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No Confidence
To the Eastern Michigan University Community:
At the December 11, 2015 meeting of the Department of Teacher Education at Eastern Michigan University (EMU), the faculty and Department Head passed a unanimous vote of no confidence in the leadership of the EMU Board of Regents. Given the Board of Regents’ gross violation of its own Code of Ethics, the Teacher Education Faculty and Department Head have no confidence in the Board members’ ability to be faithful stewards of Eastern Michigan University.
Djembes Ring, Are You Listenin’?
We The People Grower’s Association
My name is Melvin Parson, and I believe that growing food cultivates communities. This vision has lead me to form We The People Grower’s Association.
Right now we need your help! Our goal is to accumulate enough funds in order to purchase tools such as a seeder and various hand tools we were without in our first season. We will also use these funds for materials such as non-GMO seeds, drip hoses, and row covers, and to provide food, snacks & refreshments for all of our amazing volunteers.
The Routine Lies of Prison Officials
Geraldine Matthews
On December 14th, civil rights leader and political prisoner Rev. Edward Pinkney will have spent a year in Michigan state prison. An all-white jury convicted him of five felony counts of forgery for changing dates next to signatures on a petition drive for a recall election, though no evidence of guilt was presented. The trial was distinguished mainly by its outrageous violations of due process and constitutional rights. Judge Sterling Schrock sentenced him to 30 months to 10 years and denied bond pending appeal, despite Pinkney posing no flight risk and despite the near-certainty that his conviction will be overturned on appeal. While Pinkney’s appeal proceeds slowly through the grinding gears of the judicial system, he remains in the clutches of the state.
Unsuccessful Opposition: the Ann Arbor Police Review Board Proposal
Unsuccessful opposition to crimes of every description invariably increases their power and malignity —Elizabeth Heyrick, 1824
We have a killer cop still on our streets, armed and dangerous.
There will be no healing without justice. We will never forget Aura Rosser.
Cities and States are Closing Their DDAs
Macrobdella decora
In Ann Arbor:
—The Downtown Development Authority (DDA) takes funding away from city and county services, parks, and libraries
—The unelected DDA board decides how over $26 million per year of taxes and parking revenues are spent on less than a half square mile area
—The DDA gives sorely needed tax dollars to already-wealthy developers
Pop Quiz
Does this statement refer to:
a) Governor Rick Snyder and his Education Achievement Authority (EAA)
or
b) EMU Criminal Justice graduate, ex-Oklahoma City police officer, and convicted serial rapist Daniel Holtzclaw?
#TRUEMU
Your Town, Too, Is a Publisher of Fiction
Radical Washtenaw 