Author Archives: Diane Bukowski

Stripping Detroit’s workers of their modest pensions will kill middle class Most pensions are $19,000 year; $30,000 a year for police and firefighters Culprits are sky-high financial costs, corporate subsidies, tax loopholes Detroit bankruptcy caused by same dynamics creating inequality … Continue reading →

AL WILSON’S SONG “THE SNAKE” IN VIDEO ABOVE IS AN APT ALLEGORICAL REFERENCE TO WALL STREET BANKS’ ROLE IN DETROIT.  $350 million loan from Barclay’s to pay off other criminal banks at issue Former Councilwoman Sharon McPhail was present when … Continue reading →

Hearing Dec. 20 on Illitch stadium DDA approval; project 61% public $$ Tax abatement for developers in Griswold evictions, separately tied to Gilbert Hearings on closures of historic Oakman, Davis Aerospace schools not set  By Diane Bukowski  December 15, 2013  … Continue reading →

Is Europe Ready For Reparations? CARICOM Is! December 11, 2013 The idea of reparations for slavery has been circulating in the Caribbean for some time. But now activists are trying to put some critical mass to it by calling formally … Continue reading →

By Abayomi Azikiwe (Photos and videos below added by Diane Bukowski and Kenny Snodgrass of Voice of Detroit.) December 11, 2013 Nelson Mandela’s death has drawn responses from throughout the U.S. and the world. To oppressed and working people, Mandela … Continue reading →

UBS, BARCLAYS DODGE 4.3 BILLION EU FINES FOR RATE-RIGGING By Elena Logutenkova Dec 4, 2013 7:59 AM ET (VOD editor: UBS is a chief perpetrator of the predatory and likely criminal  $2.28 billion Pension Obligation Certificates loan foisted on Detroit in 2005-06. Neither … Continue reading →

Detroit Residents Say No To Bankruptcy! Federal Judge Rhodes Say Yes! – – A No Struggle, No Development Production!  Published Dec. 3, 2o13 By Kenny Snodgrass, Activist, Photographer, Videographer, Author of 1} From Victimization To Empowerment… www.trafford.com/07-0913  eBook available at … Continue reading →

Kilpatrick’s CFO Sean Werdlow engineered deal, then hired by lender SBS, recently promoted to SBS COO EM Orr cited deal as key factor in city’s crisis Detroit defaulted after 2008 economic crash Kilpatrick in prison, why not Werdlow, UBS, SBS, … Continue reading →

From Rashad Robinson, ColorOfChange.org (info@colorofchange.org) November 26, 2013 Did you hear about how Walmart is “helping” workers? An Ohio Walmart was caught holding a canned food drive for its own underpaid employees, who don’t make enough to afford Thanksgiving dinner.1 … Continue reading →

  AlterNet / By Les Leopold Nov. 25, 2013 Transforming poorer neighborhoods into desirable real estate for the new elites often requires getting rid of the poor: jail becomes the new home for many. VOD: This article is particularly germane … Continue reading →