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THURS JULY 23

SUMMER HIGH SCHOOL BAND CONCERT. Free on the WSU Mall. 8–9 p.m.

THE CHUCK MILLER GROUP with J.P. Douglas at the Annex Coffeehouse. Coffee, pop, donuts and bagels sold. 8–11:30 p.m. Behind the Unitarian Church, on Maumee between Neff and St. Clair in Grosse Pointe. $1.00 admission.

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On July 28 a Fast will begin. A Fast for Justice. A JUSTICE/FAST for John Sinclair. July 28 marks the date a year ago that John was sentenced to 9-1/2-10 years in prison for possession of marijuana by Recorder’s Court Judge Robert Colombo.

John is a political prisoner. It took a two-month effort by the Detroit Narcotics Bureau using two full time undercover agents to trap John into giving them two joints back in December 1966. No charge. He gave them the marijuana and Judge Colombo himself ruled that the transaction was a case of “illegal entrapment,” that is, the police created the crime! Still, this evidence was allowed to convict John.

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Editor’s note: People: We have gotten only a few responses to our statement regarding the unclassified section and the possibility of dropping it. We would like to know how more of you feel about this. Please write if you have something to say on the matter.

I’m a GI stationed in the Nam. I’ve been here for 14 months and have 4 months left before finishing the green joke. I would appreciate receiving the Fifth Estate here in Nam for the propaganda received from the “government” is too much to stomach.

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A Federal judge in San Jose ruled that two freaks had been unlawfully deprived of their unemployment benefits when the State of California refused to give them the money because they had been fired from their jobs for long hair and had refused to submit to a haircut. Quoth Judge R. Peckem: “Long hair is protected by the First Amendment.”

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Dr. Eugene Schoenfeld speaking at Community Arts Auditorium, May 28, 1969 at a benefit for Open City. Photo: Alan Gotkin.

Hospital Tribune has recently published several reports showing black market drugs vary not only in potency but often contain drugs different from those represented by the dealer.

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With the summer getting hotter and the conditions in the black community worse than ever, more and more riots and uprisings have come down across the country.

These days, however, the straight press and TV generally keep the news hidden in the back pages, so it is hard to keep the picture straight.

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The Serve The People Coalition is beginning to get some concrete results from its efforts.

Almost $300 was collected by the coalition at the killer WABX free concert July 19. The money will be split between the People’s Defense Committee of East Detroit (see “Youth News” in this issue) and JUSTICE/FAST.

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Over 100,000 of the Cuban people, including Fidel, have donated blood for their Peruvian sisters and brothers who just suffered a huge earthquake. When the call for blood donors went out, 10,000 pints a day were given. The people responded in even greater numbers, forming long lines outside each of Cuba’s blood banks, supplying many more volunteers than the facilities’ limit of capacity.

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In Cuba, the accent is on youth. Everything is done for youth; everything is expected of youth. The finest residential area of Havana is the Miramar section, where the rich whites formerly lived. This is where thousands on thousands of scholarship students now live in spacious seashore residences. There, students come from all over the island, especially from the homes of peasant and working class people.

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Street action broke out in Palo Alto, Cal. July 4 when local pigs attempted to close an impromptu rock concert sponsored by the Palo Alto White Panthers. Banks, the local newspaper, the telephone company and a department store were trashed. One pig injury was reported. Ten persons were busted, including the seven members of the band who didn’t dig the pigs banning amplified music.

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The Federación de Mujeres Cabanas. (Federation of Cuban Women) is the large, popular women’s organization of Cuba. The FMC has an immense responsibility: to untie the “other hand”; to liberate the Cuban women from traditional roles. This means overcoming the traditional prejudices, which in Cuba as in all countries, most especially those of semi-feudal and colonial backgrounds, are deeply ingrained and extremely hard to dislodge. The old crippling “Machismo” mentality must be fought by all revolutionary forces.

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This section of the Fifth Estate has been prepared in recognition of Cuba, the first liberated territory in the Americas. July 26^th is Cuba’s national day—and because Cuba is what she is, the 26^th of July has become an international day to mark the struggle of all people against their oppressors.

The following articles were written by Detroiters, Jerry Lindquist, Barbara Strong, and Noel Conrad. They were members of the Venceremos Brigade and spent the months of March and April cutting sugar cane in Cuba.

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As of 1970, all homes in Cuba are rent-free.

In Cuba, medical care is free.

Since 1967, there have been no cases of polio in Cuba; immunization of children is free and carried on each year. In 1970, some cities in Texas were having sharp increases in the number of cases of polio reported.

There is a much higher percentage of women in medical school in Cuba than in the United States.

