This looks interesting, too bad I won’t be able to make it: Michigamua EXPOSED!!!!! An educational art exhibit sponsored by students from Art & Design 310 Thursday, December 15th 9 pm Michigan League Underground What is Michigamua? Why are they called a “secret society”? Why is it called racist? Why did students occupy the tower […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Michigan Daily Criticized for Cartoons
This email is making the rounds in Ann Arbor: ——– Original Message ——– Subject: the michigan daily is unacceptable From: amoffett at umich.edu Within the last two weeks, the Michigan Daily has published two extremely racist comics against the black community. After the first one was published the community went to the daily to express […]
Studying Political Organizing and Activism
I got this email about a class being offered at the University of Michigan Residential College next semster on community organizing. The course is being taught by RC Seniors Sarah Barcus and Ryan Bates and supervised by Professor Helen Fox. Here’s the description: RCIDIV 351 Section 5 Community Organizing: Theory and Praxis Instructors: RC Seniors […]
Buzz Alexander Lauded for Teaching
Prison Creative Arts Project founder U-M English Professor “Buzz” Alexander has won a Carnegie Foundation award for his dedication to undergraduate teaching. The University press release quotes Alexander: “This award for our work brings recognition to a heretofore invisible national crisis—massive incarceration.”