Cinda Firestone’s legendary film Attica (1974) is freely available at last, brought to us by a crew of folks who organized a free screening last week at Hasta Muerte, in solidarity with the 2018 #prisonstrike. Pictured above is 21-year-old Attica organizer Elliott “L.D.” Barkley, who was executed by prison guards after the rebellion had been…

Our post about the gentrification of Ypsilanti had some folks messaging us to ask for names of Ypsilanti establishments owned by people of color. Herewith a necessarily incomplete list, crowdsourced by Keep Ypsi Black followers. Contact us to add an entry! And keep in mind that we haven’t rigidly adhered to the official borders of…

A public statement co-written by organizers of CAWS, HVDSA, and community members. Check it out, and spread the word! Or download a PDF here.

Boredom Weeps: Graffiti, Curses, Inscriptions of May 1968 was published May 1, 2018 by Black Ink and Interference Archive as a free 208-pp. paperback in an edition of 1,000 copies. The printed edition of the book is out of stock, so with pleasure we now offer up this digital version of the book. Download, delectate,…

Tuesday, May 1 5:01 P.M. Downtown Ann Arbor Keep May Day fun and tell your boss to heck off as we take to Ann Arbor’s streets for some festive, working-class merriment (and maybe also mischief). To play the Peoples’ Pac Man, you either join—or create—a spawn point somewhere within the Ann Arbor game map. Each…

President Franklin Roosevelt’s Federal Housing Administration (FHA) transformed the housing and mortgage markets during the Great Depression, offering loan guarantees to builders and long-term mortgages to qualified borrowers. From the 1930s to the 1960s, however, the FHA considered loans in segregated African-American neighborhoods, as well as integrated ones, as highly risky. The FHA’s underwriting rules…

Sunday, April 8 2–8 p.m. Off Center Gallery 64 N. Huron, Ypsilanti The Mutual Aid Disaster Relief (MADRelief) Training Team is visiting our community. Currently MADRelief is on a national capacity-building and educational tour. They will explain how natural storms turn into unnatural disasters through dangerous new forms of “disaster capitalism” and “extreme resource extraction,”…

Introduction Many classical anarchists regarded anarchism as a body of elemental truths that merely needed to be revealed to the world and believed people would become anarchists once exposed to the irresistible logic of the idea. This is one of the reasons they tended to be didactic. Fortunately the lived practice of the anarchist movement…

On Monday, March 5th at 12 noon, hundreds will converge in East Lansing, Michigan in a mass mobilization against neo-Nazi and Alt-Right leader Richard Spencer and the systems of white supremacy, patriarchy, and fascism that he represents. The goal of our mobilization is simple: to show that the Alt-Right, which since its creation has done…

Six Black seventh graders at Washtenaw International Middle Academy (WIMA) were sent racist threats by an anonymous emailer last week. In response, high schoolers at Washtenaw International High School (WIHI), which shares a building with WIMA, staged a sit-in to call attention to the racism they experience in their school. A judge declined to issue a warrant that would allow…