Housing is a Human Right
by Fred Vitale After the state began cutting homeless mothers off of cash assistance [see “And the Beat Goes On…” by Maureen Taylor] providing nothing but food stamps and a […]
Category Archives: Fall 2011 Issue
The Day After: Reflections on David Blair
by Will Copeland Detroit poet Will Copeland shared with Critical Moment a reflection written in remembrance of his friend, David Blair. This was written on August 1st, the day after […]
Review: The Revolution Starts at Home
South End Press, 2011 by Triana Kazaleh Sirdenis From the first page, The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Partner Violence Within Activist Communities denies having the answers. Instead, the […]
Review: Arab Detroit 9/11: Life in the Terror Decade
Wayne State University Press, 2011 by D. Sands When Terry Jones came to town, raving delusionally about sharia law in America, he should have done us all a favor and […]
A Look Back: The Revolution Will Not Be Funded
South End Press, 2007 by M:A.M.A. Emphatic OMG Ya’ll! If you are an “activist”, “advocate”, critic of both, or even interested in schools or prisons or Palestine–you must read this […]
We Remember Troy Davis
by Shane Bernardo I’m still trying to work out the layers of feelings that sparked from Troy Davis’s death. It seems only more questions rise from the chaos of emotions […]
Undermining Education in Detroit Schools
by Guillermo Magón With the national program to privatize any and all public entities, we can expect that the privatization of Detroit Public Schools is not going to slow down […]
Occupy Detroit: Boon or Bust?
by Sarah Coffey On September 17th people answered a call to occupy Wall Street in New York City put out by Adbusters magazine and picked up by Anonymous, a civil […]
Featured Artist Q&A: Detroit Youth
This summer, youth from Vangaurd Community Development Corporation completed a series of murals throughout the NorthEnd neighborhood. Working with local businesses and artists, CM caught up with some of the […]
TimeBanking: Cashing in on Cooperation in Your Community
by Aaron Handelsman If you’ve never heard of TimeBanking, you’re in good company, but maybe not for long. News from the recent National TimeBanks Conference, which took place in Rhode […]
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