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OPINION ............................... 
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CLASSIFIEDS.........................
SUDOKU................................
SPORTS..................................

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

CELEBRATING OUR ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY- FIFTH YEAR OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM
Thursday, May 7, 2015
Ann Arbor, MI

