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Anybody know lots about the bars and clubs in metro detroit?

2008-07-08T14:43:14Z

I'm allergic to cigarette smoke, so naturally most of the bars and clubs I've been to have been vile and disgusting places where I've been unable to breathe, let alone enjoy myself. Do any of you know of any that have a no smoking policy? I live just south of Sterling Heights, so something in the area would be cool. If they play some form of rock or metal, all the better.

Thanks a lot if you can help me out.

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Allied Media Conference at WSU

2008-06-20T14:44:42Z

I just discovered that the Allied Media Conference will be at Wayne State University this month. I'm tempeted to go since it's so close, but I'm still reluctant to go since my print publications barely sell at all. Any suggestions in this area?

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Recycling Project

2008-06-17T05:16:14Z

Currently I am working on a "Texas Recycle" project. I am customizing 26 gal. cans. There is a daytime photo of one in my album. The logos will be lit at night, like an "exit" sign. I am going to try to recycle at the major events in the Austin area (Houston, San Antonio, Dallas are close enough...+/- 3 hour drive). Anyhow, I think some of y'all should take on the project as well. Obviously there is still a problem with not recycling at major events.

Matt

Also, you will want to coordinate the recycling well in advance (at least 6 months methinks).

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Fraud Alert regarding North Coast Earth First! Aka NCEF! Media. Completely independent from any activist group!

2008-02-18T21:19:51Z

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NCEF! Media in Humboldt County Ca.(AKA NORTH COAST EARTH FIRST!), is accused of fraud and donation embezzlement. Caution! Do not support this lone wingnut's scam! Active and legitamate groups exist in the area. Caution! Do not be fooled by NCEF! Media and his fraudulent outreach. Shunka Wakan exists completely seperate from any active affinity group.

Read about how he perpetuated a lawsuit under the guise of EF! against a legitimate environmental nonprofit:

From: northcoastjournal.com/100407/...004.html

October 4, 2007

"Money On Trees"

Big cash nearly fell into Shunka Wakan's lap. Other Earth First!ers are kinda happy it didn't.

by Heidi Walters

As the jury trial for the civil suit Kathryn Miller v. the Trees Foundation puttered to a start last week inside Courtroom 3 at the Humboldt County Courthouse, Shunka Wakan — a key witness for the plaintiff — spent mornings sitting on the hard wooden benches in the long hallway outside the courtroom. During breaks, Miller's attorney Linda Mitlyng, would come out of the courtroom to join him. But otherwise, as other people and their legal affairs swirled around him in a warm, odiferous bath of humanity, Shunka sat alone. Or, sometimes, he stood alone, straight-spined, his small, stocky body swallowed by the huge, stiff blue suit out of which his newly shorn, razor-scraped bald head poked vulnerably — as if, at any moment, the suit could gulp once more and he'd disappear completely. Always, he clutched a paper folder with a wolf's face on its cover.

The North Coast Earth First! Media guru had shaved off his woolly rust-tinged brown hair and beard the night before jury selection started, after discussing it with attorney Mitlyng. Now, it took an uncertain moment to recognize him. Then, of course: Shunka's light blue eyes in the pink-pale face, Shunka's closed-lip smile, Shunka's trademark husky murmur, "Mm-hmm, for sure," in response to a comment.

In Courtroom 3, the amiable but no-nonsense Judge Christopher Wilson's domain, the fate of a $185,000 donation dangled. Would the plaintiff, donor Kathryn Miller, prevail in her claim that the defendant, the Trees Foundation, was not in fact the intended recipient of her generous gift? That Shunka Wakan's NCEF! Media Center and the treesitters were? Or would the Trees Foundation convince the jury that, in fact, the money was intended all along for Trees, with no instructions attached for funneling it elsewhere?

Richard Idell, left, who is defending the Trees Foundation against a lawsuit filed by Kathryn Miller, confers with Doug Wallace, community support coordinator for Trees. Photo by David Lawlor.

In her opening arguments, Miller's attorney, Mitlyng, said the case came down to "fraud and broken promises." "She believed [Trees] would hold [the money] in trust, for the benefit of North Coast Earth First!" said Mitlyng. The defense's attorney, Richard Idell, countered in his opening argument that the donation was an unconditional gift and Miller never wrote letters of instruction — as Miller claims she did. "Ms. Miller ... didn't do anything. She took the check [from her mother's estate] and flipped it over and wrote on the back, 'Payable to the Trees Foundation,'" said Idell.

Miller's claim sought the return of her $185,000, plus interest.

Out in the hallway, Shunka waited to tell his side of the story. Maybe he thought about the magical donation that never materialized, and now probably never would. Maybe he thought about the other times he'd been in this courthouse — dozens of times, along with other activists, often before Judge Wilson, answering to charges of trespassing and other forms of civil disobedience in the woods. Likely, he wondered when they were finally going to call him in to testify — it was taking forever in there. He'd even sent out an e-mail prematurely to the several hundred subscribers to his NCEF! online group erroneously announcing he would be first up to testify.

By the end of Friday's court session, Miller was still on the stand. Perhaps Monday it would be Shunka's turn. Whenever it was, he would be testifying on Miller's behalf; but he wasn't a party to the lawsuit. And in the end, after hearing all of the evidence, the jury would be determining who was telling the truth about intentions and letters of instructions. Shunka was just there to provide context and evidence in a contract dispute.

But to a number of forest activists, including a half dozen or so who appeared in the audience last Friday to watch the trial unfold, that context matters more to them than the legal questions. They say this lawsuit has placed a strain on the environmental community that could do as much damage as an ill-felled redwood that takes down other giants in its descent. They disapprove of the lawsuit, and they blame Shunka for it. And, they say, it's just another example of how Shunka has commandeered the North Coast Earth First! identity and used it for purposes that nobody else in the amorphous but consensus-driven local Earth First! movement has agreed to.

"For a lot of us, when we read about the lawsuit, this is kind of like Shunka on trial," said long-time forest activist Deane Rimerman last Friday, calling from Olympia, Wash. "And, to what extent is he worthy of that money?"

Kathryn Miller wanted her money to go toward saving trees, she said on the witness stand last Thursday. The slender 59-year-old was dressed in a pink print skirt and white sweater, with her gray-streaked dark hair pulled back into a neat, thin braid tinted slightly green. (Little did the jury know that Miller had spent the night in jail, in blue jail duds, and then had been "dressed out," in court lingo, in her street clothes before being escorted into the court by the bailiff. Miller had been arrested the week before, on Sept. 17, when she arrived in civil court for the pre-trial readiness hearing; according to the misdemeanor criminal charges filed against her, Miller allegedly had made annoying phonecalls to Barbara Ristow of the Trees Foundation all hours of the day and night.)

On the stand, Miller described how she became an activist. She remembered how, when she was a child in Orinda, her mother decided to stop spraying the beautiful oak trees on their property after reading Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. "And then, when my son was 9, we were watching the news on TV about the Chernobyl nuclear power plant meltdown. And my son said to me, 'I wish I'd never been born. I don't think I'll get to live a full life.'"

She protested the building of the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant. She started a peace action group in the late 1980s in San Jose. She did nonviolent protests at the Nevada Test Site. And in 1990, she came up with some of her fellow protestors to help set up the camp for Redwood Summer, and to take part in demonstrations. She's been on and off involved in Earth First! actions in Humboldt ever since, she said, including huffing in supplies for treesitters and huffing out their garbage. She'd also, at one point, bought a condo in Arcata.

In 2004, Miller sold her condo and bought an acre of farmland, already planted with coffee, in Guatemala. She put in fruit trees to shade the coffee. That same year, her mother, who lived in Sonoma, died. "The last time I saw her was in 2003," said Miller. "She told me when she died, she was going to leave me some money. I told her I'd use it to further my work for the forest. And she was pleased, because she loved the treesitters and the forest."

Shortly after learning of her mother's death, Kathryn Miller sought out Shunka Wakan in front of the food co-op in Arcata, where he "tabled" to raise funds for the North Coast Earth First! Media office — selling T-shirts, and stickers, offering pamphlets, accepting donations. She'd known Shunka for about five years, she said.

"I said to him, I was going to inherit some money: What was the best way to get that to the North Coast Earth First!?"

In the spring of 2005, Shunka Wakan was floating above the treetops. "I was so excited," the 32-year-old said in an interview a few weeks ago, sitting inside his tiny but colorful North Coast Earth First! Media office in Arcata, walls covered in art and topo maps — including one of Buckeye Mountain, where in 2000-2001, during the "Mattole Free State" action, Shunka and others hiked 14 miles through waist-high snowdrifts to save trees.

Kathryn Miller, he recalled, had come up to him excitedly as he walked along the sidewalk outside the Arcata Co-op and said, "I just donated $185,000 to North Coast Earth First!'"

She'd talked to him the year before about making the donation — she'd said she was anticipating an inheritance from her mother's estate, and she wanted to make a big donation to his group. He'd told her to make it through the Trees Foundation, which handled the NCEF! Media office's finances through an arrangement that had been established years ago. (The Trees Foundation is an umbrella organization formed in 1991 to assist smaller environmental groups. As a 501(c)3 nonprofit, it can accept large, tax-deductible donations on behalf of affiliates, and provide professional resources. And it can lead large campaigns, like the one to save the Headwaters Forest back in the '90s.)

Well, now she'd finally done it.

