Past Issues
Issue 17 :
Oct 26, 2025
Michigan’s Great Lakes represent 20 percent of the world’s surface fresh water supply. A major spill from pipeline 5 could contaminate all of it. Enbridge has already operated for five years illegally ignoring Gov. Whitmire’s order to shit down. Now Enbridge is proposing a tunnel construction to contain pipeline 5 under the Mackinaw Straights in case of spills. Let’s call it for what it is— corporate greed at the expense of our clean water and habitat.
Issue 16 :
Sept 14, 2025
A city built for cars puts pedestrians, wheel chair users and bicyclists in danger. It suppresses our downtown economy and disproportionately negatively effects the lower income in our community.
This issue focuses on Strong Towns, a nationally org with an active Lansing chapter, working to create a city where anyone can feel safe on the road and have walkable access to a grocery store. Radical, I know…
Issue 15 :
Aug 31, 2025
This week’s issue is a summary of the rapid response training hosted here in Lansing by GR Rapid Response to ICE. They shared with us an incident in Grand Rapids where ICE was showing up a local elementary school to use children as bait in order to arrest parents.
ICE’s budget is now larger than most of the world’s militaries. We’re seeing them arrest without due process. We’ve seen them deport children. We’ve seen them opening defy our nations courts to illegally deport over 250 men to a maximum-security mega-prison in El Salvador…
Issue 14 :
Aug 17, 2025
Imagine you have a disability that requires use of a wheelchair and makes it hard to work. You spend years filing and re-filing to get on either SSI or SSDI. When you finally get approved, you start looking for a home only to be unable to find one you can enter safely, let alone navigate in. This is because though 15% of Michiganders require mobility devices only 1% of homes are wheelchair accessible. Unable to find such a home, you are forced to buy a home you cannot even yet use the bathroom in and pay for the renovations yourself…
Issue 13 :
Aug 3, 2025
If you are reading this you are probably already aware that Lansing intended to use the courts to sweep an encampment. Instead of providing with residents of Dietrich Park the very minimum to service the city of Lansing intended to sue the property owners to force the houseless of their land leaving the residents with no where to go and setting a terrifying precedent. This is all happening on the heels of Trump’s latest executive order to allow forced institutionalization of the U.S.’s homeless population into an already overfilled and under supported behavioral health system…
Issue 12 :
Jul 20, 2025
The Lansing Primary for mayor and half of city council is August 5th. Last week’s issue focused on Mutual Aid, the practice of offering mutual community care to fill the cracks where systemic inequalities have failed us all.
Participation in local government elections is the best way we can directly combat those inequalities at their source.
While rights and protections are being striped away on a federal level seemingly on a weekly basis, it is more important than ever to have local civil servants in power who can advocate for equitable and just protections.
Issue 11 :
Jul 6, 2025
With the passing of Trump’s sweeping domestic policy bill, we know by design the poorest among us are going to suffer the most. Perhaps more than ever before, our leaders have made it clear they don’t give a shit about providing the most basic of human rights; the right to medical care, healthy food, housing, clean air and an education.
Now more than ever is the time to invest in Mutual Care. This doesn’t mean charity, but rather the praxis of recognizing that our society will only ever be as safe for any of us as it is for those struggling the most…
Issue 10 :
June 22, 2025
In a striking turn of events Trump has dropped bombs on Iranian nuclear sites, thus confirming our government’s loyalty to Israel, a nation actively seeking the annihilation of the Palestinian people through the targeted execution of their children.
What’s more, they are using our money to do it.
Please consider joining Palestine Solidarity Grand Rapids this week (6/26-6/30) in their March against Genocide to uplift the struggle of children, bring attention to the media and raise money for amazing and worthy causes…
Issue 9 :
June 8, 2025
I think many of us in the queer community have experienced abandoning the religious practices of our childhoods in favor of pursuing safer spaces where we could choose to be ourselves freely. This divide is so prevalent that we hear terms like "the religious right," but we know this is only a simplification of the full spectrum of the queer experience.
This issue highlights 3 queer community members who have held onto their faith, not as separate from but as part of their queer identities and the experience of a mom fighting to make her church inclusive.
Issue 8 :
May 25, 2025
Every person needs a place to live and despite the majority of us being just one emergency away from homelessness, the city would like us to imagine those without housing to be experiencing the effects of some kind of moral failing.
In reality, it is Lansing that is failing it’s constituents by failing to prevent our current affordability crisis. Similarly to a child moving the food around on her plate, Lansing would rather dangerously displace our homeless populations than actually offer any housing solution for them.
Issue 7 :
May 11, 2025
I’ve noticed that for many of us, our daily jobs feel small and sometimes meaningless in the face of the current political crisis. “How can I be expected to do customer service while people are being taken off the street?”
Caregivers can’t afford to check out. They have to continue doing the seemingly mundane tasks of taking care of someone else all while living the news along with the rest of us.
This week I asked four caregivers “What does it feel like to be a caregiver right now? What feels especially hard? Where are you finding hope? What do you wish more people understood about the experience?”
Issue 6:
April 26, 2025
It’s impossible to ignore the constitutional crisis currently inflicted on our country in regards to the thousands of documented, undocumented, mixed status and even U.S. citizens being rapidly deported without due process.
It seems our leaders think they can get away with this by targeting our black and brown neighbors. Immigrants and refugees are human. Immigrants and refugees make our country better. Immigrants and refugees have been fighting for too long alone and it’s time for the rest of us to share the load.
Issue 5:
April 12, 2025
This zine was created to showcase community resources in the Lansing area to remind us all that we are not alone. It seems like every day that we’re seeing more and more scary things coming out of the White House. It is my belief that this is by design. The Trump Administration wants us to become disheartened. They want us to think Trump is so powerful that we shouldn’t even try. If you are subscribed to this zine, I think you’re the kind of person that can see that he’s full of shit.
The longer I’ve worked on this zine, the more I have the privilege of seeing what an incredible place Lansing is full of resources and magical people doing the work with love, care and commitment to sustained resistance.
Issue 4:
March 28, 2025
This week’s edition was created specifically to be distributed at that rally as a means to connect isolated students to peers fighting for the same goals, promote student protest events and voices and most importantly to help students know they aren’t alone.
It did not disappoint. There was singing, there were chants and there were spectacular student speakers, some of which had been previously arrested for their protests.
Even if you yourself are not a MSU Student, there is so much hope to be gleamed from reading about their efforts and this week’s interview was a pleasure filled with empathy, clarity and honesty about how it feels to be a young student right now.
Issue 3:
March 15, 2025
It took three issues but this week’s zine is closer the form I dreamed of than any previous; that of a zine created for and by the community.
Check out “It’s Worth It” to read excerpt of an anonymous interview by a community member about her experience living in Lansing as a Trans woman and what resistance looks like to her. Thank you again for your honesty and generosity.
You will also find a two page break down focusing on The Allen Center, a place-based nonprofit organization that has been serving Lansing's Eastside since 1999.
Issue 2:
March 1, 2025
When working on this week’s issue I hit a wall. The information was coming faster than I could update. I was grinding my wheels, setting aside more and more time to write, while meanwhile creating a zine that felt further and further from its goal; to help people, to connect them, and to aid in the fight against tyranny.
The truth of the matter is that this war is being waged by our attention spans. People learn what the government is doing through the media so if you overwhelm the media all at once no coherent opposition can emerge. Instead of circling back and identifying the wins, it keeps us constantly outraged, constantly afraid and oftentimes it seems, constantly exhausted.
Issue 1:
Feb 16, 2025
Leave no room for doubt that Lansing is a city that opposes tyranny and protects its neighbors.