Johnny Lupinacci on this week’s “Activism and Education: A Celebration at...
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...
View ArticleAlan Haber on the origins of SDS, similarities to the Occupy movement, Ann...
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...
View ArticleAlan Haber on celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Port Huron Statement...
Yesterday, I shared three videos that were shot over the weekend with Alan Haber, the founder of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). In those videos, Alan and I primarily discuss the past. We talk...
View ArticleBen Cohen on Occupy, independent business networks, and defacing currency to...
I had the opportunity yesterday, at the BALLE conference, to hear ice cream magnate Ben Cohen, of Ben and Jerry’s fame, talking about the point of intersection where the local business movement, Occupy...
View ArticleNY Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on holding bankers accountable, and the...
In a Netroots Nation session earlier this week, a panel of activists shared stories about the various grassroots campaigns that they’ve waged against the big banks in their communities. One of the...
View ArticleWinning in November isn’t enough, says Van Jones. We also have to mobilize...
I know he’s a big hero to many on the left, but Van Jones sometimes rubs me the wrong way. He’s too smiley, or something. Maybe it’s a reaction to having been taken in by John Edwards, but I now prefer...
View ArticleAuthor Amy Cortese on the burgeoning “locavesting” movement, and how we can...
Next Tuesday, October 30, Think Local First will be bringing author Amy Cortese to Ann Arbor to discuss her book Locavesting: The Revolution in Local Investing and How to Profit From It. Following is...
View ArticleThe Rolling Jubilee launches Thursday with a telethon, and ambitious plans to...
One of the beautiful things about the Occupy movement is how it keeps evolving. What started as a sea of wiggly fingers in a New York City park, has, in a relatively short period of time, spread across...
View ArticleRobert Reich on income inequality, his new film, and the need to get money...
For those of you without access to public television, Bill Moyers celebrated the fifth anniversary of “the fiscal meltdown that almost tanked the world economy” a few days ago by speaking with my hero,...
View ArticleBoots Riley’s “Sorry to Bother You” hits theaters half a dozen years after...
Back in November of 2012, Washtenaw Eviction and Foreclosure Defense somehow managed to bring world-renowned hip-hop provocateur Boots Riley and his band, The Coup, to Ypsilanti to play a fundraiser...
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