Miller and Shunka agreed to meet at Fiesta Café in Sunny Brae, so she could tell him how she wanted the money spent: She wanted, straight away, for someone to organize a mediated workshop for the local Earth First! activists on ageism and sexism, issues she thought were fracturing the movement. And, she wanted the bulk of the donation to help support the forest activists who blockade logging roads and hunker up in ancient redwoods to fend off loggers' saws.

Not long after, Shunka was on his way to have lunch with some folks from the Trees Foundation, where they'd talk about Miller's wishes.

"Our media outreach was going to get a big boost," Shunka said. "The donation would keep the EF! office going for many years. So I walked into the Wildflower Café feeling elated, thinking we got all this money."

Barbara Ristow and Doug Wallace of the Trees Foundation were there. "I was super excited," Shunka said, "and I said, 'This is great, this big donation. Isn't it wonderful?' We ordered food, and still I'm all excited, talking about the money, but I notice they're looking nervously at each other. [Finally], they said, 'Well, we're just shocked that you think this money was for you.' And I was like, 'I just met with the donor, and that's what she said.' And they're like, 'Well, let's go ahead and plan the workshop and deal with that later.' I remember that, because it put me at ease."

After that, Shunka said he gave Trees a list of people he thought might benefit from the mediator-run workshop. "Some were people I knew had beefs with me, but I was willing to bring 'em into the circle and talk about it."

According to some vague accounts, the workshop was a disaster. One person who was there claims that Shunka, at one point, pounded his fists on the floor, blustered, then got up and stormed out, yelling as he walked away. Shunka says that's overblown.

"The letter from Kathryn Miller to Barbara Bristow said she wanted the mediation to be a safe place, safe to be emotional," he said. "And I think people are saying 'I freaked out.' The freak-out reports are exaggerated. It's just part of this ongoing character assassination. People say I was 'red-faced.' But my face is naturally red."

In late 2005, while Shunka was in Seattle, a friend called him from Arcata to say a woman had come by asking for the office key. She had a list of equipment she wanted to take away. The friend didn't give her the key.

When Shunka got back from Seattle, he discovered his reimbursement funds from Trees had been "frozen." He also learned about a letter someone in the NCEF! movement had circulated for signatures and then sent to Mark Knipper, who handled the Trees Foundation transactions for the NCEF! Media office. It said, in essence, "We don't want Shunka running EF!"

"I called the Trees Foundation," Shunka recalled. "I was sick, it was the middle of the winter, I'm trying to table, it's raining, it's cold. And Barbara Ristow told me, 'You just need to have a meeting [with the other Earth First!ers] and come to a group consensus on what the Trees Foundation funding should be used for."

The meeting never happened — nobody could agree to meet, said Mark Knipper, also in an interview last week. Knipper is a social worker and a long-time activist who had been the contact person between Trees and NCEF! Media. "So it ate itself," Knipper said. "And although I'm former Navy, a mariner, I said I'm not going down with this ship. So I divorced myself from it ... and signed it all back to Trees."

The NCEF! Media office was dropped from the Trees Foundation altogether.

Shunka and the NCEF! Media office never did see any of the big donation. Miller didn't even know that, he said, until she phoned him up in the summer of 2006, more than a year after she made the donation, to ask about a guy named "Jungle," who had been reported as missing on the NCEF! hotline. Miller was spending much of her time in Guatemala now, where she was raising fruit trees; after she'd made her big donation, Hurricane Stan had struck — she spent the ensuing year mopping up the mess.

First, Shunka told her Jungle was still missing. Then he told her about the money.

"I said, 'Yeah, they told me it wasn't for us,'" said Shunka. "And she said, 'I meant for all of it to go to you guys.' She sounded real upset. And I was like, 'I knew it! I knew it!'"

Shunka tried to sue Trees in small claims court, but it went nowhere.

Miller filed a claim against the Trees Foundation on Oct. 5, 2006, in Humboldt County Superior Court, seeking the return of the $185,000 plus interest so she could distribute the money herself.

And if she wins? "She may just spread it out more," said Shunka. "She's got tree planting ideas. Maybe she could buy a grove. She'd maybe not give it all to Earth First! this time. It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that Trees blew for us."

On an uncomfortably hot afternoon last week, four forest activists who'd agreed to an interview for this story — Jeff, Shaggy, Sparrow and Farmer — sat on the ground at the Arcata Marsh next to a log bench on which a teeming crew of red ants worked a splintered notch. Someone had come along here in 1999 and carved a grouping of faces — bearded, grimacing, possibly mourning faces — onto the log and signed it Daniel. The carving had been drenched in red paint, and burnished by years of sitters.

"It kind of reminds me of the memorial for Gypsy," said one of them. "With the red paint."

Gypsy was the forest name of David Nathan Chain, who in September 1998, during an Earth First! action at Grizzly Creek, was crushed to death by a tree felled by an enraged logger. Farmer, actually, was there — he was just 16, but had a year of activism already under his belt. And Shunka was there — it was Shunka's first forest action.

Farmer, Shag, Sparrow and Jeff first made it clear that they spoke for themselves alone, although they participate in various forest defense affinity groups: Farmer works for the Mattole Wildlands Defense Group now, watchdogging the California Department of Forestry for new timber harvest plans, and keeping an eye on a Pacific Lumber Co. watershed analysis. Shag, who saw his first redwood about five years ago, helps keep the Fern Gully treesit village in Freshwater functioning. Jeff, who grew up in the high desert, and fell in love with the woods, works with the Nanning Creek treesit just outside of Scotia, as well as other groups. Sparrow, who was drawn to forest action because the cultural landscape was "like a folktale" he couldn't resist, is with the Fern Gully affinity group. These groups are all part of the Humboldt Forest Defense Association, a collective with a website but no formal structure.

The HFDA sprang into being six years ago — about the time the entity called North Coast Earth First! had essentially dissolved. It would take a book to describe that drawn-out dissolution — a book of lost causes, won causes, waning media interest, Judi Bari's death, Gypsy's death, ego-spurred squabbles, interpersonal catastrophes, a war overseas, hurricanes. And while the HFDA activists might still cherish the Earth First! name — the movement — in their hearts, it's now been further complicated by what you might call the Shunka effect.

"I still feel in many ways solidarity with the greater Earth First! movement abroad," said Farmer. "But in this county, in this climate, if you say you're with the North Coast Earth First!, many people associate you with North Coast Earth First! Media."

Shunka revived the North Coast Earth First! office around 2002. And he did what previous office managers had done — tabled, put out news releases, wrote articles for other publications. But it wasn't like the old days, in the '90s, when hundreds of people were getting arrested in forest actions and the jail support phone and legal resources were in constant use.

Shunka first worked in an office in Eureka, then later moved to Arcata. He called his outfit the NCEF! Media Center. For a time, he and other "affinity groups" tried to work together. But he alienated some people. He took over the North Coast Earth First! website. He controlled the North Coast Earth First! email list of 300 or more subscribers to the news alerts. He sent out press releases on his own.

"I felt the North Coast Earth First! Media Center was a unilateral effort on Shunka's part," said Farmer. Whereas, in the old days, "spokespeople were decided on by the group. And if you wrote an article it was passed by everyone. I feel Shunka appointed himself spokesperson at some point."

Many also claim they've been subject to a lashing anger from Shunka.

"I won't work with him because I pledge nonviolence in my actions," said Shag. "I don't believe he pledges the same thing. He has exhibited violent behavior towards me and towards other activists in my presence."

"He's a bear," said Jeff, making claw-fists with his hands.

But the sad thing is, all of this infighting probably has done nothing to help the actual trees. And the mediation workshop Kathryn Miller wanted didn't fix matters. Now, there was her lawsuit.

"When I heard about this lawsuit, I thought, the Trees Foundation does not deserve to be attacked in that way," said Farmer. "There's much bigger issues that need to be dealt with — with Maxxam and old-growth logging. ...If you look at Fern Gully and Nanning Creek (the Bonanza timber harvest plan), there's hundreds of old growth acres still standing whose fate is unclear."

Shag put it more bluntly: "If [Miller] knew Shunka and wanted to get the money to North Coast Earth First! Media, she should've given it to Shunka. But if she was trying to get it to treesits and forest defense, then the money went to the right place.

"My problem is this whole representation thing. There's people in the trees — how do you know who to get the money to, to help them?"

Shunka knows that a lot of fellow activists aren't happy with his role in the donation dispute. He also knows how some people talk about him and say he's hard to get along with. "I'm just standing up for the truth," he said. "And people don't like it. To me, it feels like a small clique of people who don't like me. I feel a lot of love and support in this community."

He certainly doesn't come off right away as someone who's angry, or who lashes out, or who locks the office and doesn't let people in. Why, recently, he helped a young woman hook up with the treesitters so she could learn the ropes. (Shaggy said that's proof Shunka doesn't have direct connections with the people doing direct action; but you can't deny it's a connection.)

It's probably a bad idea to ask Darryl Cherney, one of the founders of the local Earth First! movement, what he thinks of Shunka Wakan, whose real name is Jason Wilson. (Shunka tells a story of how he was named by a Lakota medicine man on the banks of the Cheyenne River in South Dakota in 1995. "Shunka Wakan," meaning "great dog," is only part of it. There's a secret part after that — altogether, his name means "the humble man called horse.")

"Shunka's a wingnut," Cherney said over the phone last Friday, sounding cheerfully vitriolic. "I have a 10-verse song about Shunka."

