I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
A 60-year-old Port Huron woman was injured during a confrontation with Israeli Defense Forces in the West Bank village of Izbet al-Tabib over the weekend.
The Michigan Peace Team says in a press release Sandra C. Quintano was injured May 1 while participating in a peaceful protest against the building of a partition wall between the Palestinian territories and Israel.
Ms. Quintano was standing with a group of 8 nonviolent peace activists on a roadway, gathered in an attempt to prevent violence by Israeli military, and prevent military and bulldozers from proceeding further into the area. The soldiers closest to the activists first approached a young man standing next to Ms. Quintano, and indicated he would be arrested if the group did not move. According to the Michigan Peace Team members present, several soldiers then closed in on this young man in a physically threatening manner. As had been previously agreed, the activists attempted to link arms to prevent one person from being singled out of the group as a target for violence.
It was as the soldiers made physical contact with the activists that Ms. Quintano says she felt herself being sent “flying through the air.” She describes that she felt she was “picked up and thrown out of the way” by Israeli soldiers.
The Michigan Peace Team says Quintano suffered a laceration to the top of her head, and two broken wrists during the confrontation. This was Quintano’s second trip to the territories with the Peace Team.
The Michigan Peace Team is a non-violent intervention group created by Rev. Peter Dougherty. The group provides trained individuals to intervene between groups which may be responding violently to one and other. They have been operating in the Palestinian Territories for years, as well as in Juarez, Mexico. Domestically, Peace Team members have been present at various civil disturbances including the appearance last fall of members of the Westboro Baptist Church in East Lansing.
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