Dear Comrades, Just a short note of congratulations on your editors’ notes column in the last (Jan. 23) issue of the Fifth Estate. It is not often that a good cultural newspaper is willing to admit that the working class …
Dear Comrades, Just a short note of congratulations on your editors’ notes column in the last (Jan. 23) issue of the Fifth Estate. It is not often that a good cultural newspaper is willing to admit that the working class …
Dear friends, Just wanted to let you know how much I, and many of my friends who read the paper, dig the poems you’ve been printing lately, especially Diane DiPrima’s. I always say that a good anarchistic poem is …
Dear Brothers: Myself and another head, were very mellow on the bunker line, when we happened to glance at your paper “The Fifth Estate.” Since then it hasn’t left our hands. Our souls and hearts would be yours if we …
Dear Friends, I read your paper today for the first time and I dig it to the max. I’ve been around army posts for 6-1/2 years and just recently my eyes were opened to what the vast “green machine” is …
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 …
Brothers: Thanks for reprinting my Other Scenes article on nudity in and out of the theater (They Can’t Get Any Nuder. FE #75, March 20-April 2, 1969). I’ve just seen it and you did an esthetically nice job. But …
The Fifth Estate: I have read your newspaper many times and for the most part, found it very enlightening. You have helped answer many of my questions, and set me on the right foot on some important issues. Now, …
Dear Sir: The Underground Press has opened the eyes of many Americans to much of life that they otherwise would not know of. But many of the more intelligent readers still do not understand homosexuality, especially some hippies who, …
Editors; Please tell Mike Bloomfield (“Honkies Can’t Dig Soul Music,” FE #39, October 1-15, 1967) that he can take his idea about us Honkies (I’m from Grosse Pointe) and stick it up his ass. Just because we buy the …
Common Council, City of Detroit, 2 Woodward Avenue, Detroit 26, Michigan Dear Sirs, A meeting was held Wednesday, March 9 at Burton School promoted through the combined efforts of Cass Community Council, Cass Community Church, Burton School Mother and Dad’s …
Dear Editor: That g.d., m.f., c.s., s.o.b., J.L. Hudson is running for mayor. F. Janorin Detroit To the Groovy peoples of Detroit: Love and flowers from a sleeping city. I subscribed to your Oracle in August and took some …
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following letter was sent to one of our subscribers who had sent Mich. Senator Philip Hart a copy of the speech given by Dr. Norman Pollack on U.S. participation in the war in Vietnam: Dr. Pollack’s premise …
Money, Money, Money Hi: In his review of Counterfeit Currency, E.B. Maple asserted that gold has served as money because of arbitrary human assignation, an analysis which treats money in general as a mere sign. (See Winter 1992 Fifth Estate.)
The Brain Police To the Fifth Estate: The feature on the “Crisis in Health Care” (June FE) is O.K. However, I think it should include some coverage of the so-called mental health system. (The Brain Police wear white uniforms!)
Dear Editor: Since you are one of the few progressive newspapers around, we have a special request for you. A group of citizens of Mill Valley, California are handling a National Stamp Drive to help equip our garage.
To the Editor: The first meaning in The American College Dictionary defines “reform” as “…the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, etc.; social reform.”
To the Editor: A reply to Mr. Wilbert McClendon; not because he will listen (he won’t) but because someone has to maintain the balance:
Lire Needed To The Fifth Estate: The latest issue of Invariance (in French) is at the printers in Milan, but to pay for the printing we need one million Italian lire (FE note: about $1,350). So we’re wondering if among …
A Pre-Frontal Dear Fifth Estate, I believe Harvey Ovshinsky (talkshow host of WRIF) is doing the FE a lot of harm by claiming he has “founded that paper.” If indeed he did, someone must have done a frontal lobotomy on …
Pessimism Optimistic Dear FE: “Carter’s Phony War Crisis” (FE #301, Feb. 26, 1980) was excellent. I’d only fault it in one respect—I feel that ‘you’re unduly optimistic in stating that, “Third World countries such as Taiwan, South Korea, Malaysia…(will become) …