Mark Maynard | Communism

Angela Davis to commemorate MLK Day at U-M with a speech on the threat of the prison industrial complex

By Mark | January 20, 2013

Activist, educator and author Angela Davis will be in Ann Arbor on Monday, delivering a lecture titled “Impediments to the Dream: The Prison Industrial Complex and the Dream.” Davis, as I suspect many of you know, before going on to have a successful career as an academic in the History of Consciousness Department as U-C [...]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1970, Angela Davis, Bob Sloan, Corrections Corporation of America, Elliott Currie, ex-prisoners, for-profit prisons, History of Consciousness Department, Impediments to the Dream: The Prison Industrial Complex and the Dream, Judge Harold Haley, kidnapping, Martin Luther King Day, murder, Natalie Holbrook, prison industrial complex, prison industry, prison labor, prison reform, prisoner rights, private prisons, Pure Michigan, racism, Soledad Brothers, Students Organizing Against Prisons, University of California Santa Cruz | 11 Comments

Boots Riley of The Coup… on Communism, Corporatism, hip-hop, and the need to beat down scabs

By Mark | November 28, 2012

Last night, I had the occasion to speak with world-renowned hip-hop provocateur Boots Riley on a wide range of subjects spanning from his childhood in Detroit, spent in a household of Communist organizers, to his current work, organizing people in his neighborhood as a member Occupy Oakland. And, of course, we touched on his equally [...]

Posted in Art and Culture, Civil Liberties, Corporate Crime, Detroit, Economics, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 21 Grams, 9/11, advertising, Alex Rivera, American Splendor, anti-capitalist, at-risk youth, Barbara Ransby, Bill Maher, Boots Riley, California, Capitalism, civil rights, class, College of Ethnic Studies, Congress of Racial Equality, CORE, Danny Goldberg, dark comedy, fast food workers union, Five Million Ways to Kill a CEO, foreclosure defense, fundraisers, Greensboro, guillotine building workshop, Happiness, hip hop, ILWU, independent film, International Longshore and Warehouse Union, interviews, Japanther, Jeff Clark, K-Mart, Kev Choice, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, La Peña Cultural Center, labor history, labor movement, Led Zeppelin, Levi's, longshoremen, lunch counter sit-ins, Magic Clap, Me and Jesus the Pimp in a '79 Granada Last Night, militancy, NAACP, Nirvana, North Carolina, Oakland, Occupy Oakland, Occupy Sandy, Ohio Players, Oscar Grant, Ozone House, picket lines, police brutality, political hip hop, political organizing, Politically Incorrect, Port of Oakland, Progressive Labor Party, Prop 21, pull yourself up by your bootstraps, rap, revolution, rhetoric of violent revolution, San Francisco, San Francisco State, San Francisco State strike, scabs, SDS, sit-down strikes, Sleep Dealer, social justice, Sorry to Bother You, speaking truth to power, Street Sweeper Social Club, Students for a Democratic Society, sympathy strikes, Taft–Hartley Act, Ted Hope, The Coup, The Guillotine, The Ice Storm, threat of violence, unions, United Steelworkers, USW, Walmart, Walter Riley, Washtenaw Eviction and Foreclosure Defense, we need a revolution, WEFD, Woodruff's, work stoppage, World Trade Center | 25 Comments

Keep Mike Eller off City Council…. tell your friends!

By Mark | July 31, 2012

Yesterday, shortly after I announced that I’d be hosting a fundraiser for FLY Children’s Art Center at Woodruff’s on September 8, someone left a comment on the site, alerting me to the fact that the Katie Whitehouse, the director of FLY, had a Mike Eller sign in her front yard. “I can’t believe the head [...]

Posted in Observations, Politics, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged abortion, accusations of socialism, America First Party, discrimination, dismantling of public education, Earth Day, environmental protection, EPA, fear of Communism, FLY Children's Art Center, homophobia, John Birch Society, Karen Maurer, Katie Whitehouse, Leon Trotsky, local income tax, Maurer Management, Mike Eller, OSHA, Paul Robeson, Pete Murdock, separation of church and state, sexism, sexual harassment, Socialism, sodomy, Steve Pierce, Stop City Income Tax, the threat of Socialism, Water Street, Water Street Redevelopment Project, women's liberation, Ypsilanti City Council, Ypsilanti Ward 3, zoning | 92 Comments

Alan Haber on celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Port Huron Statement with a new manifesto for the Occupy era

By Mark | May 15, 2012

Yesterday, I shared three videos that were shot over the weekend with Alan Haber, the founder of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). In those videos, Alan and I primarily discuss the past. We talk about Ann Arbor in the 50′s, Haber’s initiation into revolutionary politics during the McCarthy era, the founding of SDS, and [...]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Civil Liberties, History, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Alan Haber, Dixiecrats, EMU, fear of Communism, Guild House, Hathaway's Hideaway, Howard Brick, League of Industrial Democracy, Occupy, Occupy Ann Arbor, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Ypsilanti, Port Huron, revolution, SDS, sexism, SNCC, Students for a Democratic Society, Tom Hayden, UAW, we need a revolution, women's rights | 38 Comments

Walking the secret passageways of Harry Bennett’s heavily-fortified Ypsilanti castle

By Mark | February 21, 2012

I just received a note from Nathan Ayers, the guy who won the first $1,000 grant from A2Awesome. He wanted to let me know that, back in 1984, the television program PM Magazine ran a feature on Harry Bennett’s fortress on the banks of the Huron River, in Ypsilanti. Bennett, for those of you don’t [...]

Posted in A2Awesome, History, Ypsilanti | Also tagged anti-Semitic, automotive industry, Battle of the Overpass, castles, Charles Coughlin, exotic animals, FDR, fear of Communism, Flint, Ford Hunger March, Ford Motor Company, Ford Service Department, Ford's Service Department, General Motors, Great Depression, Greenfield Village, Harry Bennett, Harry Bennett's Castle, Henry Ford, Hilter, Huron River, industrial revolution, labor history, lions, mansions, manufacturing, middle class, murder, Nathan Ayers, New Deal, PM Magazine, private armies, race baiting, River Rouge, safe house, secret passageways, strike breaking, threats to the middle class, tigers, turrets, union busting, Walter Reuther | 21 Comments

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Angela Davis to commemorate MLK Day at U-M with a speech on the threat of the prison industrial complex

Keep Mike Eller off City Council…. tell your friends!

Alan Haber on celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Port Huron Statement with a new manifesto for the Occupy era

Walking the secret passageways of Harry Bennett’s heavily-fortified Ypsilanti castle

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