Mark Maynard | How to get our Democracy Back

Bernie Sanders came to Ann Arbor today to attach Trump, and rile up the kids for Clinton… and it was awesome

By Mark | October 6, 2016

Endearingly disheveled hero of the American left, Senator Bernie Sanders, made his way through Michigan today, pumping up crowds on behalf of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the run up to next month’s presidential election. Our job, he told the crowd that gathered to hear him speak at the University of Michigan’s Museum […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Civil Liberties, Environment, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2016, anti-science, Bangladesh, Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, birther, Birthers, China, Citizens United, Constitutional amendments, Donald Trump, free college tuition, get the money out of Washington, global climate change, Global Warming, global warming denial, Hillary Clinton, income inequality, Koch brothers, Mexico, middle class, misogyny, oligarchy, outsourcing, Presidential politics, racism, Science, Sheldon Adelson, Socialism, student debt, tax policy, taxes, threats to Democracy, threats to the middle class, trade agreements, Turkey, University of Michigan | 21 Comments

Michael Moore offers the Occupy movement his thoughts on a list of demands

By Mark | November 22, 2011

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, demands, democracy, education reform, election finance reform, food safety, Franklin D. Roosevelt, free education, Glass-Steagall Act, healthcare reform, holding insurance companies accountable, Michael Moore, Occupy Wall Street, OWS, protests, retirement, shipping American jobs overseas, single-payer system, social security, universal health care, vision statements | 12 Comments

Celebrate yesterday’s trouncing by getting involved in Campaign Finance Reform

By Mark | November 3, 2010

I was in the midst of trying to cobble together a hopeful and constructive post of some kind, and failing miserably, when I received the following note from Lawrence Lessig, the co-founder of Fix Congress First. As it successfully accomplished what I could not, I thought that I’d steal it and pass it along. Just […]

Posted in Other, Politics, Rants | Also tagged campaign finance reform, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, election results, First Amendment, Fix Congress First, get the money out of Washington, John Roberts, Lawrence Lessig, lobbying, McCain-Feingold, money in politics, Obama, Ron Johnson, Russ Feingold, The Tyranny of Tiny Minds | 12 Comments

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Bernie Sanders came to Ann Arbor today to attach Trump, and rile up the kids for Clinton… and it was awesome

Celebrate yesterday’s trouncing by getting involved in Campaign Finance Reform

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