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Halloween Picket this Saturday!!!

Posted by MarkDilley on 28. October 2005


HALLOWEEN PICKET!!!

THIS SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29TH

10 AM TO 2 PM

DRESS UP AS YOUR FAVORITE SCARY S C A B,
GREEDY OGRE CEO, OR OVERWORKED CRANKY MANAGER

COSTUME CONTEST AND PRIZES FOR THE KIDS

VANS FROM UAW LOCAL 174 (STAGING AREA MAP)
VAN BORN RD. WILL PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION TO THE TERMINAL PICKET AREA

FOR MORE INFO CONTACT RALPH
734-347-2538
ralphandmar95@yahoo.com

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NWS City Council Candidate Forum, 2 November

Posted by Murph on 28. October 2005

Copied from the New West Side blog,

The New West Side Association, along with the Ann Arbor Alliance, the Michigan Student Assembly External Relations Committee, and the Urban Planning Students Association, announce a debate next month in advance of the City Council elections.

History Professor Matt Lassiter will moderate the candidate debate, including

Bob Johnson, D-1st;
Stephen Rapundalo, D-2nd, and Tom Bourque, R-2nd (tentative);
Leigh Greden, D-3rd; [and Rich Birkett, Ind(?)]
Jim Hood, R-4th, and Marcia Higgins, D-4th; .
Wendy Woods, D-5th.

Learn their positions on student-renter issues, submit your questions, and get free food in the process.

Wed, Nov. 2. Henderson Room of Michigan League, 7 pm

If you have any pressing questions you’d like to see asked, post comments here or e-mail to Dale; he and Lassiter will be making the final selection.

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John Edwards to Speak On Campus Friday

Posted by Rob Goodspeed on 27. October 2005

Former Senator and Vice Presidential candidate John Edwards will speak on campus this Friday as the Grand Finale of a two week “Opportunity Rocks” campus tour promoting anti-poverty issues and advocacy.

Opportunity Rocks Rally with John Edwards
Friday October 28th, 11:30 a.m.
University of Michigan Diag

The event is free and open to the public but the organizers request you obtain a ticket from the Opportunity Rocks website. They will also be collecting nonperishable food items to donate to Second Harvest.

Opportunity Rocks is a new, nonpartisan student group on campus that seeks to engage students in community service and advocate policies that expand opportunity for people living in poverty. Email Alicia (aliciabe at umich.edu) or Libby (ebenton at umich.edu) for more information.

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Downtown Development Workshop and Lecture

Posted by Juliew on 26. October 2005

There are two events left in the ongoing Downtown Development Strategies Project:

Thursday, October 27, 7:00-8:30 pm, Architecture/Design Guidelines Panel Discussion with featured panelists Brenda Sheer, Damian Farrell, Megan Gibb, Bernie Glieberman, and moderated by Douglas Kelbaugh. Location: Ann Arbor District Library, Multipurpose Room, Fifth Ave.

Thursday, November 3, 6:00–9:00 pm, Interactive Public Design Workshop III
Participants will explore useful directions to pursue, such as for zoning areas, transportation, etc., which would support the development of creating a preferred downtown Ann Arbor for the future. The Greenway Task Force and the Economic Advisory Task Force will provide updates. Location: Courthouse Square Senior Apartments, 100 S. Fourth Ave. at E. Huron.

If you missed the Rick Hills discussion on “Housing and Zoning: How the Law Can Help or Halt a Livable Downtown,” replays will be broadcast on CitiTV Channel 19: October 26 (3:30pm), October 27 (8:00pm), October 28 (2:00pm), October 29 (1:00pm), October 31 (2:00pm).

For more details, see the Project web site.

Balanced Panel on the MCRI

Posted by Dumi Lewis on 25. October 2005

You often hear grumbles that discussions on Affirmative Action and the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative are not balanced. Well grumble no more! Well at least don’t grumble until after you attend this event. The panel will take place on Wednesday from 6-8pm at the Pendelton Room in the Michigan Union.
From the the text of the email:

Hear four exciting panelists including: Carl Cohen (Professor of Philosophy and outspoken opponent of AA), Marvin Krislov (Vice President and General Council of U of M who represented U of M in the 2003 Supreme Court hearing), Maria Cotera (Professor of American Culture and Women’s Studies), and Howard Schwartz (President, Michigan Association of Scholars, an anti AA group) present their cases for and against the MCRI, and perhaps gain a new perspective.

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Fred Phelps comes to Ann Arbor

Posted by Matt Hollerbach on 25. October 2005

see the press release here (PDF) He also manages the website godhatesfags.com.


Fred Phelps will be coming to Ann Arbor on Saturday, November 19, to protest outside of the Mendelssohn Theatre, where The Laramie Project will be performing.


We invite you to join other LGBTQ student organization leaders, members of the UM LGBTAIQ community and others, to help plan a unified, peaceful and powerful response to Phelps’ message of hate and homophobia.

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Flint Sit-Down Strike film screening

Posted by Murph on 25. October 2005

Dinner and a movie with the people who started the UAW…

STATE OF THE UNION
The story of the Birth of the American Labor Movement
told by the men and women who were there.

GM WORKERS AND MEMBERS OF THE WOMEN’S BRIGADE
from the
1937 FLINT SIT DOWN STRIKE
and a film screening detailing their heroic stand
for workers’ rights

Tuesday, October 25, 5pm, Michigan Room in the Michigan League

FREE DINNER PROVIDED

contact: sole.maintain@umich.edu

Rosa Parks, 1913-2005

Posted by Matt Hollerbach on 25. October 2005

From Channel 4 News

Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks has died, Local 4 has learned.

Parks, 92, reportedly died around 7 p.m. Monday at St. John Hospital on Detroit’s east side.

Parks’ refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Ala., in 1955 landed her in jail and sparked a bus boycott that is considered the start of the modern civil rights movement. The bus is on display at the Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn.

Parks, was born Feb. 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Ala. She lived in Detroit.

She will be missed.

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County Commissioners risk recall over road patrol subsidy?

Posted by Murph on 23. October 2005

According to the Chelsea Standard, County Clerk Larry Kestenbaum has been approached by “various groups and individuals” asking about the procedure for recalling County Commissioners.

Scio Township Trustee Chuck Ream, spokesman for the S.O.S. Committee, and Ypsilanti Township Clerk Brenda Stumbo, also a member of the committee, said Monday that they do not know of any organized recall effort.

A recall campaign would target individual commissioners to shift the voting majority of the County Board into one that opposes cuts to sheriff’s deputies, Ream said.

Three commissioners would be targeted for recall in such an effort, he said. One of those commissioners would be Stephen Solowczuk, R-District 3, Ream said, adding that the two others would represent rural constituencies, although he said he doesn’t know who those commissioners would be.

(Maybe Larry will chime in here with more analysis…)

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Census Bureau releases daytime population estimates

Posted by Murph on 23. October 2005

The US Census Bureau has released estimates, based on the 2000 census, of the daytime populations of counties and cities.

Using Ann Arbor as an example, the estimates are based on residents of area + people working in area – workers living in area, or 114,024 + 98,480 – 60,188 = 152,316, or a 33.6% daytime population increase. The numbers do not include non-work visitors to the place.

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