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Open Letter to Gov. Rick Snyder: Too Late to Apologize About Flint's Water...
An Independent Underground News & Talk Op/Ed:Should Apologies be Accepted When The Act Was Intentional? Should Apologies Present Sense of Instant Relief -- Regardless if a Long List of Repeated...
View ArticleArrest Governor Richard Dale "Rick" Snyder Now!
Arrest Governor Richard Dale “Rick” Snyder now! I’ve been following the story of the lead contamination of the Flint, Michigan water system for some time. I am very sensitive when it comes to water, I...
View ArticleSnyder Administration Defends Flint Water Crisis Handling - TMFS Sketch Comedy
In a TMFS sketch, a spokesperson for Michigan Governor Rick Snyder defends the handling of the Flint water crisis.xYouTube Video
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Dear People of Michigan: We Told You So
This blog originally appeared on Up North ProgressiveCan we revoke Directive 4 on The Nerd yet?Back in 2011, when an unknown, nerdy former chairman of the board of a former computer giant called...
View ArticleNow They're Rationing Lead Testing Kits in Flint.
Who could have predicted that if you have lead-poisoned water and offer people lead testing kits, that people might want them? As the New York Times notes: Since Monday, when officials began...
View ArticleErin Brockovich: So far,Sanders seems to be the candidate who has the...
xI agree with @BernieSandershttps://twitter.com/BernieSanders">@BernieSanders> in his call for the resignation of MI Gov Snyder...
View ArticleWhy is Gov. Snyder not facing Criminal Charges?
People are dying from his and his appointees decisions, which should be viewed as criminal negligence. They knew in 2013 about the potential for lead poisoning!From the Detroit Free PressState and...
View ArticleHillary Clinton aides met with Flint mayor over crisis
From The Detroit News:Lansing— Hillary Clinton dispatched two top campaign aides to Flint on Wednesday to meet with Mayor Karen Weaver about the city’s water contamination crisis.Clinton’s national...
View ArticleDr. Mona uncovers #FlintWaterCrisis using Medicaid screening data
Just learned about the “hero doctor” who helped expose the #FlintWaterCrisis, Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha (Director, Pediatric Residency Program, Hurley Medical Center) — interviewed January 15th by...
View ArticleBen, I just want to say one word to you. Water.
The United States used to be the subject of Michael Moore documentaries. Now we are living in one. Moore was in his home town of Flint, Michigan yesterday to protest the contamination of the city's...
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#FlintWaterCrisis and #ArrestGovSnyder: Two ACTION EVENTS for Monday and...
The #FlintWaterCrisis has drawn the eyes of the nation to it. Now we need the attention of Michigan citizens to be focused on the ultimate culprit: Gov. Rick Snyder. Regardless of which Emergency...
View ArticleCartoon: Gov. Rick Snyder's skinflint, Michigan
The residents of Flint, Michigan have been drinking poisoned water for years. It took a national outcry for Michigan’s governor to finally declare an emergency; an emergency created by his...
View ArticleThe poisoning of Flint is domestic terrorism*
*-or maybe just callous indifference, neglect and racismOne of the nightmare scenarios often discussed in stories about domestic terrorism is the one in which a terrorist poisons the water supply for...
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FFS! It's time for a boycott!
Yep! Radical idea isn’t it? But then some of us were radicals in the 60’s and 70’s so we know how to do it. Some of us are still radicals, out in the street radicals, and some of us are now armchair...
View ArticleFixing Flint?
Flint, Michigan has been on my mind a great deal lately. Aside from the human suffering Governor Snyder and his Emergency Manager have caused, I haven’t heard much about how the physical place that...
View ArticleSnyder emails re Flint released
Just a quick hit of a diary, as I am still at work. I will try to monitor and update this throughout the evening. The PDF link for the email release by Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder is here: Snyder...
View ArticleMichigan Governor Snyder carried Cheapskate Conservatism to its illogical...
Conservatism as it has been molded by the billionaire class in the 21 Century puts the priorities of the top 0.01% above those of the other 99.99% of society. Those billionaires (motivated by greed...
View ArticleMichigan Weekly Open Thread: Who's Here & What're You Doing? (People's...
I mean, electorally, what are you working on? And in terms of activism, what are you doing? What groups do you work with? Where do you spend your time, money, and energy?I’m a little burned out this...
View ArticleCartoon: Austerity Man
xVimeo VideoNow that Michigan governor, Rick Snyder, is getting credit for saying he’s really super-dooper sorry about poisoning thousands of children in Flint with lead, let’s not forget how he did...
View ArticleIf terrorists had poisoned the water in Flint...
Village Vet said in one of the diaries about the Flint emails:If an entire municipal water supply were destroyed in a city of 100,000 people and the culprits were determined to be Muslims, we would be...
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