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Occupied Detroit Free Press - Detroit Water Workers Strike
Workers at the Detroit system that provides water to most of Southeast Michigan walked out early Sunday, Sept. 30. The board that oversees the water department plans to eliminate 81% of about 2,000 jobs at one of the nation’s largest water and sewer utilities, which serves 40% of Michigan’s population over a 1,000 square miles. The Detroit [...]
Occupied Detroit Free Press – “Reports: Police visit Goldengate Project”
Residents of Detroit’s Goldengate neighborhood reported Tuesday that police visited it and ticketed some of the people who are living in abandoned houses they helped make habitable as part of the Goldengate Restoration Project, project member Erik Shelley said. Shelley, who wasn’t in the neighborhood at the time but spoke to people who were, said [...]
Occupied Detroit Free Press – “Occupy Detroit’s Goldengate Restoration Project”
Occupy Detroit’s Goldengate Restoration Project has seen new life with the warm weather. New residents have moved into the Gold House (formerly the Cat house), the Brick house, the Church house and the newly named Mexican Village house. Mars’ bike shop is putting kids on wheels and the plants are in the ground of [...]
Occupied Detroit Free Press – “The Philadelphia Experiment”
When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you – pull your beard, flick your face – to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don’t know how to handle [...]
Occupied Detroit Free Press – Police chief’s message on Detroit financial crisis
Detroit police Chief Ralph Godbee uses this YouTube post to prepare officers for reduced standards of living and working under the city’s consent agreement with the state of Michigan. Godbee urges all members of the force to accept reduced wages and benefits so that he won’t have to lay off any more officers. “There will [...]