Mark Maynard

Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interview: Vikram Bastian

By Mark | March 20, 2013

Next Thursday, assuming I can keep the panic attacks at bay, I’ll be conducting live exit interviews in front of a raucous, beer-swilling crowd at Conor O’Neills, as part of Concentrate Media’s moderately-distinguished speaker series. (It’s free, and open to the public, but, if you’d like to attend, you need to register in advance.) Here, [...]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Special Projects, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Adrienne Berry, alcoholism, American exceptionalism, Ann Arbor Free School, Ann Arbor Public Library, Anthony Meza Wilson, big banks, binge drinking, Bitchpork, brown people, Canadian shame, Canadians, Casa Jezebel, conservative parents, cooperatives, counterculture, credit unions, Davy Rothbart, Degrassi Jr High, Degrassi Junior High, depression, dumpster diving, edifice complex, Eric Stephenson, Eric Sturgis, Erin Brockavitch, Evan Bicker Williams, exit interviews, Far House, Forest Juziuk, Freaks, Fred Thomas, free school, geeks, haircuts that destroyed families, hedonism, Hotel Midwest, house shows, houses with names, hubris, Ian Fulcher, illegal alien, India, Jambo, Jambo Man, Jef Porkins, John Roos, John Rowland, Joseph Bollinger, Katherine Scott, Kayj, Kiran Nigam, Logan Schaedig, Manufacturing Consent, Michael Firn, Michelle Winkfield, Mississauga, MLK, moderates, music scenes, Noam Chomsky, Oakland, Ontario, Our New Library, Patrick Elkins, Pitchfork, Protect Our Library, punks, race, Raphael Brim, sadism, San Francisco, Sasha Kimel, Shelly Salant, Socialism, Steffanie Stauffer, Sumangala Kailasapathy, The Found House, Thom Elliott, undocumented resident, undocumented worker, University of Michigan, urban planning, Vikram Bastian, Water Street, web development, Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interviews | 47 Comments

Boots Riley of The Coup… on Communism, Corporatism, hip-hop, and the need to beat down scabs

By Mark | November 28, 2012

Last night, I had the occasion to speak with world-renowned hip-hop provocateur Boots Riley on a wide range of subjects spanning from his childhood in Detroit, spent in a household of Communist organizers, to his current work, organizing people in his neighborhood as a member Occupy Oakland. And, of course, we touched on his equally [...]

Posted in Art and Culture, Civil Liberties, Corporate Crime, Detroit, Economics, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 21 Grams, 9/11, advertising, Alex Rivera, American Splendor, anti-capitalist, at-risk youth, Barbara Ransby, Bill Maher, Boots Riley, California, Capitalism, civil rights, class, College of Ethnic Studies, Communism, Congress of Racial Equality, CORE, Danny Goldberg, dark comedy, fast food workers union, Five Million Ways to Kill a CEO, foreclosure defense, fundraisers, Greensboro, guillotine building workshop, Happiness, hip hop, ILWU, independent film, International Longshore and Warehouse Union, interviews, Japanther, Jeff Clark, K-Mart, Kev Choice, Ku Klux Klan, La Peña Cultural Center, labor history, labor movement, Led Zeppelin, Levi's, longshoremen, lunch counter sit-ins, Magic Clap, Me and Jesus the Pimp in a '79 Granada Last Night, militancy, NAACP, Nirvana, North Carolina, Oakland, Occupy Oakland, Occupy Sandy, Ohio Players, Oscar Grant, Ozone House, picket lines, police brutality, political hip hop, political organizing, Politically Incorrect, Port of Oakland, Progressive Labor Party, Prop 21, pull yourself up by your bootstraps, rap, revolution, rhetoric of violent revolution, San Francisco, San Francisco State, San Francisco State strike, scabs, SDS, sit-down strikes, Sleep Dealer, social justice, Sorry to Bother You, speaking truth to power, Street Sweeper Social Club, Students for a Democratic Society, sympathy strikes, Taft–Hartley Act, Ted Hope, The Coup, The Guillotine, The Ice Storm, threat of violence, unions, United Steelworkers, USW, Walmart, Walter Riley, Washtenaw Eviction and Foreclosure Defense, we need a revolution, WEFD, Woodruff's, work stoppage, World Trade Center | 25 Comments

The Southerm Poverty Law Center’s Mark Potok puts Michigan hate groups in context

By Mark | October 13, 2012

This evening, I had the occasion to speak briefly with Southern Poverty Law Center Senior Fellow Mark Potok. I’d reached out to Potok, who serves as editor-in-chief of the Center’s quarterly journal, the Intelligence Report, and its blog, entitled Hatewatch, as I hoped that he might be able to shed a little light on William [...]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged American Third Position, anti-government, ATF, bullying, Census Bureau, conspiracy theories, crazy white people, Daniel Johnson the racist not the musician, domestic terrorism, educational materials, entrapment, Family Research Council, FBI, Federal Reserve, FEMA, Fort Stewart, hate groups, Hatewatch, homophobia, Hutaree, Libertarianism, Mark Potok, Michigan Militia, Michigan's 11th congressional district, militias, Natural Law Party, patriot groups, racism, radicals, Rand Paul, ricin, Ron Paul, sexism, Southern Poverty Law Center, tea party, Teaching Tolerance, Terry Jones, the long suffering whites, the White Disenfranchised Male, white, white enclaves, white nationalism, white power, William Daniel Johnson | 33 Comments

On once making eye contact with Sherman Hemsley, or some other short, balding, black man drinking wine

By Mark | July 26, 2012

When I heard yesterday that Sherman Hemsley had died at the age of 74, I was reminded of an afternoon several years ago in Ann Arbor spent staring over a beer at a man I believed to the iconic character actor. He was sitting a few seats away, drinking by himself. I think I was [...]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Monkey Power Trio, Uncategorized | Also tagged another famous person has died, dinner theater, drugs, famous people, Flying Teapots, George Jefferson, Isabel Sanford, Love Letters, LSD, Old Town, psychedelic rock, Sherman Hemsley, sitcom stars, sitcoms, Soft Machine, Soul Train | 6 Comments

Non-Democrats in the Ypsilanti Democratic Primary… is there anything wrong with that?

By Mark | July 2, 2012

As the deadline for registering to vote in the August 7 primary is one week from today, I thought that now might be a good time to publicly commend a certain local landlord for defecting from the ultra right wing America First Party and professing his allegiance to the party of Ted Kennedy, Barney Frank [...]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Ypsilanti | Also tagged AIDS, America First Party, anti-immigrant, Chinese, Civil Rights Act, conspiracy theories, date rape, David Duke, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, fear of Communism, foreign aid, Great Lakes, homophobia, John Birch Society, local income tax, Mike Eller, paranoia, seat belts, separation of church and state, Stop City Income Tax, Ypsilanti City Council, Ypsilanti Ward 3 | 51 Comments

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The Southerm Poverty Law Center’s Mark Potok puts Michigan hate groups in context

On once making eye contact with Sherman Hemsley, or some other short, balding, black man drinking wine

Non-Democrats in the Ypsilanti Democratic Primary… is there anything wrong with that?

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