Michigan

Motor City Pride: ‘Marching toward equality’

This year’s Pride march in downtown Detroit on June 9 raised a timely slogan: “Marching toward equality.” Most lesbian, gay,…

June 13, 2013

Michigan protesters support Walmart workers

Close to 100 supporters of Walmart workers demonstrated June 7 outside the Walmart Super Center in Dearborn, Mich. Among them…

June 11, 2013

Detroit struggle ramps up vs. state takeover

Major developments took place in Detroit during the first week of the city’s rule under emergency manager Kevyn Orr. A…

April 7, 2013

Michigan lesbians fight for marriage, adoption rights

“Love makes a family.” This is a simple and obvious statement. Yet in Michigan, where 56 percent of those polled…

March 21, 2013

Banks behind Detroit ’emergency manager’ takeover

Michigan’s multimillionaire Gov. Rick Snyder on March 14 appointed Washington lawyer Kevyn Orr as “emergency manager” over the city of…

March 19, 2013

From Alabama to Michigan, Black vote is under attack

Forty-eight years after passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Supreme Court is currently deliberating about the historic…

March 6, 2013

Detroit activists use lawsuit to demand: ‘Show us the debt!’

Detroit,  Feb. 14 — A Freedom of Information Act lawsuit was filed today on behalf of David Sole, a retired…

February 14, 2013

Michigan residents fight ‘green’ ethanol plant

Kincheloe, Mich. — In so many ways, capitalism is murdering planet Earth. I live in the far north. Go to…

January 27, 2013

MLK’s legacy & the labor movement

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would have been 84 years old this Jan. 15. His legacy today is…

January 20, 2013

Michigan unionists fight new law

Hundreds of workers from across Michigan lined the walkways leading to the state Capitol in Lansing on Jan. 9 as…

January 10, 2013