Father Dick Preston is the priest who married Michael Moore and his wife and is featured in 'Capitalism: A Love Story.'
October 19th, 2010
Glory, Hallelujah and Praise to some really strong and resilient hospital workers and union members.We are proud to announce that Teamster Local 332 of Flint, Michigan reached a tentative contract agreement with Genesys Regional Medical Center of Grand Blanc, Michigan on October 2. After ten grueling months of negotiations, hospital-sponsored ...
September 21st, 2010
SAN JOSE, CA (Sept 21, 2010) — Academy Award-winning filmmaker and best-selling author, Michael Moore, has been named the recipient of the Steinbeck Award by the Center for Steinbeck Studies at San Jose State University. Moore will formally receive the "In the Souls of the People" award on Thursday, October ...
Profits Up at GM! And You're Still Unemployed
So General Motors is back to making billions in profit. And if the past is any guide, we know what that means: time for some layoffs!Or maybe not. Back in the '80s and '90s, when GM was consistently posting giant profits, they were simultaneously firing tens of thousands of workers ...
Michael Moore working to revive downtown movie theaters
Traverse City, Mich. -- For generations, Americans viewed films in stately, single-screen theaters that were pillars of city business districts -- an experience that faded with the rise of suburban multiplexes and the decline of downtowns.Michael Moore wants to bring those theaters back. The Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker has a ...
Father Dick Preston is the priest who married Michael Moore and his wife and is featured in 'Capitalism: A Love Story.'
July 26th, 2010
Report Finds that Ascension Health Has Strayed from its Mission
Greetings in solidarity with all God's creatures, especially the meek, hungry, imprisoned and workers everywhere. Since my last posting, events have intensified in Flint, MI, during contract negotiations at the Catholic-owned Genesys Regional Medical Center (part of the corporate giant Ascension Health). Although the union that represents 300 licensed nurses, ...
Michael Moore says story comes before stars at Traverse City Film Festival
TRAVERSE CITY -- Michael Moore does not underestimate the intelligence of the moviegoing public.You can tell by the way the famed filmmaker and Michigander programs the Traverse City Film Festival every year with foreign films, documentaries, shorts and classics that don't tread on typical Hollywood territory. The numbers back him ...
Michael Moore's Traverse City fest offers expanded bill, free flicks, forums
When you see a movie at the Traverse City Film Festival, there's no question as to how that film got up on the screen. Michael Moore decided it should be there. "You're watching films that I selected, there's no hiding that fact," says the Oscar-winning filmmaker, who founded the film ...
Father Dick Preston is the priest who married Michael Moore and his wife and is featured in 'Capitalism: A Love Story.'
May 25th, 2010
We are continuing to watch the situation in Grand Blanc/Flint, Michigan where a Roman Catholic-owned and run hospital is violating Catholic teaching while local hierarchy turn a deaf ear to the needs of its people. For my part, more e-mails and one direct encounter with a leader of the Michigan ...
Father Dick Preston is the priest who married Michael Moore and his wife and is featured in 'Capitalism: A Love Story.'
April 30th, 2010
Roman Catholic Bishops Ignoring Injustice in Grand Blanc, Michigan
As a married, Roman Catholic priest, I have been steeped in the social teaching of the Catholic Church and have spent years with the poor and workers of Flint and Lansing, MI., Washington D.C. and Central America. So, the recent troubles at a Flint-area hospital caught my attention.A recent political ...
Karen Matts is a licensed practical nurse and a proud member of Teamsters Local 332.
April 12th, 2010
When Did "Pray" Become a 4-Letter Word?
I'm writing to you with an update on my 300 sisters and brothers in Flint, Michigan who work for the largest Catholic hospital chain in the country. They're still fighting for a new contract and fighting the cuts Ascension Health wants to make at Genesys Medical Center (see www.StopAscensionAbuses.com for ...
GRAND BLANC TOWNSHIP, Michigan — From a Michael Moore tweet to a top UAW leader showing up at the bargaining table, Genesys Regional Medical Center’s 300 technical workers are gaining support in their effort toward a contract resolution.On Wednesday, the head of UAW Region 1-C went to the bargaining table ...
Karen Matts is a licensed practical nurse and a proud member of Teamsters Local 332.
April 3rd, 2010
A Catholic Hospital's Fall From Grace
My name is Karen Matts. I am a licensed practical nurse and a proud member of Teamsters Local 332. I loved my job providing care to patients at Genesys Regional Medical Center near Flint, Michigan.I was laid off last year - well, I actually chose to leave. I could have ...
It’s Really Quite Simple: Do We Value Each Life in America?
The question is straightforward and simple. Do we value each life? Yes or no. No matter what Congress passes or doesn’t pass, no matter what the President signs, no matter who buys insurance or has a subsidy to buy it, no matter which person is on Medicaid or Medicare or ...
