
AADL Talks To: Jim Forrester, Former Activist and Founder, Partners Press, Inc.

In this episode, AADL Talks To Jim Forrester. Jim came to the University of Michigan as a student in 1966 and he has lived in Ann Arbor ever since, retiring after running a successful printing business for 30 years. As a student, Jim wrote for the Michigan Daily, participated in anti-war protests, and was involved with both the Students for a Democratic Society and Ann Arbor's Human Rights Party. Jim reflects on this period in Ann Arbor history and discusses some of the changes he's witnessed at the city and county level over the past five decades.

JCC Conversations | Fems for Dems Julie Campbell-Bode and Lori Goldman
Interview with Julie Campbell-Bode and Lori Goldman of Fems for Dems. Fems for Dems is an awesome citizen activist group that had a major impact in the 2020 election. The New York Times cited them 5 times last year because of their amazing work. Julie and Lori are funny, irreverent and inspiring. Learn from them what you can do to make a difference now and in future elections.
5th anniversary not happy one

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Ed Shaffran - Citizen Of The Year Finalist, January 1999 Photographer: Alan Warren

Year:
1999
Ann Arbor News, January 24, 1999
Caption:
Ed Shaffran has pushed improvements in Ann Arbor parking structures as chairman of the Downtown Development Authority.
DDA leader embodies the idea of citizen activist

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William MacFall dies

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AACHM Oral History: Shirley Beckley
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Shirley Beckley was born on July 30, 1942. She was raised by her mother on Wall St. and attended Jones School, Mack School, and Bach Schools in Ann Arbor. Shirley started as a housing manager for the Ann Arbor Housing Commission, later becoming housing director in Lansing and Muskegon. She reminisces about working at Jacobson’s, dances at the Dunbar Center, businesses on Fourth Avenue and Ann Streets, and tense racial incidents in the schools. Shirley continues to be deeply involved in social justice issues at the local level.
Memories: Priest's Spirit Guides Home For Pregnant Women

Friends Remember Wheeler

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AADL Productions Podcast: Bring It Back, Take It Forward Conference
Bring It Back, Take It Forward (BIBTIF), a 3-day conference celebrating 50 years of activism in southeast Michigan, will take place March 12-14, 2010. In this podcast, we talk with two of the conference organizers, Elizabeth Gonzalez and Jim Toy. Gonzalez, a graduate student in the UM School of Social Work, and Toy, a veteran activist and founding member of the University's Lesbian-Gay Male Programs Office in 1971, reflect on the achievements and challenges of activism in the late 1960s and early 1970s, as well as their hopes for the conference and the future of the progressive movement.