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Discussing how deep cuts to mental health care services will impact the poor of Washtenaw County, EMU’s decision to drop their controversial mascot, local ice cream, and the music of Craig Johnson… on this weekend’s Saturday Six Pack

By Mark | August 13, 2015

The Saturday Six Pack is back on the air this Saturday… Among other things, we’re going to be discussing access to mental health resources in Washtenaw County, where it’s rumored that as many as 90 mental health care workers could be losing their jobs over the next several days. While County administrator Verna McDaniel has […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Civil Liberties, Health, Michigan, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized | Also tagged Community Support and Treatment Services, CSTS, Eastern Michigan University, EMU, Go Ice Cream, Greg Pratt, Huron, Huron Valley Central Labor Council, ice cream, mascots, Matt Siegfried, mental health, Michelle Lietz, MISSION, Nancy Heine, NASO, Native American Student Organization, Native Americans, Rob Hess, Verna McDaniel, Washtenaw County, Washtenaw County Community Mental Health Agency, Youself Rabhi | 50 Comments

Reverend Dr. William Barber II on reclaiming the moral high ground and building a majority coalition around issues of social justice

By Mark | September 2, 2014

Reverend Dr. William Barber II, the North Carolina minister who founded the Forward Together moral movement, is in the press today. It would seem that a young man in his group was arrested yesterday in Charlotte, at one of Barber’s Moral Monday events, for putting voter registration information on the windshields of parked cars. As […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, History | Also tagged abortion, affirmative action, assassination, Barack Obama, Brown v. Board of Education, busing, Charles Koch, Charlotte, Christianity, civil disobedience, civil rights, Civil Rights Act, Civil War, Committee on Equal Employment, economic justice, Emmett Till, entitlements, family values, Forward Together Moral Movement, George Wallace, guns, health care, higher ground, homosexuality, JFK, Jim Crow, Kevin Phillips, Koch brothers, labor, LBJ, Lee Atwater, Medgar Evers, Medicare, MLK, moral fusion, Moral Monday, morality, Netroots Nation, North Carolina, Otto Scharmer, Plessy v. Ferguson, political strategy, populism, poverty, prayer in the school, progressive politics, public education, race and poverty, race card, racism, reconstruction, Redemption Movement, religion, religious right, RFK, Richard Nixon, Rosa Parks, snake line, social justice, Southern Coalition Leadership Conference, southern strategy, states rights, tea party, voter suppression, voting rights, William Barber | 18 Comments

“Love the Man. Save the Leg…” Announcing a coordinated campaign to help Patrick Elkins deal with his life-threatening medical bills

By Mark | August 6, 2013

My friend Patrick Elkins, who I often mention here on the site, has been dealing with some relatively serious health issues these past several years. As I suspect many of you already know, he’s got something called DVT, or Deep Vein Thrombosis, which essentially means that, in the absence of medical intervention, extremely painful, and […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Dreamland Tonight, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged bankruptcy, beer, blood clots, collection agencies, contract employees, debt, Deep Vein Thrombosis, DVT, fundraisers, health care reform, health insurance, Legfest, medical bill, medical bills, medical debt, Patrick Elkins, pulmonary embolism, University of Michigan, We Are the World | 108 Comments

Responding to the conservative nonsense of family members on Facebook

By Mark | August 13, 2012

A close family member of mine liked the following graphic on Facebook, and, now, as a result, the rest of my night is going to be spent debunking or otherwise providing context for these “facts” as put forward by an organization called RightChange. [According to their website, RightChange, the organization responsible for this graphic, “has […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged astroturf, clinical trials, FDA, food stamps, Fred Eshelman, Ketek, Pharmaceutical Product Development, Republican obstructionism, RightChange.com, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, unemployment | 23 Comments

Obama’s deficit reduction plan not as shitty as thinking Americans feared

By Mark | September 19, 2011

As promised, Barack Obama unveiled his administration’s new deficit reduction plan this afternoon, in the White House rose garden. [Those who want the facts can find an outline of the plan on the White House website. A PDF of the entire proposal can be found there as well.] From what I can tell, it marks […]