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Detroit water shutoffs
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Protest Momentum Builds In Detroit As City Bankruptcy Trial Set To Begin
After successfully forcing officials to halt the water shut-offs, a new mass rally in Detroit is planned for Aug. 29, when the state-enforced city bankruptcy trial begins.
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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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National Call To Action In Detroit: Link Arms To Stop the Water Shutoffs
The aggressive foreclosures and water shut-offs are a deliberate scheme to shock the population, drive long-time residents out of the city center, seize property and gentrify downtown Detroit and the waterfront.
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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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Opening the Taps: Detroit’s Fight for Public Water Is Also the Nation’s
The solution to Detroit's water crisis isn't privatization – which has a terrible track record in the U.S. and around the world – but a more equitable water policy that looks out for all citizens.
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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."
