Michigan

Governor Snyder Could Have Called Flint Emergency ‘At Any Time’

March 1, 2016 Nadia Prupis, www.commondreams.org Educate! Flint, Michigan, State of Emergency

By Nadia Prupis for Common Dreams - Michigan Governor Rick Snyder could have declared a state of emergency in Flint over its water contamination crisis months earlier than he did, according to new emails released Sunday that contradict the governor's defense of his delayed actions. Snyder, who declared a state of emergency in Flint and Genesee County on January 5—months after acknowledging there was lead in the region's public water supply—has repeatedly said he could not take action until local officials made a request, which Genesee County did on January 4.

8 Powerful Moments From Ryan Coogler’s #JusticeForFlint Event

February 29, 2016 Zeba Blay, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! Flint, Lead Poisoning, Michigan, Water Pollution

By Zeba Blay for The Huffington Post - The most important star-studded event taking place Sunday night wasn't the Oscars -- it was director Ryan Coogler's #JusticeForFlint charity concert. The event, which was held at the Whiting Auditorium in Flint, Michigan, helped to raise tens of thousands of dollars for residents affected by the Flint water crisis, and provided them with "a night of fun, relaxation, and entertainment." Below are just a few of the stand out moments from the show...

Who Decides: People Power Vs. Non-Elected Emergency Managers

February 27, 2016 Shea Howell, www.conversationsthatyouwillneverfinish.wordpress.com Resist! Flint, Lead Poisoning, Michigan, Water

By Shea Howell for The Boggs Blog - The toxic water in Flint has vividly brought to light the toxic consequences of right wing republican thinking that government should be run like a business. It has also shown us something about the poisoning of our own thinking. It took the poisoning of children to get the majority of people in America to recognize something profoundly ugly has been going on in Michigan. This is because our culture does not do well with complexity. We like our politicians loud, our heroes strong, our victims pure, and our villains beyond redemption.

Will Anyone Be Prosecuted In The Flint Water Crisis?

February 24, 2016 Staff, www.theconversation.com Resist! Flint, Michigan, Water Pollution

By Staff of The Conversation - The headlines were alarming. Traces of cancer-causing contaminants in New Orleans and Pittsburgh public drinking water supplies. Lead from water supply pipes in Boston tap water. In response, in 1974 Congress enacted the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), which was designed to protect public drinking water supplies. Forty years later, Congress has passed multiple amendments to the SDWA, and regulatory agencies have adopted complex and lengthy regulations designed to prevent crises like the catastrophe now occurring in Flint, Michigan. But Flint’s water is still undrinkable and dangerous.

Bridgeton, Flint Moms Join Forces Vs EPA

February 20, 2016 Staff, www.beyondnuclear.org Resist! EPA, Flint, Michigan

By Staff of Beyond Nuclear - As reported by Brian Kelly at CBS St. Louis, Just Moms STL from Bridgeton, Missouri and Water Warriors, including Water You Fight For in Flint, Michigan are standing in solidarity. They are demanding action from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy, regarding, respectively: a leaking radioactive waste dump in the flood plain of the Missouri River, upstream of drinking water intakes for metro St. Louis, now at risk from an underground garbage dump fire burning less than 1,000 feet away

Flint Residents Charged Highest Water Rates Across Country

February 18, 2016 Bryce Covert, www.thinkprogress.org Educate! Flint, Lead Poisoning, Michigan, Water

By Bryce Covert for Think Progress - Not only did Flint residents drink tap water contaminated with lead and other chemicals throughout 2015, but they were also paying the highest prices in the country to keep that poisoned water flowing through their pipes. A report released by Food & Water Watch on Tuesday confirmed what many residents had long suspected: that their water bills, averaging $140 a month, were the highest in the country. The group found that a Flint resident paid $864.32 a year for water in January 2015, about $500 more than what the typical family in the rest of the country paid for water from other public utilities and more than twice the rate paid in the state generally.

EPA’s Deliberate Poisoning Of Flint’s Children

February 12, 2016 Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, www.blackagendareport.com Educate! EPA, Flint, Lead Poisoning, Michigan

By Marsha Coleman-Adebayo for Black Agenda Report - Flint, Michigan, was declared a “sacrifice zone” because its majority Black and poor population’s “presence is no longer required and their lives are considered a hindrance to economic progress,” writes the author, who blew the whistle on EPA complicity in U.S. corporate poisoning of South African vanadium mine workers. The EPA is a serial criminal that has “utterly failed the Flint community and must be held accountable.” The first Congressional Hearing on the poisoning of predominately African-American and working class Flint, Michigan, residents took place Wednesday, February 3rd...

Flint’s Crisis Is About More Than Water

February 9, 2016 Chris Hedges, www.truthdig.com Educate! Flint, Michigan, Water, Water Pollution

By Chris Hedges for Truth Dig - What is in the mind of someone who knowingly poisons children and impairs their lives? Why did the politicians, regulators and bureaucrats who knew the water in Flint, Mich.,was toxic lie about the danger for months? What does it say about a society that is ruled by, and refuses to punish, those who willfully destroy the lives of children? The crisis in Flint is far more ominous than lead-contaminated water. It is symptomatic of the collapse of our democracy.

