Sixth Column
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Underground counterculture newspaper featuring radical leftist political and social news and information. Articles in this edition cover criminality as hatred of the state misdirected against society; efforts to reduce heroin addiction in D.C.'s black community; testimony by Terry Becker on marijuana laws before the D.C. City Council; freedom of expression provisions in the Universal Code of Military Justice; an update on the Three Sisters Bridge; an update on the Chicago 8 Conspiracy Trials; criticism of military training as abusive and contributing to atrocities; reprint of a poster on the FBI's definition of Communism; protests at the Justice Department; young people and the poor; violence during the Rolling Stones concert at the Altamont Speedway Free Festival; music reviews; a calendar of events; information about Come Out! newspaper published by the Gay Liberation Front; and criticism of the use of chemical weapons by U.S. forces in Vietnam.Original version: print newspaper; DC Public Library, Special Collections, Periodicals, Quicksilver Times
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- Atrocities
- Bridges
- Chemical Warfare
- Chicago Seven Trial, Chicago, Ill., 1969 1970
- Civil Rights
- Communism
- Conservatism
- Courts Martial And Courts Of Inquiry
- Crime
- Drugs Of Abuse
- Freedom Of Expression
- Gay Liberation Front
- Gay Liberation Movement
- Gay Rights
- Government
- Government, Resistance To
- Hell's Angels
- Heroin
- Heroin Abuse
- Marijuana
- Military Education
- Military Law
- Military Training Camps
- Music
- Newspapers
- Occupational Training, Military
- Oppression (Psychology)
- Philosophy
- Political Activity
- Political Issues
- Potomac River
- Radicalism
- Rolling Stones
- Underground Newspapers
- United States
- United States. Federal Bureau Of Investigation
- Urban Renewal
- Vietnam War, 1961 1975
- War On Drugs