tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66673236937913711182011-09-11T10:34:25.019-04:00Today's Detroiters not only hope for better things; we make them happen--That's why Detroit will rise again, like the phoenix, from the ashes of the present to forge a better future...Satyagrahahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10958313088460728755noreply@blogger.comBlogger131100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6667323693791371118.post-25120265556456415412011-04-01T18:47:00.010-04:002011-04-01T19:45:19.813-04:00

DETROIT National/Local FIGHT-BACK TEACH-INDebt, Austerity & How to Fight BackFeaturing Frances Fox Piven and Cornel WestIn a Live TV Feed from Judson Memorial Church in New York CityTuesday, April 5 - 1:30- 5:00 pmBernath Auditorium, Undergraduate LibraryWayne State University5155 Gullen MallDetroit, MIJOIN US FOR ALL OR PART OF THE TEACH-IN1:30-2:00 – Introductions2:00-3:30 – Live Feed from New

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Comment on last week’s Model D "debate" between Phil Cooley and Vince Keenan on the Power of “Influence” in the City's Revitalization [revised from comments originally posted last week as Twitter feed @ Detroitpolicy]At last week's Model D event I learned that Detroit’s Phil Cooley, who is now being labeled a "media darling," has also apparently become a darling of the Knight Foundation. We

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Is what happened in Chicago the future of Detroit's public school system, after Bobb and the foundations get done with "saving" our schools through privatization?Think about this question over the next several weeks, as you watch the faux "town-hall" meetings called by Bobb, at which representatives of the 45 schools slated for closing BY JUNE are being allowed 15 minutes each to provide their "

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In order to keep the U.S. from following the path of Herbert Hoover into another depression, the Economic Policy Institute and the AFL-CIO have offered a clear path to a real jobs and national recovery, rather than just a corporate recovery.We hope President Obama will follow this clear path to recovery, since anything less robust than this will be repeating either the mistakes of Herbert Hoover

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Will President Obama follow the path of Herbert Hoover or Franklin D. Roosevelt in his attempt to lead the nation to economic recovery? That is the question that still remains to be answered, after his State of the Union Address.Lawrence Mishel, president of the Economic Policy Institute, had the following to say about the Obama administration’s proposal to ‘freeze’ overall non-defense

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Michigan Indefinitely Delays Over 200 Road & Bridge Projects Lansing Associated Press writer KATHY BARKS HOFFMAN today posted a report, which NPR picked up, that underlines the reasons we may still be on the path to a second great depression.And unless President Obama and Congress develop a quick and aggressive response to this economic reality in Michigan and many other states, he will be

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As someone who has greatly enjoyed the food and hospitality offered by Charles Sorel's Le Petit Zinc creperie and cafe, I was glad to see it featured on the NY Times Op Ed page yesterday in an article by Toby Barlow. Along with Slows Bar B Q, Le Petit Zinc is one of the great signs of what is possible in Detroit for creative entrepreneurs supported by the community--Toby Barlow's Oct 24 NY Times

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ACTIONS OF PARENTS AND LEADERS, MORE THAN OUTRAGE, ARE KEY TO BREAKING CYCLE OF VIOLENCEBy Luther KeithExecutive Director, ARISE Detroit!Here we go again.After a rash of youth related killings, assaults and car-jackings, we have seen the usual hand-wringing and declarations of outrage on editorial pages, talk shows and from pundits of all kinds, including those of the barber shop and beauty

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From "Community-Based Preparedness" (Oct. 14, 2009)On October 7, an estimated 30-50,000 Detroit residents descended on Cobo Hall in downtown Detroit--not to escape the ravages of a hurricane, but with the simple hope of being able to escape the increasing ravages of homelessness and hunger that are threatening many of Detroit's residents.This human surge was a response to news that 3500 federal

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Toward a Green ReconstructionSee more presentations by skimmel09 | Upload your own PowerPoint presentations

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Detroiters are committed to building a vibrant, inclusive, equitable, participatory politics that is not beholden to the practices of exclusion and POWER-ELITISM of any kind (including class, race, and intellectual elitism). We especially reject the kind of politics that seeks to present itself as "another politics" that is IN THEORY a better politics, but that IN PRACTICE is simply another

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A Little Ditty inspired by a closed meeting called "Another Politics is Possible," held in Detroit, October 10, 2009**There once was a groupof self-styled intellectualswho thought of themselves as progressives(or radical, or something better than ___ (you?);They flew into Detroit from LA and NYand other great placesto discuss in an "intentional" wayhow to organize politicsin a much better way--

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French Catholic priest Father Gabriel Richard (1767 – 1832) originated Detroit's motto of regeneration after the fire of 1805 burned the city, including his recently opened school, to the ground: Speramus meliora; resurget cineribus--"We hope for better things; it will arise from the ashes." Ever since then, Detroit and Detroiters have repeatedly defied the destructive toll of history to raise

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