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- Vice President Joe Biden speaks at a campaign rally at Renaissance High School in Detroit, MI. Biden criticizes Republican presumptive nominees Mitt Romney and Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI) for their economic and tax proposals. He says the Republican Party had lost touch with ordinary Americans, noting "Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party. This is not Mitt Romney's father's Republican Party." He praises Detroit and Michigan for their resilience and perseverance. Biden is introduced by Flint native and Olympian Claressa Shields, winner of the gold medal in women's boxing.
- Date Issued:
- 2012-08-22T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Michigan State University graduate Mark Woodhouse talks about growing up in urban Detroit with his father and suburban Ann Arbor with his mother. Woodhouse credits the environment in Ann Arbor with pushing him towards college and speculates on the apparent lack of desire for higher education among minorities. He says he enjoyed the integrated campus at MSU and talks about his freshman year and shares some of his experiences in dealing with his white dorm mates. Woodhouse explains why he majored in telecommunications after a physics class and an internship ended his aspirations of majoring in engineering. He calls telecommunications a really difficult field to break into and can't predict what he will be doing in ten years. Woodhouse hopes that he can work in film industry but says that he needs more family support to move to Los Angeles to make it happen.
- Date Issued:
- 1990-12-10T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Doug Earle, founding director of the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration (MIOSHA), talks about safety education and training grants MIOSHA has made to encourage safety programs, labor union influences on safety, and the difference between state and federal safety programs. Earle also describes his role in writing an OSHA bill, getting it through Congress, and some of the features the legislation might contain. The interview begins with Earle and retired Michigan State University Professor of Labor John Revitte talking about right to work legislation, Governor Snyder's effectiveness, Republican domination in state politics, East Lansing school district politics and the current state of labor education in Michigan.
- Date Issued:
- 2013-02-14T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Marsha talks about being one of only a few women on security, the dress code, gate duty, seniority, responding to accidents, and pulling crossing guard duty for the Verlinden elementary School. She discusses the tension and balance of representing management and keeping the plant safe and secure while being friendly and considerate of the UAW workers. Marsha discusses the effect the 1993 outsourcing of security to Pinkerton had on the officers.
- Date Issued:
- 2005-12-12T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Patricia Clark, poet and Professor of Writing at Grand Valley State University, explains how landscape, travel, and teaching relate to her writing. She also talks about the Grand Valley State University National Poetry Festival held on the GVSU campus. Clark is interviewed by Michigan State University Librarian Michael Rodriguez for the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writer Series.
- Date Issued:
- 2005-03-18T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Dona Jean describes working at other GM plants in Lansing before coming to Fisher in 1994. She discusses learning about unionism at Fisher and the start of her union and political activism. She talks about life on the second shift, family issues, lay-off, sexism, and meeting her husband at a union meeting. Dona Jean discusses being elected Recording Secretary and other accomplishments.
- Date Issued:
- 2005-12-06T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Purdue University doctoral candidate Brandon Ward delivers a talk entitled, "Confronting the Chrome-plated Wasteland: The UAW, Working-Class Environmentalism and the Urban Crisis in Detroit." Ward describes the history of labor unions and environmentalists working together on a working-class environmentalism and how it served as a precursor to the urban environmental justice movement. Focusing on the Detroit region, Ward explains the common cause made between environmentalists and industrial union members and their families, UAW leadership championing preservation and beautification efforts, and governmental initiatives. He answers questions from the audience. Ward is introduced by Michigan State University Professor John P. Beck. Part of the "Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives" Brown Bag series co-sponsored by the MSU School of Human Resources and Labor Relations, the MSU Museum, and co-sponsored by the Lansing Stewardship Community / Motorcities - the Automobile National Heritage Area. Held in the MSU Museum Auditorium.
- Date Issued:
- 2013-11-15T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- In a series of excerpted interviews intended for use in an episode of "Know Your City," Dr. Willis Dunbar interviews faculty and students associated with the Michigan Veteran's Vocational School at Western Michigan College. The school's director discusses the origins of the school, its educational programs and what veteran's pay to attend. Former student Edgar West discusses his training in the school's appliance repair program and how it prepared him for his his current job at the Sears Roebuck store in Lansing, MI. Dunbar also briefly interviews a number of current students who talk about their programs and where they are from.
- Date Issued:
- 1948-10-04T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Professor David Wiley, former Director of the Michigan State University African Studies Center, is interviewed by MSU Librarian Peter Limb and John Metzler, MSU Professor of Education. Wiley reflects on his youth in Harrisburg, Illinois and an upbringing of manual labor and familiarity with rural life which he says prepared him for his career studying Africa. Wiley describes attending Yale Divinity school and going to Africa on an internship to work on race issues. He talks about life in Rhodesia and Southern Africa, Apartheid, poverty, education, religion, and class. Wiley also explains why he came to MSU after teaching at the University of Wisconsin, appreciating the activism at MSU, and his relations with other faculty associated with the African Studies Center. Wiley describes a number of MSU initiatives in Africa, his activity in the anti-Apartheid movement and finally visiting a free South Africa. Part of the African Studies Interview Series sponsored by the MSU Libraries and the MSU African Studies Center.
- Date Issued:
- 2012-11-20T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Doreen describes being hired at Fisher in November 1984 after receiving a degree from MSU. She expresses surprise at the diversity and at the male dominated environment. Doreen talks about the stress on her marriage, the lack of control over ones job, and her naivety about factory life. She remarks about the number of college-educated people working in the plant. Doreen talks about the Suggestions Plan and her nontraditional job assignment.
- Date Issued:
- 2005-12-22T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection