The Great Speckled Bird | September 25, 1972 | Underground Atlanta Newspaper | Labor Strikes, Palestine, Cheech & Chong, Al Green

🌟 Rare Original Underground Newspaper 🌟
Issue: The Great Speckled Bird – September 25, 1972
Published in Atlanta, Georgia

📖 Complete issue – approx. 28 pages, full tabloid size (about 11" x 17").
📰 One of the South’s most important underground newspapers, reporting on radical politics, labor activism, feminism, and international struggles.

✨ Highlights in this issue include:

✊ Labor & Strikes → Health workers strike, Mead conflict, city workers organize, boycott of Farah Pants

🏥 Prisons & Sexuality → investigative reporting on incarceration & repression

🇵🇸 The Palestinians → coverage of Middle East politics and U.S. involvement

💉 The Politics of Heroin → Nixon, CIA, and global drug trade

⚖️ Fragging Trial → Pvt. Billy Dean Smith, Vietnam-era military resistance

🎶 Music & Culture →

Al Green concert feature

Larry Coryell article & ads for shows at the 12th Gate

Cheech & Chong Atlanta concert ad

T. Rex & Doobie Brothers at Atlanta Municipal Auditorium

Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five film ad

Local music spots: Twelfth Gate, People’s Place, etc.


🌈 Social justice coverage: LGBTQ, women’s rights, community struggles


📌 Condition:
Expected toning for age with light wear and fold marks, but overall complete and well-preserved for a 50-year-old underground newspaper.

🎯 Essential for collectors of underground press, Vietnam War resistance, labor union history, feminist & LGBTQ activism, or counterculture music & arts ephemera.