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Posts by Jeff Smith (GRIID)

0May 28, 2019Memorial Day and Organized Forgetting

1May 23, 2019DeVos Family decides to end their financial support of Congressman Amash: What the news media reported and what it omitted

1May 21, 2019Follow the Money: Which politicians received money from the Auto Insurance Industry in Michigan?

1May 20, 2019A double standard: Undocumented immigrants count when Grand Rapids wants federal funds, but the City doesn’t want to end the GRPD’s cooperation with ICE

0May 20, 2019Betsy DeVos Watch: Secretary of Education speaks at the Young America’s Foundation – an anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant, pro-capitalist and principal outreach organization of the Conservative Movement

0May 16, 2019One of the largest single political donors to those who voted to reduce women’s reproductive rights in Michigan, is the DeVos Family

7May 16, 2019Civilian Appeals Board votes to reverse GRPD decision to exonerate VanderKooi: There was plenty of evidence of bias in the Jilmar Ramos-Gomez case

1May 15, 2019Communities affected by police/ICE violence in Grand Rapids, release statement to City officials after demands deadline passes

4May 13, 2019Dick & Betsy DeVos Foundation: funding conservative think tanks, the religious right, neoliberal capitalist groups and the pro-Charter School movement

0May 13, 2019Media Bites: Huntington Bank wants us to think they are looking out for us