, 1967, Vol. 2 No. 5, page 6 EDITORS Harvey Ovshinsky Peter Werbe EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Cathy West NEWS EDITOR Frank Joyce ART Gary Grimshaw MUSIC & LITERARY EDITOR John Sinclair CALENDAR GIRLS Karen Kovach Naiomi Epel …
A number of Detroit lawyers have indicated to Detroit LEMAR (Legalize Marijuana) that they would be interested in setting up a legal aid service for busted marijuana users if a general fund could be set up which would insure a …
The Fifth Estate Po Box 305 Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Fifth Estate “To Serve the People” FIFTH ESTATE #96, January 8-21, 1970, Vol. 4 No. 18, page 2 EDITORIAL GROUP Alan Gotkin Peter Werbe Cathy West MANAGING EDITOR Bill Rowe DISTRIBUTION Keep On Truckin’ Co-op ADVERTISING Steve Dunn STAFF Jane …
Recorder’s Court Judge Robert J. Colombo, the pig who sentenced John Sinclair to almost ten years in prison, recently renewed his subscription to this paper for two years. Because of the barbaric sentence he placed on John, we are cancelling …
The virtual vacuum that has been left in the wake of SDS’s floundering may be filled by the New Youth International Party. With repression growing and the need for a national organization crucial, YIP looks promising as a junction for …
The forces of political and cultural oppression have opened up a new front. Along with attempts to silence, arrest, and confine the leadership of the black community, the forces of repression inherent in capitalistic societies have begun to strip the …
Newsreel-ARM — Hollywood began to appreciate some years ago that the vision of life it was projecting for the people was increasingly irrelevant to their lives and uninteresting. It was a basic marketing problem—how to catch up with a broad …
TO SERVE THE PEOPLE. Brothers and sisters all over pigamerika are waging war, making revolution. To so serve the people, the STP coalition has been formed.
Sept. 30, 1969 Dear People, Sorry I haven’t written in so long but I wanted to get settled up here before writing you again. There seems to be a lot more going on out there in the streets than happens …
ANN ARBOR—The long awaited single by the Up has been slated for release on Feb. 6. The tunes will be “Just Like An Aborigine” and “Hassan I Sabba.” Artwork for the record label and jacket will be done by Youth …
Remember what happened when you came home from the Chicago Democratic Convention in 1968? Things started blowing up around here—things like police stations, draft-boards and recruiting stations—even the war-crimes building at U-M and the Ann Arbor CIA office. A dude …
a review of Divine Blue Light: for John Coltrane by Will Alexander. City Light Books, 2022
The Trans-Love Energies operation in the Warren-Forest community has undergone a number of changes lately, according to spokesmen for the hippie cooperative, of which the Fifth Estate is a member group.