By Mark | December 22, 2011
On cold winter nights like this one, there’s nothing I like more than curling up in front of the fireplace and reading some classic racist tracts. Tonight, I’m sitting here in my easy chair, with a piping hot cup of camomile tea, and a big stack of Ron Paul newsletters. I really can’t imagine a […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged angry white men, anti-government, Iowa, Iowa caucus, Lew Rockwell, Libertarianism, militias, MLK, Murray Rothbard, NAFTA, newsletters, Outreach to the Rednecks, pandering, race baiting, racism, Ron Paul, Ron Paul's Freedom Report, Ron Paul's Political Report, Texas, the Ron Paul Investment Letter, the Ron Paul Survival Report, white supremacist |
By Mark | October 17, 2011
I’d heard mention of the Washtenaw Community Action Team over the past several months or so, but I never really took the time to figure out how they fit into the local ecosystem of left-leaning political organizations, or what their objectives were. Fortunately, however, I had the occasion this past weekend to exchange a few […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Corporate Crime, History, Michigan, Politics, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 40 hour work week, AAUP, Adam Warner, AFL-CIO, America Votes Labor Unity Fund, astroturf, banks, bridges, child labor, civil disobedience, collective bargaining, commencement, corporatocracy, Flint, Graduate Employees Organization, Great Flint Sit Down Strike, Gregg Barak, Howard Bunsis, Ian Robinson, infrastructure, Inside Job, Jane Slaughter, Koch brothers, labor, labor history, Maureen Taylor, Mehmet Yaya, Occupy Ann Arbor, Occupy Detroit, Occupy Wall Street, OWS, protests, Public Act 4, Right to Teach, right-to-work, Solidarity Forever, Stadium Bridge, Stand Against Snyder, Tom Weisskopf, UM Graduate Research Assistants, UMHS nurses, unions, Wall Street, Washtenaw Community Action Team, WCAT, We Are One, We Are The People, Wisconsin, With Babies and Banners: A Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade |
By Mark | October 14, 2011
A few days ago, on this site, I suggested that we have a big “Occupy” event outside, or perhaps in the lobby of, an Ypsilanti branch of Bank of America. Well, given an unfortunately timed parasite infestation, and a cold that seems determined to hang on forever, I never got a chance to pull anything […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Corporate Crime, Mark's Life, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged abortion, American Jobs Act, Bank of America, Bush tax cuts, campaign finance reform, Clementine, corporatocracy, get the money out of Washington, Jeff Clark, micro protests, Occupy Cross Street, Occupy Wall Street, parasites, protest signs, protests, Rosa Parks, signs, Too Small to Fail, Ypsilanti water tower |
By Mark | October 1, 2011
Say what you will about the topless girls and the incoherent boys who started everything rolling with their occupation of Wall Street, but it looks like what they set in motion might actually have not only legs but momentum. Today, 3,000 people marched on Bank of America in Boston. And, in New York, an estimated […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Corporate Crime, Economics, Other | Also tagged Bank of America, Boston, Brooklyn Bridge, Chris Hedges, civil disobedience, corporatocracy, Demetrius, democracy, New York, Patrick Henry, Plutocracy, protests, revolution, Rosa Parks, Tim DeChristopher, Wall Street, Wall Street occupation |
Psychology professor Drew Westen (Emory University) has a fascinating opinion piece in today’s New York Times. Here’s a clip for those of you who can’t scale the pay wall. …When Barack Obama stepped into the Oval Office, he stepped into a cycle of American history, best exemplified by F.D.R. and his distant cousin, Teddy. After […]
