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45000 households is lots of folks with no water.<br>
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Far worse is threatened. The post office was asked to deliver those<br>
little sample boxes of Tide just to taunt them.<br>
<br>
Seems that 50% of Detroiters are poor, <br>
and the other half is unemployed.<br>
<br>
I suggest they all run like hell<br>
outa there and depart Detroit<br>
on the last train for Clarksville or <br>
San Antone or Funky Nassau, or anywhere.<br>
Ma'am, gimme 2 tickets to Out-a-here.<br>
<br>
Alternatively if they all showed up at the city hall with water
pistols<br>
and piles of dirty smelly socks it would make quite an impact.<br>
<br>
Maybe there should be a national campaign of <br>
"mail your dirty smelly socks to Detroit".<br>
<br>
Mo' them smelly sox for Mo'town.<br>
<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 07/29/2014 08:51 PM, David Johnson
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<div class="moz-forward-container"><big><big><big>I will be
interviewing a Woman from Detroit, who has been a
community fightback activist against the " Shock Doctrine
" tactics being used against the Working people of
Detroit, on the " World Labor Hour " radio program this
Saturday Aug. 2nd at 11:30 AM Central Time at <a
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href="http://www.weft.org">www.weft.org</a>.<br>
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David Johnson<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><big><big><big>There has been little if
anything on this list about the current very real
and very ominous situation in Detroit, where the
Detroit Water and Sewage Department shut off water
to 45,000 homes in May and is threatening far
worse. This extends and deepens an assault which
has included, among other things, a state takeover
and near-complete privatization of education;
shutting down or sharply cutting back essential
public services; cuts to city workers' pensions --
including to those already being received by
retirees. The unemployment rate in Detroit is now
about 50%, and the poverty rate is about 50% as
well. [For context: 50 years ago, Detroit had the
highest median income and the highest overall
workers' living standards of all U.S. cities.]</big></big></big>
<div><big><big><big> <br>
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<div><big><big><big>For the past few years, as they
systematically run through and exhaust the
various austerity measures that will siphon
still more into private coffers at the expense
of Detroit's workers and unemployed, Detroit
privatizers and financiers have increasingly
looked to privatizing Detroit's water
department. And so, the Detroit-area media now
claims that receiving an adequate amount of
water isn't a human right.<br>
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<div><big><big><big>The American Postal Workers Union,
at its national convention, has passed a
resolution against these water shutoffs. The
resolution contains some decent descriptive
information on the water shutoffs, as well as
language condemning it. That's a start, I
guess. But it doesn't really connect the water
shutoffs with the vicious austerity attacks
across the board in Michigan, orchestrated by
capital and coordinated by the state. Worse,
there's no attempt to organize -- or even to
call on labor to take the lead in organizing
-- a campaign of escalating action against
this naked act of war.</big></big></big></div>
<big><big><big> </big></big></big>
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<div><big><big><big>Here's the resolution as passed by
the APWU convention.</big></big></big></div>
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<div><big><big><big>Jack</big></big></big></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;"
align="center"><b><span style="font-size:16pt;">Resolution
on Detroit Water Shutoffs</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:16pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:16pt;">Whereas, </span></b><span
style="font-size:16pt;">the Detroit Water and
Sewerage Department shut off the water in 45,000
homes in May, and is continuing to shut off
people’s water, and </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:16pt;">Whereas, </span></b><span
style="font-size:16pt;">the DWSD has threatened
to cut off water to as many as 150,000 Detroit
residents, and</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:16pt;">Whereas, </span></b><span
style="font-size:16pt;">the United Nations has
condemned these actions as an affront to human
rights, and</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:16pt;">Whereas, </span></b><span
style="font-size:16pt;">Corporate entities that
are way behind on their water bills have not
faced water shutoffs while poor and working
families have been hard hit, and</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:16pt;">Whereas, </span></b><span
style="font-size:16pt;">the water rate for
Detroit residents is double the national
average, and</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:16pt;">Whereas, </span></b><span
style="font-size:16pt;">Families whose water was
turned off have had their children taken away as
they are deemed to be “unfit parents,” and</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:16pt;">Whereas, </span></b><span
style="font-size:16pt;">a private contractor is
being paid 5.6 million dollars by a supposedly
bankrupt city to turn off poor people’s water,
and</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:16pt;">Whereas, </span></b><span
style="font-size:16pt;">The 5.6 million dollars
paid to this contractor would pay for a whole
lot of poor people’s water bills, and</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:16pt;">Whereas, </span></b><span
style="font-size:16pt;">these actions are truly
inhumane, and</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:16pt;">Whereas, </span></b><span
style="font-size:16pt;">the labor movement
stands for fairness and justice throughout our
society, and,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:16pt;">Whereas, </span></b><span
style="font-size:16pt;">the APWU seeks a grand
alliance with the labor movement and the
community, therefore be it</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:16pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:16pt;">Resolved, </span></b><span
style="font-size:16pt;">that the American Postal
Workers Union joins progressive organizations in
calling for a moratorium on water shutoffs and
the restoration of water service in Detroit, and
be it further</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:16pt;">Resolved, </span></b><span
style="font-size:16pt;">that copies of this
resolution be sent to the AFL-CIO as well as to
Detroit’s May<a moz-do-not-send="true"
name="_GoBack"></a>or, Emergency Manager, and
Michigan’s Governor.</span></p>
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