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@onetoughnerd Decides Not To Go To Harvard After All Because Everybody’s Being Mean #NoSnyderFellowship #OpFlint
Wednesday , 3, July 2019 Flint Water, Nerd Problems, Nestlé Leave a commentOn Sunday, June 30, 2019, @prisonculture launched a tweetstorm to right the injustice of granting Rick Snyder a fellowship at Harvard University. People answered her call to action and flooded the Dean of the Kennedy School where Snyder would have spent the next year offering his knowledge and experience to the students of Harvard. What […]
Michigan Supreme Court Unanimously Orders the State of Michigan to Return Hundreds of Millions of Dollars in Pay Illegally Taken from Teachers
Wednesday , 20, December 2017 Bill Schuette, Nerd Problems, Section 16 1 CommentThe Michigan Supreme Court ruled 6 – 0 on December 20, 2017 an unconstitutional law that stripped three percent of teacher pay from Michigan’s public school teachers must be returned. The unconstitutional law imposed by the Republican-controlled State Legislature and Republican Governor Rick Snyder stole over $550 million from teachers’ paychecks in another move to […]
Earth First! Closes Weekend Gathering in Michigan by Staging Protest at the Home of Attorney General Bill Schuette
Thursday , 7, July 2016 Bill Schuette, Enbridge Line 5, Environment Leave a commentEarth First! held a weekend gathering in the Manistee National Forest near Free Soil over the 4th of July Weekend. They concluded that gathering by holding a protest in front of Attorney General Bill Schuette’s Midland home on the afternoon of July 6, 2016; demonstrating against the Embridge Line 5 pipeline under the Straits of […]