By Mark | January 22, 2017
Last night, on the radio, I talked with a number of local women who had headed off to D.C. to participate in the Women’s March on Washington. At the most basic level, I just wanted to record their thoughts and experiences, having just participated in the biggest post-inauguration protest in American history. I wanted to […]
Saturday night, I posted something on Facebook about the recent uprisings in Turkey, expressing both my support and frustration. (My support because, from what I can tell, the people taking to the streets across the country are largely folks who, like me, are interested in fighting for secular government, and the rights of individuals to […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Other, Uncategorized | Also tagged AKP, alcohol, Arab Spring, Atatürk, Ayse's Cafe, Ben Ali, Bosporus Bridge, corporatism, corporatocracy, democracy, Ebru Uras, Gezi Park, green space, Iran, Islam, Islamization, Istanbul, Juan Cole, Justice and Development Party, lipstick, mallification, malls, Mubarak, Occupy Genzi, occupygezi, public space, religious fundamentalism, Taksim, Taksim Square, Tayyip Erdogan, threats to Democracy, world |
In a Netroots Nation session earlier this week, a panel of activists shared stories about the various grassroots campaigns that they’ve waged against the big banks in their communities. One of the panelists… I believe it was Max Berger, an organizer associated with Occupy Wall Street… mentioned how, when it had first been announced that […]
Posted in Corporate Crime, Economics, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged accountability, Alexis Goldstein, Bank of America, banking, banking reform, derivatives, Eric Schneiderman, FDR, Financial Fraud Task Force, holding people responsible, Max Berger, Mortgage-Backed Securities Working Group, Netroots Nation, New Deal, Occupy the SEC, Occupy Wall Street, savings and loan scandal, transformational politics |
A little over a year ago, we discussed the fact that, under the rule of unelected Emergency Manager, Joseph Harris, public properties in Benton Harbor were being sold for pennies on the dollar to wealthy investors, over the objections of the struggling city’s largely African American population. [As our friend Richard Murphy reminds us, in […]
Posted in Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Cornerstone Alliance, Emergency Financial Manager, Emergency Financial Manager Act, golf, golfing, Jean Klock Park, Jennifer Granholm, PGA, Professional Golf Association, Richard Murphy, Rick Snyder, Whirlpool |
Yesterday, I shared three videos that were shot over the weekend with Alan Haber, the founder of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). In those videos, Alan and I primarily discuss the past. We talk about Ann Arbor in the 50’s, Haber’s initiation into revolutionary politics during the McCarthy era, the founding of SDS, and […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Civil Liberties, History, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Alan Haber, Communism, Dixiecrats, EMU, fear of Communism, Guild House, Hathaway's Hideaway, Howard Brick, League of Industrial Democracy, Occupy Ann Arbor, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Ypsilanti, Port Huron, revolution, SDS, sexism, SNCC, Students for a Democratic Society, Tom Hayden, UAW, we need a revolution, women's rights |
