Category: Politics

A2 News on Student for Council

I found this photo of Eugene Kang, a 21-year old U-M senior running for City Council, on his facebook profile. Kang was profiled in this week’s Michigan Daily. Readers of my blog will find some of these themes very familiar: “The only people who can live Ann Arbor are the extremely wealthy. Those in the […]

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Work With Me at PFAW!

My work just circulated this job posting: Online Campaign Organizer/Writer Strategic Planning Department People For the American Way is an organization with 750,000 members and activists devoted to promoting civil and equal rights, civil liberties, public education, an independent judiciary, and civic participation. The Strategic Planning Department houses all of the organization’s web-related work. The […]

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Getting the Word Out on “30 Days�

I’ve been getting a lot of hits recently to my blog from people searching for information on Morgan Spurlock’s new series, which premiered tonight on FX. I blogged earlier today about my thoughts – it’s very eye opening yet entertaining. Someone left this comment recently on one of my posts about a screening of his […]

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‘We Are Marie’

An immigration reform organization is highlighting the plight of a young activist who faces deportation due to bad legal advice to lobby for badly needed immigration reform. Go sign the petition or read about the DREAM act. Marie has a blog. —–

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Restoring Jesus in Ohio

A letter in the Plains Dealer: “To the Editor: A member of my church gave to me a copy of the Ohio Restoration Project. This project is led by so-called Christians who have a plan for Ohio. The project will target 2,000 pastors throughout the state to become “patriot pastors.â€? These patriot pastors will be […]

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Forty Years of Legal Contraceptives in the U.S.

Tomorrow – June 7 – is the 40th anniversary of Griswold v. Connecticut, the landmark Supreme Court case which legalized the use of contraceptives by married couples. Planned Parenthood has issued this statement commemorating the anniversary, noting that “… 40 years later, women still face unnecessary and often politically-motivated barriers to contraception …â€? The Supreme […]

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