Here are the last few verses:

Who's at the co-op spanging a donation
Shunka, Shunka
Who's got a lawsuit 'gainst the Trees Foundation
Shunka, Shunka
Shunka, Shunka
Who's gonna keep on fighting the fight
Shunka, Shunka
With four of his friends at swimmers delight
Shunka, Shunka
Shunka, Shunka (Shunka voice: It's the last of the revolution)

There's no other word for it but "mean." But Cherney and Shunka have history — not all of it sour. Cherney said Shunka laughed when he heard the song, at least the first time.

"I met Shunka in 1998," Cherney said. "And I know he knew Julia ["Butterfly" Hill, whom Shunka had come west to find]. That was a good thing, helping Julia. That was good Shunka."

Cherney had even pushed for Shunka to go to Houston to talk with Charles Hurwitz, whose Maxxam Corp. bought out the old Pacific Lumber company back in 1985 and quickly became the forest activists' number one villain. Shunka went.

But now? "The current status of Shunka and me," Cherney said, "is that Shunka has sent me five or eight or nine e-mails threatening to sue me. Shunka is a joke."

Cherney can talk for hours about the problems he's had with Shunka over the years. His main point, though, is what has Shunka done for the trees lately?

"My question is, where's your topo maps?" he asked. "Where's your wilderness preservation proposal? Where's your lobbyist team in Sacramento?"

It has to be that, on some level, even the people in the movement who don't like Shunka understand somewhat where he's coming from. So he's emotional. Passionate. Perhaps he's caught up so completely in the cause he can't let go. Or, who knows — maybe he's a phony, like he accused Knipper of being back in 2005.

But being a forest activist comes with perils beyond the obvious physical ones.

"I'm really trying to have compassion for Shunka, even though he's kind of attacked us," said Susy Barsotti by phone from Laytonville a couple of weeks ago. Barsotti is president of the Trees Foundation board, and she says the lawsuit has held Trees hostage, unable to function fully. "I've been mystified and dismayed that he's participated like this in the suit. But Shunka witnessed Gypsy's death. And I think he may have post-traumatic stress syndrome. I don't think he's recovered from it. And that can affect your behavior."

A number of people mentioned this, actually, about Shunka. And he often refers to Gypsy's death himself. In an article titled "What Luna has taught me," posted on the website of Julia "Butterfly" Hill's organization, Circle of Life, Shunka writes: "I decided to commit to doing ground support after witnessing the death of David Nathan "Gypsy" Chain on September 17, 1998 ... I remember looking across the valley as we hiked up that day, seeing the rolling hills of forests and clear-cuts, and thinking out loud, "That's why we're here!" Seeing Gypsy's life taken from him, and then seeing the corruption and lies of the Humboldt County Sheriffs ... really opened my eyes to the situation our old-growth forests face."

Later, he did ground support for Hill in her second year in Luna. And in the same article on her website, something else Shunka writes indicates how ready he was to devote himself to a cause: "Being on the support team was the top priority in my life, and I was happy knowing that everything else revolved around when I'd be needed for the next supply run. I never felt lost because I knew what I was doing. That was a feeling I had not felt in years, between feeling dissatisfaction with life in college, and then more dissatisfaction with life as a minimum-wage worker after college. Before joining Julia's ground support team I was unhappy, even to the point of tears, wondering if my entire life was going to be a minimum-wage nightmare ...."

Pure devotion, without benefit of a little hypocrisy, could drive anyone batty. Deane Rimerman, the activist from Olympia who said it is Shunka who is on trial, said it's not uncommon for intense, stressful movements like Earth First! to produce an army of walking wounded. And he's been around, in forest actions up and down the coast, for long enough to know; he was the one, in fact, who "got the maps and led the first hikers up to the hill" to the Gypsy Mountain campaign and Luna treesit.

"In the forest activist movement, there's very little that's rewarding," Rimerman said. "There's a lot of post traumatic stress syndrome. All of us get it. Once you've been through the court process, and the jail process, and seen 1,000-year-old trees get cut down that you really cared about and thought you could save — it's devastating."

That alone, setting aside the troubles with Shunka, could explain the many rifts that have occurred within the local EF! ranks over the years. Josh Brown, who moved to Humboldt in 1995 right before the peak of the Headwaters campaign, said one of the unique qualities of Earth First! is that it "is primarily a youth movement."

"A lot of people that come through are young, are passionate — and it's a wonderful thing," he said. They get thrown into leadership positions quickly — and then they get burned out. Many move quickly on to other things. Brown stayed in longer than most. "When I left [in 2001], I was 30 years old. And I'd been a full-time activist since I was 18."

Paradoxically, said Brown, the youthful draw and the departure of seasoned activists leaves the movement with "no elders to kind of sit around and coach the [new kids]."

The movement also draws strong personalities, he said. Tenacious ones, too, like Shunka's.

"Shunka, I think he really does have a big heart," said Brown. "And I think he does care for the forest."

Last Friday, following the morning session of Miller v. Trees, a group of the Humboldt Forest Defense Association activists stood on the courthouse steps talking. The door opened, and Shunka walked out and down the steps toward the group. They didn't greet him. After a time, he tried to talk to one of them, Jeff. Jeff walked away. Shunka followed him, then stopped and talked to another guy. Then he stood alone again.

From: northcoastjournal.com/101107/...011.html

"Trees Foundation Wins"

October 11th, 2007

The jury in the civil case Kathryn Miller v. the Trees Foundation decided in favor of Trees, after deliberating all day Tuesday. (See "Money on Trees," Oct. 4).

Miller is the long-time forest activist who inherited a bundle from her mother and then signed $185,000 over to the Trees Foundation. In her lawsuit, she claimed she had intended the money to be passed through Trees to one of its affiliates, North Coast Earth First! Media, run by Shunka Wakan. She claimed she had made her intentions clear, verbally and in writing, and that Trees had agreed to the conditions, then broken its promise and kept the money. Trees denied making such promises, and said it had never seen any letters or heard of instructions to give the money to NCEF! Media. (Also, somewhat relatedly, in criminal court on Tuesday Miller pleaded no contest to charges that she had made annoying phonecalls to Barbara Ristow of the Trees Foundation.)

So, that's that. Now, there are only the pieces to pick up.

For Shunka Wakan — featured in last week's Journal as a central figure in a messy nest of infighting that has fractured the current ranks of local Earth First!ians — it could be a long, lonely patching together of lost friends and broken alliances. Not only did he and Miller lose their attempt to retrieve her donation, but now he's been banned from the North Coast Co-op.

Yes, that happened last week. It was Thursday, around 4:15 in the evening, and two activists with the Humboldt Forest Defense Association were tabling — hawking brochures and such — outside the Co-op. It's an activity Shunka himself has spent many a day doing in that very same spot, raising cash to pay for his NCEF!Media outreach work and other causes. And, well, these two fellows, Jeff and Farmer, were on Shunka's shit list, now. They'd spoken gently, but unfavorably, about Shunka's doings in the North Coast Earth First! arena — said he lashed out at people, said he commandeered NCEF! resources, and so forth. Here's a snippet of Jeff's account of what happened, which he sent to the NCJ in an e-mail on Friday:

"Shunka was removed from the Arcata Co-op yesterday after a scuffle with myself and another activist around 5 p.m. Well, he wasn't exactly removed, but APD was called. He was asked to leave after threatening to flip over the HFD donation table while stating he was 'like Jesus in the marketplace ...'"

Sue Coulter, manager of the Arcata Co-op, recounted on Friday how an employee walking by heard the argument and went inside to get her. "So I went out to talk to [Shunka], because it's not the first time we've had problems," she said. "Most of the time, he's fine. Most of the time, I stick up for him." One time, she said, she even called the police to protect Shunka after someone had threatened him. "But he gets into arguments. I tried to talk to him. I told him to leave. ... He was causing a scene, right by the door, and I can't have it. He refused to leave. ... I said, fine. I went into the store. He followed me into the store, and he was still yelling at me, 'Oh, now you're going to call the police on me.'" Coulter called the police, but Shunka left before they arrived.

Shunka, waiting in the courthouse for the jury verdict Tuesday, said Coulter did indeed ask him to leave and he did, indeed, refuse to. As for the HFD tablers, he said he merely asked them why they had Trees Foundation literature on their table. "I said, 'Why do you want to represent these people?'" And then, he said, "Jeff accused me of embezzling — he said this in public. He said, 'You've embezzled thousands of dollars from the Earth First! movement through the years.' And I complained to one of the employees who was walking by. Because that's serious, accusing someone of embezzling."

But Shunka said the whole thing's yet another attack on him. "I don't consider I was yelling. We were talking. I'm an emotional person, I concede to that. I speak from my heart. I don't scream at people. I would love to — but I don't."

In his email, Jeff with HFD predicted Shunka would leave town within weeks, if not sooner. But at the courthouse, even before the verdict, Shunka said he wasn't going anywhere.

"I'm just going to continue to run the Earth First! office and continue to call Humboldt County home," he said. He's also going to write a letter to the Co-op, complaining about how he gets scapegoated and booted out of there even when other people, he says, are the culprits. And, as for the Miller v. Trees case, he said, he and Miller may now take their complaint to another venue.

