Later this afternoon, muralist Dave Loewenstein and filmmaker Nicholas Ward will be at Ypsilanti’s Cultivate Coffee and Tap House. The two artists, who hail from Lawrence, Kansas, will not only be sharing their new documentary film Called to Walls, which is about the power of collaborative, community-based public art, but they’ll also be answering questions […]
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“Called to Walls” showing at Cultivate today at 5:00
Posted in Art and Culture, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged activism, Amanda May Moore, Amber Hansen, animation, Caleb Zweifler, Called to Walls, Chicago, collaborative art, Cultivate Coffee and Tap House, Dave Loewenstein, Detroit, development, Diego Rivera, documentary film, Film, Gaia, gentrification, graffiti, Grand River, Grand River Creative Corridor, Jermaine Dickerson, Joplin, Kansas, Kayj Michelle, Lakota, Lawrence, Lynne Settles, Mid-America Mural Project, Missouri, murals, Nicholas Ward, Oklahoma, Oscar Howe, painting, Port Huron, public art, Sintex, Tonkawa, tornados, University of Kansas, Vincent Chin, Wall of Respect, Will Spotts 1 Comment
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Emergency Manager takeover of Michigan, and how we allowed it to happen
I had the good fortune a week or so ago to attend the Netroots Nation conference in Detroit. Among the people that I met while there was attorney Alec Gibbs, who, in recent years, has been keeping busy representing retired public employees left without adequate insurance in the wake of the Emergency Manager takeover of […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Corporate Crime, Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged 1990, ACLU, Alec Gibbs, Ardesta, bankruptcy, big banks, busing, Chris Christie, corporate takeover of politics, David Koch, David Sirota, Dayne Walling, Democracy Defense League, Detroit, Detroit Public Schools, Ecorse, Elliott Management Corporation, Emergency Financial Control Board, Emergency Financial Manager, Emergency Manager, Flint, grand experiment, Greg Kaza, Headlee Amendment, Jennifer Granholm, John Engler, looming receivorship, Louis Schimmel, Mackinac Center, MEDC, MERS, MI Partners LLC, Michigan Economic Development Corporation, Michigan Municipal Employees Retirement System, Michigan's aging cities, Miliken v Bradley, money in politics, Municipal Assistance Corporation, Municipal Loan Board, Nayyirah Shariff, NERD fund, New Jersey, New York City, Oakland County, P.A. 72, PA 4, pensions, Pontiac, privatization, Public Act 4, Public Act 72, public pension crisis, race and poverty, revenue sharing, RGA Michigan 2010, Rich Baird, Richard Dunn, Rick Snyder, Robert Perry, SAC Capital Advisors, socializing loss and privatizing gains, steel, Steve Cohen, suburbs, The Plot against Pensions, Tom Zernick, unfunded mandates, union busting, venture capital, water, Wendy Baxter 41 Comments
Rachel Maddow on the dismal track record of Michigan’s Emergency Managers and the threat they pose to Democracy
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy [note:I don’t know if it happened for everyone, but, when I watched this, it was preceded by an ad for Goldman Sachs, which I found somewhat ironic.]
Posted in Detroit, Media, Michigan, Politics Also tagged Benton Harbor, Ecorse, Emergency Financial Manager, Emergency Financial Manager Act, foreclosure, Hamtramck, Michael Stampfler, Pastor David Bullock, Pontiac, Rachel Maddow, revenue sharing, Rick Snyder, Silverdome, threats to Democracy, Voting Rights Act 9 Comments