Melvin Parson and I have been working off an on for the past two years on an interview for this site. It began as an Ypsilanti Immigration Interview, and, over time, as we dug deeper into his work with We The People Growers Association, evolved into something more about his dream of establishing a world-class […]
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Melvin Parson and the campaign to create a world-class urban farm in Ypsilanti
Posted in Agriculture, Ann Arbor, Detroit, entrepreneurism, Environment, Food, Sustainability, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged 13th, addiction, Ann Arbor, Avalon Housing, Black Beauty, community gardens, culinary arts, Dawn Farm, Detroit, Doug Coombe, drugs, Edible Avalon, Emanuel Tyus, food hub, fundraising, Great Migration, Henry Ford, Henry Ford Museum, heroin, inequality, Kerrytown, Kerrytown Farmers Market, local food, local food production, matching grants, Melvin Parson, Michigan Department of Corrections, Parkridge Homes, Port Huron, prison industry, prison reform, Shaka Senghor, social justice, St. Joseph Mercy, substance abuse, the hiring on ex-fellons, urban farming, Washtenaw County Jail, We The People Growers Association, We The People Opportunity Center, white flight, Wizard of Oz, Ypsi immigration interview, Ypsilanti Community Schools 9 Comments
Today in fake news: Edgy Day
Over the past several years, we’ve seen a number of instances in which fake news stories, having been seeded through bots by entities that want to stoke the fires of racial animus and political tribalism in the United States, have spread like wildfire across the internet thanks to real people, who, it would seem, care […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged bots, International Baccalaureate, white privilege, WIHI, WIMA, Ypsilanti 127 Comments
Everything you need to know about tomorrow’s “March for Love, Resilience, and Action” in Ypsilanti
A year ago this weekend, as several hundred thousand women marched on our nation’s capitol, well over 1,000 people took to the streets of Ypsilanti in solidarity. And, tomorrow, many of us will be returning to those same streets, not only to march again, but to discuss how we might better work together to address […]
Posted in Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged Amy Shrodes, Bryan Foley, call to action, Community Benefits Ordinance, community organizing, Defend Affordable Ypsi, Desirae Simmons, dialogue, Donald Harrison, feminist spaces, gentrification, International Village, Karlie Ebersole, march for love resilience and action, marches, Mary Larkin, Matt Siegfried, motherhood, Perspectives on International Village, REDY, Rising for Economic Democracy in Ypsi, voter mobilization, voter registration, voting, We Love Ypsi Schools, WEOC, WIMA, Yodit Mesfin Johnson, Ypsilanti Gathering Space, zines 8 Comments