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I was born in the Sierra Maestra in 1934. I am 36 years old. My mother is from Camaguey and my father is from Oriente and my grandfather is French. My grandfather lived and worked in the countryside but my mother is from the city, from Camaguey. She sent me to school, when I was eleven years old. I didn’t read or write when I was eleven years old. I went to the Catholic school in Santiago de Cuba, and then when I left the school I went to the Sierra Maestra because my family lived there. When I left the Sierra Maestra to go to school, I didn’t know anything about anything.

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The last issue of the Fifth Estate described the ruling class families and their corporate structure and how they exert control over the economy of Detroit [“Who Rules Detroit?” FE #109, July 9–22, 1970]. (A minor correction is that the Fisher family of the Fisher New Realty Co. is not related to the Fisher family of Fisher Body. But a pig is still a pig.)

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I wonder how Alfredo is taking it—not making the 10 million that is. We all worked hard to reach that goal: 10 million tons of sugar, the largest in Cuba’s history. In March and April, when we were cutting cane together, everyone was certain that the goal would be reached. Now it’s certain that the 10 million tons will not be reached. The harvest ended with less than 9 million tons completed. Why? What happened?

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Although Cheryl McCall originally told the Fifth Estate of her job offer with the Model Cities newspaper for twelve grand a year, she has decided not to take it. She says she will continue to write for the Detroit News’ Other Section because she “has to eat”...

Detroit’s Amboy Dukes will record their next album live at the Eastown Ballroom during their July 31 concert...

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Dick Songer looked at us and said, “When I was a kid, we didn’t have anywhere to go, so I’ve always wanted to build a place where everyone could come. This is my 20-year dream come true.”

Songer is the 35-year-old owner-developer of this $1,000,000 dream, Goose Lake Park, which is to be the site of the only major rock festival of the summer to be held in Michigan—on August 7, 8 and 9.

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Workers at the Detroit area Westinghouse heavy electrical repair shop have gone on strike. The shop, located near the Trumbull exit of John C. Lodge expressway, employs about 70 workers, most of them white males. The union there is the U.E. or the United Electrical Workers local 957.

U.E. national representative John Toth explains the background of the strike as follows: since September 1969, Westinghouse has been stalling the union in talks over the local supplementary agreement to the national contract between Westinghouse and the U.E. The company has been bullshitting around, saying that the union doesn’t represent the majority of the employees.

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We want the paper to make it a regular thing to cover more of what is happening in the parks, the schools, the factories and the communities. So if there is news happening that you know about, give us a ring and we can try and check it out and get it into the paper.

Two attacks have been made recently on our community in the Warren-Forest area.

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The cold-blooded murder of a young black man on July 11 touched off several days of street violence in Highland Park.

Jerry Lawlah, 24-year-old former athlete at Highland Park High, was shot to death by the white bartender and part owner of the Kozy Korner Bar.

Before he shot Lawlah, the bartender screamed, “I should kill all you niggers.”

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The American Serviceman’s Union (ASU) at Selfridge Air Force Base has beat another attempt to stop the growing antiwar GI movement there.

On July 1 Air Force Office of Special Investigation agents burst into the room of Sgt. Bob Worosz armed with a search warrant signed by the base commander. Although the warrant was for drugs, the agents seized the mailing list of Broken Arrow, the base ASU paper, personal letters, anti-war leaflets and newspapers such as the Fifth Estate and the Guardian. The OSI-conducted search lasted for almost five hours and a thorough investigation of Worosz’s person, car and room produced nothing.

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Women’s News Co-op — Wayne County, Wayne State University, Anthony Wayne Drive (Third Avenue), Fort Wayne, The City of Wayne. Just who is this character whose name we use alt the time? Does he deserve to be commemorated all over the place? Does a bronze memorial to him deserve to be standing in the middle of the campus named after him?

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Bobby Seale is the 33-year-old Chairman of the Black Panther Party.

In 1962, Bobby met Huey P. Newton at Merritt College in Oakland, California, where both were members of an Afro-American Association.

In 1966, Bobby and Huey founded the Black Panther Party in Oakland.

The Party’s first program was police surveillance. The Panthers patrolled the Oakland ghetto in cars and carried guns in accordance with the law. When they saw the police stop a black person they informed the person of his or her rights. Incidents of police brutality against black people declined as the armed pig-watching crews went into action.

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The United States Army has begun what looks like its final move to rid itself of Jerry Brown, the GI who exposed the illegal physicals being given at Fort Wayne in an interview with this newspaper last May.

Even though the office of the Inspector General of the Army has admitted in a letter that Army personnel have been “cutting corners” during physicals, the brass are still trying to make Brown accept a punitive transfer to Ft. Jackson, S.C.

