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Detroit Water Brigade
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Ireland Rises: Fed Up with Austerity, Nation Mobilizes Against Water Costs
Mass countrywide protests on Human Rights Day aim to prevent what is seen as double taxation on water for an already cash-strapped populace.
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As Detroit Bankruptcy Trial Closes, Protesters Announce March for Water Rights
Concluding the largest Chapter 9 bankruptcy case for a U.S. municipality, financial creditors and pension groups representing public workers clamored to demand payments.
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Detroiters and Water Activists Call on Bankruptcy Judge to End the Shutoffs
Community leaders, activists and residents affected by this summer's water shutoffs in Detroit are rallying at the Federal Bankruptcy Court on Monday to demand an immediate Water Affordability Plan.
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The Road to Serfdom: American Feudalism Comes To Detroit
If the financiers who fueled the city's fiscal crisis get their way, Detroit citizens will no longer own any public goods but will be like serfs – subservient to a class of unaccountable corporate lords and their cronies in government.
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Why Detroit's Water Crisis Is A Wake-Up Call To All Americans
We cannot credibly advocate for human rights abroad while failing to protect them at home – and the denial of water to Detroiters raises poignant questions about America’s ever-growing inequality.
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Detroit's Water Shutoffs – And a Rising Resistance Movement
A few days after thousands marched on downtown Detroit last weekend, the city suspended mass water shutoffs for 15 days – leaving more than 15,000 households already disconnected.
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Detroiters Put Bodies on the Line to Stop Privatization of Their Water
The Reverend Bill Wylie-Kellerman sat down with nine others blocking the entrance of the facility where Homrich Wrecking’s water shutoff trucks were set to leave for the day.
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Detroit Water Crisis Escalates, and UN Declares Violation of Human Rights
Demanding that Detroit restore water to all residents and end the shutoffs, the People’s Water Board has called water a human right and a part of the commons – "held in the public trust free of privatization."
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Apartheid in Detroit: Water For Corporations, Not For People
Residents with $150 delinquent water bills are having the tap shut off, denying them a basic human right while prominent Detroit corporations with much larger delinquent water bills are being left alone.
