Need to move hearts and blow minds this xmas? Send your comrades the link to the amazing first episode of Hey There Lonely Girl, featuring deejays La Garza, Eastside Xicana, and Lonely Girl. Brought to you by Oakland’s Lower Grand Radio!

Really cool to see Rebekah Modrak take the baton from Keep Ypsi Black and carry on with the critique of the colonial mission of lifestyle brand Shinola. Be sure to check out Modrak’s excellent intervention: Rethink Shinola.

Thursday, December 7, 2017 6:30–8:30 pm, Ann Arbor Library, 343 5th Ave., Freespace, 3rd fl. Organized by Solidarity & Defense, Huron Valley Join us for this history lesson that has political and strategic relevancy for today. Two founding organizers of Anti-Racist Action (ARA) will discuss the fight against fascism beginning with Nazi skinheads in the…

On Nov. 21, Metro Times and other outlets reported that Dan Gilbert requested $250 million in Michigan taxpayer funds to help pay for four projects he’s planning in downtown Detroit. It turns out that’s only part of the story—Gilbert really wants $618 million. That means Michigan taxpayers will cover nearly 30 percent of the four…

Elizabeth Birr Moje, Dean of the School of Education at University of Michigan, asked faculty last week to not engage in protesting Richard Spencer’s probable visit to campus. “We urge you not to participate in such a protest, which gives power to the people who spread falsehoods and hate,” she wrote. “Instead, we urge you…

It’s easy to freeze up in a tense or dangerous situation. We made the Self Defense Starter Kit because it has happened to us: we were threatened and we froze up—we didn’t know how to react, and that made us vulnerable in a bad moment. We wanted to know what to do if it ever…

True Leap Press (TLP): Hi Rachel, thank you so much for taking the time to do this interview. We are excited to have you as a contributor in this inaugural edition of Propter Nos. Our publishing collective thinks the specific timing of this issue is important to highlight, as it is set to be released…

Regent Mark Bernstein said the only thing worse than Spencer being on campus would be stopping him from being campus. “We could do the easy thing. Others have,” Bernstein said. “We could ban Richard Spencer. Everyone would celebrate. The board would be cheered. President Schlissel would be applauded. But we would be dancing on our own grave. And on…

A couple years ago, activists in the #FreedomTuesdayz collective told members of Ypsilanti’s city government that the Black Life police accountability platform they ought to study and take seriously was Campaign Zero’s, section two of which is called “Community Oversight.” Note the very particular word used there: oversight. I’m disappointed I didn’t find out until…

[Note: this thread by Nick Estes reminds us—especially now that Ypsilanti will be given a few hundred thousand tax dollars which its mayor has earmarked for hiring more cops—that we need to abolish, not remedy, the system of policing.] 1. we are conditioned to view police violence in the spectacular. what evidence shows us is…