UAW activist Dave Yettaw dies suddenly
By Todd Seibt / Flint Journal QUICK FACTS The Yettaw yearsSignificant dates in Dave Yettaw's career: 1965: Began working for General Motors. 1987: Elected president of UAW Local 599 after serving as education director. 1989: Dropped out of the Unity caucus, and said he would run as a UAW constitutional ...
IF CONGRESS COULD SAVE JUST 1500 LIVES, SHOULDN'T IT?
THE MARCH OF FREEDOM George nominated John D. Negroponte as the nation's first 'intelligence czar'--but what intelligence did Mr. Negroponte have about Honduras death squads when he was ambassador there in the 1980s? Freedom marches on Pakistan and Pervez Musharraf (who took power in a military coup)--we look forward to ...
Many Missteps Tied to Delay in Armor for Troops in Iraq
By Michael Moss / New York Times The war in Iraq was hardly a month old in April 2003 when an Army general in charge of equipping soldiers with protective gear threw the brakes on buying bulletproof vests. The general, Richard A. Cody, who led a Pentagon group called the ...
THE MARCH OF FREEDOM America and its key ally Saudi Arabia are being accused of quietly seeking to muzzle al-Jazeera, the Arab satellite news station that has often incurred Washington's ire for its coverage of Iraq and President George Bush's "war on terror". A statement in the name of the ...
The Vatican says George broke Iraq promise.THE MARCH OF FREEDOM A US soldier was killed by a roadside bomb in Baghdad on Sunday.U.S. troops opened fire near a checkpoint after their convoy was hit by a roadside bomb, killing at least eight people in the second mistaken American attack in ...
U.S. Businesses Overseas Threatened by Rising Anti-Americanism
By Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, D.C., Dec 29 (OneWorld) - The Bush administration's foreign policy may be costing U.S. corporations business overseas--according to a new survey of 8,000 international consumers released this week by the Seattle-based Global Market Insite (GMI) Inc. Brands closely identified with the U.S., such as Marlboro cigarettes, ...
New Michael Moore project gives drug companies a sick feeling
By Elaine Dutka / Los Angeles Times America's pharmaceutical industry is putting out an advisory about the latest potential threat to its health: Michael Moore. Moore, the filmmaker whose targets have included General Motors ("Roger & Me"), the gun lobby (the Oscar-winning "Bowling for Columbine") and President Bush ("Fahrenheit 9/11"), ...
Graham leaves Washington with little optimism for Bush's second term
By William E. Gibson / South Florida Sun-Sentinel WASHINGTON · Wrapping up a distinguished yet often frustrating 18 years on Capitol Hill, Florida Sen. Bob Graham says he foresees an ideological Bush administration forcing its will on a polarized Congress while international terrorist groups continue to gather strength abroad. A ...
Michael Moore Brings the War Home
by Danny Duncan Collum / Sojourners In the theater where I saw Fahrenheit 9/11, the coming attractions featured a trailer for The Motorcycle Diaries—an upcoming film about the early life of the Latin American revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara. The trailer ended with the tag line, "If you let the world ...
Time Magazine / Richard Corliss, Reported by Desa Philadephia and Jeffrey Ressner/Los Angeles, Jackson Baker/Memphis, Betsy Rubiner/Des Moines and John F. Dickerson and Adam Zagorin/Washington, with other bureausJuly 12, 2004 Was it all just a dream?" Michael Moore poses that question at the start of Fahrenheit 9/11, his docu-tragicomedy about ...
ISRAEL KILLS HAMAS LEADER Israel vows to hit Hamas again, and the new Hamas chief swears vengeance. In answer, George W. Bush said he was "deeply troubled" by the events and "called for restraint"--which isn't exactly a proactive approach. Shimon Peres says the killing was a mistake. The BBC looks ...
Why Don't We All Just Cut the Crap Right Now
Dear friends, Well, 101 days into the Junta and the fear mongers are having a heyday, aren't they? Even good liberals and Democrats have joined in the mantra. To listen to them, you'd think George W. Bush had opened the gates of hell and unleashed the legions of Satan upon ...
"...the vice president spoke candidly about criticism from local filmmaker Michael Moore that the Clinton administration has ignored Flint while trumpeting economic improvements in most other parts of the country. Moore and others have charged that Gore's recent interest in Flint is merely a symptom of a candidate willing to ...
The following diary entry describes my 3-day Midwest tour with Ralph Nader in September. WEDNESDAY 10:40am... I am on a prop plane flying from Flint to Milwaukee to meet Ralph Nader, the Green Party candidate for president, for a three-day campaign swing through Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota. Ralph called me ...
