I guess it makes sense to combine the two professions. If you’ve got the wood and tools to make coffins, why not build a couple of cabinets when business is slow, right? I mean, there’s a lot of time between cyclone season and flu season in Ypsilanti. Might as well do something constructive. And, when […]
Opening the summer of 2011, Ponyride, a 30,000 square-foot warehouse in the Corktown area of Detroit, presently serves as home to 25 socially-conscious businesses, ranging from non-profits like Detroit Soup, to for-profit entrepreneurial ventures like Detroit Denim. Following is my conversation with Ponyride’s Executive Director Kate Bordine on how they made it happen, the power […]
Posted in Detroit, entrepreneurism, Local Business | Also tagged 3rd Ward, branding, Brooklyn, business incubators, Cleveland, co-working, Corktown, Detroit Denim, Detroit Harmonie, Detroit Soup, Empowerment Plan, foreclosure, grants, hip hop dancing, Hugh, Indiegogo, Kate Bordine, Knight Foundation, letterpress, local non-profits, makers, metalworking, networking, new models for non-profits, non-profits, Old Tiger Stadium Conservancy, Phil Cooley, pop-up retail, Pot and Box, recording studio, Slows Bar BQ, Smith Shop, social entrepreneurship, TechShop Detroit, textiles, the lessons of Detroit, triple bottom line, Two James Distillery, volunteering |
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, Paul Robeson, 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, yippies |
