May 9th, 2013
Grand Opening of Worker-Owned Window Factory Former Republic Window and Door Union Workers Launch New Era Windows Cooperative Press Contact: Leah Fried, United Electrical Workers (UE) 773-550-3022, leahfried@gmail.com Brendan Martin, The Working World 646-286-0846, brendan@theworkingworld.org What: Press Conference, followed by factory tour and Grand Opening Celebration Who: Elected ...
April 11th, 2013
Michigan Families to Rally for Sensible Gun Laws in Lansing
CONTACT: Linda K. Brundage, Moms Demand Action MidMichigan/Lansing Chapter; (517) 337-3024 or Momsdemandaction.mimidlansing@gmail.com Kim Russell, National Director of Communications, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America; (917) 226-4420 or krussell@momsdemandaction.org ADVISORY for Saturday, April 13 Michigan Families to Rally for Sensible Gun Laws in Lansing All 5 State ...
April 4th, 2013
'Roger' makes its point with humor
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times September 5, 1989 When Flint, Mich., was named by Money magazine in 1988 (it bounced from No. 300 to No. 299 in the latest poll) as the worst place in America to live, some of the local citizens were so upset they held a rally ...
April 4th, 2013
Excerpted from Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life by Michael Moore I had shown a cut of [Roger & Me] to three film festival selection committees — Telluride, Toronto, and New York. They all liked it and accepted it to be shown at each of their festivals in September ...
March 24th, 2013
Three Actions to Take NOW to Help Reduce Gun Violence
These are the actions discussed at the March 23rd, 2013 panel discussion in New York City on gun violence following the 10th anniversary screening of 'Bowling for Columbine' organized by Moveon, USAction, Progressive Democrats of America, RootsAction and the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence Panelists were: Michael Moore Garlin Gilchrist ...
March 23rd, 2013
Talking Points for Gun Violence Conversations With Friends and Relatives
*Murder has been around since Cain and Abel. We will never eliminate all murder, but we can DRASTICALLY reduce it (as they have in almost every other First World democracy) by passing some very simple laws: An assault weapons ban, a ban on high-capacity ammo magazines, background checks on everyone ...
March 16th, 2013
Hold Your Own 10th Anniversary 'Bowling for Columbine' House Party and Discussion!
This coming Saturday, March 23rd, 2013, the 10th anniversary of 'Bowling for Columbine' winning an Oscar, Michael Moore is hosting thousands of nationwide house parties to watch it – and asking all Americans concerned about gun violence to join him and a panel of activists online afterward for a discussion ...
March 9th, 2013
Jeffrey Toobin on Sandra Day O'Connor's 'Regret' for Her Vote in Bush v. Gore
From NPR's Fresh Air With Terry Gross, March 6th, 2013: TERRY GROSS: So finally, since I did just talk to Justice Sandra Day O'Connor yesterday, I want to ask you about something that I asked her, which related to something that you had said. And in one of our previous ...
March 2nd, 2013
Left on the Cutting Room Floor of 'The Gatekeepers'
On February 28th, 2013, Dror Moreh, director of the Oscar-nominated documentary 'The Gatekeepers,' spoke with Dave Davies of NPR's Fresh Air about what he wasn't able to include in the film due to time constraints: DAVE DAVIES: I know that you talked to these gentlemen a long time, and there ...
March 2nd, 2013
Seattle Seahawks Wide Receiver Doug Baldwin Talks About American Consumerism on Twitter
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February 26th, 2013
Emad Burnat released the following statement in response to a second Buzzfeed story about his detention with his family at Los Angeles International Airport while en route to the 2013 Oscars. When I arrived at LAX with my 8 year old child and wife, excited to attend the Academy Awards, ...
February 21st, 2013
From 'Epilogue: The Execution of Michael Moore'
Excerpted from Here Comes Trouble: Stories from My Life by Michael MooreIt was the night of March 23, 2003. Four nights earlier, George W. Bush had invaded Iraq, a sovereign country that not only had not attacked us, but was, in fact, the past recipient of military aid from the ...
February 20th, 2013
Last night, on my way from Turkey to Los Angeles, CA, my family and I were held at US immigration for about an hour and questioned about the purpose of my visit to the United States. Immigration officials asked for proof that I was nominated for an Academy Award® for ...