Flint Residents FINALLY Suing Government For Poisoning Them

February 3, 2016 Reagan Ali, www.countercurrentnews.com Resist! Flint, Lawsuit, Michigan, Water, Water Pollution

By Reagan Ali for Counter Current News - It’s not generally very easy to sue the government. But now a well known Baltimore attorney, William H. “Billy” Murphy Jr. — who recently won a $6.4 million settlement for the family of Freddie Gray — has filed a federal class-action lawsuit against state and local government officials in Flint, Michigan over the poisoning of the city’s drinking water. The city first monopolized the water – not allowing residents any choice in where they obtained their water services from – then they cut corners, and knowingly poisoned the city’s water supply, even while government officials had clean water shipped in for them.

FBI Joins Flint Drinking Water Investigation

February 3, 2016 Paul Egan, www.freep.com Resist! FBI, Flint, Michigan, Water, Water Pollution

By Paul Egan for Detroit Free Press - The FBI is now investigating the contamination of Flint’s drinking water, a man-made public health catastrophe, which has left an unknown number of Flint children and other residents poisoned by lead and resulted in state and federal emergency declarations. Gina Balaya, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit, told the Free Press Monday that federal prosecutors are “working with a multi-agency investigation team on the Flint water contamination matter, including the FBI, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, EPA's office of inspector general, and EPA's criminal investigation division."

10 Things They Won’t Tell You About Flint Water Tragedy

February 1, 2016 Michael Moore, www.ecowatch.com Educate! Corruption, Flint, Michigan, Water

By Michael Moore for Eco Watch - When the governor’s office discovered just how toxic the water was, they decided to keep quiet about it and covered up the extent of the damage being done to Flint’s residents, most notably the lead affecting the children, causing irreversible and permanent brain damage. Citizen activists uncovered these actions, and the governor now faces growing cries to resign or be arrested. Here are 10 things that you probably don’t know about this crisis because the media, having come to the story so late, can only process so much. But if you live in Flint or the State of Michigan as I do, you know all to well that what the greater public has been told only scratches the surface.

People Of Flint Call For Pro-Democracy Revolt To Save Poisoned City

January 28, 2016 Lauren McCauley, www.counterpunch.org Resist! Flint, Government, Michigan, Protest, Water

By Lauren McCauley for Common Dreams - Fed up with an administration whose policies caused the devastating water crisis and subsequent health epidemic, advocacy organizations and community members are calling for nothing less than a complete overhaul of the way government works in Michigan. On Tuesday, Flint residents met with leaders of the national NAACP to draw up a "15-point priority plan" for addressing the lead-tainted water crisis. Chief among their demands is the repeal of Michigan's contentious emergency manager law, which was enacted in 2011 under Gov. Rick Snyder.

EPA’s Lack Of Integrity Costing Children Of Flint Dearly

January 23, 2016 Marsha Coleman-Adebayo and Kevin Berends, www.theguardian.com Educate! Environment, Flint, Michigan, Water

By Marsha Coleman-Adebayo and Kevin Berends for The Guardian - Is it extreme to posit that local and state officials and the Environmental Protection Agency knowingly allowed the poisoning of tens of thousands of Flint residents? Perhaps. But it is irrefutable that they knew that residents – primarily African Americans and the working class – were drinking, bathing and cooking with poisonous water for six months before authorities warned them of risks. This story will not end well – lead poisoning is irreversible. There is little hope for Flint’s predominantly black children who have ingested, drunk or absorbed dangerous levels of lead.

Facing Calls To Resign & Pile Of Lawsuits, Snyder To Address Flint Crisis

January 21, 2016 Deirdre Fulton, www.commondreams.org Resist! Flint, Michigan, Protests, Water

By Deirdre Fulton for Common Dreams - Amid mounting calls for his resignation and arrest—and in the face of a growing collection of class action lawsuits in which he is named—Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder is expected to address the Flint water crisis in his State of the State address on Tuesday evening. In the third protest in as many days, approximately 60 demonstrators gathered outside Snyder's apartment in downtown Ann Arbor on Monday, chanting, "Justice for Flint! Arrest Rick Snyder!" A group of protesters is expected to return to the residence for a picket during Tuesday evening's speech, scheduled to take place at 7 pm.

Detroit Activists Provide Flint Residents Water In Contamination Crisis

January 20, 2016 Cassius Methyl, www.eraofwisdom.org Create! Activists, Flint, Michigan, Water

By Cassius Methyl for Era of Wisdom - Activist group New Era Detroit took thousands of bottles of water to Flint, Michigan on Sunday, successfully providing residents with clean drinking water in the face of an unprecedented water contamination disaster. Flint residents have been afflicted with the choices of drinking highly toxic water, not drinking water, or seeking water elsewhere as the people who created the problem have yet to offer an effective solution. Toxic lead was found in residents’ blood a month ago.

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