RALLY VS. BIG 3 AT DETROIT AUTO SHOW SUN. JAN. 11 @2:30 PM; THEY GOT $14.4B...
______________________________________________________________ U.S. Pres. Barack Obama celebrates auto industry “rescue” at temporarily closed Ford plant in Wayne, MI. Jan 7, 2015. FEDERAL GOVT. LOST...
View ArticleTHE EXPANDING SURVEILLANCE STATE
Steven Malik Shelton By Steven Malik Shelton January 8, 2014 Last February, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan announced an initiative to outfit Detroit Department of Transportation buses with video...
View ArticleDETROIT RETIREES ANNOUNCE FEDERAL APPEAL OF BANKRUPTCY, CALL FOR MASSIVE SUPPORT
Retirees and others pack hall for press conference announcing DAREA appeal of Detroit bankruptcy, held Jan. 8, 2015. DAREA coordinates legal appeal to U.S. District Court, intense organizing,...
View Article‘JE NE SUIS PAS CHARLIE’— FREE SPEECH HAS LIMITS: NO RACISM, SEXISM,...
Je Suis Charlie poster in Paris; the so-called “free speech” movement has grown into a movement against Muslims and internet freedom as well. As a Muslim I’m fed up with the hypocrisy of the free...
View ArticleALONZO LONG, JR., 22, BOUND OVER ON ALL CHARGES IN DETROIT FORECLOSED HOME...
Alonzo Long, Jr. enters court Jan. 6, 2015. Prosecution adds two felony murder charges Judge bases decision on some evidence not presented in open court Threat Management expert opinion Campaign for...
View ArticleSUBURBAN ROBOCOPS LIKE THOSE INVOLVED IN JACKSON BEATING ON THE LOOSE IN...
Ron Scott (with bullhorn) of Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality, Inc. and others protest police beating of Andrew Jackson, Jr. outside Grosse Pointe Park police HQ Jan. 14, 2015. Protest Jan....
View ArticleSTEVE CONN WINS DFT PRESIDENCY AFTER DECADES-LONG BATTLE
Detroit teachers walked out of classes in 2001, rallied successfully in Lansing to stop charter schools expansion bill. More actions like this are needed now. Community/Union rally Tuesday, Jan. 20, 4...
View ArticleVIDEO SHOWS NJ RESIDENT JERAME REID RAISED HANDS, THEN SHOT BY BRIDGETON COPS...
B Michael Brown’s body lies in Ferguson, MO street Aug. 9, 2014 after the unarmed 18-year-old was killed by cop Darren Wilson. It stayed there for over four hours in the summer heat until the blood...
View ArticleMEDIA AID POLICE HUNT FOR FERGUSON ‘LOOTERS;’ USDOJ ‘NOT LIKELY’ TO INDICT...
Global media has shown video of ‘looting,’ along with individual still photos, asking people to contact police for rewards USDOJ “will not likely go forward with civil rights charges” against Wilson...
View ArticleDETROIT WORKERS, RETIREES FILING BRIEFS IN 8 APPEALS OF CITY’S BANKRUPTCY PLAN
Packed DAREA meeting Jan. 21, 2015 at St. Matthew’s and St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church in Detroit. Current and retired employees mobilizing people, legal and financial support for their cases Next...
View ArticleDFT’S STEVE CONN, BOARD, TEACHERS RENEW FIGHT TO SAVE DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS,...
Detroit Federation of Teachers (DFT) Mass Membership Meeting Sunday, Jan. 25, 2 pm, Adoba Hotel in Dearborn (former Hyatt Hotel at Fairlane) DFT Executive VP Ivy Bailey From Ivy Bailey, DFT executive...
View ArticleREV PINKNEY NOW IN MARQUETTE PRISON; TRIAL MOTIONS HEARING TUES. FEB. 24, 1...
Detroiters including Marcina Cole (center) and David Sole (l) belatedly celebrate Rev. Pinkney’s birthday at rally Nov. 17, as Pinkney wipes tear away. His trial began on his birthday, Oct. 27, 2014....
View ArticleCOPS KILL GIRLS: CHARGES DISMISSED IN DEATH OF AIYANA JONES, 7; TWO TEENS...
Aiyana Stanley-Jones, 7 Jessica Hernandez, 17 Kristiana Coignard, 17 “Don’t ever doubt we are still in this struggle for Aiyana Monay Stanley-Jones”—grandmother Mertilla Jones “So much wickedness...
View ArticleRETIREES CARRY ON THE BATTLE FOR DETROIT, APPEALING GENOCIDAL BANKRUPTCY RULING
Members of DAREA sign appeal of Detroit bankruptcy plan of confirmation on Jan. 27, 2015. Detroit bankruptcy appeals briefs contend: Michigan state constitution AND PA 436 protect public...
View ArticleLANDLORD DENIES DTE EMERGENCY ACCESS TO RESTORE POWER TO ACTIVIST BAXTER...
Baxter Jones and friend Pat Driscoll leaving apartment late Feb. 5 to take him to a hotel, after landlord refused DTE access to restore his power. Disabled walkway inaccessible, Jones misses...
View ArticleTHE COVERT ORIGINS OF ISIS: UNITED STATES, CIA IN LIBYA, SYRIA, IRAQ,...
Evidence exposing who put ISIS in power, and how it was done: U.S., CIA. VOD editor: this article is especially pertinent now as the mainstream media builds up hysteria about ISIS executions of...
View ArticleOBAMA TO SEND HIS NEW WAR POWERS REQUEST TO CAPITOL HILL
Protesters condemn U.S. intervention everywhere. By DEB RIECHMANN February 10, 2015 WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is expected — as early as Tuesday — to ask Congress for new war powers,...
View ArticleINTERNATIONAL NETWORK JOINS LAWSUIT TO FIGHT DETROIT WATER SHUT-OFFS
Protesters block the entrance to contractor Homrich to stop water shut-offs July 18, 2014. Activist Baxter Jones, at right in front of banner, was first of nine to be arrested. Photo: Diane Bukowski...
View ArticleTELL DUGGAN: STOP DESTRUCTION OF DETROIT AT STATE OF THE CITY ADDRESS TUES....
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