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Urban Planning Culture & Language Lifestyle

Christmas 2021: Handbuilt’s Naughty Or Nice List

December 22, 2021December 22, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments amtrak, authoritarianism, big gretch, climate change, climate denial, climate denialism, daqo solar, decarbonization, decarbonizing the transportation sector, department of transportation, desegregate connecticut, economic dispatch, EmPOWER MD, energy, ever given, evergrande, Gretchen Whitmer, james craig, jewish space laser, jim jordan, jinko solar, joe manchin, lauren boebert, madison cawthorn, marjorie taylor greene, maryland, matt gaetz, mayor pete, MDHHS mask mandate, mdot, MEDC, michigan covid, mike duggan, mike shirkey, mitch mcconnell, pete buttigieg, police departments, public utilities, radical socialist agenda, republican party, sara bronin, socialism, suez canal 2021, trevor pawl, trump, USDoT, uyghur china, vmt reduction, west virginia, xinjiang solar

Every year, we at Handbuilt Heavy Industries, Incorporated, feel the need to wrap up with a Christmas-y list of everyone who

Detroit Politics

Mike Duggan’s Legacy of Austerity, Corporate Power, and State Violence

November 1, 2021November 2, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments albert cobo, arthur jemison, black lives matter, black lives matter protest, black lives matter protests, BSEED, coleman young, DDOT, dennis archer, Detroit, detroit 2021 election, detroit department of transportation, detroit mayor mike duggan, detroit politics, detroit proposal r, detroit proposal s, detroit towing scandal, gaspar fiore, housing and revitalization department, james craig, jed howbert, jerome kavanagh, kwame kilpatrick, mayoral election detroit, mike duggan, mikel oglesby, politics, related, related companies, ryan friedrichs, stephen ross, tear gas

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan is inevitably coasting to an easy reëlection tomorrow. His legacy is a complex and a fraught one– that deserves a lot of critical scrutiny, in spite of the big moves that the city has made in the past decade.

Movements & Organizing Government Law

“I Thought It Would Be Worse,” said a Detroit cop of a protest last year. “I Wanted More.”

July 8, 2021July 8, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments black lives matter, chief james craig, civil rights, CS, Detroit, detroit east side, detroit mayor mike duggan, detroit police, detroit police chief james craig, detroit police department, detroit west side, detroit will breathe, documentary, federal lawsuit, george floyd, george floyd protests, george gorman, gratiot avenue, james craig, james demps, jon talbert, kate levy, kate levy documentarian, lawsuit, less lethal bullets, litigation, mariah erard, mayor mike duggan, mcnichols rd, mike duggan, police brutality, police brutality lawsuits, police violence, riot control, riot gear, rosa parks transit center, rubber bullets, tear gas, todd bettison

CONTENT WARNING: The 22-minute video and the clips I’ve taken from it below include some disturbing and extremely graphic imagery,

Policy Public Safety

Police Reform: Imagining New Roles For A Safer, More Functional Society

April 23, 2021April 23, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments 1312, abolish the police, acab, angie schmitt, austerity, black lives matter, BSEED, budgets, building department, building inspections, building inspector, building officials, community engagement, community meetings, cycling, cycling safety, dave bell, defund the police, democracy, Detroit, detroit police chief james craig, detroit police department, detroit will breathe, fuck the police, james craig, jessica parker, legal aid, municipal budgets, municipal government, nonmotorized transportation, pedestrian fatalities, pedestrian safety, police, police abolition, police brutality, police brutality lawsuits, police departments, police reform, policing in the united states, prison abolition, prison reform, public funding, reform the police, safe mobility, safe streets, social justice, social safety net, social welfare, social work, social worker, social workers, traffic safety, traffic violence

We expect police to respond to, well, everything. And they’re not suited for it. Rethinking policing in the United States will require us to figure out alternatives for who is responding to what issue.

Public Health Public Safety Transit infrastructure

Lethal Projectiles: Car Culture, Gun Violence, and Police Shootings

April 19, 2021April 19, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments adam toledo, black lives matter, BLM, brian calley, brooklyn center, chicago, city government, department of transportation, detroit police, detroit police chief james craig, detroit will breathe, diane cross, gun violence in chicago, james craig, jeff cranson, lane miles, level-of-service, LoS, mdot, michigan department of transportation, municipal government, officer-involved shooting, police abolition, police abolition movement, police brutality, police brutality lawsuits, police reform, police shooting, police shootings, public health, public police, traffic violence, violence, what about chicago, what about gun violence in chicago

Matthew Lewis points out that departments of transportation and police departments are two of the least democratic institutions in American society right now– and are two of the biggest threats to public health.

Movements & Organizing Law

NLG Files Lawsuit Against the Detroit Police

April 12, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments black lives matter, BLM, chief james craig, david a. robinson, david robinson, detroit police, detroit police chief james craig, detroit police department, detroit will breathe, detroit will breathe lawsuit, james craig, legal observer, national lawyers guild, police brutality, police brutality lawsuits, police violence, protest, protest movements, tristan taylor

Attorney David A. Robinson and Detroit representatives of the National Lawyers’ Guild (NLG) held a press conference today in downtown

Public Safety Movements & Organizing

Nice To See You Again: DPD Back in Full Force

August 23, 2020October 23, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments black lives matter, BLM, Detroit, detroit police, detroit police chief james craig, detroit will breathe, hudson's site, james craig, mike duggan, national lawyers guild, police, police abolition, police brutality, police reform, shinola, violence

Detroit protests have been largely quiet since June. This changed last night when protesters downtown, challenging the new federal law enforcement intervention in Detroit being championed by Mike Duggan, Police Chief James Craig, and US Attorney General William Barr, were met with batons, pepper spray, and tear gas.

Detroit Public Safety

No Tear Gas at Sixth Night of Protests in Detroit; Journalists Again Assaulted

June 3, 2020June 3, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments ACLU, breonna taylor, chief craig, city of detroit, civil rights, Constitutional rights, Detroit, detroit police department, downtown detroit, DPD, east side, george floyd, gratiot, james craig, protest, public safety

While last night’s protest ended relatively peacefully, with no tear gas or rubber bullets, assaults of journalists continued in a troubling trend.