After the last several episodes, where we had so many guests, and so many things to get through, I enjoyed the relaxed pace of this most recent edition of the Saturday Six Pack. I’d left us a lot of breathing room when planning the show, thinking that, just maybe, Marshall Crenshaw might stop by, seeing […]
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The Ann Arbor music scene, from Paul Robeson to Frank Allison …on episode 28 of the Saturday Six Pack
Posted in Art and Culture, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged African American art songs, African American history, Alan Haber, Ann Arbor history, audio tour of Ann Arbor rock history, Community Church of God, Frank Allison and the Odd Sox, George Clinton, Gillian Ream, Mark's big ideas, Marshall Crenshaw, Modern Lady Fitness, musicians, opera, oral history, Our Own Thing Chorale, records, Rock and Roll, Soviet Union, vinyl, walking tours, Willis Patterson, Ypsi Songfest 11 Comments
Keep Mike Eller off City Council…. tell your friends!
Yesterday, shortly after I announced that I’d be hosting a fundraiser for FLY Children’s Art Center at Woodruff’s on September 8, someone left a comment on the site, alerting me to the fact that the Katie Whitehouse, the director of FLY, had a Mike Eller sign in her front yard. “I can’t believe the head […]
Posted in Observations, Politics, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged abortion, accusations of socialism, America First Party, Communism, discrimination, dismantling of public education, Earth Day, environmental protection, EPA, fear of Communism, FLY Children's Art Center, homophobia, John Birch Society, Karen Maurer, Katie Whitehouse, Leon Trotsky, local income tax, Maurer Management, Mike Eller, OSHA, Pete Murdock, separation of church and state, sexism, sexual harassment, Socialism, sodomy, Steve Pierce, Stop City Income Tax, the threat of Socialism, Water Street, Water Street Redevelopment Project, women's liberation, Ypsilanti City Council, Ypsilanti Ward 3, zoning 92 Comments
Alan Haber on the origins of SDS, similarities to the Occupy movement, Ann Arbor at the height of McCarthyism, and why he never built that second bomb
I spent yesterday morning with my friend Jeff, at the home of Alan Haber, the first president of Students for Democratic Society (SDS). We talked about Ann Arbor at the height of McCarthyism, the circumstances which gave rise to SDS, the drafting of the Port Huron Statement 50 years ago, and the opportunity that may […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Civil Liberties, History Also tagged 1959, Abbie Hoffman, Alan Haber, Angel Hall, armed self-defense, Arnold Kaufman, black bloc, blowing things up, bombs, Chandler Davis, Clement Markert, Derrick Jensen, FDR, Flint Sit-Down Strike, German American Bund, getting fired, House Unamerican Activities Committee, humor, Inter-Cooperative Council, Jeff Clark, League for Industrial Democracy, League of Industrial Democracy, loyalty oaths, Mark Nickerson, MLK, mooning, Nazi, non-violence, Occupy, Occupy Wall Street, participatory democracy, PIC, pipe bombs, Political Issues Club, Port Huron Statement, racism, revolution without executions, satire, SDS, SLID, SNCC, social security, Social Security Act, soul power, Splinter Group, Stephen Tonsor, street theater, student activism, Student League for Industrial Democracy, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Students for a Democratic Society, tudent Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, violence vs non-violence, Weather Underground, welfare, woodworking, yippies 26 Comments