If you haven’t yet listened to last weekend’t episode of the Saturday Six Pack, you should. It was a nearly perfect mix, at least from my perspective, of seriously thought-provoking and just plain fun. Among other things, we talked with a representative from the University of Michigan delegation at the Paris climate talks, two of […]
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The demands of black students at EMU, debunking myths about Rosie the Riveter and the Arsenal of Democracy, going inside the Paris climate talks, and sharing the music of the Monkey Power Trio… on episode 34 of the Saturday Six Pack
Posted in History, Monkey Power Trio, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged Arsenal of Democracy, black lives matter, Darius Simpson, Daryl Holman, Eastern Michigan University, EMU, Henry Ford, Jim Cherewick, Jim Stehlin, Kim Schatzel, Matt Siegfried, myths, Paris, Paul Edwards, race, race riots, racism, Ricky Rood, Rosie the Riveter, strikes, Student Liberation Action Movement, The Black Student 10-Point Plan, wildcat strikes 54 Comments
Students at Detroit’s Western High School walk out over planned school closings and cuts in education funding, chanting “They sat cut back! We say fight back!”
Increasing, we’re seeing students in Detroit step-up and fight for the educations that they’re entitled to as American citizens. Every few weeks, it seems, there’s a different battle being waged. If it’s not kids being arrested for protesting the closing of their schools, it’s kids being suspended for having the audacity to demand that they […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Detroit, Education, Uncategorized Also tagged Catherine Ferguson Academy, Clark Park, Detroit Public Schools, Freddie Burse, Frederick Douglass Academy, free school, Maybury Elementary, Occupy Ypsilanti, poetry, Raychel Gafford, Roy Roberts, school closings, social justice, Southwest Detroit, Southwest Detroit Freedom School, Southwestern High School, Steve Wasko, students, the challenges of urban students, we need a revolution 16 Comments
Michael Moore offers the Occupy movement his thoughts on a list of demands
Michael Moore spent this past weekend working with the men and women of Occupy Wall Street, helping them to craft a vision statement for the movement, and come up with a list of outcomes that they would like to see realized. Following are Moore’s thoughts on the subject. This past weekend I participated in a […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Corporate Crime, Other Also tagged Bush tax cuts, campaign finance reform, clean air, clean water, corporate personhood, democracy, education reform, election finance reform, food safety, Franklin D. Roosevelt, free education, Glass-Steagall Act, healthcare reform, holding insurance companies accountable, How to get our Democracy Back, Michael Moore, Occupy Wall Street, OWS, protests, retirement, shipping American jobs overseas, single-payer system, social security, universal health care, vision statements 12 Comments