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VIDEO Dispatch from Detroit – #DetroitWater + Bankrupt-o-Mania
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Searching For Seymour | The Cemetery
On my drive home from family dinner tonight I passed by my Papa Seymour’s grave. It took me two city blocks to muster up the courage to turn
Dispatch from Detroit 5 | Searching for Seymour
I’m at 8 Mile Road and Wyoming Ave. This is the corner where my grandfather Seymour Wedes was killed on October 13, 1970. He was shot by
Towards a Politics of Love Over a Politics of Fear
“We can’t bombard the people with more fear. They are frightened. They are terrorized” -Gael García Bernal, ‘No’
Why I Closed the #TweetBoat
En tren con destino errado se va más lento que andando a pie / On a train headed the wrong way one moves more slowly than by foot -Jorge Drexler
Detroit Water – A Movement Grows
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Why We the People Must Stand with Detroit
It is time for we the people to stand with Detroit. The work has already started. Detroit is rebuilding community from the grassroots up, and a
Dispatch from Detroit #1, On Blight
This is the first in a series of reflections on life in the shell of a once-great metropolis that is searching again for greatness. I share
Letter to a Stranger
Dear Stranger, There’s a light rain in the river bay today. I can see it out the window of my new home perched on the hill. You sit
Farewell to the Concrete Jungle
“Not all those who wander are lost.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring The Arrival In those first sleepless nights, the smells of the