Tag Archives: kidnapping

My thoughts on the news coverage coming out of Cleveland

By Mark | May 7, 2013

Posted in Observations | Also tagged Amanda Berry, Ariel Castro, Cleveland, Gina DeJesus, happy endings, Michelle Knight, news media, Onil Castro, Pedro Castro, the sad state of journalism | 19 Comments

Angela Davis to commemorate MLK Day at U-M with a speech on the threat of the prison industrial complex

By Mark | January 20, 2013

Activist, educator and author Angela Davis will be in Ann Arbor on Monday, delivering a lecture titled “Impediments to the Dream: The Prison Industrial Complex and the Dream.” Davis, as I suspect many of you know, before going on to have a successful career as an academic in the History of Consciousness Department as U-C […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1970, Angela Davis, Bob Sloan, Communism, Corrections Corporation of America, Elliott Currie, ex-prisoners, for-profit prisons, History of Consciousness Department, Impediments to the Dream: The Prison Industrial Complex and the Dream, Judge Harold Haley, Martin Luther King Day, murder, Natalie Holbrook, prison industrial complex, prison industry, prison labor, prison reform, prisoner rights, private prisons, Pure Michigan, racism, Soledad Brothers, Students Organizing Against Prisons, University of California Santa Cruz | 11 Comments

Great flaming mascots…. Is that Jambo Man being immolated?

By Mark | September 1, 2011

At the risk of rekindling the great Ypsilanti Hostage Crisis hysteria of 2010, can someone explain this footage that was just sent to me? It appears to show the beloved local mascot of the Michigan Roots Jamboree being cooked alive. As the footage is undated, I’m not sure if it was shot recently. And I’m […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Ypsilanti | Also tagged abduction, Diazotrophical Meowkestra, Dreamland, Dreamland Tonight, immolation, Jambo, Jambo Man, Michigan Roots Jamboree, panic rooms, puppet Mark, Stewart Beal, The Diazotrophical Liberation Armada, Thompson Block, Toblerone Bananas | 25 Comments

On encouraging our students to use their imaginations

By Mark | October 8, 2009

Remember that story a few days ago about the 24 year old EMU student who bravely fought off the would be kidnapper that was waiting for her, in the back seat of her car, after class? Well, according to campus police, it never happened. The whole thing, it seems, was fiction.

Posted in Ypsilanti | Also tagged car-jacking, crimes that never happened, Eastern Michigan University, EMU, false police reports, lying, lying college students, police | 4 Comments

“Oh, my God, did he say Ypsitucky?”

By Mark | May 12, 2009

When I first moved back to Ypsi, Linette and I made some shirts that said “Buy Indie in Ypsi.” We thought that we were doing a good thing – encouraging people to support the locally owned, independent stores in their community – but some folks didn’t see it that way. We received complaints from a […]