About 60 people gathered at
the Ann Arbor Federal Building
on Monday and marched in
protest of President Donald
Trump’s national emergency
declaration.
Organized
by
local organization Stop Trump
Ann Arbor, the protest was one
of 262 noontime Presidents
Day protests around the nation
coordinated by MoveOn, a
national organization focusing
on education and advocacy
through petitions, supporting
campaigns
and
mobilizing
events.
On their website, MoveOn
referred to the protests as
“rapid-response events.”
“Donald Trump has declared
a
#FakeNationalEmergency
– an illegal power grab from
an unhinged man to push his
racist,
dangerous
policies,”
the MoveOn website reads.
“We’re
mobilizing
rapid-
response events on Presidents
Day – Monday, 2/18 – against
Trump’s fake crisis and racist
deportation force and to stand
with immigrant, Muslim, and
Black and brown communities
to stop Trump’s dangerous and
illegal power grab.”
On Friday, Trump declared
a
national
emergency
to
obtain funding Congress had
refused him in their latest
spending bill for a wall along
the U.S.-Mexico border. The
national
emergency
would
provide access to about $8
billion in total with about 7
billion pulling from military
construction
projects,
counter-narcotics
programs,
and a Treasury Department
asset forfeiture, which is more
than the $5.7 billion Trump
had originally requested from
Congress.
Trump
already
received
$1.3
billion
from
Congress to build more fencing
on the border.
The
move
has
divided
Republicans lawmakers, some
of whom joined the Democrats
in opposing Trump’s national
emergency declaration. The
administration is also facing
legal pushback, much of which
focuses on Trump’s Friday
remarks about the declaration.
“I could do the wall over
a longer period of time,””
Trump said Friday. ““I didn’t
need to do this. But I’d rather
do it much faster.””
Jessica
Prozinski,
co-founder of Stop Trump
Ann Arbor and co-organizer
of Monday’s protest, explained
one goal of the protest was
to impel Congress to reject
Trump’s
declaration
and
override any potential veto.
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
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On Monday night, the
Ford School of Public Policy
hosted
U.S.
Rep.
Debbie
Dingell,
D-Mich.,
and
Fred
Upton,
R-Mich.,
to
participate in an installment
of the Conversations Across
Difference
Policy
Talks
speaker series. The event
was hosted at Annenberg
Auditorium in the Public
Policy School. Titled “Voices
from Across the Aisle,” the
event was co-sponsored by
the Program in Practical
Policy
Engagement
and
student
organization
WeListen as a means of
discussing
the
political
divide in American politics.
The audience consisted
of about 200 Ann Arbor
residents,
ranging
from
local
professionals
and
community
members
to
University
of
Michigan
faculty
members
and
students.
The
event
concluded with a reception
where
during
which
all
of
the
attendees
were
encouraged
to
stay
and
mingle with the speakers
as a means of encouraging
further discussion in a less
formal setting. Michael Barr,
dean of the Public Policy
School,
briefly
addressed
the audience at the start of
the night to introduce the
premise of the forum.
“Congresswoman Dingell
and
Congressman
Upton
… do represent different
parties
and
different
constituencies, parties and
peoples
with
sometimes
different
ideologies
and
different policy positions,”
Barr
said.
“This
session
will look at the manner by
which such divergence helps
or sometimes hinders the
democratic process, in how
we can work better together.
The University of Michigan
Spectrum Center collaborated
with the Rackham Graduate
School and medical student
organization
OutMD
Monday to host a panel of
LGBTQ-affirming
medical
professionals. During the event
held at Rackham Auditorium,
University faculty and health
service professionals discussed
their experiences with LGBTQ-
identifying patients and offered
advice to undergraduate and
graduate
students
seeking
reliable and friendly health care.
OutMD
is
a
student
organization within the Medical
School for LGBTQ-identifying
medical students and their
allies. OutMD helped organize
the event and aims to spread
the word regarding disparities
LGBTQ patients face within
medicine and health care.
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Mika LaVaque-Manty, LSA Honors
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director
and
associate
professor of political science, addressed
the ways in which rule-following
affects one’s life during the LSA Student
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“Your life, Your rules” Monday night.
LaVaque-Manty
used
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background in philosophy to examine
the ideas of multiple philosophers
including Mencius, Aristotle and
Immanuel Kant. In his presentation,
LaVaque-Manty explained how the
actions a student takes may have a
major effect on their future and said
students should consider the reasoning
behind their decisions.
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suggest that there are other reasons
beyond instrumental reasons, or that
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not think in terms of instrumental
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MDining
student
employees were not paid
overtime nor given any extra
compensation for their work
during
the
polar
vortex
when all events and classes
were canceled due to severe
cold
weather,
University
spokesman Rick Fitzgerald
said.
Jennifer
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LSA senior and MDining
employee, said MDining was
conflicted
about
whether
to stay open during the
polar vortex. She said she
ultimately decided to work
during those two days to
make it easier for residents
to eat, despite knowing she
would not get extra pay.
“Given our dining hall
size, we could have easily
just closed and said ‘you guys
can go eat at South Quad or
wherever else you want to
eat,’” she said. “But we didn’t.
We opened up both days and
it went well.”
From Jan. 30 to the morning
of Feb. 1, the University
issued
an
emergency
reduction of operations as a
result of frigid, below-zero
temperatures across the
Midwest. The polar vortex,
which killed more than 20
people around the country,
set record temperature wlows
for Michigan and resulted in
the closure of many schools,
businesses and universities.
The last time the University
canceled classes and other
campus events was due to a
snowstorm in February 2015.
In the past 40 years, the
University has only closed
four times.
Fitzgerald
said
because
student employees are not
“critical employees,” they do
not have to report to work
when there is an emergency
reduction of operations. He
also said this status prevents
student
employees
from
receiving
extra
benefits
during
an
emergency
reduction
of
operations,
which
is
what
occurred
during the polar vortex.
“Specific
to
MDining,
student
employees
are
not designated as ‘critical
employees,’” Fitzgerald said.
“So they are not required
to work when there is a
reduction in operations. If
they choose to work those
days, they are paid their
regular hourly rate.”
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Ford Prof. Brendan Nyhan, Congresswoman Debbie Dingell, and Congressman Fred Upton discuss how they work towards unity in Congress despite differing opinions
at the Voices from Across the Aisle Policy Talk at Ford Monday.
Stop Trump Ann Arbor protests
the President’s national emergency
Activist group addresses issues of immigration enforcement through “rapid-response events”
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