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This Michigan House Candidate Wants to Bring Material Democracy To Detroit
Dennis Black is a revolutionary running for office in Michigan, who says we need grassroots activists to re-make the law.
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Urban Land Grab: Detroit's Foreclosure Future Hangs In the Balance At "Show Cause Hearings"
The hearings serve as an opportunity for the Wayne County Treasurer to enroll a fraction of people in payment plans – to pay off debt they shouldn’t be owing in the first place – and sends the rest packing.
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Two Detroits, Separate and Unequal: A Journey Across a City Divided
The foreclosure crisis of this century, fueled by racially discriminatory predatory lending, forced hundreds of thousands of residents out of the city.
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Is Detroit's Bankruptcy "Plan of Adjustment" The Latest Giveaway to Big Banks?
The plan submitted by the city's emergency manager protects banks, gives away public resources, and has no method to revitalize the city.
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Government Is Beat at Its Own Game at Detroit Foreclosure Auction
With a click of a button, over 6,000 Detroit properties were purchased Tuesday for just over $500 apiece – surprising local government, which had scripted a much different ending.
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As Detroit Bankruptcy Trial Closes, Protesters Announce March for Water Rights
Concluding the largest Chapter 9 bankruptcy case for a U.S. municipality, financial creditors and pension groups representing public workers clamored to demand payments.
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UN Officials Call Detroit’s Mass Water Shutoffs "Human Rights Violation"
Out of her $672 monthly disability check, Rochelle McCaskill spends $600 rent – leaving her unable to pay the city’s water bills, which have skyrocketed to more than twice the national average.
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The Road to Serfdom: American Feudalism Comes To Detroit
If the financiers who fueled the city's fiscal crisis get their way, Detroit citizens will no longer own any public goods but will be like serfs – subservient to a class of unaccountable corporate lords and their cronies in government.
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Protest Momentum Builds In Detroit As City Bankruptcy Trial Set To Begin
After successfully forcing officials to halt the water shut-offs, a new mass rally in Detroit is planned for Aug. 29, when the state-enforced city bankruptcy trial begins.
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Why Detroit's Water Crisis Is A Wake-Up Call To All Americans
We cannot credibly advocate for human rights abroad while failing to protect them at home – and the denial of water to Detroiters raises poignant questions about America’s ever-growing inequality.