February 18th, 2013
Ten Years Ago Today from the Washington Post: 'EU Leaders Agree: Inspectors Should Get More Time'
The Washington Post ran this article referring with no caveats to Iraq's made up "weapons of mass destruction" exactly ten years to the day before printing quotes from a made up "interview" Michael Moore supposedly gave to an Iranian magazineEU Leaders Agree: Inspectors Should Get More TimeFebruary 18, 2003, Page ...
February 18th, 2013
Ten Years Ago Today from the Washington Post: '2-Week Window Frames Bush's Decision on War'
The Washington Post ran this front page article referring with no caveats to Saddam Hussein's "chemical and biological weapons" exactly ten years to the day before printing quotes from a made up "interview" Michael Moore supposedly gave to an Iranian magazine 2-Week Window Frames Bush's Decision on WarFebruary 18, 2003, ...
February 6th, 2013
'Irrefutable' -- the Washington Post on Colin Powell's Iraq Presentation to the United Nations
The Washington Post's below unsigned editorial published the day after Colin Powell's Iraq presentation to the UN Security Council is no longer available on the Post's website Irrefutable February 6, 2003 Editorial, Pg. A36 AFTER SECRETARY OF STATE Colin L. Powell's presentation to the United Nations Security Council yesterday, it ...
January 23rd, 2013
In his new book Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington and the Education of a President, Ron Suskind describes the perspective of a top Wall Street banker on Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and the Obama administration in September, 2009, soon after Obama delivered a speech about financial reform in Manhattan: One ...
January 9th, 2013
Excerpted from Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life by Michael Moore ACT I: Nixon’s the One Every good Catholic blamed Lyndon Johnson for Kennedy’s death. Not that he had anything to do with the actual assassination (though there were those who believed he did). But we all knew he ...
January 3rd, 2013
Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, Supporting the Troops
From The Final Days by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein: Almost from the beginning, Kissinger had secretly had all his telephone calls, including those with the President, monitored and transcribed... Nixon was often on the phone with Kissinger for fifteen minutes or longer. The President was repetitive, sometimes taking minutes ...
November 29th, 2012
Ft. Meade, MD -November 29, 2012 - Yesterday at Bradley Manning's Article 13 hearing, professional military psychiatrist Captain Kevin Moore testified that Bradley Manning's pretrial confinement conditions at Quantico military brig were worse than that of any other long-term pretrial prisoner he'd observed. He added that Bradley's restrictive conditions, including being ...
November 11th, 2012
When President Franklin D. Roosevelt made plans to run for a third term in 1940 he decided to drop conservative Vice President John Nance Garner from the ticket, both because Garner disapproved of Roosevelt running again and Garner's opposition to much of the New Deal. Instead Roosevelt chose Secretary of ...
November 7th, 2012
Michael Moore Tweets About the War on Women on Election Day, 2012
From @MMFlint "McCaskill, Warren, Stabenaw, Klobuchar, Baldwin Senate victories = Declare a War on Women, prepare to lose. #legitimate""RT @PaulRyanGosling: Hey girl, how the f*** are all these women winning?! They don't even wear TIES.""RT @KailiJoy: Magic lady parts not only detect rape sperm but also turn out the vote ...
October 15th, 2012
GEORGE AND MITT: Like Father, Like Son? Not quite
By Walt De VriesFrom 1961 through 1967, Walt De Vries served George Romney as a campaign strategist during Romney's terms as Michigan governor; heading campaign research and strategy for three campaigns and as executive assistant in the office of the governor. He is co-author, with Lance Tarrance, of "The Ticket ...
October 9th, 2012
From Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War by Michael Isikoff and David Corn: In Rome on the afternoon of October 7…Elisabetta Burba, an investigative reporter for Panorama, a Milan-based newsmagazine owned by conservative Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, sat down for lunch ...
October 9th, 2012
Original... Q And I have a question -- how much does oil have to do with the assessment of the threat from Saddam Hussein? President Bush didn't mention it. MR. FLEISCHER: I'm not sure I follow your question. Q Well, you keep talking about blackmail. You're talking about blackmailing the ...
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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 ...
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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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