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News :: Elections & Legislation : Protest Activity |
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Ohio recount effort continues amidst media blackout |
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by max |
08 Dec 2004
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 Today, Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) and other Representatives, along with 2004 Presidential candidate David Cobb, held a public forum on voting "irregularities". The forum was the first held in Washington, DC on the massive voter irregularities (more) that occurred on November 2, where potential voters were thwarted across the country by illegal poll challenges, faulty voting machines, and widespread voter fraud.
Residents of Ohio have continued organizing in resistance of Ohio's stolen election [1 | 2]. Following the storming of the Ohio State House on November 5, protests have continued there. A December 4 protest brought over 400 to Columbus, Ohio's capital.
The effort to force a recount in Ohio has been led by the Green Party, which has raised $150,000 in 4 days. Ohio Secretary of State Kennneth Blackwell announced the formal certification of the recount on Monday, November 6. The Ohio Democratic Party has also joined the recount effort, albeit more quietly.
Regular updates can be found at: VoteCobb.org
Photos (at bottom of post). |
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News :: Antiwar : Middle East |
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Palestine is still the issue in Ann Arbor |
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by mike |
07 Dec 2004
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 Palestine solidarity activism is on the rise in Ann Arbor. This activism is taking the form of protests and vigils, film screenings and other events, and debates across the editorial pages of The Michigan Daily, the widely distributed University of Michigan student newspaper. |
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Announcement :: Civil & Human Rights : Environment : Globalization : Indigenous issues |
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Brewing Hope Photo Exhibit Opens Friday |
by Yochi Zakai
Email: chiapas (nospam) umich.edu |
06 Dec 2004
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The Brewing Hope Photo Exhibit will open this Friday at Amer's on State Street in Ann Arbor. The photo exhibit will intimately portray the farmers and communities of the Yachil Coffee Cooperative in Chiapas, Mexico where Brewing Hope coffee comes from. The pictures illustrate the cooperative's roots in the indigenous rights movement and current organic shade-farming practices. The reception at 6:00 PM will include food, coffee and a presentation of photos from August 2004 delegation members.
Reception this Friday at Amer's
312 N State Street
6:00 - 9:00 PM |
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News :: Community Organizing : Education |
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Activists call for Lansing to fund DPS |
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by Diane Bukowski / Michigan Citizen |
03 Dec 2004
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DETROIT — As state officials debated the possibility of a “takeover of the takeover” and schools CEO Kenneth Burnley threatened to layoff up to 5,400 Detroit Public Schools workers, a call went out for parents, students and teachers to march on Lansing to demand funds for DPS.
“For years since the creation of charter schools, since Proposal A in 1994, and especially since the state takeover in 1999, Lansing has systematically starved and deprived our district,” said George Washington, attorney for the Keep the Vote No Takeover Coalition. |
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News :: Civil Liberties |
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East Lansing group that was infiltrated by police to participate in "Spy Files" campaign |
by dmitch
Email: dmitch (nospam) riseup.net |
03 Dec 2004
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EAST LANSING- Students for Economic Justice (SEJ), the United Students Against Sweatshops affiliate at Michigan State Univeristy is participating in a nationwide project by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), that involves requesting information on police infiltration, surveillance and FBI information gathering on activist groups, particularly following 9-11, the implementation of the PATRIOT Act and the growth of the antiwar movement. This campaign is being undertaken through use of rights provided by the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). This national ACLU campaign is about making a showing on a national level of how concerned people are about the actions of the police and intelligence agencies, and attempting to see what kind of activities they are up to in the post 9-11, "everyone could be a terrorist," world.
SEJ was asked to participate along with many other groups across the country due to our previous interactions with intelligence agencies and police. In 2000-2001, an undercover police officer, posing as a student, infiltrated SEJ for six months before being identified by one of our members. The infiltration was approved by our university president, Peter McPherson [ 1 | 2 ] and included work by both the MSU police and the FBI. |
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Announcement :: Antiwar : Civil & Human Rights |
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Human Rights Peace Demonstration to be held in Detroit on Dec. 10 |
by Abayomi Azikiwe
Email: ac6123 (nospam) wayne.edu |
02 Dec 2004
Modified: 05:06:36 PM |
 In honor of International Human Righs Day a demonsration for peace and social justice will be held beginning at the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel from 4:00-6:00 p.m.
"Stop the Destruction of Iraq, Bring the Troops Home"
Demonstration Against the War Honoring International Human Rights Day
Thursday, November 25, 2004 at the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel Entrance,
Jefferson at Randolph, Downtown 4:00-6:00 p.m.
March Thru Downtown at 6:00 p.m.
The Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice (MECAWI) is Calling for a Demonstration on International Human Rights Day, Dec. 10 |
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News :: Global Justice : Media |
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The Battle of Seattle and Indymedia, five years on |
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by adapted from NYC-IMC |
30 Nov 2004
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 In politics, five years is a long time. And on the internet, where self appointed gurus proclaim a new media "revolution" eveny few months, five years can feel like fifty.
Five years ago today, tens of thousands of anti-WTO activists across a broad spectrum of the American left jammed the streets of Seattle in protests that sent the trade organization running for cover [Pictures]. Five years ago also saw the birth of the Indymedia movement. [First Ever Post] |
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News :: Elections & Legislation |
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More voting irregularities in Ohio, Wyoming |
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by Joshua Breitbart |
30 Nov 2004
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Jesse Jackson was in Ohio Sunday talking up the recount. Considering the excellent job he did calming everyone down in Florida in 2000, that makes me nervous. But he is bringing up some interesting calculations based on comparing Kerry's vote total to that of C. Ellen Connally, an African-American Democratic candidate from Cleveland for Ohio Chief Justice. Even though down-ballot races usually involve fewer votes than the much more prominent races at the top of the ticket, Connally received 257,000 more votes than Kerry across the state. |
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