-- Heidi Walters

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posted in .•º•. *Detroit*.•º•. - 0 replies

all belly dancers, drummers and percussionists invited to perform in the streets of detroit on july 12th, 2008

2008-01-23T23:29:33Z

hand drummers and belly dancers are invite to perform pure dance detroit street performance will be held on july 12TH, 2008 at 4pm. we dance in the streets rain or shine.

what is pure?
pure is collective of dancers and drummers who take music and dance out into the streets for the purposes of healing and peace. Movements from ancient sacred world traditions including Middle Eastern, Chinese, Romany gypsy, israeli folk,flamenco,indian dance and drumming will be incorporated into the pure experience.dance and ritual create community, drawing people together both emotionally and physically into a shared sense of the divine.as the community participates, no one is a stranger any longer. musicians and dancers will be traveling down the sidewalks and the people mover and public spaces to share their love of dance and music with the public and to pay homage to specific sites. enroute, hart plaza, gm building water front, in front of the spirt of detroit, then ending in greek town. all dancers are welcome.

pure dance rehearsal required for all dancers and musicians to perform
july 7th, 8:30pm - 9:30pm at the detroit talent studio in royal oak
wednesday july 9th, 9:00pm-10:00 pm at the warren family ymca, warren, mi.

pure dance rehearsal required for all dancers and musicians to perform
july 7th, 8:30pm - 9:30pm at the detroit talent studio in royal oak
wednesday july 9th, 9:00pm-10:00 pm at the warren family ymca, warren, mi.

hand drummers and musicians do not pay rehearsal fees.hand drummers are hard to come by and needed for pure.easy basic drum patterns. skill level not required in drumming or dancing. if you have no drum and want to play, i have 2 dumbeks for drummers to use if needed.

volunteers to assist drummers and dancers also needed. if you would like particate and do not drum or dance, you are assistance is greatley needed and appreciated.

if you would like to perform, drum or volunteer please email me with your full name, email address and contact number. 10 major cities dance simutaneously at the same time for
p.(public awareness)
u.(in our urban surroundings)
r.(ritual for connecting throuh music and dance to connect with each other in peace)
e.(this is an experment,to help create acceptance in ourselves,to accept others to create a more peaceful society)
www.bellyrox.com for more information or www.puredance.org

this is a non paying event. we hopefully will be collecting donations for youth organizations to help our less fortunate children have a better tommorow, our children are our future leaders. lets lead them their with peace.

www.bellyrox.com for more info

posted in .•º•. *Detroit*.•º•. - 0 replies

Detroit Public Schools Book Depository/ Roosevelt Warehouse

2008-01-20T17:28:42Z

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sweetjuniper/sets/72157603302647339/

amazing photoset.

posted in .•º•. *Detroit*.•º•. - 0 replies

Bringing New Naturally Based Skin Care Line to Detroit

2008-01-06T16:55:12Z

Help me spread the word about it. For anyone that wants great skin care at a discount and or to earn extra cash.

Votre Vu.

Now accepting reservations. New Natural Based Skincare line launching Spring 2008. Reserving from now until spring. Early reservation maximizes compensation. Reservation is free. Product line derived from an 80 year old French based Company. No party requirement. No inventory. Low Start Up. $99. No payment until Spring 2008. Lucrative compensation. And more!

Contact Mary for information!
votrevu@triad.rr.com
Mary Johnson Sponsor ID# 0002219.

posted in .•º•. *Detroit*.•º•. - 0 replies

mismatch feet - HELP

2007-12-09T18:14:20Z

Hi

This is an odd request, but here goes ...
I have a friend with two mismatched size feet. Thus it becomes a very expensive as well as wasteful endeavor to purchase new shoes as two pair have to be purchased at a time - one in each size and two of the shoes immediately, unfortunately have to get pitched. Many years ago a read in a magazine of a website/forum/chatroom ... SOMETHING ... where people with two apposing different size feet in a close metropolitan area could sign up and find each other and so buy ONE pair of shoes each and trade the one that didn't fit. Didn't know anyone that fit the description at the time so I didn't bother to remember anything about it. I am SO NOT internet/computer savvy ... but did do a little searching. All I could find was a company that would manufacture A pair of shoes in two different sizes - made to order. Although a bit less expensive than having to buy TWO pair of shoes - I found them to still be rather expensive.

So-o-o-o ...

Anybody know this mismatched feet buddy location - or could give me some tips to find it?

Thanx

posted in .•º•. *Detroit*.•º•. - 3 replies

intentional community *

2007-12-01T03:27:08Z

coming fall 2008…somewhere in ann arbor

the house will ideally have 5-10 people of diverse backgrounds, perspectives and interests.

affordability is a priority.

essential activities will include:
activism…working for a just society and to end all forms of oppression
art…theater, music, dancing, painting, poeming.
fun…parties, laughing, celebrating the mysterious pleasures of being a human
healing…through meditation and other spiritual and contemplative practices

this is a work in progress. many important details have yet to be determined. all members will have an active role in shaping the community. if you are interested in collaborating on this project, contact zoe at zoebender@gmail.com

*“an intentional community is a planned residential community designed to promote a much higher degree of social interaction than other communities. the members of an intentional community typically hold a common social, political or spiritual vision, and also share responsibilities and resources.”

posted in .•º•. *Detroit*.•º•. - 1 reply

ATS Belly dance

2007-11-12T03:59:03Z

does anyone know where I can find classes?

let me know!

Ash

posted in .•º•. *Detroit*.•º•. - 1 reply

Channel 2 News advocates animal cruelty!

2007-11-06T22:27:52Z

I will never, ever watch Channel 2 news again!!! Those cat-hating assholes listed "your neighbor's cat" as one of the things that's hard to scrape off your car in one of their very, very stupid weather trivia questions! These numbskulls need to stay in the busniess of reporting news, not advocate animal cruelty! And please don't tell me that I'm overreacting because I'm not. Cruelty against cats is a very real thing, and do not want to support that bullshit for any reason!

posted in .•º•. *Detroit*.•º•. - 3 replies

Ann Arbor: High Romance, Honest Seduction Workshop

2007-10-12T18:55:30Z

Friday Oct 19th 7-9:30PM
3200 West Liberty, Suite A, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Seduction has a bad rap. For most the word is synonymous with manipulation, deception and power-over practices. We're reclaiming seduction and rehabilitating it's tarnished name. Honest Seduction is cooperatively creating power and sparking healthy intimacy. This workshop will explore and improve your seduction skills including: pick up lines, interesting/exciting offers, difficult disclosures and writing love letters.

High Romance is the daring exploration of who you are and can be in your relationship with someone you care about. This workshop will guide you in discovering your individual and shared identity in current or possible romance.

Sabrina Burke is an irreverent advocate of radical intimacy and a facilitator of blindfold snuggles and other events for the Portland chapter of LoveTribe . She leads workshops for Network for New Culture and is the coach for the 2012 US Olympic team in flirting.

Paxus Calta is an unapologetic polyamory propagandist and incessant storyteller. He is the director of the Emma Goldman Institute for Theoretical and Applied Funology (the study of fun).

The workshop runs about 2 1/2 hours. This is not a lecture, rather it is highly interactive experience using small group work, role plays and individual exercises. There is a requested sliding scale donation of $5 to $10. No one turned away for lack of funds. This workshop is open individuals of all sexual orientations and relationship models. RSVPs requested (and questions happily answered) at paxus.calta@gmail.com or call 541-505-0803.

posted in .•º•. *Detroit*.•º•. - 0 replies

Hockeytown

2007-10-11T06:37:14Z

All I have is one question..this is suppose to be Hockeytown right? How is it that when I hav eto watch a game on tv..theres soooo many empty seats? I know the seats are sold....most of them are season tickets...and ticketmaster only has upper lever at the freaking wall for seats side by side...when it has those...most of the time I have to go on ebay to get tickets and then theres no guarantee on those because of freaking snipers on there who will make some ungodly bid at the last second to get the tickets....then not even go to the game! sooo i ask again....why are the seats empty..if you arent going to use the tickets you already have because you spent the money to get season tickts, why dont you give/sell them to someone that will....in saying that...if you have season tickets...i will be more than happy to work somethign out with you on the games you dont want/cant go to...just let me know...

-L-

posted in .•º•. *Detroit*.•º•. - 0 replies

tigers stadium

2007-09-06T05:29:51Z

Does anyone know when the tigers stadium closed in michigan avenue ?

posted in .•º•. *Detroit*.•º•. - 4 replies

Halloween Event of the Year. What day is good for YOU?

2007-08-21T07:30:56Z

Holding a Halloween party/event at one of the biggest clubs that half of you has never been to in Detroit. Need to commit to either the Sunday or Tuesday before (10/28 or 10/30) and I want to know what day you all think is better. Reply here or contact me directly, but I need to decide soon.

Open invitation to follow. Live bands, DJs, fun and friends.

-AJM

posted in .•º•. *Detroit*.•º•. - 1 reply

DIY Craft Show??

2007-08-05T00:47:30Z

Know where and when, please email AND post! TBird

posted in .•º•. *Detroit*.•º•. - 0 replies

motel east jefferson

2007-07-31T03:34:53Z

me and my wife have a appointment at 8.30am in detroit save getting up at 4.00am we thought we could stay in a motel in detroit so we are wanting a resonable priced and quite motel we could stay at any one could help

posted in .•º•. *Detroit*.•º•. - 1 reply

Concert of Colors??

2007-07-25T22:15:41Z

Anyone going to the Concert of colors this weekend ?

www.concertofcolors.com

Jus

posted in .•º•. *Detroit*.•º•. - 1 reply

Relocation/Family/Commute

2007-07-03T13:38:24Z

There is a possibility that I may relocate to the Detroit area. I'd be working in the city and need some insight of different areas to live that are family and commute friendly. Good schools are a priority as well as community activities geared to younger kids (I have a 3 and 7 year old).

