Update By Way Of Iron Man Records Press Collection

Many thanks to Mark Sampson at Iron Man Records
For this collection of recent press articles and pieces about John Sinclair.

--Steve Fly

John Sinclair – Cannabis Culture Legend https://buff.ly/2PD70Re

Wayne Kramer’s Impossible Life in Rock – Bill Murphy November 29, 2018. Their first “three-point program,” as Kramer recalls, was “Dope, Rock ’n’ Roll, and Fucking in the Streets”  https://buff.ly/2E7arOC (Premier Guitar)

Every day I try to figure out how I can make a contribution to the world and ask: Can I leave the place a little nicer than I found it? https://buff.ly/2K3dPu6 (Big Issue North)

Pot Passage Vindicates Legendary John Sinclair Five Decades Later  https://buff.ly/2qE6Z5G(Deadline Detroit)

On Wayne Kramer’s the Hard Stuff  https://buff.ly/2AqSdES (Detroit Artists Workshop)

Rock revolutionary Wayne Kramer looks back on the brilliant, broken legacy of the MC5 https://buff.ly/2q63TXL (Detroit Artists Workshop)

Book Review: Two Dueling Narratives Pick Through the Wreckage of the MC5  https://buff.ly/2P1EGIg(Rolling Stone)

Wayne Kramer, Rock Legend And Failed Outlaw, Assembles A Supergroup In The Rearview  https://buff.ly/2NSGiDt (NPR)

The Rise, Fall and Redemption of Two of Rock’s Great Radicals  https://buff.ly/2pVXwWZ (The Indypendent)

Deadline Detroit – Lapointe: The Grande Ballroom — Sex, Drugs and Music — Gets on Historic Registry https://buff.ly/2UTA1fv (Deadline Detroit)

Listen to “50 Years of the MC5’s Rock Revolution: Wayne Kramer Looks Back” by Rolling Stone Music Now. Includes a great piece on John Sinclair and The White Panthers. Educate yourself on some music history  https://buff.ly/2P4B1K7 (Rolling Stone Music Now)

A group of pro-cannabis groups and legendary poet John Sinclair have sued the Michigan Board of Pharmacy and its chair, Nichole Cover, seeking to remove the body’s continued listing of marijuana as a controlled substance under state law.

What do pot and heroin have in common? Nothing, says poet John Sinclair — which is why he is suing https://buff.ly/2HRMDB7

Detroit’s Famed Grande Ballroom Is Deemed Safe For Renovation https://buff.ly/2WK2S6A

Huey, Ryan A.: “Case Study: Researching John Sinclair and the White Panther Party Using the American Radicalism Collection.” Political Extremism and Radicalism in the Twentieth Century, Cengage Learning (EMEA) Ltd, 2018 https://www.gale.com/binaries/content/assets/gale-us-en/primary-sources/intl-gps/intl-gps-essays/full-ghn-contextual-essays/gps_essay_plex_huey1_website.pdf

“Michigan Activists Sue to Change Cannabis’ Schedule I Status” https://buff.ly/2WxQ2bC

An In-Depth Look at Cannabis Festivals (Protest and Appreciation). Hash Bash began in Ann Arbor, Michigan, due to the 1969 arrest of John Sinclair, who was a poet and managed the band MC5 https://greencamp.com/cannabis-festivals/

Deadline Detroit – Derringer: Skirmishes ahead in marijuana law, and John Sinclair will fight ‘em https://buff.ly/2WiEau4

John Sinclair – Activists sue to remove marijuana as controlled substance https://buff.ly/2WjZPBS(Michigan Advance)

PRESS RELEASE: Poet John Sinclair, MINORML and others file lawsuit to remove marijuana from the Michigan Controlled Substances Act https://buff.ly/2DtIhMw (The Social Revolution)

John Sinclair is starting a marijuana-friendly lounge in Detroit https://buff.ly/2Wljh19 (Detroit Metro Times)

John Sinclair – Pot advocate sues Michigan over marijuana status https://buff.ly/2FLI5dW (The Detroit News)

Deadline Detroit – Derringer: Skirmishes ahead in marijuana law, and John Sinclair will fight ‘em https://buff.ly/2WiEau4 (Deadline Detroit)

Punk Icon John Sinclair Was ‘Always Right’ About Marijuana https://buff.ly/2MvJAgw (Weed Maps)

Cannabis advocates sue state to deschedule marijuana https://buff.ly/2FObKD4 (Michigan Live)

Book tells stories of Ann Arbor native, music promoter http://s.mlive.com/oI8HGtD (Michigan Live)

Marijuana Martyr John Sinclair Opens A Cafe In Detroit – Weed News https://buff.ly/2FMfLbi (Weed News)

WHITE PANTHER: The Legacy of John Sinclair – a short film by CHARLES SHAW featuring JOHN SINCLAIR music by THELONIUS MONK

The Nixon Administration and the FBI launched a secret program called COINTELPRO to disrupt and ultimately destroy the Black Panthers and the Anti-War movement. As part of this program, John Sinclair was set up and imprisoned on marijuana charges. When the government could no longer justify denying him a bond over two joints, they falsely charged him with a Federal conspiracy to blow up a CIA station, in order to make him disappear.

https://ironmanrecords.net/2019/01/john-sinclair-in-the-news/

Steven Pratt - Fattening Blogs For Snakes 2019. (A Project of the John Sinclair Foundation) www.johnsinclair.us ------ radiofreeamsterdam.org