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Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interview: Josh Chamberlain

By Mark | September 29, 2012

Tonight’s interviewee is Josh Chamberlain. I first met Josh when he was about eleven years old. If I’m not mistaken, it was at his sister Amelia’s first birthday party, probably right around the time that the black and white photo of them to the right was taken. Josh turned out to be a pretty incredible [...]

Posted in Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Amelia marks, Ballard, binge drinking, Border to Border Trail, car antenna, Cincinnati, DAAP, Dos Hermanos, entrepreneurism, exit interviews, Footloose, graphic design, Greenhills, Greenhills School, James Marks, Josh Chamberlain, Kevin Bacon, kids today, Meghna, Ohio, Pearl Street, Prospect park, Ruth Marks, Rutherford Pool, students today aren't worth a damn, The Rocket, tridge, University of Cincinnati, University of Michigan, VGKids, Washtenaw Community College, Washtenaw Technical Middle College, Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interviews | 16 Comments

Johnny Lupinacci on this week’s “Activism and Education: A Celebration at EMU” activities

By Mark | March 18, 2012

I just heard about a big student activism event taking place this Thursday and Friday on the campus of EMU, and reached out the organizers with a few questions. What follows is my exchange with EMU doctoral student Johnny Lupinacci. MARK: Can you tell me a little about this event coming up at EMU? JOHNNY: [...]

Posted in Education, Environment, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 100 years ago today, ableism, activism, Activism and Education: A Celebration at EMU, Ann Arbor Free School, Ann Arbor Free Skool, apathy, Aric McBay, baby boomers, Bringing Down Civilization, Civilization and Resistance, community activism, community building, consumerism, decolonization, Deep Green Resistance, Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet, Derrick Jensen, Earth Liberation Front, Eastern Michigan University, eco justice, EcoEats, education reform, EMU, EMU College of Education, Erica Mooney, Fabayo Manzira, fear, G.R.E.E.N., Generation X, GenX, global climate change, hip hop, If A Tree Falls, individualism, isolation, Janine Palms, Jean Twenge, John Lupinacci, Johnny Lupinacci, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Lierre Keith, local food, Malik Yakini, Millennials, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Ypsilanti, Orion, permaculture, Porter Lecture, racism, radical sustainability, Reskilling Festival, S.E.P.E., seedbombs, self-interest, sexism, social justice, speciesm, student activism, students today aren't worth a damn, Superhero Training Academy, Sustainability | 11 Comments

UC Davis Chancellor escorted from her office as hundreds of students line her path, staring in deafening silence

By Mark | November 20, 2011

By now, you’ve probably seen the the footage of the UC Davis students being pepper sprayed. It’s disgusting stuff. The students are sitting down in a line, across a sidewalk, protesting recent tuition hires, and, ironically enough, episodes of police brutality elsewhere in the University of California system. They are peaceful. No one is yelling. [...]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Other, Uncategorized | Also tagged bullying, Celeste Langan, coughing up blood, Eastern Michigan University, Geoffrey O’Brien, Glen Greenwald, higher education, Joe Paterno, John Pike, kids today, Linda Katehi, Linda P.B. Katehi, Nathan Brown, non-violence, Penn State, pepper spray, police brutality, police state, Robert Hass, shame, solidarity, student activism, students today aren't worth a damn, surveilance, surveillance culture, Surveillance State, tuition protests, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, University of California, University of Michigan, violence vs non-violence, walk of shame | 22 Comments

Sex and Riots in Ann Arbor

By Mark | June 17, 2009

The Ann Arbor Chronicle has an interesting historical piece today on the June 1969 youth riots that took place in Ann Arbor. The incredibly detailed article, which includes some great photos as well, was written by a fellow named Alan Glenn, who is currently at work on a documentary about Ann Arbor in the ’60s. [...]

Posted in Mark's Life, Other | Also tagged Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor Chronicle, Battle of Ann Arbor, cops, frats, fucking in protest, pizza, riots, sex in the street, South University, students today aren't worth a damn, the night I was tear gassed, Why Don't We Do It in the Road | 11 Comments

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