March 30th, 2011
Articles tagged with: “Michigan”
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Rick Snyder's "Shared Sacrifice"
Michigan's tax system is already regressive, meaning that poorer people pay a higher tax rate than the wealthy. In fact, right now Michiganders making between $17,000-$32,000 per year pay 9.9% of their income in taxes -- almost twice as much as the 5.3% paid by the top 1%, who make ...
Letter to My Fellow Michiganders
DO SOMETHING: AFL-CIO Protest Page | Working Families Facebook Event Page | MoveOn Protest Page | Bus Times & Locations | Rachel Maddow Explains Rick Snyder's Attack on Middle ClassFriends and neighbors,The call has gone out and I'm asking everyone who can to take Wednesday off and head to the ...
Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace
By Susu Jeffrey and Coleen Rowley Domestic surveillance of peace groups, speech elevated to material support for state enemies, secret assassinations of American citizens — the war on terror has come home. Even publishing an op-ed or filing an amicus brief could be a criminal act. Offering training in non-violent ...
Jesse Jackson to lead Detroit march
Nearly 50 years after the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the Rev. Jesse Jackson hopes to advance a new agenda that cuts across class -- not racial -- lines with a form of protest honed by earlier generations.Joined by United Auto Workers President Bob King, elected officials and ...
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 ...
Homes lost to foreclosure up 6 pct from last year
LOS ANGELES – The number of U.S. homes lost to foreclosure surged in July, as lenders take back more properties from homeowners who have been in default for months on end.Lenders repossessed 92,858 properties last month, up 9 percent from June and an increase of 6 percent from July 2009, ...
BP has capped its leaking Macondo well, but that doesn't mean oil spills are now a thing of the past. Up in Michigan, a million gallons of crude have sloshed out of a pipeline into the Kalamazoo River. Governor Granholm has already declared the region a disaster area—and this may ...
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 ...
Ticket sales up for Traverse City film fest
Michael Moore used to believe that tough times produced great movies. The Depression years are often referred to as the Golden Age of Hollywood. The years surrounding the Vietnam War in the late 1960s and early 1970s saw the rise of the American independent film.So why, as artistic director of ...
Homes lost to foreclosure on track for 1M in 2010
LOS ANGELES – More than 1 million American households are likely to lose their homes to foreclosure this year, as lenders work their way through a huge backlog of borrowers who have fallen behind on their loans.Nearly 528,000 homes were taken over by lenders in the first six months of ...
Nevada takes dubious jobless title from Michigan
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Nevada's jobless rate hit a record high last month and and is now the highest in the nation, the first time in four years that Michigan doesn't hold that distinction, according to a government report released Friday. The Silver State's unemployment rate climbed to 14% in ...
For Hutaree, Web rumor stoked anger at Obama
A member of the Hutaree militia charged with federal crimes was upset because she thought that President Barack Obama had signed into law this month a bill that would spend $20 billion to help the terrorist group Hamas settle in the U.S. There was never any such legislation, but Tina ...
Raid on Hutaree puzzles Adrian
Adrian -- This small town in rural southeastern Michigan is known mostly for Adrian College and corn farms, but it's no stranger to controversial anti-government movements. The raid of an alleged Christian extremist group, Hutaree, has shocked residents of the small community of about 22,500 residents. "I don't know what ...
Hutaree dialect -- rooted in religion or Pokemon?
Debate is raging on the Internet about the origins of the name and language of a Lenawee County-based militia group charged today in federal court with planning to "levy war" against the United States. Hutaree, pronounced Hut-a-ree, according to a Michigan Militia commander who has spoken with members of the ...
Christian Militia Raid: Were the Hutaree Targeted for Threats Against Muslims?
Investigators are expected to release more information today in the raid on a Christian militia group, with one person involved in the militia movement suggesting the shadowy group had made threats against Muslims. "Obviously someone has a source or a wiretap or intel is coming to them in some form ...
Bridgewater Township official turns to militia for help; watchdog groups question decision
Originally published on Thursday, March 25Bridgewater Township Supervisor Jolea Mull has twice sought help from militia members this year to search for missing township residents.The move is drawing criticism from militia watchdog groups, who say Mull is legitimizing an extreme right-wing movement that has a history of being associated with ...
Local Troops Leaving for Afghanistan
Saying goodbye isn't new for Amy Kehoe. Her husband has deployed several times before. But she says Saturday's ceremony was extra difficult. "I have a son going too, so it's hard," said Kehoe. Her son left Friday to prepare for his very first tour to Iraq. Now with her husband ...
Berrien soldier killed in action
ST. JOSEPH — Two Berrien County communities are grieving after a local soldier gave his life in Afghanistan to save dozens of others. Family members say Army Sgt. Daniel Frazier, 25, of St. Joseph, was killed Thursday by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan's Zabul Province. Family was told that his ...
Study: Michigan crumbles under outdated tax system
California’s state finances are awful, but Michigan is among nine other states that aren’t far behind the Golden State in economic trauma, according to a new study. The shock waves of the domestic auto industry’s decline, home foreclosures and persistent state deficits could last for decades, according to the Pew ...
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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 ...
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March 23rd, 2013
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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 ...
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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 ...
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March 13th, 2013
America, You Must Not Look Away (How to Finish Off the NRA)
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