Everyone is telling me Grosse Pointe area and although it looks nice it doesn't seem very diverse or inviting as far as family goes. I like the idea of Ann Arbor, but wonder if it is too far out. Any insight you guys might have on inbetween areas would be helpful.

posted in .•º•. *Detroit*.•º•. - 6 replies

Casinos failed to properly fund schools

2007-06-11T17:08:02Z

Here's my stupid question of the moment: Why aren't Detroit casino revenues enough to resolve the school board's financial problems?

posted in .•º•. *Detroit*.•º•. - 1 reply

cool Traverse city band

2007-05-31T13:32:49Z

http://tribes.tribe.net/fairchildrock

posted in .•º•. *Detroit*.•º•. - 0 replies

Invest in your health!

2007-04-20T22:25:33Z

If you believe in investing in your personal health by way of taking whole food supplements then visit my website: www.dontforgettotakeyourvitamins.com/willis20340 for more information.

posted in .•º•. *Detroit*.•º•. - 0 replies

Detroit is so polluted!

2007-03-25T20:21:49Z

For whatever reason, many Detroiters prefer to dump their trash on the groud instead of throwing it in a trash can. For such folks, this isn't a problem. For me, this is a massive problem -- especailly since it's likely that it'll be a cold day in the solar corona before such people can be persuaded not to pollute the city. To that I say pollution sucks and pollutors suck!

posted in .•º•. *Detroit*.•º•. - 0 replies

Coffee-House Fans Unite!

2007-03-18T15:51:11Z

Hi all,

We've started a Yahoo Group for the purpose of gathering support and interest in an independent coffee house we plan to open in the northern suburbs of Metro-Detroit, Michigan. The group description is as follows:

"This group is for any and all individuals with the vision and desire to see a truly unique independent coffee house and rare/hard to find/used book-store open in eastern-central Oakland County."

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boundandgrounds/

If you are interested, or even just curious, please check it out.

Key differences between our coffee-house and many corporate chains will include, but are not limited to:
- in-store roasting
- custom blended teas/ herbal infusions
- nonproprietary techniques; we plan to hold classes in home-roasting and tea blending
- the inclusion of a rare/used book store
- regular open-mike poetry, local bands/musicians, and game
tournaments
- design and wall space given to local artisans; we hope to allow gallery space for special viewings of photo, print/painting, jewelry, and small sculpture; artists may chose to sell their work through our location
- a desire to foster a feeling of community.

Our mission statement places high priority on making this a place where the customers feel like regulars, and the regulars feel that they have a say in the way we do business.

We look forward to seeing many of you there.

Yours in the bean,
Jaime and Adam Magy

posted in .•º•. *Detroit*.•º•. - 13 replies

Locally needed sex

2007-03-10T06:01:25Z

any takens?

posted in .•º•. *Detroit*.•º•. - 10 replies

femaLe vocalisT HERE

2007-02-23T21:26:01Z

i am currently seeking the following:

1) paid industry jobs: session work, live performance, background vocals
2) an already ESTABLISHED group. if you're a full group looking for that last member PLEASE have something to show for yourselves. i don’t expect you to be signed or to offer me hollywood connections, but i’m not looking to start something at ground level. (believe me, been there, done that!).

i have been doing the musician/band thing my whole life (writing/recording/shows/etc.). i’m extremely dedicated, experienced, & most importantly TALENTED. i am NOT looking for a cover band nor am i looking for someone to WRITE my lyrics for me. i am looking to work with people who are true artists. everyone must be responsible for their own roles within the band - constructive criticism or "suggestion" is great but am certainly NOT looking for a dictatorship. ‘humble’ egos (read: high level of confidence) not only welcomed but needed! i am very open to styles, etc. but my love is dark, heavy, melodic stuff. progressive HIGHLY desired, not interested in your typical verse-chorus-verse songs. lastly, i'm serious about music but am an extremely happy, down-to-earth, get along with anyone, easy to please type of person (who has her head on straight : )

please visit www.heroinemusic.com & excuse the construction.

posted in .•º•. *Detroit*.•º•. - 0 replies

Looking for work in Architechture

2007-02-03T05:40:29Z

I have a friend in the Detroit area who's looking for work as an architech. He's talented, pleasant to be around and has a strong work ethic. Does anyone have any leads?

Thanks.

posted in .•º•. *Detroit*.•º•. - 0 replies

Celebrating new years is more important than human lives

2007-01-01T14:22:10Z

It seems to me that in the minds of certain assholes, celebrating new years is more important than human lives. And like always, those assholes stupidly have again decided to shoot off their guns on new years. They must think bullets travel at the speed of light and will never return to the Earth. But in reality, their evil celebration is putting people at risk. I recall news reports in the past about the victims of new years bullets. And as far as I know, none of these scum-sucking scumlords has turned themselves in to the police. Such individuals have no conscience! Just like Saddam Hussein had no conscience. Makes me wish these new years shooters had been hung along side Saddam!

Yes, yes, yes! I know I'm being emotional about this. But being emotional is the only thing I can think of doing about the new years shooter problem. Obviously, nothing I've said here is going to convince these murderous monsters from shooting their guns off on new years. If I had my way, there'd be a curfew for new year's eve. But since so many stupid people have been brainwashed into thinking new years celebrations are mandatory , it probably won't work. Ho ve, and ti' estas viv'! Ho ve, and ti' estas viv' forever!

posted in .•º•. *Detroit*.•º•. - 0 replies

Crap, crap, crappy new year!

2006-12-30T18:15:13Z

Have a crappy
Have a crappy
Have a crap, crap crappy new year

New years suck
I don't give a fuck
Crappy new year

Have a crappy
Have a crappy
May each day be filled with bad cheer

And with nothing less
Than much crappiness
All through the year

Yup! I hate new years! New years is the suckiest piece of suck that ever sucked! New years day should be just another day, not this useless and stupid celebration. But if new years day has to be a useless and stupid celebration, please, please, please don't drag me into it! I do have freedom of choice, you know!

posted in .•º•. *Detroit*.•º•. - 0 replies

Volunteer in Africa!

2006-12-08T02:15:22Z

Take part in community development in Africa
14-20 months program, Zambia, South Africa, Mozambique
HIV/AIDS prevention by educating children, youth, adults
Training teachers for running rural village schools
Teaching families basic health and hygiene, prevention of malaria
Organize latrine-building campaigns
Email: jeannette@iicdmi.org, volunteerinafricanow@hotmail.com
Phone: 630 618 0000
www.iicdmichigan.org

posted in .•º•. *Detroit*.•º•. - 1 reply

InZer0 Halloween Party & Zombie Fashion Show - 10/27

2006-10-19T12:35:03Z

Hot Zombies Strut at the Official InZer0 Halloween Bash

Detroit, October 10, 2006 – Thought Collide Productions, in collaboration with the SEMAFX Network, present the official InZer0 Halloween Bash and Zombie Fashion Show, on Friday, October 27, at the Hastings Street Ballroom in Detroit.

InZer0, Thought Collide’s science fiction series shot entirely in Detroit and screened monthly at the Main Art Theatre in Royal Oak, provides the ambiance for the evening, offering a party in the broken future - today. This is the best combination of music, film, fashion and oh yeah – ZOMBIES.

On October 27th, the Hastings Street Ballroom becomes the epicenter of Detroit's Creative Quake, where the movers and shakers in a wide range of creative markets will gather to celebrate the strange and spooky Halloween Season, as well as come together to explore and develop new opportunities, discussions, collaborative ventures and ideas!

The not-to-be-missed Halloween Party of the year will feature premiere Detroit area bands, Siddhartha and Phallus Uber Alles. Local fave Siddhartha (formerly Velvet Audio) is an original combination of in your face rock n’ roll and funk, while Phallus Uber Alles is a sonic wall of industrial electronica.

Don’t miss the “Drop Dead Gorgeous” Zombie Fashion Show, featuring original fashions from exciting Detroit area designers, including Mare L. Costello and others. Also appearing straight from the Detroit underground is Hell’s Belles who will strut their stuff in a live burlesque show.

For those of you that need to catch up on InZer0, selected episodes and documentary footage will be shown in the lounge area of the Hastings Street Ballroom.

We’ve thrown down the gauntlet in the “Cool Costume Contest” -- test your creativity and compete for prizes. Dress as your favorite InZer0 character – Courier, Gang Member, Witch or Alien – or wow the judges with your own Halloween style. See if you can compete with the Hot Zombies or stretch your imagination to its limits.

The eclectic mix of talent from so wide a swath will create a Halloween event like no other in the "D." Come and help us celebrate the explosion of Detroit's Creative and Cultural Arts. By coming together, we create much more than a fun night out-- we are building a powerful network here in Detroit that will take root and grow to unprecedented levels. Don't miss this seminal, earth-shaking event that will spawn so many new ideas and opportunities for our creative community!

Doors are at 8 p.m. for the official InZer0 Halloween Bash and Zombie Fashion Show on Friday, October 27 at the Hastings Street Ballroom (715 E. Milwaukee, Detroit, MI 48202). 21 and over are welcome with a full cash bar. Free parking. Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at the door. For more information and to purchase tickets online via PayPal, visit www.thoughtcollide.com/events.

Special thanks to our sponsors: SEMAFX Network, Hastings Street Ballroom, Noovoodoo Screenworks, Real Detroit Weekly, and Hell’s Belles.

posted in .•º•. *Detroit*.•º•. - 0 replies

On Nov. 7th, Vote "NO" On Proposal 3!

