Tag Archives: Natalie Holbrook

Ypsi People Safeguarding Immigrants (Y.P.S.I.) to address the Ypsilanti School Board on Monday

By Mark | February 6, 2017

This Monday evening at 6:30, a number of concerned Ypsilantians will be gathering at the Ypsilanti Community Schools Administration Building [1885 Packard] to demand that the Ypsilanti School Board take aggressive action in the face of recent executive actions targeting immigrants. Kira Berman, Natalie Holbrook and Liz Dahl MacGregor, three of the women behind this […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged anti-immigrant, anti-immigration, discrimination, immigrant rights, immigrants, immigration, Kira Berman, Liz Dahl MacGregor, Muslim, non-discrimination, public education, Washtenaw ID Project, YCS, Ypsi People Safeguarding Immigrants, Ypsilanti Community Schools, Ypsilanti School Board | 8 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, kidnapping, Martin Luther King Day, murder, 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

For-profit prisons… What could possibly go wrong?

By Mark | May 27, 2012

As it’s been a while since we’ve had a post here about the prison industrial complex, I thought that I’d pass along this clip from Charles Blow’s recent piece in the New York Times. “Louisiana is the world’s prison capital. The state imprisons more of its people, per head, than any of its U.S. counterparts. […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Baldwin, Charles Blow, Corrections Corporation of America, G4S, GEO Group, Group 4 Falck, honey holes, House Bill 5174, Joe Haveman, John Proos, Louisiana, Mackinac Center for Public Policy, Mark Ciavarella, Michigan Department of Corrections, Michigan House of Representatives, North Lake Correctional Facility, North Lake Facility for Youth, overincarceration, Pennsylvania, prison, prison industrial complex, prison industry, prison reform, prison sentences, prisoner rights, private prisons, privatization, Rick Snyder, security state, the cost of incarceration, unions, Wackenhut Corrections Corp, Wal-Mart, Wilkes-Barre | 18 Comments

Bike Ypsi celebrates another year of kicking ass with its big Spring Ride on May 6

By Mark | April 12, 2012

This summer, just a few months after their big, annual Spring Ride, our friends at Bike Ypsi will be celebrating their sixth anniversary of pedal-powered awesomeness. In light of that accomplishment, I thought that I should reach out to Natalie Holbrook and Kristen Cuhran, who were instrumental in wrangling together this highly-motivated pack of bicycle […]

Posted in Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged American Friends Service Committee's Michigan Criminal Justice Program, bike friendly, bike polo, bike safety, bike shares, Bike Ypsi, bikers, bikes, Bob Krzewinski, Border to Border Trail, cider and doughnut tour, GetDowntown, Heavy Metal Tour, Hub of Detroit, invisible cyclists, Kristen Cuhran, League of Michigan Bicyclists, Non-Motorized Advisory Committee, Plan B bike shop, Riverside Park, Taco Tour, Washtenaw Biking and Walking Coalition, Washtenaw County Parks and Recreation Commission, Washtenaw County Road Commission, Water Street | 16 Comments

What it’s really like in Michigan’s prisons

By Mark | May 26, 2011

Last night, I reprinted a letter sent by a Michigan school Superintendent to our Governor, asking that his school be converted over to a prison. Given that we fund corrections better than we do education in this state, he argued that it would be in the best interests of his students. He was clearly attempting […]