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Coup d’etat in Michigan… following the money, connecting the dots, and assessing Snyder’s role

By Mark | December 12, 2012

This afternoon, as over 10,000 protesters surrounded the Capitol building in Lansing, Governor Snyder singed into law legislation that would make Michigan the 24th right-to-work state. When asked why it was so urgent that this be done now, during the lame duck session, outside of the accepted procedural process, Snyder essentially blamed the unions, who, […]

Posted in Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Americans for Prosperity, Cindy Estrada, collective bargaining, corporatocracy, Dick and Betsy DeVos Foundation, Dick DeVos, Emergency Manager, Frank Keating, John Engler, Koch brothers, labor history, Mackinac Center for Public Policy, Michigan Chamber of Commerce, Paul Singer, Proposal 2, Proposition 2, Rick Snyder, right-to-work, Ron Weiser, tea party, UAW, unions, West Michigan Policy Forum | 39 Comments

Alan Haber on the origins of SDS, similarities to the Occupy movement, Ann Arbor at the height of McCarthyism, and why he never built that second bomb

By Mark | May 14, 2012

I spent yesterday morning with my friend Jeff, at the home of Alan Haber, the first president of Students for Democratic Society (SDS). We talked about Ann Arbor at the height of McCarthyism, the circumstances which gave rise to SDS, the drafting of the Port Huron Statement 50 years ago, and the opportunity that may […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Civil Liberties, History | Also tagged 1959, Abbie Hoffman, Alan Haber, Angel Hall, armed self-defense, Arnold Kaufman, black bloc, blowing things up, bombs, Chandler Davis, Clement Markert, Derrick Jensen, FDR, German American Bund, getting fired, House Unamerican Activities Committee, humor, Inter-Cooperative Council, Jeff Clark, League for Industrial Democracy, League of Industrial Democracy, loyalty oaths, Mark Nickerson, MLK, mooning, Nazi, non-violence, Occupy, Occupy Wall Street, participatory democracy, Paul Robeson, PIC, pipe bombs, Political Issues Club, Port Huron Statement, racism, revolution without executions, satire, SDS, SLID, SNCC, social security, Social Security Act, soul power, Splinter Group, Stephen Tonsor, street theater, student activism, Student League for Industrial Democracy, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Students for a Democratic Society, tudent Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, violence vs non-violence, Weather Underground, welfare, woodworking, yippies | 26 Comments

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