So many opportunities to march tomorrow in Michigan! Where are you planning to go? It’s looking like another amazing, impressive day of resistance across the country to the anti-science, anti-intellectual, anti-regulatory policies promoted by the illegitimate administration now holding sway. Let’s get out there and show the world where we stand!
Today’s post (my apologies for missing yesterday; I was simply out of steam) features the logos and locations for the Science Marches in Michigan. I plan to attend both the Ann Arbor march and the Ypsilanti march, details below the jump. But there are FIFTEEN marches across the state! Check out what’s near you via this resource for satellite marches in Michigan. (Isn’t it cute, “satellite”?)
It’s on our wish list to have signs, badges, and banners widely distributed so that Michigan Kossacks can find each other easily. Tomorrow, if my Daily Kos badges arrive in time, I’ll have one on. But I’ll also be wearing a Daily Kos (“I Unite Community”) t-shirt, and I’ll be carrying a Washtenaw County Democratic Party sign; it’ll be hard to miss me, I hope. Feel free to come on over to introduce yourself! The easiest place to find me will be in Ypsi at EMU’s campus. We’ll meet at 2:45 at the Chavez Fountain behind Welch Hall.
Join me after the jump for a few march details. Each one will have terrific speakers and resolute, committed, impassioned marchers. Rise up!
Some of the messaging on the page for the Ann Arbor March for Science (U-M Diag, Noon) is endearing and apt:
Do you like medicine? March.
Do you like air conditioning? March.
Do you like cars? March.
Do use the internet? March.
Do you like smart phones? March.
Do you like Velcro? March.
And, you know, this is only another stage in the struggle. We WILL continue to organize. Each one of these events brings out more and more people!
Remember, tomorrow’s demonstrations kick off a whole week of resistance events, culminating in the People’s Climate Marches to be held worldwide on Saturday, April 29th. (See my post here for the details on the Daily Kos contingent in DC!)
You can keep track of ALL of these events, and why they matter, by reading and responding to the #SciCli blogathon right here on Daily Kos, which started TODAY, thanks to Onomastic.
Your regularly-scheduled programming about other issues related to Michigan will resume next week. But really, what could be more relevant to our state’s well-being, present and future, than this week’s campaign?
Please help us build this weekly Michigan thread so that it includes any information relevant to turning MI Blue again that you would like me to highlight. MI contributors are always welcome! You can reach me through kosmail at peregrine kate. Or say hi through email here: peregrinekate@gmail.com And please follow me on Twitter @peregrinekate
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• An Activists’ Calendar of Resistance Events
• Indivisible’s list of Resistance Events & Groups