Tomorrow, at 10:30 AM, people will be coming together in Ypsilanti to discuss foreclosure resistance. The following notice comes from Ypsilanti’s Tad Wysor. Pull out your long undies and wool socks, and consider joining us Saturday morning for a first “foreclosure research” canvass in eastern Washtenaw! The new “Washtenaw Foreclosure Defense” group — an outgrowth […]
For those of you who didn’t attend the Tournament of Roses Parade earlier this week in Pasadena, there was one good float. It took the form of a giant octopus. No footage of it was broadcast, as far as I know, as it wasn’t an officially-sanctioned, corporate-sponsored entry. If you want, though, you can find […]
Our Occupy Ypsi teach-in on Saturday went really well. Hopefully, at some point in the near future, I’ll have an opportunity to go into everything that was covered. For the time being, though, I wanted to share this video of historian Peter Linebaugh addressing the group. The following will hardly do Peter justice, but here […]
[The following missive must have been slipped into my pocket this evening as I made my way down Michigan Avenue with my dog.] The State Capitol of Art and Activism by Occupy Ypsilanti What do GoldmanSachs, Jerry Sandusky, Michael Bloomberg, McDonald’s, Rick Snyder, The Gap, Nestle, Major League Baseball, and Mary Sue Coleman have in […]
Ann Arbor speaks out on Occupy Ypsi
AnnArbor.com posted something about today’s Occupy Ypsi teach-in at Woodruff’s. As it’s a short piece, and as I don’t come across as terribly articulate, I wasn’t going to link to it, but then I noticed the comments. Here are the top three, as voted on by the readers of AnnArbor.com. I think it’s cool that […]