Jailed Residents Describe Experiences

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Fifth Estate # 35, August 1-15, 1967

Sunday night a bunch of us were over at a friend’s house. We didn’t have room to stay there so we thought we’d try to make it back to another guy’s apartment. We were almost home when five cop cars

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Study of Cops Shows ‘Pathological Hostility’

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Fifth Estate # 35, August 1-15, 1967

“The ghetto atmosphere was illuminated last week in a study prepared for the President’s Commission on Law Enforcement. In a survey of three cities—Chicago, Washington and Boston—the study found that four out of every five white policemen working in Negro

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Peace Worker Slain

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Fifth Estate # 35, August 1-15, 1967

George Vissard, peace activist in Austin, Texas, was killed last week in an Austin grocery store. Vissard was found at about 11:00 a.m. with a shot through the back and shot through the arm; his body had been placed in

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New Book on Radicals

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Fifth Estate # 35, August 1-15, 1967

Dr. David Herreshoff, assistant professor of English at Wayne State University, is the author of a new book published by the WSU Press. Dr. Herreshoff’s book, American Disciples of Marx, From the Age of Jackson to the Progressive Era (216

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Thoreau Made a Hippy

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Fifth Estate # 35, August 1-15, 1967

A new United States postage stamp commemorating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Henry David Thoreau has been designed by painter Leonard Baskin. The stamp was first placed on sale July 12 at the writer-anarchist’s home town of Concord,

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Supreme Court to Hear GIs

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Fifth Estate # 35, August 1-15, 1967

The first GIs to publicly refuse to go to Vietnam, known as the Fort Hood Three, asked the Supreme Court to hear their suit against the war, and against the government’s right to send them to Vietnam. Jimmy Johnson, 21,

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“New Politics” Hits LBJ

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Fifth Estate # 35, August 1-15, 1967

Organized political opposition to the Johnson Administration will be mapped in Chicago Labor Day weekend at a nationwide convention of grassroots activist organizations in the peace, civil rights and student movements. The convention, “New Politics—’68 and Beyond,” is expected to

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Draft Resistance Grows

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Fifth Estate # 35, August 1-15, 1967

The draft resistance movement in Detroit, which until now has operated underground, has surfaced with the opening of the Draft Resistance Center at 12820 Hamilton at Glendale.

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Women Demand Rights

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Fifth Estate # 35, August 1-15, 1967

Students for a Democratic Society, a radical political organization, held a national convention in Ann Arbor recently during which they adopted a statement demanding equal rights for women, along with statements in opposition to the draft and the war in

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Vietnam Referendum Planned for City

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Fifth Estate # 35, August 1-15, 1967

The Detroit Committee to End the War in Vietnam will take initial steps to place a referendum on the war in Vietnam on the ballot in Detroit.

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