Detroit

In A Broke And Crumbling City, This Woman Is Building An Urban Paradise

June 23, 2016 Kate Abbey-Lambertz, www.huffingtonpost.com Create! Community, Detroit, Fair development

By Kate Abbey-Lambertz for The Huffington Post - DETROIT — In a neighborhood that has lost its school, library, streetlights, many businesses and a huge chunk of its population, one woman is transforming her half-abandoned block into a community hub, where there are books to borrow, people playing in the park and lights on in the darkness. Shamayim “Shu” Harris lives in a house on Avalon Street in Highland Park, a small city surrounded by Detroit. Blighted and broke, Highland Park faces challenges similar to Detroit’s, but lacks the public attention and private investment that has boosted Detroit in recent years.

40% Of Detroit Will Be Deprived Of Life Sustaining Water

May 19, 2016 Marsha Cole, www.blackagendareport.com Educate! Detroit, Human Rights, Water

By Marsha Cole for Black Agenda Report - The United States has no moral authority to speak of “human rights” as an American “value” when it systematically deprives Detroit’s Black poor population of water. “The Detroit Water and Sewerage Department has begun shutting off water to 3,000 people a week, and could soon cut off access to drinkable water for 150,000 Detroit residents.” Meanwhile, the city has decided not to disconnect businesses – or even a corporate-owned graveyard.

Detroit Public Schools Shut With Teachers In ‘Sickout’ Over Pay

May 3, 2016 Barbara Goldberg, www.reuters.com Resist! Detroit, Protests, Public schools, Teachers

By Barbara Goldberg for Reuters - Detroit Public Schools closed nearly all of its 97 schools on Monday as hundreds of teachers called in sick to protest the cash-strapped city’s revelation that it will soon run out of money to pay employees. The shutdown due to “teacher sickouts” was announced on the website for Michigan’s largest public school system with 45,786 students, which has been under state control since 2009. Detroit Federation of Teachers Interim President Ivy Bailey said in a statement on Sunday that the district was “effectively locking our members out of the classrooms”

In Detroit, Fighting Hopelessness With A Climate Plan

April 27, 2016 David J. Unger, www.cinsideclimatenews.org Create! Climate Change, Detroit

By David J. Unger for Inside Climate News - DETROIT, Mich.—As major cities across the globe begin to take a leading role in the world's response to climate change, one U.S. metropolis has a decidedly grassroots approach to preparing for a wetter, warmer world. In Detroit—a city that faces a myriad of pressing socioeconomic and environmental challenges—local residents are working on a plan to mitigate the long-term impacts of climate change. Unlike the climate action plans drafted by city governments in places like New York, Chicago and Boston, Detroit's green roadmap is spearheaded by the Detroit Climate Action Collaborative

“Stop Oppressing Us”: Detroit Teachers Speak

April 12, 2016 Eliza A. Webb, www.truth-out.org Resist! Detroit, Education, Schools, Teachers

By Eliza A. Webb for Truthout - A new investigation by the US Attorney's Office has uncovered evidence of long-lasting corruption within the Detroit Public Schools (DPS) system and has charged 12 current and former Detroit principals with fabricating invoices, evading taxes and taking $1 million in bribes and kickbacks from the district's vendors. This newly unearthed scandal is wholly unsurprising to the teachers of Detroit, who have seen corruption and injustice dominate the city's education system since 1999, when state-appointed emergency managers were first given the power to override Detroit's elected school board.

A Great National Sick-Out – It’s Past Time

March 20, 2016 Laura Flanders, http://www.lauraflanders.com Resist! Austerity, Detroit, Education, Schools

By Laura Flanders for the Laura Flanders Show. The teachers sent out pictures of something that’s had a hard time getting seen: the social cost of austerity.The teachers secured attention from at least one national candidate - Hillary Clinton who pointed out such conditions wouldn't be tolerated in more affluent places. Majority Republicans in Michigan's Legislature threatened new laws to make it easier to crack down on protesting workers. We’ll see what happens. Meanwhile, it’s worth reviewing how the Detroit schools got into such a fix. The system wasn't always broke. According to analysis by the Citizens Research Council, a Michigan based policy group, the Detroit schools were enjoying a surplus in the 1990s. Now, 41 cents of every dollar appropriated for students is being spent on servicing city debt.

Newsletter: Justice Takes A Lifetime

March 19, 2016 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.PopularResistance.org Newsletter #BlackLivesMatter, Baltimore, Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Chicago, Cleveland, Desegregation, Detroit, Donald Trump, Environmental Justice, Ferguson, Flint, Freddie Gray, Hillary Clinton, Incinerators, Inequality, Internet, Jeb Bush, Jim Crow, LAPD, Laquan McDonald, Los Angeles, Mass Incarceration, North Carolina, Prison Labor, Prisons, Privatization, Slavery, Student Activism, Tamir Rice, Wall Street, Water

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance. The #BlackLivesMatter movement continues to grow its power and have notable victories, but 600 hundred years of racial oppression, older than the nation itself, will not be rooted out quickly. The movement had a series of electoral and other victories this week. These victories for #BLM and their supporters are notable but problems still persist and the movement must continue to grow and get stronger. There are no quick fixes to a country that is crippled by its history of racism. We must all recognize that the work we are doing for racial, economic and environmental justice requires us to be persistent and uncompromising. achieve the transformational justice we seek will last our lifetimes – a marathon and not a sprint.