2006-10-09T17:48:26Z

Last year, the Michigan legislature narrowly passed a bill, which was signed into law by Governor Jennifer Granholm, that allowed the sport SHOOTING OF MOURNING DOVES for the first time since 1905. The Committee to Restore the Dove Shooting ban collected more than 275,000 petition signatures to get a dove hunting referendum—Proposal 3—on the November 2006 ballot. Voting "No" on Proposal 3 will restore Michigan's 100-year tradition of protecting mourning doves.

There is no management need for hunting doves, and they are shot simply for target practice. Doves are not overpopulated, do not cause nuisance problems, and have very little meat on their tiny bodies. Scientific studies also indicate that more than 30% of the mourning doves shot are wounded and not killed immediately and enduring a prolonged death.

NOTE: IF YOU ARE NOT CURRENTLY REGISTERED TO VOTE, TOMORROW (October 10th) IS THE DEADLINE TO DO SO.

posted in .•º•. *Detroit*.•º•. - 0 replies

Anti-casino

2006-09-25T02:23:51Z

Who else here is anti-casino? Pro-casino folks need not apply. (Start your own pro-casino thread instead!)

posted in .•º•. *Detroit*.•º•. - 2 replies

submissive/feminine women who love and desire their men (for their guiding light...).

2006-08-28T19:58:30Z

Tired of all the drama?...me too. Let's go back to how things were when they had a chance of working...like it is in the Bible, for God's sake. Spiritual, and "out of the box" thinker desired.Want a woman who needs and enjoys a good man, and is willing to appreciate him for who he is and what he brings to the relationship. Is there such a divine creature? I know there is! She would be appreciated, in return, to the "ends of the earth".

No games...tired of all the games. Honesty, feminine nature, and a sense of loyalty are essential. Gag(sters), men bashers, and "black widow spiders", need not reply...you will simply be deleted! New millenium women...stay at the office..."wearing the pants"! REAL WOMEN...come home and be cherished, and loved...........signed, "One Women, Man"

posted in .•º•. *Detroit*.•º•. - 0 replies

Tiger Stadium photos

2006-08-18T21:21:28Z

I took a bunch of photos of Tiger Stadium the other day so I'd have some images of it before they tear it down. Looks like I made it in time.

posted in .•º•. *Detroit*.•º•. - 0 replies

harmony channel - comcast cable

2006-07-09T16:15:40Z

This is so amazing...it's only for folks who have comcast cable though. :(

Go to the music category and find harmony channel. AWESOME music and visuals. The best TV channel EVER.

http://www.harmonychannel.com

Check out this too:

http://www.moodzonesstore.com

posted in .•º•. *Detroit*.•º•. - 0 replies

Don't sign SOS petition!

2006-06-21T07:48:44Z

I recieved this bit from a social worker. Please consider this research, and pass it along. Thanks!

Why poor people count
Keeping SOS/TABOR off the ballot!
With Michigan's economy recovering from a long tenure of down sloping employment rates and budget cuts, cutting social service programs should not even be an option.

Interest groups are now asking Michigan voters to sign a petition that would cut social service programs that many unemployed and low-income families have come to need to survive.

Stop Overspending (SOS) is a legislation that is said to stop government over spending, but in actuality cuts social service programs and gives more money to non-constituent based causes.

The Michigan League of Human Services reported that 'adoption of the Stop Overspending (SOS) Ballot Initiative would significantly worsen Michigan's ongoing fiscal crisis and narrow the options for its solution—forcing deep cuts in K-12 and higher education, public health and safety, and child and family support and protection programs.'

This same piece of legislation was passed in Colorado in 1992 under the name "Taxpayers Bill of Rights" (TABOR). The result of the legislation left devastating effects on their economy and social service programs. The same results, if passed in Michigan, will have presumably the same affects.

According to MLHS, under the TABOR legislation Colorado declined from 35th to 49th in the nation in K-12 spending, and under TABOR, inflation adjusted funding for instate college students declined by 31 percent.

Currently the condition of higher education enrollment is declining in Michigan due to rising costs of tuition. Michigan has 109 degree granting institutions in the state that serves over 550,000 students. With the trend of adjusting funding for instate college students, the numbers of students being taught may decline.

On the national front, the budget situation has caused states to consider such legislation like SOS and TABOR due to a lack of funding from the federal government.

According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) 85 percent of the 2005 budget enacted by the Congress and the President stems from tax cuts and increases in defense, international aid and homeland security. None of these moneys were geared towards domestic spending.

To stop government over spending the state does not need to pass legislation that will cut social service programs. The state needs to find reasonable and voter friendly solutions to a fiscal problem.

CBPP reported that in order to maintain the current trend of tax cuts and balance the federal budget 41% of social security benefits would be cut, 61% of defense spending, 53% of Medicare and only 29% of every other program excluding those above, would have to be cut.

One suggestion that might alter the need for such legislation like SOS and TABOR is to stop allowing tax cuts for people with high incomes levels. This would keep a stable amount of money in the federal budget, allowing for more allocation to social service programs that would keep human needs met across the board.

In 2005, $39 billion in "entitlement" programs were cut over the past five years. This includes Medicaid, children's programs, child support enforcement, foster care and student loans.

The Congressional Budget Office indicates that if the entitlement programs were cut it would cause low-income people to forgo much needed health care because of increased cost. It would result in $8 billion in child support going uncollected. And this would also raise charges for student loans.

With the hind sight given from the outcomes of budget cuts in 2005, and the similar circumstances arising in 2006, the president's proposed budget for 2007 still resembles a high income tax cut policy with domestic discretionary programs being cut deeper.

In order for people to "pick themselves up by their boot straps" and survive in our capitalistic economy, we need to offer social service programs to maintain a base of human needs in our society.

SOS/TABOR denies those human needs in reality, and on paper creates a facade of just cause. Do not sign the SOS petition in Michigan if you want Michigan's economy to become stable and successful for all people.

--
Crystallee R. Crain
Grad Student - Young People for fellow
People for the American Way
EMU Welfare Rights Office
Ypsilanti, MI
989-225-0118

posted in .•º•. *Detroit*.•º•. - 0 replies

The Truth about Detroit

2006-06-15T15:45:52Z

...just because the UAW is losing members doesn’t mean American auto workers are losing jobs. According to government data, more Americans are making cars today than were making them 25 years ago. Instead of working for the Big Three, though, lots are now working for Toyota, Honda, and other foreign-based automakers building cars here in the United States.

http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=11640

posted in .•º•. *Detroit*.•º•. - 0 replies

rental management companies

2006-06-14T21:58:46Z

Hi all, Im originally from detroit but have been in los angeles since 1994. Im noticing your real estate is reall low, specially compared to what happened here in the last 5 years. Im thinking of buying some property in detroit and I was wondering if anyone knew of any good , reputable rental management companies. Id appreciate any suggestions . Thanks in advance and I have always missed detroit, IT SUCKS HERE. Take care all, Nathan

posted in .•º•. *Detroit*.•º•. - 1 reply

Research Opportunity for Men

2006-06-12T14:52:10Z

ARE YOU A MAN WHO’S OVER 18 WHO HAS EVER BEEN IN A RELATIONSHIP WITH A WOMAN THAT LASTED FOR A YEAR OR MORE, WHERE FOR SOME OR ALL OF THAT TIME THE RELATIONSHIP WAS SEXUAL?
IF SO, TAKE PART IN AN ANONYMOUS RESEARCH STUDY ONLINE.
THE STUDY IS EXAMINING MALE PERSONALITY CHARACTERISTICS AND BEHAVIOR WITHIN RELATIONSHIPS.

TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS DOCTORAL DISSERTATION RESEARCH,
CLICK THE LINK TO THE WEBSITE WHICH CONTAINS MY
QUESTIONNAIRES:

www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp

PARTICIPATION IS ANONYMOUS AND FREE OF CHARGE.

If you begin to tire at any point during the survey, you can close the browser and your place in the survey will be automatically saved. You can click on this same link again at a later time and you will be able to come back to the survey exactly where you left off.

posted in .•º•. *Detroit*.•º•. - 0 replies

power to the people

2006-06-08T17:04:16Z

Is it really possible to have a peoples party at this point in time? A party who's candidate was chosen, and supported by the American people?
Yes... it really is possible. And high time if you ask me.
When I was in school they told me I could be anything I wanted. Even the president of the United States. But they never taught me how. Oh sure, we had a class president and all that, (and I seem to remember something about a cartoon bill that kept getting vetoed or something), but somehow I just don't think it's the same thing. But I have asked dozens of people (smart ones too) if they new how to go about being president if they chose to. None of them had the slightest clue. Not that I would ever want to be the president. I can't even ballance my own check book, (or remember if that cartoon bill ever got passed or not) let alone trying to balance the budget for a nation. However, I have met quite a few people along my journeys that I thought had all the attributes I would like to see in a president. Strong, responsible, honorable people, always seeming to naturally look out for the needs of others, less fortunate, and weaker than themselves, while at the same time accomplishing great feats of productivity, (including balancing their check books). Ive met them in all walks of life. All shapes, sizes, sexes, and colors. Proud Americans, all of them. According to our constitution they have the right to run for president. The only question is... how? Well check it out...
A Letter to Michael Moore
Hey Mike,
I hope all is going good with the new project. I can't express to you how much I appreciate your work. You both inspire me and give me hope that someday we the People will find our voice again and take our country back. On that note, I have a great Idea I’d like to share with you. This is an idea I’ve spent serious time thinking about. I’d like to humbly ask for your help. The idea needs shepherding from someone of your caliber. So here it is…

“The People’s Party”
A reality television game show
by Alan Abbott
Contestants will compete for a chance to run for President of the United States for the People’s Party.
Possible contestants, chosen from the general public, are asked (via television & radio) to send in a video tape or DVD, 3 minutes or less explaining why they or the person they are nominating should be considered as a presidential candidate.
The show will be run Documentary/American Idol/ style. The cameras follow each contestant on their quest. Throughout the campaign contestants and their entourage travel together, eat together, stay at the same hotels, and share the same campaign headquarters in the convention rooms at the hotels where they stay.
The American public will have the opportunity to vote for the candidate of their choice by telephone and the contestants with the lowest number of votes steps down each week.
The winner of the show wins the candidacy for the Peoples Party, and actually runs for president of the United States of America.

