Everyone Benefits
The entire Detroit rock and roll/cultural/political community united behind the issues of dope-smoking and John Sinclair last weekend, generating total high energy, fantastic vibes, a newly strong sense of community and $8,000 for the John Sinclair Defense Fund.
Everyone Benefits
The entire Detroit rock and roll/cultural/political community united behind the issues of dope-smoking and John Sinclair last weekend, generating total high energy, fantastic vibes, a newly strong sense of community and $8,000 for the John Sinclair Defense Fund. The two day event came on two historically important dates for the Detroit community—January 24, 1967 saw the bust of 54 of the cities original dope fiends. And January 25th was the six-month anniversary of those raids. In the future, one more historic event can be added to those dates; the day the hip community of Detroit came to a realization of its own power.
The two day event was the initial production of the STP Coalition (Serve The People), a unique group of radical and cultural organizations in the Detroit/Ann Arbor area. The coalition is a result of some of Sinclair’s ideas while in prison. And as its first effort, the coalition threw what is probably the most successful benefit concert ever held anywhere, a veritable energy orgy that eclipsed past records in terms of attendance and proceeds. Never before had people been turned away from a benefit because there simply wasn’t enough room to hold them.