Something else I heard when I was back in Maine: the large Maine-based mail-order giant L.L. Bean is offering free shipping for the holiday season, with no minimum purchase required. Although I can’t find anything about it on the web, I also heard their sales were way up. Of course, Amazon’s been doing the same […]
My Papers Indexed
It looks like the collection of papers about the University of Michigan I donated to the Bentley Historical Library is now listed in Mirlyn. The small collection includes a variety of papers I collected doing activism, writing for the Michigan Daily, conducting private FOIAs, and in the process of writing my thesis. I’ve also uploaded […]
Tenants See Arson in Shaw Fire
The people behind an activist community cafe in my neighborhood, Café Mawonaj, have written an open letter that implies a recent fire there was arson, the police stood by while the store was looted, and the DC Fire Department isn’t doing much in the way of investigating the incident. To top it off: The night […]
Maine Trip
This weekend I took a trip up to Maine to visit my family and relax a bit. On Friday after coming in just after a major snowstorm left almost a foot of snow in the area, I went to Portland to have dinner with my parents and meet up with my friend wells for a […]
BAM-N Looking for Trouble in Toledo
The Revolutionary Workers League, a tiny opportunistic Trotskyite organization in Detroit that I first reported on as an undergraduate at the University of Michigan has revived an old organizational facade to apparently attempt to instigate confrontation in Toledo. A number of white supremacists held rally in Toledo this past Saturday, which remained peaceful largely as […]
Back In DC
I just got back into D.C. and am catching up on email and other business. I just heard about this event tomorrow at the National Archives — a conversation between the head of the archives and the director of the Smithsonian’s new museum of African American History and Culture: Washington, DC…On Tuesday, December 13, 2005, […]
Further Michigan Daily Reading
Dumi has some coverage of the Daily scandal over at the Blackblog, and I trust I’ll follow it more closely than I can. Here he is making an excellent point on a Daily story that put boycott in the title although nobody is considering one this time around: Why does this matter, you ask? And […]