That is the basic idea. I see it as an entertaining way to empower the people to establish their own party, educate the public about what it takes to run for president. Most importantly, it will give the people a chance to take their country back.

I have been developing the show for over a year and have a lot more material. I didn’t want to bombard you with it all right now. I have made several trips to and from L.A. (from Maui) trying to contact you through “more appropriate means” than e-mail, but to no avail. So here we are.

This is actually the second e-mail I have sent you, but I fear the first may have gotten lost in the crowd, as I know you try to respond to all your e-mails. So just to give you a heads up, I am going to ask a few friends to give me a hand in getting your attention. After all, election time is around the corner, and I’d like you to be given the first opportunity to give the country back to the people. Hope you don’t mind. Please feel free to e-mail me or call me at; 808-264-0984. Thank you for your time.

Sincerely,
Alan

We The People
Really can make this happen. More impossible dreams have come true. But we have to work together. Together... the American people can do anything.
I am asking all of you to please copy this entire post and send it to michael@michaelmoore.com then send it to everyone you know.
Michael Moore is my first choice, but I know he is not everybody's cup of tea. Do you have someone in mind you like better for the task of producing, directing, and/or hosting The Peoples Party? Copy and send this entire post to them, and tell them so. But please keep in mind that the show, and everything written here is copywritten so please don't try to pass it off as your own, you'll just get yourself in a lot of trouble. Do however feel free to share with as many people as you want. In fact please do
I sent this letter to Michael Moore on May 19th, 2006 but Mikes a busy guy. He is currently shooting another feature documentary, and I'm sure the shooting schedule is very labor intensive. Not ot mention the amount of e-mails the guy must get every day. Then when he does finaly get a chance to read them, I'm sure he has a priority list of some kind. Either way, he has not returned this e-mail yet.
But Michael is not the only person that is important to reach. If we are going to make a difference we have to work together, and spread the word to everyone.
Thank you all very much.
Sincerely, Alan
Power To The People

michael@michaelmoore.com
thealanabbott@icqmail.com
profile.myspace.com/index.cfm

posted in .•º•. *Detroit*.•º•. - 1 reply

What Detroit Can Learn From Bangalore

2006-06-06T19:37:11Z

Giant multinationals such as Microsoft, Intel, and Dell are cramming the city with glittering new glass-and-steel buildings. Trendy little boutiques and high-rise malls selling everything from ethnic wares to Western goods are everywhere.

While Bangalore grows, Detroit continues to lead the United States in population decline. Every week, on average, 370 residents leave its crime-ridden, economically depressed neighborhoods for a better life in the suburbs or elsewhere in the country. The city’s population, close to 2 million in the late 1950s, has shrunk to less than 900,000. Formerly the fifth largest city in the country—bigger even than Chicago—Detroit is now smaller than San Jose.

http://www.reason.com/0606/fe.sd.what.shtml

posted in .•º•. *Detroit*.•º•. - 2 replies

June news

2006-06-04T16:58:17Z

New band members
Jackie Blue welcomes Big Wave Dave on guitars and Tony on drums: www.JackieBlue.com for their bios

Next show
Saturday, June 10, South Lyon Theater, South Lyon, Michigan: www.JackieBlue.com for details and a map.

Complexification CD story
We finally wrote down the history of the band and the making of our album Complexification Part II. It has its own website at www.ComplexificationMusic.com Now you can be the first one on your block to know all about it!

Photos from Motor Music Festival
An awesome event! Check out the first photos at www.MotorMusicFestival.com

posted in .•º•. *Detroit*.•º•. - 0 replies

I hate Chase bank (or as I used to call it "Bank Scum")!

2006-05-30T16:55:27Z

I hate Chase bank! Their stupid metal detectors are making it too inconvenient to do business there. "It's for your own protection," they say. Well then, this "protection" is 100 percent useless if you're not allowed to enter the bank because of it! Dammit! I'm definitely closing my "Bank Scum" account! Those class A-1 Morons!!

posted in .•º•. *Detroit*.•º•. - 0 replies

HOLIDAY CRUISE OPPORTUNITY! LEAVES DECEMBER 23, 2007, BOOK EARLY!

2006-05-29T14:56:27Z

Book early because this cruise is a guaranteed sell out! For the first time ever, Royal Caribbean is offering a Holiday Sailing aboard Explorer of the Seas departing on December 23, 2007 from Bayonne, NJ.

This is the first holiday sailing being offered from Royal Caribbean from the Northeast! This 12 night cruise is EXTREMELY well priced and we have an exclusive amenities package that will be yours if you book in time!

Please note this cruise is RAPIDLY selling out, and, we predict it will be sold out several months prior to the acutal sailing date and, booking early is strongly advised.

**Also due to the fast selling fact of this sailing, cabins that have more than 2 occupants are subject to capacity control as determined by Royal Caribbean, therefore, we cannot guarantee the availability of triple (3 people in 1 cabin) or quad (4 people in 1 cabin). Triples and quads are on a first come, first serve basis.**

Deposits are $450 per person including children due at the time of booking. Deposits are refundable without penalty until September 1, 2007.

Final payment is due on or before September 1, 2007

Category Q Inside, decks 6 & 7, 160 s.f. - $1178.00 per person

Category PR, Promenade, deck 8, 167 s.f. - $1328.00 per person

Category H Outside, deck 9, 180 s.f. - $1658.00 per person
*Triples & Quads are available $1177.79 per person

Category E1 Balcony, deck 9, 173 s.f. - $1698.00 per person
* Triples are available here $1177.79 per person

Category D3 Balcony, deck 6, 188 s.f. - $1748.00 per person

Category E2 Balcony, deck 7, 173 s.f. - $1788.00 per person

Category D1 Balcony, deck 10, 188 s.f. - $1858.00 per person
*Triples & Quads available here $1177.79 per person

Category D2 Balcony, decks 8 & 9, 188 s.f. - $2228.00 per person

Jr Suite, Double : deck 10, 277 s.f. - $2438.00 per person
* Triples & Quads are available here $1177.79 per person

Owner's Suites SOLD OUT
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Single Supplements - prices below reflect 1 person in 1 cabin

Category Q inside :: $2655.79

Category PR promenade :: $2955.79

Category H outside - $3615.79

Category E1 balcony - $3695.79

Category JS suite - $5195.79

AMENTIES PACKAGE:
Free cruise insurance
Free prepaid gratuities
Two $5 casino vouchers
Dinner for two at one of the onboard Specialty Restaurants
$200 onboard credit per cabin

ITINERARY

Sunday, December 23, 2007 Cape Liberty Cruise Port (Bayonne), New Jersey -- 04:00 PM
Monday, December 24, 2007 At Sea -- --
Tuesday, December 25, 2007 At Sea -- --
Wednesday, December 26, 2007 San Juan, Puerto Rico 03:00 PM 11:30 PM
Thursday, December 27, 2007 St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands 08:00 AM 05:00 PM
Friday, December 28, 2007 Roseau, Dominica 08:00 AM 05:00 PM
Saturday, December 29, 2007 Bridgetown, Barbados 08:00 AM 05:00 PM
Sunday, December 30, 2007 Basseterre, St. Kitts 12:00 PM 06:00 PM
Monday, December 31, 2007 St. Johns, Antigua 09:00 AM 05:00 PM
Tuesday, January 1, 2008 At Sea -- --
Wednesday, January 2, 2008 At Sea -- --
Thursday, January 3, 2008 At Sea -- --
Friday, January 4, 2008 Cape Liberty Cruise Port (Bayonne), New Jersey 07:00 AM --

FOR MORE DETAILS INCLUDING PHOTOS AND BOOKING INSTRUCTIONS VISIT THE COMPREHENSIVE WEBSITE:

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posted in .•º•. *Detroit*.•º•. - 1 reply

More web comic success!

2006-05-24T13:45:19Z

I just started ilustrating a web comic called "Walking Across America", and I'm GETTING PAID for it! Go to: www.walking-across-america.com

posted in .•º•. *Detroit*.•º•. - 0 replies

interesting site, new to me anyway

2006-05-17T13:47:00Z

I know this site has been around awhile , but I just found it. It really helped me catch up on some things going on back there. I thought MAYBE some of you would find it interesting too. I enjoyed the "ruins of detroit" section, although finding out how bad it seems to have gotten since I left detroit in 1994 was a bit depressing. Thankfully I also found some glimmers of hope in the site to. I hope you find it enjoyable. take care, Nathan http://detroityes.com/index.html

posted in .•º•. *Detroit*.•º•. - 1 reply

Casinos again

2006-04-26T13:36:20Z

If the temporary casinos failed to improve the city's economic status, then why would a permanent casino do any better? Besides, if the U.S. is going to remain competative with nations like China and India, we need to become more (scientifically) educated, not become more addicted to gambling.

posted in .•º•. *Detroit*.•º•. - 3 replies

I NEED new friends!

