Michigan
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Our Conditions
What are we facing? The capitalist world is a chaotic mess. Crisis can strike at any moment in any part of the lives of the people, either on a personal or wide scale. The daily rituals of exploitation, the hollowing out of what it means to live, and the crumbling…
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Solidarity With Prairieland 9
On April 4, 2026, members of Lansing General Defense Committee, along with Lansing Migra Watch, and Your Mom Mutual Aid held a rally in solidarity with the Prairieland 9 defendants as part of their International Day of Action. Around 20 comrades stuck it out in the rain chanting, giving speeches,…
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North Lake Detainees Go On Hunger Strike
Immigrants held at the GEO Group’s privately owned North Lake Processing Center went on hunger strike starting Monday, April 20, 2026. “We demand competent doctors, better medical care — the food here is absolute garbage — and, above all, an end to the procedural delays we are suffering through inside…
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Abuse, neglect, retaliation result in death of three women at WHV prison
At least three women have died within less than a month at Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility in Pittsfield, Michigan; their deaths are a direct result of ongoing medical neglect and torture at WHV. Khaira Howard, 28, not only was denied medication for her schizophrenia diagnosis, the night of her…
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Data Centers
28 Days of Black Liberation 2026 series: Week 2 The University of Michigan & Los Alamos National Lab (which develops nuclear weapons & resources for “national security”) are moving their data center from Ann Arbor to Ypsilanti Twp. They want to use the Willow Run manufacturing complex by West Willow, a…
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John Zook Jr – In Commemoration
A year ago on the afternoon of June 18th, 2024, John Zook Jr. was taken from his beloved family, fiancee, neighbors, and Wayne community members by the Wayne killer cop who murdered him – Jared Grembowski. John Zook Jr. was known by many affectionate names; many of us had gotten…
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Huron Valley Women’s Prison Bulletin
AN ATTACK ON ONE IS AN ATTACK ON US ALL! FIGHT FOR FREEDOM, IT IS THE ONLY THING WORTH FIGHTING FOR! A group in the Michigan General Defense Committee has taken on a project to write to around 10 women currently held captive in Women’s Huron Valley Prison in Ypsilanti,…
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How the People are Defending Southwest Detroit
Interview with a member of GDC and of the coordinating group for the Migra Watch team of the People’s Assembly. Q: What is the People’s Assembly? A: People’s Assembly is a coalition of organizers and activists representing various groups throughout the metro Detroit area, as well as other concerned residents…
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Beal’s Arbor One “Renoviction” Is Straight Out Of The Slumlord Playbook
Let’s get this straight: Arbor One Apartments consistently hasn’t had a certificate of compliance for over two years. For two years conditions were so bad that the City of Ypsilanti wouldn’t issue the New Jersey-based owner, Valley Tree Partners, the certificate, which would have granted them the right to collect…
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The Fight for Life in the “Valley of Death”
Orisanmi Burton has said, “Prisoners are positioned behind enemy lines and have a unique political capacity. War studied from both sides shows us that incarcerated people are the tip of the counterinsurgency spear that is pointed towards us who are outside of the wall. And the prison is a strategy…