Yesterday, upwards of 1,500 people marched on the Ann Arbor-area home of Governor Rick Snyder to protest Public Act 4, the Emergency Manager law. In case you missed my liveblog, you can see low-quality photos at my post "LIVEBLOG: MLK Day march on home of Mich Governor Rick Snyder".
After the orange squiggledegibbet, more, higher-quality photos (with links to more) and video.
Here are a smattering of photos taken by my wife Anne C. Savage at the protest march and rally at the gate of Rick Snyder's private enclave/gated community. Click the photo for the full Monty at Anne's website.
Copyrighted images. Please do not use without permission. Seriously.
Here are a couple of videos that I shot that give you a real sense of how big the event was:
Video of marchers. This is about half the crowd so you can see that we had well in excess of 1,000 people protesting. I'm putting it at 1,500.
Video from in front of Snyder's gated community:
And finally, we got great coverage by The Rachel Maddow Show last night. Rev. David Bullock, president of Detroit Rainbow Push, one of the organizers, was spot-on perfect with his message and it's one that will resonate with a wide variety of people.
My favorite part of Rev. Bullock's comments came at the end.
There is no connection between dismantling democracy and fixing a deficit. Democracy allows for accountability and transparency. If you take democracy off the table, you have tyranny. There is no accountability. We must also add that emergency management does not work. The Detroit Public Schools is under emergency management: still has a deficit. Benton Harbor is under emergency management: bills paid late. The city of Highland Park was under a weaker form of emergency management for nine years: still has a deficit. You cannot manage a blood loss. If I were in a car accident and I was losing blood, you wouldn't manage how much blood I was losing. You would stop the bleeding and you would send a blood transfusion. We need targeted reinvestment in Michigan.
And, yeah, Rachel called Eclectablog "the indispensable Michigan politics source". Heh.