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Ann Arbor teen who fought “anti”-bully bill takes on another “Bully” issue

By on March 1, 2012 in Interview, Uncategorized

Look out world, here comes Katy Butler. Again.

Last November, I wrote about an amazing teenager from Ann Arbor named Katy Butler (HERE and HERE.) She and her friend Carson Borbely put a petition on Change.org to try to force legislative change on what became known as the “License to Bully Bill”.

Well, Katy is back at it. Because she has been such an activist on the issue of bullying, starting at the tender age of 16 and continuing now that she’s 17, she is very well-informed about the issue. She recently found out about a new documentary film called “BULLY” that follows several teens who are dealing with bullies and reveals the impact this has on them and their family and friends.…


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Troy, Michigan Mayor Janice Daniels doubles down on homophobic stupid

By on January 10, 2012 in Uncategorized

As Tony Trupiano asked on his Facebook page, “How the the hell was [Janice Daniels] elected?” From the Detroit Free Press:

Troy Mayor Janice Daniels, lambasted at a City Council meeting last month for calling gay people “queers” on her Facebook page, is embroiled in another controversy about gay people — this time involving students from Troy High School.

While discussing plans for a forum on bullying and suicide, Daniels told students she wanted to invite “a panel of psychologists who would testify that homosexuality is a mental disease,” said Skye Curtis, 17, a senior and co-president of the Gay-Straight Alliance at the school.

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State Education Board member ties schools of choice to bullying: Allow bullies to drive kids out – UPDATED

By on November 29, 2011 in Education

You have to hand it to the Republicans who are hell-bent on destroying the public school systems through what they dishonestly call the “schools of choice” initiative, they are nothing if not creative. This label is dishonest because the reality is that the “choice” they mention is only available to those with the resources to afford it. If you can afford to send your kid across town (including transportation to and from school), you could be described as having a “choice”. If not? Well, no choice for you. And that doesn’t even speak to the issue of funneling tax monies to private, for-profit schools or to religious schools.…


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Update on Ann Arbor teens’ anti-bullying petition

By on November 22, 2011 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Michigan Republicans

Last week, I wrote about Carson Borbely & Katy Butler, two inspiring Ann Arbor teens who have done something tangible and important to combat bullying in Michigan. Fighting back against a Senate-passed “License to Bully” bill that claims to be “anti-bullying”, the created a petition at Change.org. When I wrote my piece last Thursday, the petition had a bit over 53,000 signatures. Today, only five days later, it has over 55,000.

Katy and Carson are also beginning to get noticed. Shortly after my piece (along with some targeting tweeting and emails), AnnArbor.com did a piece about them. So did the Macomb Patch.…


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Two Ann Arbor teens help to create legislative change on Michigan’s “License to Bully” bill – UPDATED x2

By on November 17, 2011 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Michigan Republicans

Last week, I wrote a piece for A2Politico about the so-called “anti”-bullying bill passed by the Michigan Senate a couple of weeks ago that is not only not anti-bullying but, in fact, is generally known as “The License to Bully Bill”. In my article, I mentioned two Ann Arbor teenagers who stepped up to respond in a powerful way.

Two Ann Arbor-area students, Katy Butler and Carson Borbely, created a petition on the online petition website Change.org. Their petition is currently the most popular on the site and has picked up well over 500 signatures just in the hour or so that it has taken me to write this piece.…

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Anti-bullying advocate “promoting the nat’l homosexual agenda” in class?

By on December 4, 2010 in Uncategorized

Several weeks ago, Howell teacher and teachers’ union president Jay McDowell got into a verbal altercation with two of his economics class students. It happened on the nationwide Spirit Day (October 20th), a day in which awareness of anti-gay bullying issues is raised by supporters wearing purple t-shirts. McDowell wore a purple shirt himself.

In the classroom, one of McDowell’s students chose that day to wear a Confederate flag belt buckle. McDowell asked her to remove it. An argument ensued between this student and another, Daniel Glowacki. Glowacki asked why her belt buckle was any different than the purple shirts worn by McDowell and others and, after a heated exchange, McDowell asked the two students to leave his room.…


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