Occupy Detroit Voices

North Carolina Central University staff and faculty tour Goldengate Restoration Project

Kathy Kenny teaches Urban Planning and Public Administration at NCCU. Mark Sutton is in the administration there and a Detroit native. The two heard about the Goldengate Restoration Project at a Brightmoore community meeting and had to see what was going on for themselves and share what they learned with their students.

general strike - 1 May 2012 - Detroit website

www.generalstrikedetroit.info/

could we include a link on the occupy Detroit website?

One Love In Detroit: #SOPAStrike, the time has come! →

bitshare:

Ok, so this is it folks. It’s about half hour past midnight EST my time, January 18, so my SOPA STRIKE starts now. This will be my last post for the next 24-hrs so that I can stand in solidarity to protest the SOPA and PIPA bills. I have added a huge message to this blog so that…

See the current odds of stopping PIPA - it doesn’t look good, need to move the undecided into the fight to stop censorship.

bankruptingamerica:

Via TheNewsHerald.com:

About 100 people showed up outside Robert and Debbie Henry’s house in the 13600 block of Helen Street before marching to Bank of America, 13763 North Line Road, in protest of the Henrys’ pending eviction.

Chants of “What do we want? Justice! When do we want it? Now!” and “Banks got bailed out; we got sold out!” and the like started on the lawn and continued on the march and in front of the bank.

The groups, made up of volunteers from the area including members of Occupy Detroit, Occupy Our Homes, United Auto Workers Local 600 and Moratorium Now departed the house at about 10:45 a.m. and walked northeast on Dix-Toledo to North Line Road.

Members of the crowd held up signs that read: “Stop corporate greed,” “Jobs with justice” and “Stop foreclosures in Michigan now.”

The Henrys announced last month that they are not going to leave their home when it is foreclosed upon and seized. The couple fell behind on their mortgage payments after Debbie Henry suffered a stroke in 2008.

She lost her job and the medical bills piled up. They requested a modification from Bank of America in 2009. They thought they were approved for one, but Bank of America spokeswoman Jumana Bauwens said in an email last month that they were placed on a forbearance program from July 2009 to January 2010.

proactivism:

• The economic crisis, pollution, global warming, corporations, pandemic viruses, organize crime, terrorism and so on… Are some examples that highlight how globalized and interdependent the world has become. We are all humans and we all live on planet earth. I believe that we definitively need to start thinking and acting outside our geographic boundaries, otherwise, the calamities that are affecting others will eventually affect us as well.

Why TIME Chose “The Protester” as Person of the Year 2011 (by LeakSourceArchive)

Ife Johari Uhuru and Malik Rahsaan, coordinator and founder of Occupy the Hood, whose mission is to bring people of color to protests. “It’s getting people involved, but also getting America involved – back involved – in our struggle, in our neighborhoods,” Rahsann said. “This movement chose me; I didn’t choose it.”

Photo by Peter Hapak for TIME

Slideshow accompanying the TIME article “TIME Person Of The Year: The Protester”

Click here for the Al Jazeera article on the start of Occupy The Hood from October 10, 2011. Featuring an interview of Ife Jahari Uhuru. This was the day of the gathering at Spirit of Hope Church that launched Occupy Detroit, with the first march on October 14 from The Spirit of Detroit to Grand Circus Park.

NPR today - sound off on TIME’s selection of The Protester as Person of the Year

Occupy the Future: The Double Binds of Economic and Racial Inequality →

peopleofcolor:

It is an age-old debate: which has more significance in terms of inequality—class or race? The Occupy movement has focused on gross economic inequality in the United States. But while economic inequality affects our life chances and well-being, we cannot ignore the…

ROJS-R welcomes guests Chris Savage of Eclectablog and Councilman Kermit Williams from the city of Pontiac for a roundtable discussion on the Michigan political climate and Election 2012.

Mr. Savage recently appeared on Fox 2-Detroit “Let It Rip” program for a discussion of Public Act #4-Michigan’s Emergency Manager Law & his blog has been references on MSNBC Rachel Maddow program.

We’re honored to have Councilman Kermit Williams of Pontiac on the ROJS Radio. Councilman Williams will discuss the Public Act#4 on Pontiac. This is a MUST LISTEN to interview.

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Michigan's emergency manager law disenfranchises African-Americans →

Thu Dec 8, 2011 9:49 PM EST

Chris Savage, a Michigan Democratic activist has been following the emergency manager law on his site, Eclectablog. He posted a chart of the places that either have an emergency manager already or could get one soon. Chris looked at the Census data and he looked at the towns on that list, and he realized when you put them together… that just over half the African-Americans in Michigan are on the verge of having no meaningful local democracy.

He writes:

Solving these municipalities’ problems does not start from the baseline that the locally-elected, democratically-elected officials are not a useful part of the process, to be shoved aside. Everything that happens should begin at the baseline that democracy is not just important, it’s essential.