The Goodspeed Update

Alex Moffett, vice president of the NAACP, said BAMN tokenized and presented black students in a bad light when it bused in hundreds of black middle- and high-school students from Detroit for the Thursday rally on the Diag.
During the rally against the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, a proposal that could ban the use of affirmative […]

My employer, People For the American Way Foundation, is hosting a virtual town hall meeting on December 1 at 5:00 p.m. EST with filmmaker Robert Greenwald. To register, go to www.youngpeoplefor.org/greenwald

Apparently Robert Greenwald’s production company is using Flickr to share photos they have collected while making their documentary about Wal-Mart. Whomever is managing the account could do much to raise the visibility of the material on Flickr - by adding more tags, joining groups to submit the photos to, and commenting on anything about Wal-Mart […]

From One United Michigan, some good talking points:
What Is This All About?
A ballot proposal, deceptively named the “Michigan Civil Rights Initiative,” is headed for the November 2006 election. If passed, all state and local affirmative action programs will be immediately eliminated, including opportunities for equal access to education, jobs and contracts for women and people […]

Former Senator and Vice Presidential candidate John Edwards will appear
on campus this Friday as the Grand Finale of a two week “Opportunity Rocks” campus tour promoting anti-poverty issues and advocacy!
Show UofM’s committment to community service and activism and help
create the largest crowd on his tour!
Opportunity Rocks Rally with John Edwards
Friday October 28th, 11:30 a.m.
University of […]

2004:
“If we do not suppress the Detroit vote, we’re going to have a tough time in this election cycle.”
– State Rep. John Pappageorge, R-Troy, while discussing election strategy at a meeting of the Oakland County Republican Party (Freep)
2005:
Michigan Republicans will renew a controversy from the 2004 election when they send poll challengers to the Detroit […]

I just added some text to NoBamn.com after I heard some conservatives were advertising the URL at the University of Michigan at BAM-N organized events.