ON TO LANSING FEB. 23! FOLLOW WISCONSIN’S LEAD! PROTEST IN DETROIT FEB. 22!

GO TO http://www.detnews.com/article/20110221/SCHOOLS/102210355/Michigan-orders-DPS-to-make-huge-cuts TO UNDERSTAND WHY WE NEED TO STORM LANSING FEB. 23. LANSING HAS ORDERED HALF OF DETROIT’S SCHOOLS CLOSED, AND INDICATED IT WILL APPOINT ANOTHER EFM AFTER BOBB LEAVES!

EDITOR: MICHIGAN GOVERNOR RICK SNYDER’S PLANS TO SLASH STATE REVENUE-SHARING FUNDS FOR MUNICIPALITIES, TAX PENSIONS, AND CUT FUNDS FOR SCHOOLS AND SOCIAL SERVICES ARE TIE-BARRED TO H.B. 4214,  WHICH WOULD ENABLE EMERGENCY FINANCIAL MANAGERS TO DISSOLVE CITIES AND SELL OFF THEIR ASSETS WITH VIRTUALLY NO RESTRICTIONS.

THE ATTACKS ON WORKING AND POOR PEOPLE IN MICHIGAN PARALLEL THE ATTACKS IN WISCONSIN AND OHIO: IT’S TIME FOR THE PEOPLE OF MICHIGAN TO JOIN THE BATTLE! GO TO LANSING FEB. 23! NO EXCUSES!

CLICK ON People’s rally registration formTO REGISTER FOR RALLY. EVERYONE FROM ALL OVER MICHIGAN SHOULD COME FROM THEIR OWN AREAS AS WELL!  FORWARD THIS NOTICE TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!  

CLICK ON http://voiceofdetroit.net/?p=4622 TO READ ABOUT FRIGHTENING EMERGENCY FINANCIAL MANAGER H.B. 4214. THIS BILL WILL FORCE MUNICIPALITIES AND SCHOOLS DISTRICTS ACROSS THE STATE  INTO RECEIVERSHIP! ASK YOUR LEGISLATOR TO WALK OUT AS DID DEMOCRATIC LEGISLATORS IN WISCONSIN IF IT APPEARS THIS FASCIST BILL WILL PASS. IT’S TIME FOR A PEOPLE’S WAR TO SAVE OUR FUTURES!

PICKET MAYOR BING’S ‘STATE OF THE CITY’ ADDRESS

Tues. February 22, 6pm, Fisher Music Center, Woodward & Selden  

Dictators Bing, Snyder, Bobb, Hitler

Bing has said he is “joined at the hip” with Gov. Rick Snyder, signed U.S. District Judge Sean Cox’s order diminishing Detroiters’ power over our Water Department, has slashed city jobs and services, and plans a “Trail of Tears” to drive poor Detroiters out of their homes (otherwise known as the “Detroit Works Project”). Robert Bobb is joined on Snyder’s other hip, demolishing the Detroit Public School system. Put them all together —?

Robert Bobb takes DPS Back to Court

 Robert Bobb’s attorneys will be in Judge Wendy Baxter’s court on Tuesday, February 22 at 11 am to seek a stay in her order that bars Bobb from exercising academic authority at DPS. The Judge is being asked to delay implementation of the order, presumably so that they can seek to overturn it in an appeals court. It appears that Bobb does not want to wait to see what happens with the new takeover law and does not want to take the chance of allowing the Board to function for even a few weeks.  

At 10:30 am that same morning is the proceeding in Baxter’s court to discuss the awarding of attorney’s fees to the Board attorneys. It is important for fees to be awarded so that the Board can continue to have legal representation.  Judge Baxter’s court is room 1421, Coleman A. Young Municipal Center at Woodward and Jefferson. 

Monica Lewis-Patrick, Public Policy Analyst-Legal, Council Member JoAnn Watson, Detroit City Council. Suite 1340, CAYMC (313) 224-7892 or 224-4535  Email: patrickm@detroitmi.gov