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D’Real Graham, write-in candidate for Washtenaw County Prosecutor

By Mark | November 7, 2016

I don’t have time to write about the entire episode right now, but, as the election is tomorrow, I wanted to draw your attention to an interview I did a few weeks ago, during episode 51 of the Saturday Six Pack, with Radical Washtenaw co-founder D’Real Graham. Graham, as you may know, has spent the […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Civil Liberties, Politics, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 2016, Aura Rosser, D’Real Graham, elections, jail, law enforcement, police brutality, police misconduct, police reform, Radical Washtenaw, the militarization of the police, Washtenaw County Prosecutor, write-in | 11 Comments

Gregory A. Fournier on his new book “Terror in Ypsilanti,” poet Thylias Moss on Limited Fork Theory, D’Real Graham on his write-in campaign for County Prosecutor, and a preview of the 2016 Zine Show …on this weekend’s edition of the Saturday Six Pack

By Mark | September 30, 2016

This Saturday’s episode will be told in four parts… Our first guest will be Gregory A. Fournier, author of Terror in Ypsilanti, the new book on EMU student turned serial killer John Norman Collins. Collins, for those of you who weren’t around in the late ’60s, is thought to have murdered seven young women in […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Civil Liberties, History, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 22 North Gallery, Aura Rosser, black lives matter, County Prosecutor, D’Real Graham, EMU, Erin Anderson-Ruddon, forks, hallucinatory force, Harold Bloom, Jen Mumford, John Norman Collins, Limited Fork Theory, MacArthur Foundation, Michigan Murders, murder, poetry, police brutality, police misconduct, Radical Washtenaw, serial killers, Sue Beineman, Terror in Ypsilanti, Thylias Moss, Wannabe Hoochie Mama Gallery of Realities' Red Dress Code: New and Selected Poems, Washtenaw County Prosecutor, Ypsilanti Ripper, Zine Show | 11 Comments

Elected leaders and civil rights organizers join Sheriff Clayton to discuss the policing of communities of color at Unity Town Hall

By Mark | July 21, 2016

This evening I attended the Unity Town Hall at Eastern Michigan Union, during which Congresswoman Debbie Dingell, Black Lives Matter Organizer Myles McGuire, Wahstenaw County Sheriff Jerry Clayton, Mark Fancher of the Michigan ACLU’s Racial Justice Project, and Washtenaw County Prosecutor Brian Mackie sat before an audience of about 250, responding to questions about civil […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Civil Liberties, Michigan, Ypsilanti | Also tagged ACLU, Aura Rosser, black lives matter, de-escalation, Debbie Dingell, dismantling of public education, drugs, fear, Jerry Clayton, Mark Fancher, mental health, Mobile Justice, Myles McGuire, police violence, public education, Racial Justice Project, Seattle, slavery, social work, threats to public education, Unity Town Hall, Washtenaw County, Washtenaw County Prosecutor | 15 Comments

As I think it’s probably against the law for me to command you to vote a certain way tomorrow, let’s just call this friendly advice

By Mark | November 6, 2012

Last night, I told you how I intend to vote on Michigan’s six state-wide ballot proposals. And, tonight, my plan, if I can keep from falling asleep, is to tell you what I think about all of the races for elected office, and the local proposals that we’ll be voting on in Ypsilanti. Before we […]