Stay Safe! Stay Ready! Stay Woke!
Riverwise is a community-led/driven/created social justice magazine emerging from organizing, arts, culture & liberation work being done in Detroit and beyond.
Issue 28 Fall
2025
- Megan Douglass Editorial – Definitely Not Written by ChatGPT: Staying Grounded In The Cloud
- Join the Movement, Change the Narrative, Protect Independent, Community-Led Art, Literature, Journalism, and Education!
- Hadley Pritchard: ShotSpotter Is Not The Solution: Detroit Needs Community Investment, Not Corporate Control
- Community Win! Citizens’ Right to Community Input Over Government Surveillance Affirmed in Appeals Court Victory
- Creative non-fiction by Michelle Martinez: I got “ADDD” AKA “AI Don’t Do the Damn Dishes”
- Dr. Chanel Beebe: All Eyes On Us
- Rev. Lucious Conway: Keeping the Gate: Why I Won’t Trade Freedom for a False Sense of Safety
- Annika Tutzer: How can we make A.I work for the benefit of humanity?
- One Single Rose®: Flykus /fly-koos/
- James Perkinson: Can AI Be Embraced As Kin?
- John Telford: The 13th Hour – A Disquieting Quatrain
- N.A. Laster: Back To Sticks
- Dain Evans: AI Is Coming For Jobs, And We Need Systems Change To Survive It
- Kevin L. Knowles: Sally Phone
- Victoria Camille and Minister Eric Blount: You Watch Us, We Watch You: Detroit’s Pending Police Video Release Ordinance
- Jocie Osika: What Technology Can’t Do: Community in Craft
- Photo Essay By Valerie Jean Blakely: 2nd Annual WSU Student Walk Out for Palestine
- Lauren Fardig-Diop: Curfews Won’t Keep Our Kids Safe
- Community. Leadership. Revolution: Sparking Change in Superior Township
- Josmine Evans: Sweet Potatoes and Peanuts – A Harvest of Resilience
- Stop the Data Center: No Data Centers Nowhere-Fighting The Data Center Death Cult In Ypsilanti and Beyond
- Kailee Hanson Poem: Sick
- Jesse Deerinwater: SMNRs, climate, AI data centers and US imperialism
- Mike Mosher: Art – Cornelius Phelps was beaten by Michigan State Police at a traffic stop
- Deborah Tien: The Golden Throne
- Alex B. Hill: Map: Path of Least Surveillance through Greater Downtown Detroit
- Alana Scolari: The Brave Little Bot
- Megan Douglass: Rooted by Rebellion: A Reflection and Review of the memoir Hurt Baby Hurt by William Walter Scott III
- The Spirit of Mandela Coalition: NATIONAL MOBILIZATION AGAINST GENOCIDES
- Rich Feldman: This Technological Moment: The Opportunities and Dangers for Today, Tomorrow, Ourselves and The Planet
- Bryce Grubbs: Exploring Abolitionist Tech Futures with ALF Services
- Stay Safe! Stay Ready! Stay Woke!
- Migra Watch: Nosotros Nos Protegemos
