Let’s have fun with an absurd situation and make fun of the spineless leaders who made it possible!

We encourage all artists to explore the website as well as social media posts from recent months to find a topic that inspires them.

Consider including the natural world in your art: the elements, landscape, and lifeforms that will be harmed (and have already been harmed) by the Copperwood Mine atrocity.

Your cartoon need not focus on specific individuals. But you may consider having fun with / making fun of these bozos:

• Governor Whitmer — The ringleader of the entire plot to trample our democracy and enrich a foreign extractive company! She makes statements about how much she loves the Great Lakes, then helps advance the closest mine waste facilty to Lake Superior in history (henceforth known as the Whitmer Waste Basin). 
• The Crusty Ole Boys Club (Sen. Ed McBroom, Reps. Dave Prestin, Greg Markkanen, Parker Fairbairn, Karl Bohnak, and Cam Cavitt) — These fools pay lip service to “transparency” and “America First” through one side of their mouths, then use sneaky anti-democratic tactics to fund a Canadian mine at the worst location possible. Let them suffer your artistic wrath!
• The InvestUP mafia led by Marty Fittante — This so-called “non-profit” has a documented history of funneling taxpayer dollars into companies owned by founders and board members (see this video). They have played THE central role in manufacturing a caricature of Copperwood which has full community support, will follow stringent environmental standards, and will revitalize the economy. They have swindled the public and decisionmakers with the numbers pulled from their magic hat. They must be eviscerated without mercy.
• The Michigan Strategic Fund, a.k.a. the unelected royalty of Michigan, who have just set the extraordianrily dangerous precedent of awarding taxpayer dollars to foreign companies, completely beyond the purview of elected lawmakers. Among them, Quentin Messer is emperor, and he ain’t wearing any clothes.
• And of course, the folks at Highland Copper, such as CEO Barry O’Shea, are deserving of attention for obvious reasons. Remember when they falsely claimed there was “no aquatic life” in the stream where they want to discharge their contaminated wastewater? Remember how they said the mine would create 250 jobs, and just days before requestin $50M from Mama Michigan, suddenly it’s 380 jobs? Remember when Barry declared on TV that the tailings waste wouldn't be toxic simply because "mercury and arsenic are naturally occurring"?