There was a solidarity noise demo at the Washtenaw County Adult & Child jails on Juneteenth to show solidarity with the prisoners there, who are disproportionately Black and working class. Abolitionist, Anarchist, and Communist demonstrators marched around the two jails for two hours drumming and…
***UPDATE: A PREVIOUS VERSION OF THIS ARTICLE ADVERTISED ANOTHER PROTEST OUTSIDE PRIME+PROPER FOR JANUARY 6 2024. THE ORGANIZERS OF THAT PROTEST HAVE INFORMED US THAT THAT PROTEST HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE*** On New Years Eve, while people in the U.S. celebrated with fireworks,…
NIGHT ONE On November 7, 2023, Ypsilanti city council passed a resolution in resounding support for the plight of the Palestinian people–making Ypsi one of the first cities in the country to do so. The resolution was modeled after one passed two weeks previously by…
Shortly after Hamtramck, MI, Dearborn, MI, Richmond, CA, and Providence, RI passed similar resolutions: Ypsilanti, MI becomes one of the first cities in the U.S. to be in solidarity with Palestinians City Council unanimously approved a city resolution calling for ceasefire, lifting of the siege,…
