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- From: "headly westerfield" <headly.westerfield@canrem.com>
- Subject: john sinclair
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.4213.10448@dosgate>
- Reply-To: "headly westerfield" <headly.westerfield@canrem.com>
- Organization: Canada Remote Systems
- Distribution: rec
- Date: 3 Jan 93 00:44:22 EST
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- BH═╣If I'm remembering correctly, John Sinclair was the founder of the
- BH═╣White Panthers, a Detroit-area militant radical group modeled
- BH═╣after the Black Panthers [not such an uncommon tribute in the late
- BH═╣60s and early 70s -- my favorite was the Grey Panthers, a militant
- BH═╣senior citizens group that sounds like a joke but was actually
- BH═╣very serious and played a large role in the fight for things like
- BH═╣eliminating mandatory retirement ages] whose membership were white
- BH═╣youth. They were pro-drug so the marijuana arrest seems not
- BH═╣unlikely. ---
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- John Sinclair, whom I knew personally, was also the manager of the
- MC5. He wrote the linernotes to the band's 1st album (recorded live
- at The Grande Ballroom) and, I believe, was the one who coined the
- phrase "Kick out the jams, motherfuckers."
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