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Gary Peters on health care: “I put it all an the line to make (the ACA) happen, so don’t question my motivations here.”

By Mark | June 16, 2018

Michigan Senator Gary Peters held a town hall meeting today at Eastern Michigan University. As it was just announced yesterday evening, attendance was relatively sparse. I’d say there were maybe about 125 people in the audience, most of whom, judging by how people introduced themselves when posing questions to the Senator, were from Ann Arbor. […]

Posted in Health, Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 55, Affordable Care Act, assault weapons, assault weapons ban, authoritarianism, Chuck Schumer, corporatism, Donald Trump, Elizabeth Warren, fired up and ready to go, Gary Peters, gun control, gun violence, health care reform, health insurance, immigration, Jeff Merkley, marijuana, Medicare, Medicare for all, nationalism, Obamacare, opiod, populism, preexisting conditions, recreational marijuana, single-payer system, the future of the Democratic Party, universal background checks | 82 Comments

The successful campaign to stop the ICE deportation of Ann Arbor’s Jose Luis Sanchez-Ronquillo

By Mark | February 7, 2014

A few days ago, I met up with fellow Ypsilantian Martha Valadez, to discuss the case of Jose Luis Sanchez-Ronquillo, an undocumented 16-year resident of Ann Arbor who had been ordered by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to report to the Mexican border for deportation. Since that meeting, ICE has granted Sanchez-Ronquillo a one-year […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Uncategorized | Also tagged #stopjosesdeportation, AFL-CIO, Alliance for Immigrants Rights, Anaheim, Bach Elementary, DACA, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, deportation, Disneyland, El Hielo, ethnic studies, executive orders, green card, ICE, immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, immigration interview, immigration reform, INS, Jan Brewer, Joe Arpaio, Jose Franco, Jose Luis, Jose Luis Sanchez-Ronquillo, La Santa Cecilia, Martha Valadez, Mexico, Michigan United, Obama, One Michigan, prosecutorial discretion, racial profiling, racism, talk to the hand, undocumented workers, Washtenaw Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights, WICIR, Ypsi immigration interview, z-snap | 16 Comments

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