By Mark | January 15, 2017
Both EMU and UM have great events lined up for Martin Luther King Day tomorrow. My family, however, will be spending the morning with Lynne Settles and her Ypsi High art students, who will be silently marching from Ypsilanti’s water tower, starting at 9:00 AM, to the building on Michigan Avenue where, 150 years ago, […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Civil Liberties, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 7 Cylinders Studio, AutoMark, Frederick Douglass, Go Ice Cream, Lynne Settles, marches, Mark Tucker, Martin Luther King Day, Matt Siegfried, MLK, Nick Azzaro, Rhea McCauley, The Perils of the Republic, Ypsi Experimental Space, Ypsi High |
“I hope this is performance art,” I thought to myself last night, as I was watching footage of Kevin O’Connor, the newest hero of the right, explaining why it was that he wouldn’t be selling any of his restaurant’s pizza to people that might be intending to take it with them to a gay wedding. […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Advance America, bigotry, Chrystal O'Connor, Dana Loesch, gay marriage, gay pizza, gay rights, homophobia, Indiana, Kevin O'Connor, Libertarianism, lunch counter sit-ins, Memories Pizza, Mike Pence, pizza, Rand Paul, religious freedom, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, segregation, The Blaze |
By Mark | September 2, 2014
Reverend Dr. William Barber II, the North Carolina minister who founded the Forward Together moral movement, is in the press today. It would seem that a young man in his group was arrested yesterday in Charlotte, at one of Barber’s Moral Monday events, for putting voter registration information on the windshields of parked cars. As […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, History | Also tagged abortion, affirmative action, assassination, Barack Obama, Brown v. Board of Education, busing, Charles Koch, Charlotte, Christianity, civil disobedience, civil rights, Civil Rights Act, Civil War, Committee on Equal Employment, economic justice, Emmett Till, entitlements, family values, Forward Together Moral Movement, George Wallace, guns, health care, higher ground, homosexuality, JFK, Jim Crow, Kevin Phillips, Koch brothers, labor, LBJ, Lee Atwater, Medgar Evers, Medicaid, Medicare, MLK, moral fusion, Moral Monday, morality, Netroots Nation, North Carolina, Otto Scharmer, Plessy v. Ferguson, political strategy, populism, poverty, prayer in the school, progressive politics, public education, race and poverty, race card, racism, reconstruction, Redemption Movement, religion, religious right, RFK, Richard Nixon, snake line, social justice, Southern Coalition Leadership Conference, southern strategy, states rights, tea party, voter suppression, voting rights, William Barber |
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 | October 14, 2011
A few days ago, on this site, I suggested that we have a big “Occupy” event outside, or perhaps in the lobby of, an Ypsilanti branch of Bank of America. Well, given an unfortunately timed parasite infestation, and a cold that seems determined to hang on forever, I never got a chance to pull anything […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Corporate Crime, Mark's Life, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged abortion, American Jobs Act, Bank of America, Bush tax cuts, campaign finance reform, Clementine, corporatocracy, get the money out of Washington, Jeff Clark, Martin Luther King, micro protests, Occupy Cross Street, Occupy Wall Street, parasites, protest signs, protests, signs, Too Small to Fail, Ypsilanti water tower |