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Staff

Debby Brentz

David Gaynes

Carol George

Mike John

Keep on Truckin’ Co-op

Resa Jannett

Jim Kennedy

Lee Ann Kennedy

David Levison

Julie Medvecky

Nick Medvecky

Harvey Ovshinsky

Dave Riddle

Bill Rowe

Len Schaefer

Chris Singer

Marilyn Werbe

Peter Werbe

Cathy West

POLITICAL PRISONER John Sinclair

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Anarchist trans prisoner Marius Mason is finally being released after seventeen years of a twenty-two year sentence!

Marius is an anarchist, environmental and animal rights activist as well as a loving parent, artist, poet, and musician who was given a brutal sentence for acts of property destruction. No one was hurt, no individual targeted, and yet he was given a heavy sentence with a “terrorism enhancement.” His arrest was based on snitching (including his then spouse) and FBI harassment of activists. Marius was shuffled around between prisons, isolating him from family and outside friends, but he is resilient, and despite all the challenges being incarcerated creates he has fought tirelessly for trans prisoner rights.

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in Cooperation with Detroit Adventure

THURS APRIL 30

Folksinger DANNY COX folksings and stuff in the University Ballroom, Student Center Bldg., WSU, 7:30–10:30 p.m. Adm. $1.50.

SALESMAN, one of the most highly acclaimed films of the year. Rackham Aud., Woodward at Farnsworth. 8:30 p.m. Students $1.50, others $2.50.

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Dr. Eugene Schoenfeld speaking at Community Arts Auditorium, May 28, 1969 at a benefit for Open City. Photo: Alan Gotkin.

Dear Dr. Schoenfeld:

For the past six weeks or so I have been finding it extremely difficult to get an erection. I have also noticed that one of the testicles is becoming larger and the regular size one appears and feels like it has a growth coming on it. Do you think this would have anything to do with the erection problem?

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To The Fifth Estate:

I ask that you print this letter in the next issue of your paper in order to repair some of the damage I fear has resulted, inadvertently, from an inaccurate report of an interview I gave to a Detroit Free Press reporter, published after the April 15^th anti-war rally.

The article in the Free Press was inaccurate in two regards: First, I never said that members of SDS were responsible for the violence which occurred on April 15. I did not lay blame for the violence on any person or group nor was it the purpose of the interview to do so.

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PNOMPENH, CAMBODIA (LNS)—Several hundred unarmed men, women and children are shot down in the village of Prasauc near the Cambodian border. The bodies of over 400 Vietnamese roped together are found floating down the Mekong River near the Cambodian capital. These are just two aspects of the political program of the new Cambodian regime.

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The following is an interview-rap with Detroit poet and sometime FIFTH ESTATE feature writer Hank Malone, conducted by another F.E. feature writer, Thomas Haroldson.

HAROLDSON: Hank Malone isn’t exactly a household word, but John Sinclair said in one of his articles that you were on the scene long before he was. What was Detroit like back then?

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(Women’s News Co-op) — A state of emergency exists at Cooley High School. Most people who relate to Cooley in any way agree that the situation is very uptight. But it’s not affecting everyone the same way and theories about its causes and solutions vary, depending on who you’re talking to.

Black students have been harassed, beaten up and “excluded” in large numbers for the past two years. In the spring of 1968 and winter of 1969 members of the white racist group Breakthrough beat up black kids at the school but no police action was ever taken. In the fall of 1969 after a clash between black and white kids, some black kids were expelled but white kids were not.

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“The decision to win is not a utopian decision! The decision to win is a practical decision, a decision that we carry into the fields every day along with our machetes!”

—Riso, head of the Cuban Delegation, young communists working with the Venceremos Brigade

Special from Cuba — In Cuba, the gun, which used to mean repression and terror as it does in the United States, now symbolizes revolution and its defense. Because the will of the people decides which way the barrel shall point.....

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WASHINGTON—Seaman Roger Priest, who said he felt it was his “duty to speak out on the Vietnam war,” received nearly the minimum court-martial sentence after being convicted of promoting disloyalty with his anti-war newspaper, “OM.”

Priest was convicted April 27 and received a bad-conduct discharge, a cut in rank and a reprimand. He could have received a total of 39 years in prison for the charges facing him.

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This is the first in a series on Birth Control, compiled and presented with the aid of the Women’s News Co-op.

In less than 10 years there has been a staggering increase in the availability of contraceptive devices. The most talked about of these has been the pill. The media, drug companies and medical establishment have advanced and profited from the myth that the pill has led to the sexual liberation of women. But nothing of the sort has happened. Women are still denied complete self-expression in this society, are still the second sex—looked at by men primarily as sex-objects. The contraceptive explosion has not extended their possible life choices in many important ways. Families may be smaller but the woman’s place is still in the home. Furthermore, the continuing disclosures of many of the pill’s possible side-effects makes it abundantly clear that whatever “freedom” the pill has given is greatly diminished by the risks and uncertainties involved in taking it.

