Dems Come Alive! ...a follow-up from Michael Moore
Today's OpenMike blog Friends, Ok! We're halfway through the week and we're off to a great start. Last week I gave the spineless Dems five friendly suggestions for things they could do on the off chance they were interested in winning the midterm elections on November 2nd: 1. Deliver a ...
More evidence of Gulf oil spill washes ashore
NEW ORLEANS – More dirty evidence of the massive oil spill washed ashore along the Gulf Coast for residents who don't need any more reminders of their frustration over failed efforts to stop the crude gushing from a blown-out undersea well.In Florida, officials on Thursday closed a quarter-mile stretch of ...
Judge blocks Gulf offshore drilling moratorium
NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge in New Orleans has blocked a six-month moratorium on new deepwater drilling projects that was imposed in response to the massive Gulf oil spill.The White House says President Barack Obama's administration will appeal.Several companies that ferry people and supplies and provide other services to ...
Obama: Drilling moratorium is necessary
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama says he understands the difficulties stemming from a six-month moratorium on new permits for deepwater drilling but tells the nation that he has to ensure the safety of those who work on the oil rigs at sea.Obama on Tuesday said he had proposed expanded offshore ...
Oil flow could be curtailed soon
Reporting from New Orleans and Washington — Federal officials conceded Wednesday that efforts to contain the well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico may have boosted the amount of oil gushing out, but predicted they would be able to nearly double the quantity of crude collected by next week. Interior ...
Scientists: Gulf spill far bigger than Valdez
COVINGTON, La. - An untested procedure to plug the blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico seemed to be working, officials said Thursday, but new estimates showed the spill has already surpassed the Exxon Valdez as the worst in U.S. history.A team of scientists trying to determine how much ...
Senators want offshore drilling on West Coast banned forever
WASHINGTON — Six West Coast senators instroduced legislation Thursday that would ban permanently new oil-and-gas drilling off of the California, Oregon and Washington state coasts.Citing the catastrophic blowout now fouling the Gulf of Mexico, the six Democratic lawmakers called for making permanent what has been a long-standing moratorium on new ...
7 arraigned after foreclosure protest at Stony Ridge home
STONY RIDGE, Ohio - Seven people were arrested during the forced evacuation of a Stony Ridge house early Friday, including the homeowner who spent the week barricaded inside with several protesters in an attempt to resist eviction because of foreclosure.The defendants appeared via video conference Friday afternoon in Perrysburg Municipal ...
Stony Ridge standoff ended peacefully
STONY RIDGE — The quiet of dawn was jarred by battering rams breaking glass and slamming into homemade barricades. After five days of waiting out the owner of a foreclosed home in Stony Ridge the Wood County Sheriff’s Office waited no more. CLICK HERE FOR PHOTO GALLERY“Get your hands up. ...
7 people arrested after foreclosure protest at Stony Ridge home
STONY RIDGE, Ohio - Seven people were arrested during the forced evacuation of a Stony Ridge house early Friday, including the homeowner who spent the week barricaded inside with several protesters in an attempt to resist eviction because of foreclosure.Those arrested may appear in Perrysburg Municipal Court as early as ...
STONY RIDGE, Ohio - Power was cut just after noon yesterday to the foreclosed home of a Stony Ridge man holed up inside in an attempt to resist eviction.Soon after the line to the electric meter was severed, members of the Toledo Foreclosure Defense League and other supporters, who were ...
Stony Ridge Squatters Take Protest to the Bank
VIDEO: LIVE FEED FROM KEITH SADLER'S HOME | TwitterBACKGROUND: Keith Sadler on MichaelMoore.com
Ohio man facing foreclosure locks self in home
STONY RIDGE, Ohio — A northern Ohio man who is being evicted from his home locked himself inside and is vowing to stay until a moratorium is declared on foreclosures.The man along with five members of a group called the Toledo Foreclosure Defense League began their show of defiance Sunday.Keith ...
Wood County squatter still in his home
Its day three of the human cat and mouse game going on in Wood County's Stoney Ridge community.Keith Sadler and five others have boarded themselves inside Sadler’s recently foreclosed home.Friends feed fruit and fruit juice through a small hole cut in a boarded up window and it's clear to those ...
Man seals self inside foreclosed residence
STONY RIDGE, Ohio - Through a golf ball-sized hole drilled into a front window, Keith Sadler has a message for banks foreclosing on people like him who fall behind on their mortgage payments. He wants a little help, a little understanding, and a big demand: an end to foreclosures and ...
Wood County man fights to keep home from foreclosure
A Wood County man is facing an eviction from the sheriff's office, but is refusing to leave his home. Keith Sadler says he wants a moratorium on all home foreclosures. Dozens of supporters joined the protest today in the 500 block of Fremont Pike in Stony Ridge. Sadler has been ...
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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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