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That area code. I died.
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#regram #missing #michigan
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This fellow is named Josh Betke. He was arrested last night for assault with a dangerous weapon, and was also found to be in possession of methamphetamine and ecstasy. The assault was on a friend and ex-housemate and happened in my basement at an otherwise normal and peaceable show. No one is friends with this guy. The attack was from behind and unprovoked, wherein he slashed at the throat of our friend with a knife while holding their hair.
He was (obviously) caught, but on the off chance he gets to roam the neighborhood again, keep an eye out. Also, take care of your friends. This sort of behavior is completely unacceptable, and totally uncalled for. This man had nothing to do with this community, yet his actions have stirred up fright in the community, and defamed an otherwise decent household.
Yo, keep eachother safe. Fucking pissed that this happened to a friend at my house.
I’m not going to let this one random asshole give our city, our community, our house a disparaging reputation. We’ve worked too long and hard to build this positive and encouraging atmosphere to have this dude fuck it all up. Keep being excellent, this too shall pass and we’ll be nothing but stronger and wiser from it.
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Detroit City Council Members Pugh, Tate, Jenkins, Cockrel and Brown just voted to sell 1900 parcels (180 acres) of Detroit to a private developer, Hantz Woodlands, a subsidiary of Hantz Financial (a private equity firm). Despite the land being less than a half mile from the waterfront, encompassing a historic district and being at the foot of the busiest international border crossing, the land is being sold for .08 cents per square foot. Despite the masses of people that signed petitions and spoke at public hearings in opposition of the land grab, the peoples voices were omitted as though we never spoke. Despite the long-standing history of urban renewal, divestment and displacement, the people of Detroit are left to falsely choose between privatization and neglect. Although the system is set up for us to fail, power is not for others to relinquish. We have to take it by realizing our own inherent power and moral authority by organizing around a collective vision of justice, equity and liberation! This has never been more clear than it has today. From our schools, to land, to water to energy to food to governance, we have to create what’s rightfully ours and as Danny Glover said over the weekend at Timbuktu Academy, be the “architects of our own rescue!” In solidarity of the tens of thousands in Lansing fighting in opposition of right to work legislation.
Shane Bernardo
Southwest is #hogwarts.
Empower Women and Girls: Vote for Fender Bender Detroit! <A gender-bending bicycle mechanic training experience to empower women and undo gender stereotypes>
Website
http://www.facebook.com/FenderBenderDetroit?ref=hl
The Idea
Fender Bender is a women and gender nonconforming collaborative bike shop and mechanic training experience in Detroit. We learn intensive bike repair skills, safe riding practices, ride together weekly, and explore ways we can heal and grow from within our communities, using the bicycle to empower.
The Specifics: What will the $2,500 fund?
Bicycles are a key agent to creating accessible and reliable mobility for people in a city that has almost 140 square miles, a dismantled public transportation system, unaffordable car insurance rates, and a high population of formerly incarcerated people. Fender Bender is a transformational agent to provide access to fair, stable, empowering transportation.
We would use the money from Empower Women and Girls for the materials and equipment for our mechanic training course. This includes:
Bike repair tools
Bulk inner tubes
Bulk tires
Bulk patch kits
10 bike maintenance manuals
10 bike light sets
10 helmetshttp://detroitjetaime.com/2012/05/20/detroits-real-bike-chicks/#.UHTEJBjgLZs
There’s 9 days left to vote. Please register and verify your vote, show some lovely people doing lovely things in good ole lovely Detroit some love. Love love love, etc.
Signal boost please!
Boost!
My sister has actually attended several of their workshops. Please vote for them!
Small world! Who’s your sister?
ALSO UPDATE WE’RE IN SECOND PLACE NOW. Many thanks to anyone who reblogs or votes. <3
Still in second place. Going to annoy everyone with how often I post this. But Sarah and the rest of the women work SO HARD and they could really really use the monies.
We know the bicycle is not only accessible, stable, and fair transportation, but also a vehicle for transformation. We offer a 7-week bicycle mechanic training program to women, queer, and gender non-conforming residents of Detroit. We learn intensive bike repair skills, safe riding practices, ride together weekly, and explore ways we can heal and grow our communities using the bicycle to empower. We seek to stimulate and reflect the wants, needs, and imaginations of our communities in the way we operate the shop, facilitate programming, in our daily lives, relationships, and our work far beyond the walls of our space.
We host regular open shop hours, community conversations, group rides, and private tours. We offer tune-ups, and sell restored once used bicycles as one local way to financially sustain our programming and space, as well as to engage community investment without on relying on foundation funding. We are always working toward a space that includes more resources, support, and alliance building among women, queer, and gender nonconforming people in Detroit.
The last day for voting is Friday Nov 2th 12PM PDT. Realizing that should have been included in the original.
#tigers #detroit #michigan #dunkin #donuts #doughnuts (Tomada con Instagram)
Get out there in the community, yo. #pontiac #michigan #volunteer #oaklanduniversity #OU (Tomada con Instagram)
Michigan GOP candidate allegedly siphoned off 95 percent of charity’s money
Michigan Democratic Party Chairman Mark Brewer dropped a bombshell this morning that may have obliterated Republican Clark Durant’s campaign for Senate.
Brewer alleges that he has uncovered documents that show a charity run by Durant funnels 95 percent of its funds – more than $600,000 a year – to the Durant family, particularly the candidate’s daughter, Hope Durant Loomis.
