Victory in Detroit Water Struggle
A protest at the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department in March demanding the Water Affordability Plan be adopted. In June, the attorneys for the Water Department signed off on the implementation of the Water Affordability Plan. The plan's backers are now bringing in a consultant paid by the city to implement the plan. It is now part of a budget of $5 million which has been set aside each year. Organizations like Michigan Welfare Rights, Sweetwater Alliance, Call 'em Out and others will have to constantly monitor the situation. It is a victory for people. It shows what organization, education and struggle will net us. We have to tighten our ranks and continue to stay in the trenches to have any quality of life services out of the city of Detroit, which is continually going toward privatization of all public services.
New film chronicles struggle of Water Warriors
"I had no idea that we would be engaged in this horrific fight to have water acknowledged as a basic human right." -- Maureen Taylor, State Chair, Michigan Welfare Rights Organization
"Water Warriors" is a new film from independent filmmaker Liz Miller about Highland Park, Michigan residents' determination to fight water privatization. For more information, go to http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/6/water_warriors.
Invite speakers to your campus about the life or death struggle for water in America. Call Speakers for a New America at 773-486-3551 or email info@speakersforanewamerica.com.
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