Jeff Smith
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2 days ago |
griid.org | Jeff Smith
Philanthropy is just reputation laundering for the oligarchy. It is that time of the year again, when GRIID posts about the various West Michigan Foundations from families that make up the Grand Rapids Power Structure. I start with the DeVos family, which has 5 different foundations. The Doug and Maria DeVos FoundationGRIID has always begun our Foundation Watch work by looking at the foundations associated with the most powerful family in West Michigan, the DeVos family.
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3 days ago |
griid.org | Jeff Smith
Editor’s note – as a matter of transparency, I am part of GR Rapid Response to ICE, which means I was a direct participant in the defensive work to protect immigrants coming to the ICE check-in appointments. It is difficult for those of us who consume news media to not know that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been arresting and detaining immigrants all across the country.
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4 days ago |
griid.org | Jeff Smith
Every year at the beginning of the summer, the Detroit Chamber of Commerce holds their annual Mackinac Policy Conference on Mackinac Island. According to the Detroit Chamber, the four-day conference is to discuss key issues facing the state. However, for anyone who has attended this annual event or taken a close look at the conference website you can see that what is really being discussed are concerns for the business community and members of the Capitalist Class.
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4 days ago |
griid.org | Jeff Smith
Kent County Commissioner Robert Womack made some opening remarks, with vague language and no condemnation of systems of power and oppression. This sort of set the tone for the 3 hour meeting held at the Wealthy Theater. An estimated 200 people were in attendance to hear from some 20 panelists, which included lawyers, civil rights groups, activists and family members of several of the recent police killings in Kent County.
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5 days ago |
griid.org | Jeff Smith
In late May, the US Army Corps of Engineers released a report about the Enbridge Line 5 oil pipeline and their proposed tunnel that would run under the Great Lakes. Locally, channel’s 13 and 17 ran stories about the report. The headlines for the online versions of those stories are instructive, since they present how headlines can be misleading. It’s also interesting, because both WZZM 13 and WXMI 17 used the sameAssociated Press (AP) article.
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