By Mark | September 8, 2015
Earlier this summer, the trustees of the Ann Arbor Awesome Foundation awarded a $1,000 grant to journalist-tuned-local civics champion Mary Morgan for the purposes of creating a how-to kit for those interested in hosting nonpartisan pre-election potlucks. Here, with more on this specific initiative, as well as on the newly formed CivCity non-profit from which […]
Posted in A2Awesome, Ann Arbor, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged A2 Game Designers, Ann Arbor Chronicle, Ann Arbor District Library’s Summer Game, candidate forums, Candidates Gone Wild, Citizen Interaction Design, CivCity, civic engagement, civic involvement of students, civic life, civics, community potlucks, Donald Harrison, GameStart, iCivics, Johanna Epstein, League of Women Voters, local government, LocalWiki, Mary Morgan, Omari Rush, POP-X, Portland, potluck, pre-election potlucks, Sandra Day O’Connor, Sandra Gergerman, uninformed voters, Washtenaw Literacy |
I just heard about a big student activism event taking place this Thursday and Friday on the campus of EMU, and reached out the organizers with a few questions. What follows is my exchange with EMU doctoral student Johnny Lupinacci. MARK: Can you tell me a little about this event coming up at EMU? JOHNNY: […]
Posted in Education, Environment, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 100 years ago today, ableism, activism, Activism and Education: A Celebration at EMU, Ann Arbor Free School, Ann Arbor Free Skool, Aric McBay, baby boomers, Bringing Down Civilization, Civilization and Resistance, community activism, community building, consumerism, decolonization, Deep Green Resistance, Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet, Derrick Jensen, Earth Liberation Front, Eastern Michigan University, eco justice, EcoEats, education reform, EMU, EMU College of Education, Erica Mooney, Fabayo Manzira, fear, G.R.E.E.N., Generation X, GenX, global climate change, hip hop, If A Tree Falls, individualism, isolation, Janine Palms, Jean Twenge, John Lupinacci, Johnny Lupinacci, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Lierre Keith, local food, Malik Yakini, Millennials, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Ypsilanti, Orion, permaculture, Porter Lecture, racism, radical sustainability, Reskilling Festival, S.E.P.E., seedbombs, self-interest, sexism, social justice, speciesm, student activism, students today aren't worth a damn, Superhero Training Academy, Sustainability |
By Mark | October 6, 2011
My friend Dave just sent me this photo from Portland, where some 5,000 people took to the streets today in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement. In contrast, only about 200 showed up this evening for the “Occupy Ann Arbor” protest on U-M’s Diag. With over 40,000 students currently enrolled at the University of […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Civil Liberties, Corporate Crime, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged call to action, kids today, Krugman's Army, occupation, Occupy Portland, Occupy Wall Street, Paul Krugman, Portland, protests, Wall Street |
There were big turnouts in two midwestern college towns today. In one well over fifty thousand people turned out to protest the direction in which their state was headed. In the other, a few hundred gathered outside a bar in hopes of being cast in MTV’s The Real World. Can you guess which was Ann […]