Among those who presented at the 2012 BALLE conference a few days ago, in Grand Rapids, was performance artist Rha Goddess, who shared a number of pieces from her “Opportunity Now!” series. Here’s the piece that she began with, in which she takes on the character of a recently paroled individual looking for a job. […]
Posted in Art and Culture, entrepreneurism, Uncategorized | Also tagged BALLE, Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, consulting, ex-prisoners, Move The Crowd, Opportunity Now!, performance art, Rha Goddess, The Opportunity Agenda |
I know this photo has been absolutely everywhere since White House photographer Pete Souza sent it out via Twitter earlier today, but I couldn’t help myself. It’s an incredibly moving image. How could it not be? Here, we’ve got our first black President sitting on the bus where, just 57 years earlier, Rosa Parks had […]
By Mark | February 5, 2012
Remember how, a few weeks ago, the Public Editor of the New York Times, Arthur Brisbane, wrote a column inexplicably asking if it should be the job of journalists to be “truth vigilantes,” as though there were other legitimate options to be weighed in this highly-politicized, post-reality world in which we find ourselves today? Well, […]
Posted in Media, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged activism, Agenda 21, American Planning Association, American Policy Center, benito.strauss, bike lanes, carbon emissions, conspiracy theories, fair and balanced, gompa, green jobs, journalism, Maine, manipulation of the stupid, Newt Gingrich, stupid Americans, Sustainability, tea party, Tea Partyfication, the future of journalism, the sad state of journalism, Tom DeWeese, truth vigilantes, United Nations, urban planning, world order |
By Mark | January 30, 2012
A former Ypsilanti resident, who, the last I heard, had gotten married and run off to become a farmer in Hawaii, sent me a short, cryptic message a few weeks back, suggesting that I look up a friend of his who just moved to Ypsilanti, and interview her as part of our Ypsi Immigration Interview […]
Posted in Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Alexandra Sarkozy, Anthology Film Archives, architecture, Brooklyn, Chavella's, Depot Town, farmers market, Growing Hope, hacker space, independent bookstores, independent press, Indian restaurants, Issue Project Room, Kalamazoo, Kevin Dole, Prospect park, retail in Ypsilanti, Sustainability, third spaces, thrift stores, tool library, Transition Ypsilanti, Unnameable Books, walkable downtown, Ypsi Food Co-op, Ypsi immigration interview, Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interviews, Ypsilanti District Library, Ypsilanti Historical Society |
By Mark | September 28, 2011
As you may have heard, the Michigan House may be voting as early as today on a Senate appropriations bill that, among other things, includes approximately $400 million in rail-related spending, with would secure federal grants, and move us even closer to the goal of having a functional, state-wide public transportation system. To mark the […]
Posted in Michigan, Rail | Also tagged Amtrak, David Rutledge, high-speed rail, Jeff Irwin, light rail, Mark Ouimet, MDOT, Michigan House of Representatives, Norfolk Southern, passenger rail, Rail, Richard Murphy, Rick Snyder, SB 237, SEMCOG |
