An Update from Michael Moore (and an invitation to his film festival)
Friends, Just a quick note to let you know how things are going. Back in February, I asked if people would send me letters describing their experiences with our health care system. I received over 19,000 of them. It was truly overwhelming as we literally took a month and read ...
With GM buyouts, Flint sees bleak times
City works hard to attract new businesses, but resurgence may be difficult Associated Press FLINT, Mich. - James Rutherford has lived here his entire life, in good times and in bad. The former mayor and police chief, now the director of the Flint Downtown Development Authority, says he doesn't expect ...
Big Three Cars Emit 230 Mln Tons of Greenhouse Gas
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cars built by the Big Three automakers gave off 230 million metric tons of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide in the United States in a year, more than the biggest U.S. electric utility, environmental researchers said on Wednesday. General Motors (GM.N), Ford (F.N) and DaimlerChrysler (DCXGn.DE) cars ...
Documentary slams GM for ending electric car production
By Justin Hyde / Detroit Free Press Just as General Motors Corp. has begun to talk about turning a corner after months of bad news from losses and job cuts, a documentary rolling out this week accuses GM of putting its EV1 electric vehicle in an early grave. "Who Killed ...
GM to shed quarter of workforce this year
By Bernard Simon in Toronto / Financial Times General Motors will on Monday disclose details of one of most dramatic corporate downsizings in US history, exceeding a key target of its turnround plan and accelerating the demise of the privileged American car worker. Rick Wagoner, chief executive, is expected to ...
Bush 'planted fake news stories on American TV'
By Andrew Buncombe / The Independent Federal authorities are actively investigating dozens of American television stations for broadcasting items produced by the Bush administration and major corporations, and passing them off as normal news. Some of the fake news segments talked up success in the war in Iraq, or promoted ...
Exxon Dethrones Wal-Mart on Fortune 500
By J.W. Elphinstone / Associated Press NEW YORK - Skyrocketing energy prices propelled Exxon Mobil Corp. to the top of the 2006 Fortune 500 list, and consigned Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to the No. 2 spot on the magazine's annual ranking of the nation's largest publicly traded companies. Fortune compiled its ...
Bush names Bolten chief of staff
Long-time aide replaces Card in White House shakeup By Jeffry Bartash / MarketWatch WASHINGTON - President Bush named long-time aide Joshua Bolten as his new chief of staff on Tuesday in the first major White House shakeup since Bush was re-elected.Some Republicans have urged the president to bring in fresh ...
Factory Town Losing Last Links to Auto Industry Security By Dana Hedgpeth and Neil Irwin / Washington Post FLINT, Mich. -- It was here, 70 years ago, that an epic union showdown with General Motors Corp. laid the groundwork for the job-for-life economic arrangement American autoworkers have lived under ever ...
Ford to Slash Up to 30,000 Jobs by 2012
By Dee-Ann Durbin / Associated Press DEARBORN, Mich. - Ford Motor Co., the nation's second-largest automaker, said Monday that it will cut 25,000 to 30,000 jobs and close 14 facilities by 2012 as part of a restructuring designed to reverse a $1.6 billion loss last year in its North American ...
THE MARCH OF FREEDOM Back from vacation and off his immigration sidetrack, George will deliver a speech on Wednesday once again defending the Iraq war and, presumably, telling us how ready and capable the new Iraqi army is -- but they're just not quite ready yet. ThinkProgress takes a look ...
G.M. to Cut 30,000 Jobs and Close Some Factories
By Micheline Maynard / New York Times DETROIT, Nov. 21 - General Motors, battling to stem its losses and stave off global competitors, said today that it would cut up to 30,000 jobs and close all or part of 12 facilities over the next three years. The moves will affect ...
GM, UAW talks fruitless in end By Rick Haglund and Todd Seibt / Flint Journal DETROIT - A stunning bankruptcy filing by Delphi Corp., the nation's largest auto parts maker, has kicked another leg out from under a Michigan economy already wobbly from a rapidly deteriorating domestic auto industry. Troy-based ...
Recruits Sought for Porn Squad
*** Watch Porn for Freedom! Apply for the Attorney General's Porn Squad *** By Barton Gellman / Washington Post The FBI is joining the Bush administration's War on Porn. And it's looking for a few good agents. Early last month, the bureau's Washington Field Office began recruiting for a new ...
When the Levee Breaks: "It appears that the money has been moved in the president’s budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq, and I suppose that’s the price we pay. Nobody locally is happy that the levees can’t be finished, and we are doing everything we can ...
When the Levee Breaks: "It appears that the money has been moved in the president’s budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq, and I suppose that’s the price we pay. Nobody locally is happy that the levees can’t be finished, and we are doing everything we can ...
Gas prices hit record high for tenth straight day
By John W. Schoen / MSNBC With just a few weeks left in the summer driving season, consumers are wondering just what it will take to put the brake on gas prices. For the last ten days in a row, pump prices set new records. And with inventories of gas ...
Downsizing at General Motors Comes as No Surprise to Workers
By Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times FLINT, Mich., June 7 - Jayne Atwell describes herself as a "G.M. gypsy," a name General Motors workers have for people who have been shuffled from plant to plant over the years as the company has closed factories and cut its labor ...
HEAL THE WORLD, MAKE IT A BETTER PLACE
THE MARCH OF FREEDOM Against a backdrop of death threats, assassinations and suicide attacks, Iraq's founding fathers mistrustfully draft a constitution:Already, dreamy government-produced TV ads about a peaceful future with a permanent constitution run on local channels. In the mosques, clerics frequently talk about the importance of the constitution. Some ...
GM Plans to Cut 25,000 U.S. Jobs by 2008
By John Porretto / Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. - General Motors Corp. plans to eliminate 25,000 manufacturing jobs in the United States by 2008 and close plants as part of a strategy to revive North American business at the world's largest automaker, its chairman said on Tuesday. Speaking to shareholders ...
THE MARCH OF FREEDOM Cold Day In Hell: A Spanish judge wants to question 3 US soldiers over the death of a cameraman. Frustrated Iraqis Return: "We left Iraq because of the injustice of Saddam and we came back to find ourselves homeless. My sons are jobless and we don't ...
THE MARCH OF FREEDOM A day after mistakenly arresting the head of the leading Sunni political party, the US faces a united front of criticism in Iraq. How did the American military make this mistake? Was it really a mistake? Or was it just a brilliant George Bush plan to ...
Senate rejects better mileage for gas guzzlers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate Energy Committee on Wednesday rejected a Democratic plan to require sport utility vehicles and minivans to become more fuel efficient and achieve the same gasoline mileage as passenger cars in six years. Under the failed proposal, SUVs and other light trucks would have to meet ...
THE MARCH OF FREEDOM VIDEO: Tony Blair stands rigid as his political opponent Reg Keys--whose son died in Iraq--asks for an apology. China rejects using economic or political sanctions as a nuclear deterrent for North Korea.Beijing's apparent unwillingness to go along with Bush's backup plan to squeeze the country takes ...
THE MARCH OF FREEDOM Almost 12,000 Iraqis are already behind bars and the US is planning for more, investing $50 million in expanding three detention centers and opening a fourth. Lynndie England, the man she loved, the woman he married--a torturous love triangle:Just after the 372nd received orders to go ...
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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 ...
February 20th, 2013
Last night was the Motion Picture Academy-sponsored dinner in Beverly Hills honoring the directors and producers of this year's five nominated films for Best Documentary. ...
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 ...
'Dirty Wars' by Jeremy Scahill
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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