2006-04-17T14:28:43Z

I NEED new friends! I recently lost a number of friends due to my "defective" personality, and I'm of the mind that I need some friends who can tolerate (not necessarily approve of) my "defective" personality. Of course in this world without consensus, no two people share the same view of what friendship is. Therefore, I've concluded that friends are required to find a compromise on their defintions of friendship. But that hasn't worked for me lately. One former friend of mine seemed to have decided that his definition of friendship is superior to mine. As a result, I had to follow his defintion of friendship (which includes being banned from his house for life). Since I thought (and still think) that's bullshit, I had to end the friendship.

Since there is a population of 6 billion, it should be entirely possible for me to find a few folks who can tolerate my "defective" personality. If not, then I guess that means life sucks far more than I thought it did.

posted in .•º•. *Detroit*.•º•. - 0 replies

anyone know if the cass co-op is still open?

2006-04-07T22:38:14Z

Hello! I'm coming out for the DEMF again this year, and I was wondering if anyone knows if the Cass Corridor Food Co-op is still open. We tend to like to stock up on health food for the weekend, and would rather go there than all the way out to Ferndale, but the last time we were at the coop it looked as if it were on its last legs (empty shelves, etc.) (i just tried calling but got a voicemail.)

Anyone have any other health food store suggestions around Detroit, as close as possible to the city? (we'll be staying in Mexicantown.)

Thanks.

posted in .•º•. *Detroit*.•º•. - 0 replies

I HATE THE DUMBASS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION!!

2006-04-01T19:23:10Z

On the way to work today, some bus driver FORCED me to pay 50 cents for a transfer!! But as far as I know, transfers are 25 cents! What's up with that high-level that bullshit?!?! And whenever I phone DDOT to complain about their shitty bus service, they don't do anything!! Here I am PAYING these bus drivers, and yet they act as if they have a Consitutuinal right to rip me off and disrespect me!! I hate the DUMBASS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION and I wish all their bus drivers would get sucked into a black hole!! ("Black hole sun... won't you come... and wash away the rain...")

posted in .•º•. *Detroit*.•º•. - 8 replies

subcultures, change and underground thinking

2006-03-16T13:27:03Z

Hi everyone,

Just want to alert you all to this project.

I'm looking for contributors and distributors (drop a stack at your local cafe, bookstore, collective, etc.). I think Detroit would be a great city to reach and give voice to some non-mainstream thinking.

Also, I would love to publish essays, rants, articles or poems that touch on our themes of Power and/or Choice on the following issues:

Race
Palestine/Israel
Sexism
Gentrification
Religion
Consumerism
Queer Identity within current political struggles
Worker Co-ops, collectives, ad hoc groups or other non-mainstream organizations
Anarchy

Please consider submitting. Contributors get a free 25-word listing in the directory. Submission information is below. Feel free to forward this email.

Thanks!

----- Original Message -----

Please distribute far and wide. We're looking for submissions from anywhere in the world, and a wide diversity of opinion, so don't be shy. Post it on your arts, politics and cultural lists, send it to your friends and your enemies and, of course, looking for your submissions as well

NERVE house, the quarterly, DIY, print publication is back to give a voice to change through art!

Using words, images and ideas

- To inspire and outrage you
- To present independent thought, opposing viewpoints and provocative ideas
- To ask difficult questions, raise awareness and incite original action
- To give voice to change through art

SUBMIT! SUBMIT! SUBMIT!
Themes for first issue (deadline 5/08/06): Power and/or Choice, broadly or loosely defined.

All submissions must be previously unpublished (or include the names of where previously published)
and under 800 words. Rights revert to author.

Art in Words: Poetry, prose, rants, opinions
Art in Images: Photography, comix, drawings, doodles (we love them): Please send images!
Art in Ideas: Essays, commentaries, reviews

Directory: Contributors are entitled to a 25-word listing/bio (must be included with submission)
in the issue in which they are published.

Submissions should be sent to:
NERVE house
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414.263.1513

Become part of NERVE house

Subscribe: $35 for one year (4 issues). $50 for enhanced subscription (goodies included with publication). Email for subscription rates outside the U.S. (Call or email for address.)
Advertise: Promote yourself, your organization, collective, or business in our affordable directory.
Distribute: Make NERVE house available at your café, bookstore, co-op, indy business or revolutionary hangout.
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Volunteer: Advise, distribute, raise funds, edit, do layout, feed the crew, donate $, massages, office supplies or whatever you have.

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posted in .•º•. *Detroit*.•º•. - 0 replies

You know, I learned something today

2006-03-13T16:14:40Z

You know, I learned something today. I learned that Detroit is a HORRIBLE place for creative people to live. And I learned that by going to Craig's List. In the Detroit section of the list, I noticed that there are extremely few freelance art jobs in Detroit. But when I went to the New York, Chicago and Los Angeles sections, I noticed those cities have freelance art jobs by the megaton. Therefore if I want to improve my chances of succeeding at art, I need to get my black ass out of Detroit.

posted in .•º•. *Detroit*.•º•. - 5 replies

Hey Detroiters

2006-03-01T01:39:39Z

Go read the last two blog entries I've made, comment back and tell me how you feel.

http://people.tribe.net/goldie/blog&topicId=b74dfdce-8a20-406b-a402-efba863cac13

posted in .•º•. *Detroit*.•º•. - 2 replies

Vote for Jackie Blue to open for Dave Matthews Band tour

2006-02-24T22:29:12Z

Click on the link to vote and give Jackie Blue the opportunity to open for the Dave Matthews Band on their 2006 tour.
http://www.dmband.com/surveys/OpenerSurvey.asp

posted in .•º•. *Detroit*.•º•. - 12 replies

Fair or not?

2006-02-11T22:14:00Z

My son has his ear pierced and my daughter has both of hers done. The school they attend is telling my son and I that he has to take his out, that's it's a formal school. No one has said this to my daughter. He does wear his uniform to school and the earring he has in is just a small diamond stud. I refuse to take it out and I will not.

The school is threatening to suspend my son if we do not take his earring out. I asked why my daughter and the other girls don't have to take their's out, I got no answer back. Isn't this discrimination?

posted in .•º•. *Detroit*.•º•. - 7 replies

Favorite hangouts

2006-02-11T20:05:15Z

What are your favorite hangouts in Detroit?

Mine are

The Majestic
http://www.majesticdetroit.com/

and

Rosie O'Grady's
http://www.4rosieogradys.com/f_locations_detroit.htm

posted in .•º•. *Detroit*.•º•. - 0 replies

Freecycle Compu-Stuff

2006-02-08T22:29:25Z

New Detroit-based Freecycle group here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freecycle-compu-stuff

posted in .•º•. *Detroit*.•º•. - 0 replies

Maybe not so inconvenient

2006-02-07T13:26:38Z

Man, I am so glad that terrorists didn't hit the Super Bowl! And I'm probably not the only one!

posted in .•º•. *Detroit*.•º•. - 3 replies

.•º•. *Detroit*.•º•.'s topics - tribe.net

Anybody know lots about the bars and clubs in metro detroit?

Allied Media Conference at WSU

Recycling Project

Fraud Alert regarding North Coast Earth First! Aka NCEF! Media. Completely independent from any activist group!

all belly dancers, drummers and percussionists invited to perform in the streets of detroit on july 12th, 2008

Detroit Public Schools Book Depository/ Roosevelt Warehouse

Bringing New Naturally Based Skin Care Line to Detroit

mismatch feet - HELP

intentional community *

ATS Belly dance

Channel 2 News advocates animal cruelty!

Ann Arbor: High Romance, Honest Seduction Workshop

Hockeytown

tigers stadium

Halloween Event of the Year. What day is good for YOU?

DIY Craft Show??

motel east jefferson

Concert of Colors??

Relocation/Family/Commute

Casinos failed to properly fund schools

cool Traverse city band

Invest in your health!

Detroit is so polluted!

Coffee-House Fans Unite!

Locally needed sex

femaLe vocalisT *HERE*

Looking for work in Architechture

Celebrating new years is more important than human lives

Crap, crap, crappy new year!

Volunteer in Africa!

InZer0 Halloween Party & Zombie Fashion Show - 10/27

On Nov. 7th, Vote "NO" On Proposal 3!

Anti-casino

submissive/feminine women who love and desire their men (for their guiding light...).

Tiger Stadium photos

harmony channel - comcast cable

Don't sign SOS petition!

The Truth about Detroit

rental management companies

Research Opportunity for Men

power to the people

What Detroit Can Learn From Bangalore

June news

I hate Chase bank (or as I used to call it "Bank Scum")!

HOLIDAY CRUISE OPPORTUNITY! LEAVES DECEMBER 23, 2007, BOOK EARLY!

More web comic success!

interesting site, new to me anyway

Casinos again

I NEED new friends!

anyone know if the cass co-op is still open?

I HATE THE DUMBASS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION!!

subcultures, change and underground thinking

You know, I learned something today

Hey Detroiters

Vote for Jackie Blue to open for Dave Matthews Band tour

Fair or not?

Favorite hangouts

Freecycle Compu-Stuff

Maybe not so inconvenient

.•º•. Detroit.•º•.'s topics - tribe.net

femaLe vocalisT HERE