This, thanks to the Gongwer News Service, a news company that covers Michigan politics. One of the many reasons mainstream groups should not work with them: Special Update, Wednesday, December 14, 2005, 1:07 pm PROTEST STOPS CANVASSERS MEETING What was expected to a be a pro forma meeting of the Board of State Canvassers to […]
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 […]
The More Things Change …
I was excited to hear that BAM-N is being confronted for their confrontational and counter-productive tactics. Apparently BAM-N relied on an old tried and true tactic – hijack another meeting to use it as a platform to try to provoke conflict and strife. When I was on MSA we got pretty good at shutting them […]
A Moderate ‘Review’?
At Michigan, a different tune from conservatives: TMD: Do you have a vision for the Review? JDD: I definitely have a vision for the Review. I think that in the past, our paper has been led by people who maybe are upset with BAMN, or simply didn’t like affirmative action – basically, people who formed […]
BAM-N and the FBI, Part 2
More press on BAM-N’s trouble getting in FBI memos today, this time in the State News at MSU. And BAM-N was spinning it the best they could: The national leaders of BAMN said they also plan to fight the accusations, not only for themselves, but for every civil rights group throughout the county. “We feel […]
FBI Keeps and Eye on BAM-N
As a number of people have emailed to tell me, the ACLU announced that two peaceful Michigan political groups – BAM-N and Direct Action – were mentioned in an FBI report about domestic terrorism: The document released today is an FBI report labeled, “Domestic Terrorism Symposium,” and describes a meeting that was intended to “keep […]
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