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Martial Law Now a Reality in Michigan

by Jennifer Page — April 18, 2011 - 11:21am
  • Topics: Right Wing, Ethics, Politics

    • The week of April 10-16 saw the layoff of every public school teacher in Detroit, and the initial fruition of the highly-contested bill that allows emergency financial managers to have unconditional control over a city in a financial emergency. The city of Benton Harbor, Michigan, declared to be in a financial emergency by Governor Rick Snyder, now knows that, according the Snyder, the voter's voice doesn't really matter anymore.

    Joseph Harris, the city's new Emergency Financial Manager (EFM), dismantled the entire government, only allowing city boards and commissions to call a meeting to order, approve of meeting minutes and adjourn a meeting.

    The law that allows Harris to "exercise any power or authority of any office, employee, department, board, commission, or similar entity of the City, whether elected or appointed," was passed in March after the urging of Governor Snyder, and despite thousands of protesters who came to the Lansing capitol throughout February and March.

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    Badgers Drown Out Mama Grizzly

    by Jennifer Page — April 16, 2011 - 5:05pm
  • Topics: Corporations, Democracy, Economy, Real Economy Project, Wisconsin Protests

    • The wet snow and tense atmosphere did not deter thousands of people from coming to the capitol for Americans for Prosperity's Tax Day Rally. The major draw was former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, who was announced as a speaker days before the event on Saturday. Crowd estimates vary from hundreds to thousands, but the majority of people were there to protest -- not applaud -- Palin. One local reporter paced-off the area where the majority of AFP protesters clustered and said it totaled 20 by 35 feet.

    Democrats are fighting back in Ohio

    by Jennifer Page — April 11, 2011 - 11:04am
  • Topics: Activism, Democracy, Economy, Labor, Politics, Wisconsin Protests

    • Ohio Democrats this week introduced into a divided state legislature a new bill that would allow Ohio citizens to recall Governor John Kasich and other legislatures. The state has been in an ideological upheaval for months after Kasich's budget bill was introduced, similar to the Wisconsin bill that has received incredible national attention for stripping unions of their collective bargaining rights, and eventually signed April 2nd after some concessions were made by the Republican-held Assembly and Senate.

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    From Memphis To Madison Rally April 4th

    by Jennifer Page — April 5, 2011 - 10:07am
  • Topics: Wisconsin Protests

    • Let us rise up tonight with a greater readiness. Let us stand with a greater determination. And let us move on in these powerful days, these days of challenge to make America what it ought to be. We have an opportunity to make America a better nation. And I want to thank God, once more, for allowing me to be here with you. – Martin Luther King Jr. in his last speech in Memphis

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    Two Who Marched With King Take the Long Road from Memphis to Madison

    by Jennifer Page — April 4, 2011 - 10:00am
  • Topics: Democracy, Economy, Real Economy Project, Wisconsin Protests

    • Now, let me say as I move to my conclusion that we've got to give ourselves to this struggle until the end. Nothing would be more tragic than to stop at this point, in Memphis. We've got to see it through. And when we have our march, you need to be there. Be concerned about your brother. You may not be on strike. But either we go up together, or we go down together. –- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in his last speech in Memphis

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    Recall Gets Personal and Senator's Girlfriend Gets State Job

    by Jennifer Page — March 15, 2011 - 1:39pm
  • Topics: Democracy

    • Republican state Senator Randy Hopper now knows exactly what it feels like to have his dirty laundry aired for the world to see. It's not pretty.

    The two-year senator from Fond du Lac, Wisconsin is in the midst of efforts to recall him from office for his actions against worker rights and fair procedures, and the Milwaukee-based WTMJ-TV has received a letter from his estranged wife accusing him of having an affair with a young woman he supervised. In the Wisconsin Senate, Hopper serves on the "Children and Families and Workforce Development Committee."

    Corporate Politicians at Helm in Michigan Sell Out Local Democracy

    by Jennifer Page — March 10, 2011 - 6:01pm
  • Topics: Wisconsin Protests

    • In an extreme move to take away power of local governments, the Michigan Senate voted yesterday to allow the appointment of so-called emergency financial managers to take control of cities and school districts that the newly elected Republican governor in the state unilaterally declares to be "financial emergencies."

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