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.
The Kalamazoo City Commission unanimously repealed an ordinance to prevent discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity and/or expression. The Commission approved the ordinance unanimously last month, but opponents, lead by the American Family Association of Michigan, collected enough signatures to put the ordinance up for a public vote.
A group of leading lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans is asking the outgoing Bush administration to sign on to the United Nations Joint Statement on Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity. The non-binding statement reaffirms the basic human rights of all people, and expresses significant concerns about the treatment of LGBT persons all [...]
A referendum on the local ballot in Hamtramck that repeals a city human rights ordinance passed in July has succeeded. A final count is not yet known. Derek Smiertka, executive director of Michigan Equality, expressed disappointment but said local supporters will likely place another referendum on the ballot in the next two years to reverse [...]
Evidence mounts for war crimes prosecution of senior-level military and Bush officials A new report put out by Physicians for Human Rights, an international organization that shared the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize, documents torture and abuse of detainees by American personnel. The report — Broken Laws, Broken Lives — details the experiences of eleven detainees [...]
In the first case where a civilian court has heard an appeal of the detention of a Guantanamo Bay prisoner, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has ordered the government to release, transfer or order a new military trial for Huzaifa Parhat, a Chinese Muslim captured in Afghanistan. In a unanimous ruling, a three-judge panel [...]
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