Brewer is calling for an IRS investigation into the Genesis Foundation, a nonprofit Durant formed in 1991 to help Detroit children secure a private school education. The charity is connected to Detroit’s Cornerstone Schools, a charter school group which Durant founded.
“Clark Durant claims to be a ‘rebel with a cause,’ but it turns out he’s siphoned off almost $1.4 million from a charity originally created to help Detroit kids afford school. It’s clear the only cause Durant cares about is his own,” Brewer said.“A man who unlawfully abuses charities and foundations for personal gain is not the kind of ‘rebel’ Michigan families need.”
Brewer’s own political investigation was sparked by a recent story in the Detroit Free Press that found Durant’s $500,000 salary at Cornerstone, a relatively small organization that educates 1,500 students, exceeded the pay received by many university presidents and CEOs of national charter school networks.
Oh yeah.
At this point of my life I do not feel the need to defend the Vagina Monologues anymore. Eve Ensler is exploitative scum, and I don’t care that she is in Lansing Monday to get attention or protest what’s going on with silencing women Democrats or the anti abortion legislation.
All. Over. My. Newsfeed.
I want to vomit that at the end of the articles everyone is posting is a comment about “when are we going to the penis monologues?”. UH EVERY FUCKING DAY, SHUT UP WHY DID YOU QUOTE SOMEONE’S HUSBAND WHEN SHE DIDN’T COMMENT??
Michigan gun enthusiasts protest arrest in Birmingham
Chris Combs, of Troy, left, and Stephanie Locke, of Clawson, cross the street in downtown Birmingham, Mich. while participating in a protest by gun enthusiasts Monday, June 11. The protest is in support of eighteen-year-old Sean Michael Combs, of Troy, who was arrested in Birmingham on April 13 while carrying a rifle. Combs was charged with brandishing a weapon, disturbing the peace, and obstructing a police officer.
From The Detroit News: Birmingham— Gun toting advocates filled the Birmingham commission chambers Monday night, displaying their firearms in holsters and strapped to their backs in protest of charges against a teen they say had the legal right to do the same in public.
Shaun McElroy, left, of Chesterfield, shakes hands with Sean Michael Combs while participating in a protest on Combs behalf in Birmingham, Mich. on Monday, June 11. Combs, of Troy, was arrested in Birmingham on April 13 after strolling the downtown area while carrying a rifle. He was charged with brandishing a weapon, disturbing the peace, and obstructing a police officer.
“It seems like cooler heads should prevail and the charges should fall,” said Dave Campbell, a Westland resident involved with AR15.com, a website and resource center for gun supporters. Continue reading this story from the Detroit News here.
So, I was walking in Downtown Rochester (read: white upper class city) yesterday with a client and saw a bumper sticker that proclaimed: Every 13 Seconds someone fires a gun in self defense. Uhm, WHO NEEDS TO FIRE GUNS IN SELF DEFENSE?
Hint: None of these white people protesting in Birmingham. Not that person with that bumpersticker hanging out in Rochester. Not these kids in Clawson, or Troy, or other cushy safe suburbs in the greater Metro Detroit Area.
Have a group of POC do this in Detroit, Pontiac, Dearborn, Southfield. Have any group of POC do this in Troy. Try Birmingham or Chesterfield or Oxford or Bloomfield and what would happen? They would be gunned down.
A POC child carrying a gun around Birmingham would never get a protest like this, or off as easily as that Combs did. Even if there was a protest and it didn’t involve being decked out with weapons? Just wow really I cant.
This photo is white privilege. Ugh.
(article linked by qbutch, thanks)
![Back: The civil rights era is largely remembered as a time of sit-ins, boycotts, and riots. But a very different civil rights history evolved at the Ionia State Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Ionia, Michigan. In “The Protest Psychosis”, psychiatrist and cultural critic Jonathan Metzl tells the shocking story of how schizophrenia became the diagnostic term overwhelmingly applied to African American protestors at Ionia- for political reasons as well as clinical ones. Expertly shifting front through a vast array of cultural documents, Metzl shows how associations between schizophrenia and [B]lackness emerged during the tumultuous decades of the 1960s and 1970s- he provides a cautionary tale of how anxieties about race continue to impact doctor-patient interactions in our seemingly postracial America. //// I feel like I will like the history, but cringe a whole awful lot at this. #whitedudewroteit #civilrightsera #racism #psychology #psychiatry #michigan #MI #schizophrenia #antiblackness (Tomada con Instagram)
By cringe a whole awful lot, I mean I want to vomit at rhetorical usage of the word “postracial”. #rephrase](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5hhgoJnhs1qfyj83o1_500.jpg)
Back: The civil rights era is largely remembered as a time of sit-ins, boycotts, and riots. But a very different civil rights history evolved at the Ionia State Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Ionia, Michigan. In “The Protest Psychosis”, psychiatrist and cultural critic Jonathan Metzl tells the shocking story of how schizophrenia became the diagnostic term overwhelmingly applied to African American protestors at Ionia- for political reasons as well as clinical ones. Expertly shifting front through a vast array of cultural documents, Metzl shows how associations between schizophrenia and [B]lackness emerged during the tumultuous decades of the 1960s and 1970s- he provides a cautionary tale of how anxieties about race continue to impact doctor-patient interactions in our seemingly postracial America. //// I feel like I will like the history, but cringe a whole awful lot at this. #whitedudewroteit #civilrightsera #racism #psychology #psychiatry #michigan #MI #schizophrenia #antiblackness (Tomada con Instagram)
By cringe a whole awful lot, I mean I want to vomit at rhetorical usage of the word “postracial”. #rephrase