Mark Maynard | speaking truth to power

Health Care, Caravans, and the Fight for Truth and the Future of America

By Mark | November 4, 2018

I know a lot has happened over the past two years, since Donald Trump took office. The sheer amount of what we’ve been forced to process as informed citizens has been absolutely overwhelming. There have been multiple shootings by white supremacists, assassination attempts against our most effective opposition leaders, and false accusations intended to kill […]

Posted in Health, Observations, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2017, ACA, Affordable Care Act, America Health Care Act, anti-immigrant, asylum, caravans, chaos, Donald Trump, fear mongering, get out the vote, health care reform, lies, Luis Bracamontes, Medicaid, Medicare, midterm elections, Obama, political violence, post-truth, preexisting conditions, racism, Republican lies, Robert Mueller, Russia, Russiagate, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, threats to Democracy, white supremacy | 35 Comments

The new, young, and hopefully-more-effective face of American gun reform

By Mark | February 19, 2018

Quite a bit has happened over the past few days, since we first learned of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida that left 17 people dead. While it doesn’t look as though the 19 year old killer had connections to a white nationalist hate group, as was first reported, it […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Alfonso Calderon, assault weapons, assault weapons ban, automatic weapons, background checks, blame the victim, call to action, Cameron Kasky, Christin Yared, Christine Yared, collusion, David Hogg, Donald Trump, Emma Gonzalez, FBI, Florida, gun control, gun reform, gun violence, high school, inaction, inspiration, lobbying, Make America Great Again, Mar-a-Lago, March for our Lives, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, National Rifle Association, National School Walkout, Nikolas Cruz, NRA, obstruction of justice, Parkland, protest, Republic of Florida, Russia, Russiagate, school shooting, second amendment | 109 Comments

Boots Riley of The Coup… on Communism, Corporatism, hip-hop, and the need to beat down scabs

By Mark | November 28, 2012

Last night, I had the occasion to speak with world-renowned hip-hop provocateur Boots Riley on a wide range of subjects spanning from his childhood in Detroit, spent in a household of Communist organizers, to his current work, organizing people in his neighborhood as a member Occupy Oakland. And, of course, we touched on his equally […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Civil Liberties, Corporate Crime, Detroit, Economics, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 21 Grams, 9/11, advertising, Alex Rivera, American Splendor, anti-capitalist, at-risk youth, Barbara Ransby, Bill Maher, Boots Riley, California, Capitalism, civil rights, class, College of Ethnic Studies, Communism, Congress of Racial Equality, CORE, Danny Goldberg, dark comedy, fast food workers union, Five Million Ways to Kill a CEO, foreclosure defense, fundraisers, Greensboro, guillotine building workshop, Happiness, hip hop, ILWU, independent film, International Longshore and Warehouse Union, interviews, Japanther, Jeff Clark, K-Mart, Kev Choice, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, La Peña Cultural Center, labor history, labor movement, Led Zeppelin, Levi's, longshoremen, lunch counter sit-ins, Magic Clap, Me and Jesus the Pimp in a '79 Granada Last Night, militancy, NAACP, Nirvana, North Carolina, Oakland, Occupy Oakland, Occupy Sandy, Ohio Players, Oscar Grant, Ozone House, picket lines, police brutality, political hip hop, political organizing, Politically Incorrect, Port of Oakland, Progressive Labor Party, Prop 21, pull yourself up by your bootstraps, rap, revolution, rhetoric of violent revolution, San Francisco, San Francisco State, San Francisco State strike, scabs, SDS, sit-down strikes, Sleep Dealer, social justice, Sorry to Bother You, Street Sweeper Social Club, Students for a Democratic Society, sympathy strikes, Taft–Hartley Act, Ted Hope, The Coup, The Guillotine, The Ice Storm, threat of violence, unions, United Steelworkers, USW, Walmart, Walter Riley, Washtenaw Eviction and Foreclosure Defense, we need a revolution, WEFD, Woodruff's, work stoppage, World Trade Center | 32 Comments

Speaking truth to power, and booing Paul Ryan

By Mark | April 20, 2011

Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan made headlines a week or so ago with his budget proposal. People in the press, as I recall, seemed impressed. They used words like, “bold” and “serious,” and praised him for making difficult decisions in order to address the nation’s spiraling budget deficit. Once people really started digging into it, though, […]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged 2012 federal budget, budget, budget deficit, marginal tax rate, Medicare, Path to Prosperity, Paul Ryan, the growing gap between rich and poor, town hall, wealth inequality, Wisconsin | 48 Comments

Protests planned for Wednesday in Michigan

By Mark | March 15, 2011

As I mentioned yesterday, several hundred people are planning to gather on the Diag tomorrow at 1:00 to voice their disapproval over Governor Rick Snyder being named U-M’s Spring commencement speaker. While it promises to be an exciting event, it now looks as though the real action tomorrow is going to be in Lansing, where […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Politics | Also tagged call to action, collective bargaining, commencement, Emergency Financial Manager’s Act, Lansing, Michael Moore, protests, Rick Snyder, shared sacrifice, tax breaks, tax the rich, union busting, University of Michigan | 21 Comments

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The new, young, and hopefully-more-effective face of American gun reform

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