What’s wrong with the RTA?
By Melissa Ciaravino Why has Detroit’s public transit failed? In recent years, Detroiters have seen DDOT and SMART grow increasingly unable to fulfill our needs, often leaving necessities and employment […]
Category Archives: Summer 2013
There’s a Party In Downtown Detroit (And You’re Not Invited)
By Michael Sabbagh A few months back, the larger-than-suburban-life ad agency Campbell-Ewald made a bold proclamation from their sprawling headquarters in Warren across from the GM Tech Center: Campbell-Ewald would […]
The Struggle Against The EM Takes A Step Forward
By Fred Vitale The struggle against the Emergency Managers imposed on the City of Detroit and the Detroit Public School system began in earnest at the end of March when […]
Emergency Management Facts, Impacts, Challenges
Below we publish the Emergency Management Facts, Impacts and Challenges prepared for the Detroit People’s Platform and Convention unitingdetroiters.org. We publish this as an act of solidarity with the Detroit […]
Smash the Big Mac: Detroit Fast Food Workers Strike Back
By Michael Sabbagh Joining a nationwide wave of protests, fast food workers all over the city walked off the job on May 10th to demand better treatment, union representation, and […]
Eyes on Detroit
Critical Moment: What are you learning from observing today’s struggles in Detroit? Ruben Solis Garcia, President, University Sin Fronteras “Detroit is the epi-center, ground zero, of the failure of the […]
Reclaiming the Commons
By Jarret Schlaff 2012 was a year for the record books. The U.S. saw over 34,000 record setting temperatures, drought worse than the Dust Bowl era, super storms like Hurricane […]
Allied Media Conference Will Explore Connections Between Social Justice, Art, Technology And Design
Organizers, artists, technologists, dancers, kids, journalists, policy-makers and change-makers from all over the continent will be heading to Detroit from June 20-23 to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the The […]
A Call for Slowdowns and Creative Resistance
Below we publish a Call for Slowdowns from one of the affinity groups in Detroit. Critical Moment supports and is part of the effort by Detroiters to end Emergency Managers […]
Detroit And Highland Park Open Mic Guide
By D. Sands For a person whose canvas is the word, a solitary microphone can carry the same appeal that a blank sketchbook holds for a visual artist. It is […]
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