Harvesting the organs of Ypsilanti’s Visteon plant
The Detroit News’s Charlie LeDuff visits the Ford Visteon plant in Ypsilanti, and watches as it gets torn apart and auctioned in an article entitled, “Selling off America’s manufacturing might, a...
View ArticleWisconsin’s attack against the working class, and the role of the Koch brothers
The weirdness is apparently continuing in Wisconsin. From what I can tell, the public employee unions have indicated a willingness to negotiate pay and benefit cuts. The Governor, however, has refused...
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...
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Tom Hayden talks with me about Ann Arbor in the late 1950s, his time at the...
Earlier this evening, I had the occasion to speak with activist and author Tom Hayden about his role in the drafting of the Port Huron Statement, the circumstances which gave rise to this widely...
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Will Michigan follow Indiana and be the next “right-to-work” domino to fall...
When the citizens of Michigan recently failed to pass Proposition 2, which would have established the right to collective bargaining in our State Constitution, we signaled to members of the Republican...
View ArticleCoup d’etat in Michigan… following the money, connecting the dots, and...
This afternoon, as over 10,000 protesters surrounded the Capitol building in Lansing, Governor Snyder singed into law legislation that would make Michigan the 24th right-to-work state. When asked why...
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Ted McClelland on fleeing “Michissippi” and why we’ll never be able to keep...
Here on the site last week, I twice invoked an article that had appeared on Salon.con entitled Right-to-work bill: Michigan just gives up. Well, the second time I did so, the author of the piece, Ted...
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Michigan Democratic Party Chairman Mark Brewer, without the support of the...
According to a report on MLive, Michigan Republicans are demanding that the investigation into Michigan Democratic Party Chairman Mark Brewer’s involvement in a 2010 plot to split the conservative vote...
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Black student demands at EMU, the truth about Rosie the Riveter, an inside...
After two weeks off to focus on the consumption of turkey, mashed potatoes and jello salad, we’re back in the AM 1700 studio this Saturday evening at 6:00 to talk about everything from the recent...
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A now-profitable General Motors, having been bailed out by the people of...
Back in 2016, while on the campaign trail, Donald Trump made the following promise to Michigan’s automotive workers. “If I’m elected, you won’t lose one plant, you’ll have plants coming into this...
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