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1 week, 2 victories
The grave of Peter Cooper, founder of Cooper Union College, with a red solidarity square placed upon it. Photo: Justin Wedes When it rains, it pours! This week began with the surprising news that U.S....
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Let me welcome you back to Detroit, Ford.
Don’t find fault, find a remedy. -Henry Ford Last week, the Ford Foundation – the charitable fund created by Edsel and Henry Ford and now run independently of the motor company – returned to its...
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Why Greece’s ‘No’ Will Echo Across the United States
Photo: Greeks Rally to Say No (“Oxi”, pronounced Oh-key) to the European Central Bank’s Debt Deal – Telegraph.co.uk “Greek people are proving they want to remain in Europe as equal members and not as...
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A Dangerous Game: FREE Screening at Cinema Detroit
I’m feeling the Bern. As the grassroots surge continues around Bernie Sanders for President, I’m excited to announce that I’ll be hosting filmmaker Anthony Baxter in Detroit next month for a free...
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Building a Truly Global Platform
This blog post comes on the Fourth Anniversary of Occupy Wall Street and the launch of The Global Platform, a collaborative project I directed with Occupy activists, German political foundation...
View Article“These our HOMES — y’all can’t take em”
I’m moved by this song by Detroit artist Mic Write. Bold and beautiful defiance in the face of a foreclosure monster. Come out and support The Tricycle Collective with me tomorrow night — buying back...
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The Last Days of the Water Wars
This fictional story takes place in the not-so-distant future in Donbartville™, Michigan. This thriving downtown core of the failed city of Detroit was annexed in 2021 in a hostile corporate takeover...
View ArticleWhat I’m Thankful for This Year
I’m thankful (in no particular order) for The sun and the moon Moving escalators The Detroit riverfront #BlackLivesMatter The India Arie Pandora station My mother Carrot cake My father The Bundists,...
View ArticleKiller Mike + Bernie Sanders Talk Capitalism and Socialism
A beautiful short video showing the kind of intelligent discourse that the #FeelTheBern political revolution is provoking. And in barber shop chairs at the Swag Shop in Atlanta nonetheless!
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Why It’s Time to Move On To Bernie
UPDATE – The vote is now open. Anyone who has ever signed a MoveOn petition or signed up on their site is eligible. VOTE here! Allow me to recap a little history for the new year. The progressive...
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How Bernie inspired me to learn Yiddish
Yiddish children protesting against New York City’s lack of child labor laws in 1909. Friends, It’s almost too easy to become cynical about the state of politics today, but a little while back I read...
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The Flint Crisis is Not Just About the Water. It’s About Poverty.
Flint residents visit a local fire station to pick up donated water being distributed by the Michigan National Guard. Photo: Justin Wedes, 1/16/16 The Detroit News ran an editorial this week titled...
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First Lesson from Flint: Repeal Emergency Management
Water shutoff protests in Detroit in 2014 (Photo: WSJ) As the calls grow for Michigan Governor Rick Snyder’s resignation – last night he was heckled out of a bar in his hometown of Ann Arbor – we...
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Michigan Governor Snyder and Nestle Announce Partnership to Keep Flint Pipes...
Part 2 in a Series. Read Part 1 Michigan Governor Rick Snyder, struggling to regain public trust after admitting ultimate responsibility for the Flint water poisoning crisis, announced today an...
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Flint and the Myth of American Exceptionalism
“I remember when they built cars in Flint and you couldn’t drink the water in Mexico” – Flint resident The reality is setting in that Flint’s lead water poisoning scandal runs deeper than a few...
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Chad Rochkind: A Jail at Michigan Central Station is Detroit’s Dumbest Idea
This article by Chad Rochkind originally appeared on the Detroit News blog, before it was removed without explanation on Wednesday, August 17, 2016. It appears re-printed here with permission from the...
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Chill Out, America. This Too Shall Pass.
Photo: A somewhat thoughtful take on the 2016 United States Presidential Election Friends, The third and final presidential debate came to an end like a screeching kamikaze plane exploding on the...
View Articleprayer // fasting \\ vision
Today I fast. A simple, ancient act. As it is written in Joel 1:14, “Solemnize a fast, Proclaim an assembly; Gather the elders—all the inhabitants of the land— In the House of the Divine, Cry out to...
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This Week, Millions of People Made America Great Again
Photo: Jews in Detroit protest against Fritz Kuhn, Nazi sympathizer dubbed the “American fuehrer”, circa 1930 What a week it has been! It began last Saturday, January 21st, 2017 with the Women’s March...
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Betsy DeVos is the new Cathie Black
Now that Betsy DeVos has successfully bought herself a seat in the Trump cabinet – and protesters are already making her job impossible – it’s time to start drawing some parallels between the...
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