I skipped breakfast this morning and headed over with Jeff Clark to make seed bombs with 7th and 8th graders at Ypsi Middle School. It was an incredible experience. The kids were enthusiastic, inquisitive, and just all-around awesome. And, thanks to their hard work, we now have over 500 seed bombs prepared for Wednesday’s big […]
Tag Archives: child labor
Making seed bombs with the awesome kids of Ypsi Middle School, and plotting to bring Billy Bragg to our May Day celebration
Posted in Agriculture, Education, Environment, Special Projects, Ypsilanti Also tagged Billy Bragg, buses, colony collapse, commons, David Chapman, dismantling of public education, food forests, free skool, Jeff Clark, Jesse Tack, labor history, May Day, Phil Patterson, potluck, public education, seed bombing, threats to public education, Tonia Porterfield, Water Street, West Middle School, Ypsi Middle School, Ypsilanti Free Skool, zines 11 Comments
The totally confrontational Totally Awesome Fest press conference
Ypsilanti’s more densely bearded, somewhat less murderous, and considerably less black version of Don King, Patrick Elkins, called a press conference yesterday to announce the lineup of the 8th annual Totally Awesome Fest, which begins this Friday evening at 5:00, in the field behind VG Kids. I suppose, in retrospect, that it should have been […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Ypsilanti Also tagged Absolute Beginners, Animal Magic, Ben Miller, Charlie Slick, Chris Sandon, delinquent hipsters, Detroit Party Marching Band, Don King, Dreamland Theater, Duane the Teenage Weirdo, Electric Waterfall Castle, Fucking Awesome Fest, holograms, interviews with Mark, Jambo Man, Jamboman, Little Weasel House, Lord of the Yum-Yum, Manhole, mascots, microfiche, music festivals, pancake walk, pancakes, Patrick Elkins, Patrick's Weird Beard Goes Wandering, Penelope, Playboy Mansion, pooping in the river, press conferences, Ripper Field, Swimsuit, The Bungalow, thickly-bearded local troubadours, Totally Awesome Corp, Totally Awesome Fest, Tupac, VG Kids, Ypsi festivals 18 Comments
Rolling back the minimum wage and child labor laws in order to help the poor
Remember when, not too long ago, Michele Bachmann said, “If we took away the minimum wage—if conceivably it was gone—we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely“? Well, not one to be outdone, Newt Gingrich came out today, declaring that America’s child labor laws are, “truly stupid.” You know… those meddlesome laws that keep people […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics Also tagged Michele Bachmann, minimum wage, Newt Gingrich, Niggerhead, Rick Perry, slavery 48 Comments