This last month has shown America that society will gladly tolerate vigilante violence, provided a vigilante chooses the right target.
Detroit water crisis
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Shutoffs Continue As People of Detroit Fight for Water As A Human Right, Part II
The activists working hardest against the water crisis in Detroit are high school students, college professors, priests and volunteers – all disrupting a system that side-stepped popular votes.
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The Truth About the Detroit Water Shutoffs
Ever since the City of Detroit started shutting off water to low-income residents last summer, city officials have maintained that they're simply responding to Detroiters’ failure to pay their bills – but now it's looking like that's not the case.
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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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People Mobilize Against Corporate Water Grabs From New Jersey to Detroit to Portland
New Jersey became the latest state to subvert democracy by authorizing the fast-track sale or lease of water utilities without public notice, comment or approval.
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Ireland Rises: Fed Up with Austerity, Nation Mobilizes Against Water Costs
Mass countrywide protests on Human Rights Day aim to prevent what is seen as double taxation on water for an already cash-strapped populace.
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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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Pay Rent or Drink Water: The Human Rights Crisis in Detroit Escalates
Despite mass protests, the emergency management water shutoffs in Detroit have resumed – even as UN experts call the water disconnects "contrary to human rights" and activists decry them as "genocide."
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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.