Labor History Snapshot: Taking a Stand by Sitting Down
In the winter of 1937, thousands of workers in Michigan were singing:"When they tie the can to a Union man, Sit down! Sit down! When the speed-up comes, just twiddle your thumbs, Sit down! Sit down! When the bosses won't talk, don't take a walk, Sit down! Sit down!"They were ...
February 3rd, 2010
4,000 tears wiped from the face of Haiti
There is a working class, blue-collar bar I visit often in Flint called Jester's. To outsiders it might appear as a rough and tumble place, with an unsual mix of bikers, pool sharks, white folks, single moms, gangsters, old folks, black folks, autoworkers, young folks, latin folks, and everything in between. ...
Best films of the noughties No 10: Fahrenheit 9/11
It seems strange to reflect that, drowning as we are these days in campaigning documentary films, when he started out, Michael Moore was one of a kind. Ever since his 1989 film Roger & Me, in which he harassed the CEO of General Motors over the closure of car plants ...
Dr. Jack Stanzler: A Flint Hero
I would like to tell you about a good friend of mine who passed away this week. His name was Jack Stanzler. He was well known in Flint for decades, one of the true fighters for social justice in the area where I grew up.Jack was always keen to remind ...
STANZLER, Jack Arthur - age 81, of Ann Arbor, formerly of Flint, died Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at Sunrise Assisted Living in Ann Arbor. Services will be held 10:30 a.m. Friday, October 16, 2009 at Congregation Beth Israel, 200 Washtenaw Ave., Ann Arbor with Rabbi Rob Dobrusin officiating. Interment will ...
The clip has become a hit on YouTube. In a discussion about Michael Moore's new documentary, Capitalism: A Love Story, Sean Hannity, a stupendously rightwing host on Fox News, invites the leftwing documentary-maker to classify himself as an "unapologetic socialist"."Christian", Moore corrects him.Taken aback, Hannity protests that he is too."I ...
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June 5th, 2013
Here's How We Built a Movie Theater for the People – and Why the MPAA Says It's #1 in the World
This past week, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), the main federation of Hollywood's six major studios, posted on their web site a list of what they believe ...
March 23rd, 2013
This evening is going be a big moment in turning our country around on the issue of gun violence. That's why I desperately want you ...
March 21st, 2013
I am hosting a nationwide series of house parties this Saturday night where tens of thousands of people will gather together in living rooms to ...
March 15th, 2013
The response to my Newtown letter this week has been overwhelming. It is so very clear to everyone that the majority of Americans have had ...
March 13th, 2013
America, You Must Not Look Away (How to Finish Off the NRA)
The year was 1955. Emmett Till was a young African American boy from Chicago visiting relatives in Mississippi. One day Emmett was seen "flirting" with ...
February 26th, 2013
My Final Word on Buzzfeed and Emad Burnat's Detention at LAX
Thanks to everyone for bearing with me as I spend so much time on what happened to Emad Burnat. It's important to me because he's ...
February 26th, 2013
Michael Moore Responds to Buzzfeed Story on '5 Broken Cameras' Co-Director Emad Burnat
On Tuesday, February 19th, Emad Burnat, the Palestianian co-director of the Oscar-nominated documentary '5 Broken Cameras,' was detained with his wife and son at Los ...
September 11th, 2010
If the 'Mosque' Isn't Built, This Is No Longer America
OpenMike 9/11/10 Michael Moore's daily blog I am opposed to the building of the "mosque" two blocks from Ground Zero. I want it built on ...
December 14th, 2010
Why I'm Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange
Yesterday, in the Westminster Magistrates Court in London, the lawyers for WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange presented to the judge a document from me stating that ...
May 12th, 2011
Some Final Thoughts on the Death of Osama bin Laden
"The Nazis killed tens of MILLIONS. They got a trial. Why? Because we're not like them. We're Americans. We roll different." – Michael Moore in ...
November 22nd, 2011
Where Does Occupy Wall Street Go From Here?
This past weekend I participated in a four-hour meeting of Occupy Wall Street activists whose job it is to come up with the vision and ...
September 22nd, 2011
A STATEMENT FROM MICHAEL MOORE ON THE EXECUTION OF TROY DAVIS
I encourage everyone I know to never travel to Georgia, never buy anything made in Georgia, to never do business in Georgia. I will ask ...
December 16th, 2010
Dear Swedish Government: Hi there -- or as you all say, Hallå! You know, all of us here in the U.S. love your country. Your ...
November 2nd, 2010
This letter contains (almost) no criticisms of how the Democrats have brought this day of reckoning upon themselves. That -- and where to go from ...
'The East'
Why have you started a comedy festival in northern Michigan in the middle of winter?
Because if you were here in the dead of winter in the middle of nowhere (which is actually somewhere to us), you'd need a few laughs too ... Continue Reading
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