Articles tagged: protest
opinion: Protect working families by protecting collective bargaining rights
Posted: Aug 19, 2012During the past few months, you may have been asked by fellow community members to sign a petition in support of a constitutional amendment to protect jobs and collective bargaining rights for all Michigan workers. ... Read more »
U-M students protest affirmative action ban outside federal appeals court
Posted: Mar 07, 2012About 50 protesters, many of them University of Michigan students, have gathered outside a federal appeals court taking another look at the state's ban on affirmative action in college admissions and government hiring. Read more »
Anti-Rick Snyder rally gathers outside Ann Arbor: 'We are the 99 percent'
Posted: Jan 16, 2012An estimated 800 people are marching to Gov. Rick Snyder's house near Ann Arbor to protest Michigan's emergency manager law. They reached the gate of his neighborhood shortly after 5 p.m. Read more »
Geddes Road to be closed down for march to Snyder's home near Ann Arbor
Posted: Jan 16, 2012Geddes Road near Parker Mill County Park will be closed this afternoon during a rally protesting Michigan's emergency manager law to allow participants to march to the gates of Gov. Rick Snyder's neighborhood outside Ann Arbor. Read more »
Updated: Protest held against big banks in downtown Ann Arbor on Saturday
Posted: Nov 05, 2011A growing nationwide anger against big banks found some support in Ann Arbor on Saturday with a protest outside the Bank of America branch downtown at Main and Washington streets. More than 50 people gathered ... Read more »
Opinion: University of Michigan students are right to protest Gov. Snyder as commencement speaker
Posted: Mar 20, 2011Good for the students of the University of Michigan! At a time when education is so crucial to the future of Michigan, to the future of the U.S., we have a governor who thinks education ... Read more »
Trial begins for man who climbed on roof of Washtenaw County administration building to protest
Posted: Dec 15, 2010Ann Arbor police officer Sean Lee said he told Bill Riney at least twice on Labor Day that he must get down from the roof of the Washtenaw County Administration Building or be arrested for ... Read more »
Protester Bill Riney vows to fight charges, calls himself 'political prisoner'
Posted: Sep 15, 2010Bill Riney, an Ypsilanti Township man who climbed onto the Washtenaw County Administration Building in a one-man protest on Labor Day, says he considers himself a "political prisoner." Now criminally charged with three misdemeanors, Riney says he ... Read more »
Bill Riney faces 3 misdemeanor charges for one-man protest on county building
Posted: Sep 09, 2010An Ypsilanti Township man who climbed onto the Washtenaw County Administration Building in a one-man protest on Labor Day was criminally charged with three misdemeanors today. Bill Riney was arraigned this morning on charges of attempted ... Read more »
Updated: Bill Riney climbs onto Washtenaw County Administration Building in one-man protest against unemployment
Posted: Sep 07, 2010Updated at 2 p.m. with new details.Ypsilanti Township resident Bill Riney, who made an unsuccessful run for the state's 54th District seat in the August primary, climbed onto the Washtenaw County Administration Building Monday to ... Read more »
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