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Tag Archives: Rick Snyder
Poisoning Black Cities
They drowned New Orleans. Now they have poisoned Flint, Michigan. The corporate campaign to ethnically cleanse U.S. cities knows no bounds. Michigan’s emergency financial manager law is “part of Wall Street’s tool kit to starve, bulldoze, redline, over-price, oppressively police, and even … Continue reading
Posted in Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Empire, Environment, Health, Privatization, Racism, Social Control, society, State Crime
Tagged Flint, Genocide, Institutionalized Racism, Katrina, Michigan, NAACP, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Privitization, Rick Snyder, wall street
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People Over Politics: Michigan Militia Joins Michael Moore to Protest Flint Water Crisis
By Carey Wedler Source: Anti-Media The water crisis in Flint, Michigan has inspired an unlikely partnership: a local militia group is coordinating with outspoken liberal filmmaker Michael Moore to demand accountability and clean water for residents. Moore, a Flint native … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Corporate Crime, culture, Environment, Health, patriotism, society, State Crime
Tagged activism, EPA, Flint, Genesee County Volunteer Militia, Michael Moore, Rick Snyder
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War on the Poor Continues With Planned Pension Cuts in Detroit and Illinois
Yesterday Federal bankruptcy court judge Steven Rhodes ruled that Detroit is insolvent and eligible for a Chapter 9 debt restructuring. This gives the city the go-ahead to cut retirement benefits as part of its restructuring plan, despite pensions being explicitly … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, consciousness, Corporate Crime, Economics, Financial Crisis, Labor, Recession, Social Control, society, State Crime, Work
Tagged Class Warfare, Corporate Crime, Debt Restructuring, Detroit, Detroit bankruptcy, Detroit Institute of Arts, Greedy Banks, Illinois pension cuts, Judge Rhodes, Kevyn Orr, Michigan Court of Appeals, Pension cuts, Pension Plans, Pension Reform, Rick Snyder, Steven Rhodes
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American Apartheid Starts in Detroit
A recent op-ed from Glen Ford, executive editor of Black Agenda Report, describes the situation in Detroit as the nexus of a new American apartheid in which inhabitants of largely Black urban centers are denied meaningful votes and ability to … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Corporate Crime, Economics, Financial Crisis, History, Labor, Privatization, Racism, Recession, society, Uncategorized
Tagged 9/11 blackouts, Against Banks and Austerity, Black Agenda Report, Corporate Crime, Detroit, Detroit bankruptcy, economy, emergency manager law, Glen Ford, International People's Assembly, Kevyn Orr, privatization, recession, Rick Snyder, Robert Davis
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