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Detroit Works project violates state law

Citizens’ District Councils not involved as law requires; CDC leader Gwen Mingo recalls Brush Park urban removal terror    By Ron Seigel   DETROIT – Some who attended Mayor Dave Bing’s community forums on his “Detroit Works” plan were skeptical of … Continue reading

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Bing’s Detroit Works “Advisory” Task Force

 Corporate, private foundation leaders and realtors dominate list    By Diane Bukowski   CHAIR: Bishop Charles Ellis, Greater Grace Temple   Mayor Dave Bing held his first “community forum” on “restructuring” Detroit at Ellis’s palatial temple at Seven Mile and … Continue reading

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Solidarity with Chicago school sit-in!

From the Michigan Emergency Committee Against War and Injustice (MECAWI)  Dozens of parents, students and members of the community, organized by the Whittier Parents’ Committee, have been occupying the Whittier Dual Language School’s field house, in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago. … Continue reading

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COUNCIL CONSIDERS CUTS TO HOMELESS, SENIORS, YOUTH, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIMS

  CDBG hearing brings protests By Diane Bukowski  DETROIT – Advocates for non-profit organizations that serve the homeless, youth, seniors, domestic violence victims and others protested  recommendations to cut funds to their programs during a Sept 21 City Council hearing.. … Continue reading

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Inferno on Moenart Street not a ‘natural disaster, according to residents and video

   From the Committee Against Utility Shutoffs, wsws.org/caus Click Inferno on Moenart Street to access the video on Youtube. This footage of the September 7 fires in the Moenart Street area of Detroit ( see link to video above) was taken by … Continue reading

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CLASS ACTION HEARING OCT. 14 ON 80,000 ILLEGAL FORECLOSURES

  Rev. David Bullock speaks at press conference on illegal foreclosures, Rev. Rowe at his left, attorney Palmore and plaintiff Yvonne Cross at his right Plaintiffs say county employees never authorized to certify sheriff’s deeds By Diane Bukowski  DETROIT – … Continue reading

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African-American charges discrimination against non-lawyer plaintiffs in court system

FROM: CORNELL E. SQUIRES TO: Chief Justice Marilyn Kelly MICHGAN SUPREME COURT Dear Chief Justice Kelly :   My civil lawsuit that was filed in Wayne County Circuit Court on August 12, 2009, now that a year have passed, I have … Continue reading

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Charter Commission: speakers debate handing PLD over to DTE; Myers-Phillips victorious

By Marshall Powell, from Detroit Uncovered Detroit soon will jettison its Public Lighting Department, according to a city hall insider.  “Detroit will be out of the public lighting business by the time your business is done,” Charles Beckham told Detroit … Continue reading

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DTE, Worthy launch legal vendetta against “energy thieves”

 DTE is the real criminal, thief and murderer By Jerry White 15 September 2010 The Wayne County prosecutor’s office, operating on behalf of and in conjunction with DTE Energy, is pursuing charges against a Detroit landlord and his handyman for … Continue reading

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City-Wide PICKET Finney High School Tues. Sept. 21, 3:15-5pm STOP ROB BOBB’S REIGN OF CHAOS AND DESTRUCTION 

  Teachers, workers and students shut down DPS in 2001 to protest in Lansing; they stopped then Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s plan for charter schools Stop dismantling DPS—Defend Public Education as a Right! Stop Cheating Our Students Out of Their Education  … Continue reading

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