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NEW YORK (LNS) The FBI has arrested one of the twelve top Weathermen who were indicted for conspiracy to riot in Chicago last October.

Linda Evans, a former SDS organizer in Michigan and more recently a Weatherwoman activist in the Detroit area, was captured by Federal agents on a street in New York’s East Village.

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TACOMA, Wash. (LNS)—Over 100 men in the Fort Lewis stockade boycotted meals in the stockade mess hall here April 15^th. They released the following statement:

“We oppose the use of American youth and resources to suppress the Vietnamese and other Third World peoples.

“We also oppose the use of GIs to suppress the Latin American people in ‘ghetto pacification’ and to break strikes like the recent postal workers’ strike. An army should serve the people, not suppress and abuse them.”

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A recent film critic termed Woodstock “a beautifully filmed record of rampant happiness,” which indeed it is. Michael Wadleigh’s 3-hour phenomenon is filled with enough visual and audio excitement to thrill an audience of heads and turn on all the straights.

Split-screen shots present everything from different views of the same entertainer, to different views of the whole stage, simultaneously, while colored filters instantly change the mood and dazzle the eye.

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NOTE: Several troopers recently were court martialed at Quan Loi, South Viet Nam, headquarters of the 1^st Air Cavalry Division’s 3^rd Brigade, for refusing to fight. During the last four and a half months of 1969, a total of 109 men in the 1^st Cav faced trial for the same offense.

Division spokesmen point out that men who decide to drop out are a small minority. But some observers feel the number is growing throughout Vietnam as anti-war feeling mounts back home and the U.S. government makes clear its intention to pull out the majority of fighting troops.

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In the recent controversial challenge to the jury selection process of Detroit Recorder’s Court, Prosecuting Attorney Robert Harrison said that he could not find any evidence of “systematic or intentional exclusion” of persons from serving on juries in the City of Detroit.

Nevertheless, Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Horace W. Gilmore has ruled that 73% of the potential jurors for the Rafael Viera-Clarence Fuller trial were “improperly excluded.”

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The history of black workers in this country and particularly in Detroit has been consistently ignored by the establishment media. Aware of the importance of this section of the working class, several young film makers are producing a film in cooperation with the League of Revolutionary Black Workers that deals with their struggles.

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FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (LNS) — GIs United Against the War in Vietnam are sponsoring an anti-war action here on May 16.

The action is part of the “Nine Days in May,” a nationally coordinated program of primarily anti-war and anti-imperialism actions planned on or near military bases around the country. The primary aim of the actions is the organization and expression of GI anti-war sentiment.

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a review of

Do It! by Jerry Rubin. $2.45, Simon and Schuster, 256 pp.

“Do it!” A lot of people did it at Isla Vista. And there’ll be a lot more doings. Do it! It’s the title of Jerry Rubin’s new book. The slogan “Do it!” is the yippie version of the Panther’s “Seize the time.” “Dig it, Do it, seize the time” in whatever way you know how.

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Highland Park Junior College and High School students went on strike April 13. They returned to school on the 25^th, vowing to continue their struggle by other means. For two weeks the students and the Highland Park community have engaged in a non-violent demonstration, allowing those who wished to return to school to do so, though less than a quarter of the college attended classes.

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SAN LUIS OBISPO, CALIF. (LNS)—Huey P. Newton, co-founder and Minister of Defense of the Black Panther Party, has been denied parole by the California Adult Authority. Huey is now in his second year of a 15-year term for manslaughter in the shooting of an Oakland policeman who had shot him in the stomach.

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Ralph Nader came to town last week for the Wayne State University Teach-in on Ecology, and left a great number of people wondering if they really know what’s going on after all. Speaking before an overflow crowd at the Community Arts Auditorium, Nader called upon the population to achieve a better understanding of the workings of the large corporations that run this country.

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Recently, the Warren-Forest Student Mobilization Committee (SMC) chapter established a program for itself. The people felt that the anti-war movement in Detroit can and should go beyond the demand “U.S. Withdraw From Vietnam Now” to programs and demands which relate to the existence of American imperialism as a system which is oppressing people in other parts of the world as well as in Vietnam.

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There’s a lot of garbage down by the freeway.

It was early afternoon, clear and warm. We piled the garbage into the truck and headed towards Wayne State. “We” were about nine or ten brothers and sisters from People Concerned About Urban Renewal and the Young Prides. We were black and white, young and old, students and neighborhood people.

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BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (LNS)—The Bakersfield City Council recently voted the death penalty for a second conviction for selling marijuana or illegal drugs. But the action is not expected to have any direct legal effect, since felony legislation has been preempted by the state.

Councilman Robert Whitemore, who introduced the legislation said, “Unless severe measures are taken an entire generation will be destroyed by dope.”

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