By Mark | January 16, 2012
I wasn’t able to attend today’s MLK Day march to Governor Snyder’s house, but, fortunately, I was able to draft a few correspondents. Our first report comes courtesy of EMU professor Abby Coykendall. As you can see from the pictures, the crowd was far more diverse than at other events, including the protests in Lansing […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Civil Liberties, Michigan, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Abby Coykendall, disenfranchisement, Emergency Financial Manger, foreclosure, gated communities, Georgina Susan, marches, Martin Luther King, McMansions, Occupy Wall Street, populism, protests, Public Act 4, Rick Snyder, right to vote |
By Mark | November 24, 2011
I’m torn on the concept of Buy Nothing Day. I love the idea of taking a day to remind ourselves that there’s more to life than blind consumption, but, at the same time, I sympathize with our small, locally owned retailers, who could really use the business. At any rate, I thought that I should […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Detroit, Politics, Ypsilanti | Also tagged big box retail, Black Friday, blood funnel, Buy Nothing Day, Christmas, Christmas shopping, commercialism, Dearborn, Johari Uhuru, malls, Occupy Ann Arbor, Occupy Christmas, Occupy the Hood, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Ypsilanti, OWS, protests, retails, Shop Local for the Holidays, Troy |
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, Martin Luther King, Maureen Taylor, Mehmet Yaya, Occupy Ann Arbor, 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 10, 2011
Apparently the webcast didn’t pan out as planned, but organizers hope to have video up after the fact. In the meantime, I just wanted to note how incredibly cool it is that on a night like tonight, when both the Detroit Lions and Detroit Tigers have big games, so many people turned out for this […]
By Mark | October 9, 2011
The developments around the Occupy movement are occurring so quickly now that it’s hard to keep track. I’d like to be able to share things as they happen, but, given the realities of life, and the fact that this blog is just a one man operation, I don’t think that’s going to happen. With that […]
Posted in Corporate Crime, Media, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged agent provocateurs, Alan Grayson, American Spectator, anarchists, anti-capitalist, bailout, Bill Maher, blood funnel, Canada, CBC, Chris Hedges, corporate media, Goldman Sachs, Inside the Business World, James O'Keefe school of journalism, John Ralston Saul, Joseph Stiglitz, Kevin O'Leary, left wing nutbar, manufacturing, Matt Taibbi, Molly Crabapple, Occupy Wall Street, octopi, Octopi Wall Street, P.J. O’Rourke, Patrick Howley, Peter King, socialized losses and privatized gains, speculation, the sad state of journalism, vampire squid, Wall Street, Wall Street bailouts, Wall Street bonuses |
