The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
Detroiters Resisting Emergency Management
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Shutoffs Continue As The People of Detroit Fight for Water As a Human Right
“A lot of people in Detroit are choosing water over medicine, water over rent, water over new shoes for their kids,” said Shea Howell, a member of Detroiters Resisting Emergency Management.
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Justice Must Flow: Economic Democracy and the Water Commons
The water crisis has nothing to do with the actual availability of water – the culprit is local communities’ inability to control their wealth, their common resources and their institutions of lending and credit.
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Apartheid in Detroit: Water For Corporations, Not For People
Residents with $150 delinquent water bills are having the tap shut off, denying them a basic human right while prominent Detroit corporations with much larger delinquent water bills are being left alone.