Flint & Detroit: The Failures Of Privatization And Non-Democracy

March 16, 2016 David Bacon, www.davidbaconrealitycheck.blogspot.com Educate! Detroit, Flint, Privatization, Water

By David Bacon for The Reality Check - In spite of the growing sense of disbelief and horror surrounding the lead contamination of drinking water in the Michigan city of Flint, at least one thing is clear: that the catastrophic levels of pollution and destruction are a direct result of the extreme policies pursued by the Michigan's right-wing leadership. A very conservative group has controlled Michigan since the election of Governor Rick Snyder and a Republican majority in its legislature in 2011.

Teachers Who Staged ‘Sick-Outs’ Declare Victory

March 3, 2016 Mario Vasquez, www.inthesetimes.com Resist! Detroit, Education, Protests

By Mario Vasquez for In These Times - Education activists cheered today as Darnell Earley officially stepped down from his position as emergency manager of Detroit Public Schools (DPS). His departure came after thousands of teachers staged rolling “sick-outs” to protest his role as the unelected head of the school system. Strikes by teachers and other municipal employees are illegal under Michigan law, but more than a dozen times this winter, groups of teachers called in sick to protest frozen wages, ballooning class sizes, decaying buildings and other conditions they say are the result of state-imposed austerity.

How Detroit Is Working to Change Food Desert Rep

January 28, 2016 Sherrell Dorsey, www.nextcity.org Create! Detroit, Food Access, Food Security

By Sherrell Dorsey for Next City - Mike Feinman owns and operates E&L Supermercado in Southwest Detroit. The grocery store has been in his family for three generations, and has supplied the surrounding community with a variety of Hispanic food offerings and farmers-market-fresh produce since the 1940s. Despite a much-debated reputation for food deserts (some point to not a lack of stores, but rather a lack of transportation available to help people access existing stores), Detroit has several indie grocers like E&L that have spent several decades feeding residents.

Detroit Schools In Session After Teacher Sick-Out Shutdown

January 22, 2016 Staff, www.AP.org Resist! Detroit, Education, Protests

By Staff of The Associated Press - DETROIT (AP) — Detroit Public Schools says all schools are in session a day after a massive sick-out by teachers kept tens of thousands of students at home. District spokeswoman Michelle Zdrodowski gave the update about Thursday's classes. Disgruntled Detroit educators have stepped up efforts to protest Gov. Rick Snyder's plans for the district, its ramshackle finances, dilapidated buildings, overcrowded classrooms and their low pay.

Detroit Teachers Shut Down 3 Schools In ‘Sick-Out’ Protest

December 8, 2015 Khalil AlHajal, www.mlive.com Resist! Detroit, Education, Protests

By Khalil AlHajal for Michigan Live - DETROIT, MI -- A group of teachers stayed home from work Tuesday in protest of longstanding state control over Detroit Public Schools, forcing the closure of three schools with their "sick-out" action. The teachers said they stayed home due to "Snyder flu," gathering with students for a brief demonstration against ongoing emergency management outside the Detroit School of Arts on Tuesday afternoon. State-appointed emergency managers have run the district since 2009, leaving the elected school board with little power, particularly after the passage of laws strengthening Michigan's financial emergency law in 2011 and 2012.

Former Detroit Officer Found Guilty In Videotaped Beating Of Black Man

November 24, 2015 Staff, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Detroit, police brutality

By Staff of The Huffington Post - DETROIT (AP) -- A white, former Detroit-area police officer was found guilty Thursday of assault and misconduct in the bloody beating of a black driver during a traffic stop that was captured on video. Wayne County jurors handed down the verdict in the case against William Melendez, who was charged in the January beating of Floyd Dent. Police stopped Dent, 58, in the Detroit suburb of Inkster for disregarding a stop sign, and dashcam video from a police vehicle shows Melendez punching him 16 times in the head. It wasn't until after WDIV-TV aired the footage in March that Melendez was fired.

Water Resistance Trial Underway In Detroit

November 19, 2015 Bill Quigley, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Detroit, Detroit water, Detroit water shut off, Human Rights

By Bill Quigley for Popular Resistance. A jury trial is underway in Detroit for human rights activists arrested for blocking trucks which were going to cutoff water to low-income families. On July 18, 2014, dozens of people successfully blocked the trucks of the Homrich Inc., a private wrecking company that the City of Detroit contracts with to carry out water shutoffs. The trucks were leaving to cutoff water for Detroiters who were more than $150 past due on payments. After an eight hour blockade nine people were arrested. Those on trial said civil disobedience was their only option to address the grave public health crisis of mass water shutoffs, since the City of Detroit was under emergency management, which effectively strips all elected officials of decision-making power. One of the people on trial is Bill Wylie-Kellermann, pastor of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Detroit. He told The Detroit News “It was, at the time, the last vestige of democracy in the city.” Defendant Marian Kramer of the Michigan Welfare Rights Organization and Highland Park Human Right Coalition highlighted what she sees as the irony of the City criminally charging and prosecuting defendants for nonviolent defense of Detroiters’ right to water.

Why A Not So Public Home Auction Could Devastate Detroit

October 7, 2015 Michele Oberholtzer, www.occupy.com Educate! Detroit, Foreclosure

By Michele Oberholtzer for Occupy - It’s Ebay on a city scale this fall in Detroit, with 25,000 properties up for sale starting Tuesday, Oct. 5 in the Wayne County Tax Foreclosure Auction. The largest known municipal foreclosure sale to date, the Detroit home sell-off could be a modern take on Manifest Destiny – luring would-be frontiersmen and speculators from across the world to try their hand at “buying Detroit.” But the fantasy of blank-slate real-estate is no truer now than it was in the days of forging West, because nearly a third of the properties being sold are occupied homes. Native Detroiters have little more to do with this auction than Native Americans had in the sanctioned theft of their land. Often, in fact, residents here are not even aware of the fact that their home is for sale.

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