Ep. 27: Golf & Class Conflict in Kzoo, Dark Money & Abortion Rights, Michigan GOP Seeks to Outlaw Trans Youth, and Other Stories

We start our show with a story that really lays out class conflict in a very obvious way here in the City of Kalamazoo. Lakeside Academy, shut down since the summer of 2020, was being eyed as a potential site for affordable and transitional housing for the houseless community.  Instead it was bought up by a real estate holding company and will be sold to the Kalamazoo County Club to expand their golf course. From the city's ruling class to the houseless- "let them eat golf balls."

 

On the east side, social justice organization "Detroit Will Breathe" wins their long protracted lawsuit against the City of Detroit over the abuse of Detroit police against protestors during the uprisings of 2020. We look at how an ostensibly "liberal" city went very aggressively against the DWB organization up to counter-suing them and slandering them on Fox News.

 

We take a look at the dark money flooding into our state from right-wing oligarchs seeking to defeat Proposition 3 (Reproductive Rights for All) as well as the fallout from restrictive abortion measures in a neighboring state.

 

We look at a horrifying bill from the Michigan GOP in the state legislature that would effectively criminalize being a trans youth and giving trans youth gender-affirming care.

 

We close out with our thoughts on the Whitmer/ Dixon debate (and a bit on the debate between Herschell Walker and Raphael Warnock in Georgia).

 

02:20- 19:30 Golf & Class Conflict: Potential Site for Housing for the Houseless Sold to Kzoo Country Club

19:50- 33:15  Brett Favre the "Welfare Queen"

33:15- 42:00  Detroit Will Breathe Wins Lawsuit Against the City of Detroit

42:00- 1:04:15 Dark Money, Prop 3, and Abortion Rights

1:04:15- 1:22:00 Michigan GOP Wants to Outlaw Trans Youth

1:22:00- 1:41:30 Dixon/ Whitmer Debate

 

SOURCES

 

Country club plans golf course at site once eyed for homeless housing in Kalamazoo

https://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/2022/10/country-club-plans-golf-course-at-site-once-eyed-for-homeless-housing-in-kalamazoo.html

 

Detroit Will Breathe Statement on Lawsuit Against the City of Detroit

https://www.leftvoice.org/victory-in-detroit-will-breathe-lawsuit-against-the-city-of-detroit/

 

Ahead of an Abortion Rights State Ballot Measure, Anti-Choice Cash Is Flooding Michigan

https://jacobin.com/2022/10/antiabortion-ads-michigan-ballot-measure

 

Michigan’s New Anti-Trans Bill Threatens Care-Providing Parents With Life in Prison

https://theintercept.com/2022/10/13/anti-trans-bill-michigan/