Dear friends, I tried to write this letter to you last night, but the level of sadness in me would not allow me to sit at this keyboard and compose these words. How much more can my hometown take? How much more do the people we love have to suffer? ...
Pauline Kael, the Truth, and Nothing But... Brought to you by AOL Time Warner
Dear friends, This is the final installment of my thrilling and uncalled-for "Roger & Me" 10th anniversary "memoirs." I would like to close out by telling you the story of my encounter with the infamous film critic, Pauline Kael. Ten years ago tonight, just three days after Time Inc. officially ...
Dear friends, Ten years ago today, I stood on the lawn of the Genesee County Jail in Flint and sold my film to Warner Bros. The executives at Warner's were a little bewildered by my choice of location for a "signing ceremony," but after weeks of negotiating with me (and ...
Dear friends, Let us pause for a moment to recover from the sad news this week that Dan Quayle will not be running for President next year. Potatoe lovers all over America are feeling a sense of loss and I can only say that with Quayle out of the running, ...
Dear friends Last Wednesday, all the national Prime Time Emmy nominees who are based in the New York area were invited by Mayor Giuliani to a ceremony at city hall to receive an "official Emmy certificate" from the Mayor. As you may recall, the Mayor's Office for Film and Television ...
The final installment of this season's "The Awful Truth" will air this Sunday evening on Bravo. I say "this season" because it appears we are going to be renewed! Hey, there's a word we've never heard! What did we do wrong? This has been an incredible 12 weeks. Although we ...
IT'S LABOR DAY WEEK and what better time to kick off this web site! According to Princeton University (as quoted in this weekend's USA Today), 70 percent of all workers feel they have less job security than what they had 20 or 30 years ago. So how come the "great ...
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June 5th, 2013
Here's How We Built a Movie Theater for the People – and Why the MPAA Says It's #1 in the World
This past week, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), the main federation of Hollywood's six major studios, posted on their web site a list of what they believe ...
March 23rd, 2013
This evening is going be a big moment in turning our country around on the issue of gun violence. That's why I desperately want you ...
March 21st, 2013
I am hosting a nationwide series of house parties this Saturday night where tens of thousands of people will gather together in living rooms to ...
March 15th, 2013
The response to my Newtown letter this week has been overwhelming. It is so very clear to everyone that the majority of Americans have had ...
March 13th, 2013
America, You Must Not Look Away (How to Finish Off the NRA)
The year was 1955. Emmett Till was a young African American boy from Chicago visiting relatives in Mississippi. One day Emmett was seen "flirting" with ...
February 26th, 2013
My Final Word on Buzzfeed and Emad Burnat's Detention at LAX
Thanks to everyone for bearing with me as I spend so much time on what happened to Emad Burnat. It's important to me because he's ...
February 26th, 2013
Michael Moore Responds to Buzzfeed Story on '5 Broken Cameras' Co-Director Emad Burnat
On Tuesday, February 19th, Emad Burnat, the Palestianian co-director of the Oscar-nominated documentary '5 Broken Cameras,' was detained with his wife and son at Los ...
September 11th, 2010
If the 'Mosque' Isn't Built, This Is No Longer America
OpenMike 9/11/10 Michael Moore's daily blog I am opposed to the building of the "mosque" two blocks from Ground Zero. I want it built on ...
December 14th, 2010
Why I'm Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange
Yesterday, in the Westminster Magistrates Court in London, the lawyers for WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange presented to the judge a document from me stating that ...
May 12th, 2011
Some Final Thoughts on the Death of Osama bin Laden
"The Nazis killed tens of MILLIONS. They got a trial. Why? Because we're not like them. We're Americans. We roll different." – Michael Moore in ...
November 22nd, 2011
Where Does Occupy Wall Street Go From Here?
This past weekend I participated in a four-hour meeting of Occupy Wall Street activists whose job it is to come up with the vision and ...
September 22nd, 2011
A STATEMENT FROM MICHAEL MOORE ON THE EXECUTION OF TROY DAVIS
I encourage everyone I know to never travel to Georgia, never buy anything made in Georgia, to never do business in Georgia. I will ask ...
December 16th, 2010
Dear Swedish Government: Hi there -- or as you all say, Hallå! You know, all of us here in the U.S. love your country. Your ...
November 2nd, 2010
This letter contains (almost) no criticisms of how the Democrats have brought this day of reckoning upon themselves. That -- and where to go from ...
'The East'
Why have you started a comedy festival in northern Michigan in the middle of winter?
Because if you were here in the dead of winter in the middle of nowhere (which is actually somewhere to us), you'd need a few laughs too ... Continue Reading
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