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