Will Gov. Rick Snyder stand idly by while Michigan citizens are demonized by a Florida group of right-wing radicals? He will if he doesn’t hear from you. All-American Muslim, the TLC show depicting the lives of five Muslim families from Dearborn, provides an opportunity for viewers around the country to learn more about a culture…
Janice Daniels, the recently elected Tea Party Mayor of Troy, has been making headlines and attracting national attention to Southeast Michigan recently – but not in a good way. If only this were surprising – it comes at the end of a year when Lansing Republicans have pursued an extreme social agenda while pretending to…
Lansing Republicans have quietly been working for months on a package of “education reform” bills that would undermine public education by allowing an unlimited number of for-profit charter and cyber schools to open and receive taxpayer funding. How radical are these proposals? Well, the Washington Post called them “Michigan’s embarrassing school reform legislation,” while the Huffington…
By now it’s obvious that our lawmakers are primarily interested in passing laws that punish the hardest working Michiganders just to placate the top 1 percent who run corporations and special interests. From a massive tax cut for big businesses made on the backs of the working poor and seniors to the shredding of the…
Today, Americans across the country are heading to the polls despite new efforts by Republican politicians and corporate front groups in 15 states to make it harder for millions of American citizens to vote. In Michigan, this process was recently started by Secretary of State Ruth Johnson, who kicked off her campaign lobbying for the…
If you’re reading this, you won’t be surprised to hear that this week the Michigan House launched yet another attack on the rights of the 99 percent. House Bill 5002, passed on Wednesday, guarantees that businesses don’t have to pay as much in worker’s compensation when workers are hurt on the job. This law is…
This guest post was written by Amy Hunter, President of Equality Michigan Pride PAC. An “anti-bullying” bill with exceptions, really? In a stunning betrayal of the public trust, ultra-conservatives in Michigan pushed an “anti-bullying” initiative through the state Senate Wednesday after attaching an amendment that radically changed the legislation’s impact. The surprise change guts the…
Double-digit unemployment. Dramatically increasing income inequality. Politicians owned by millionaires and lobbyists. As sure as the sun rises, every day brings news that the richest few are getting even richer, and big banks and corporations get away with abusing the rules because the politicians they fund let them write the rules. Right now, the average…
Yesterday, US House Majority Leader Eric Cantor visited the University of Michigan and was met by a protest decrying the “death of the middle class” and Rep. Cantor’s active support for the top 1 percent. The protest was attended by members of Progress Michigan, the Washtenaw Community Action Team, the University of Michigan Planners Network,…
Last week, Rep. Eric Cantor scheduled a visit to the Wharton School of Business in Pennsylvania where he planned to speak on income inequality and “how we make sure the people at the top stay there.” He cancelled the speech after he found out that it was open to the public and the 99% would…