Mark Maynard | indie film

Boots Riley’s “Sorry to Bother You” hits theaters half a dozen years after telling us about it

By Mark | July 9, 2018

Back in November of 2012, Washtenaw Eviction and Foreclosure Defense somehow managed to bring world-renowned hip-hop provocateur Boots Riley and his band, The Coup, to Ypsilanti to play a fundraiser for Ozone House, to support their work with at-risk and marginalized LGBTQ teens. As you may recall, in my interview with Riley, recorded a day […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Detroit, Uncategorized | Also tagged 21 Grams, Alex Rivera, American Splendor, Atlanta, Boots Riley, community organizing, Danny Glover, Danny Goldberg, David Cross, fast food workers union, film making, foreclosure defense, Happiness, hip hop, Ice Storm, Lakeith Stanfield, Led Zeppelin, Nirvana, Oakland, Occupy Oakland, Occupy Sandy, Occupy Wall Street, Ozone House, Patton Oswalt, police brutality, Pride Zone, rap, Sleep Dealer, Sorry to Bother You, Street Sweeper Social Club, Ted Hope, telemarketing, Terry Crews, The Coup, unions, Washtenaw Eviction and Foreclosure Defense | 10 Comments

Toilet reading, Junglefowl, and restorative justice… on episode 27 of the Saturday Six Pack

By Mark | September 23, 2015

During episode 24 of the Saturday Six Pack, there were quite a few good exchanges between Dr. Benjamin Edmondson, the new superintendent of Ypsilanti Community Schools, and the students who had gathered in the AM 1700 studio to ask him questions about his plans for the future of our district. Of those exchanges, my favorites […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Education, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 24 Hour Shootout, accountability, AM 1700, banishment, Belinda Dulin, Benjamin Edmondson, bread, dialogue, Dispute Resolution Center, inclusion, Jason Voss, Junglefowl, justice, Mark Ducker, Martin Thoburn, Melissa Coppola, Michelle Rose-Armstrong, payola, Peri Stone-Palmquist, Pete Larson, punishment, puppet Mark, restorative justice, restorative practices, Stefan Carr, Student Advocacy Center, suspension, threats, Ypsilanti Community Schools | 32 Comments

Zines, local indie film, restorative justice, and the music of Junglefowl …on this weekend’s overly-ambitious Saturday Six Pack

By Mark | September 17, 2015

As of right now, at least according to Facebook, I’m the only person who plans on listening to this weekend’s episode of the Saturday Six Pack. That doesn’t mean, however, that the show we have lined up isn’t great. It is… Really, I don’t know how we do it, but we’ve got yet another awesome […]

Posted in The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 22 North Gallery, 24 Hour Shootout, accountability, Belinda Dulin, Benjamin Edmondson, bullying, Colin Moorhouse, Education, Erin Anderson-Ruddon, expulsion, Junglefowl, Katy Shay, kids and violence, Mark Ducker, Martin Thoburn, Michelle Rose-Armstrong, Nancy Riestenberg, Peri Stone-Palmquist, public education, restorative justice, Skyline, Student Advocacy Center, suspension, teen violence, teens, YCS, Ypsilanti Community Schools | 4 Comments

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Toilet reading, Junglefowl, and restorative justice… on episode 27 of the Saturday Six Pack

Zines, local indie film, restorative justice, and the music of Junglefowl …on this weekend’s overly-ambitious Saturday Six Pack

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