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NEWS
Carson in the Race
University alum Ben Carson
announced his candidacy
for president.
>> SEE PAGE 3
NEWS
Bentley Papers
Former congressman John
Dingell donated documents
to the Bentley Library.
>> SEE PAGE 2
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Ann Arbor residents protest police
brutality during ‘Workers’ Day’ rally
Protesters stand
in solidarity with
Ferguson in march
around the city
By ALLANA AHKTAR
Daily Staff Reporter
On May 1, which was Interna-
tional Workers’ Day in many parts
of the world, community members
protested for just policing policies
for laborers of color.
Members of the group Ann
Arbor to Ferguson organized
the event to commemorate the
Haymarket Affair in 1886, where
workers who were peacefully pro-
testing job conditions were beaten
and killed by the police in Chicago.
Rackham
students
Maryam
Aziz and Austin McCoy said hold-
ing the protest on International
Workers’ Day ties together broad-
er labor issues that impact both
workers and Black Americans.
“We decided to do May Day to
commemorate what happened in
the Haymarket Square riots back
in 1886 in Chicago, so we’re tying
this into how the labor of Black
lives doesn’t matter, how labor
activists have always been treated
as if their lives don’t matter either,”
Axis said. “So we’re tying to two
together to say you can’t say that
you can’t separate Black lives not
being valued from also the labor
of the working class and people of
color not being valued.”
McCoy said the protest was also
held to raise awareness about larg-
er issues regarding police brutality
against communities of color. He
mentioned specifically the killing
of Aura Rosser by the Ann Arbor
Police Department in November.
McCoy and Ann Arbor to Fer-
guson have been protesting and
raising awareness about the issue,
while also helping Rosser’s family,
since her death.
The protest also addressed
recent killings of unarmed Black
men, which have received national
media attention, such as the kill-
ing of Freddie Gray, who suffered
from a fatal spinal injury after
being arrested by Baltimore city
police officers.
See PROTEST, Page 3A
See MICHIGAN, Page 7
Michigan voters reject Proposal 1 tax initiative
GOVERNMENT
Initiative called for
1-percent increase on
sales tax to improve
infrastructure
By COLLEEN HARRISON and
CARLY NOAH
Summer News Editors
Tuesday night, a majority of
Michigan voters rejected Proposal
1, the initiative to increase sales tax
rates from 6 to 7 percent to raise
money for road repair.
Though votes continue to come
in, as of approximately 11:00 p.m,
more than 640,000 Michigan resi-
dents rejected the proposal, com-
prising 78 percent of the state’s
voting population. In Washtenaw
County, 5,237 voters, 65 percent of
voters in the county, rejected the
proposal.
Backed by Michigan Gov. Rick
Snyder (R), the initiative aimed
to repair Michigan’s roads and
upgrade other major infrastruc-
ture. Additionally, the proposal
aims to raise funds to improve
the state’s mass transit system,
increase the state’s Earned Income
Tax Credit and provide additional
resources to cities and schools.
The proposal, if passed, would
also have had significant implica-
tions for higher education funding.
The proposal requested the remov-
al of sales tax on fuel sales, which
currently funds schools through
the School Aid Fund and provides
funding to local governments.
Roughly 20 percent of the yearly
appropriation for public universi-
ties comes from the School Aid
Fund. Under the proposed bill,
public universities would no lon-
ger receive money from the fund,
through community colleges and
K-12 education providers would.
While the proposal had the
potential to impact government
appropriations to the University,
public universities in the state of
Michigan have only recently been
allocated funds from the School
Aid Fund. Historically, for state
BEN SCHECHTER/Daily
LEFT: Ypsilanti resident Satasade Roberts marches in remembrance of victims of police brutality at the May Day March for Justice in downtown Ann Arbor on Friday.
RIGHT: Protestors march against police brutality at the May Day March for Justice in downtown Ann Arbor on Friday.
SAN PHAM/Daily
OPINION
General Admission
The Daily’s opinion on
Detroit’s water shut-offs
>> SEE PAGE 4
ARTS
Mumford & Sons
Mixed reactions to the
group’s latest album
>> SEE PAGE 7
SPORTS
NFL Draft
Seven Wolverines picked
up by NFL teams
>> SEE PAGE 10
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