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Posted by Canada To The Re on July Thu 24th 7:52 PM - Never Expires
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  1.  
  2.  Politicians in Detroit approved a $5.6 million contract to
  3. Homrich Inc. in order to shut down public access to water.
  4.  
  5. Why not pay the water bills instead, you fascist morons!?
  6.  
  7. Canada To The Rescue!
  8.  
  9. Canada To The Rescue? Will Imported Water Embarrass City Of Detroit
  10. Into Stopping Shutoffs?
  11.  
  12. July 23, 2014 9:51 PM
  13.  
  14. http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2014/07/23/canada-to-the-rescue-will-water-imported-from-canadian-citizens-embarrass-city-of-detroit-into-stopping-water-shutoffs/
  15.  
  16.  To protest thousands of residential service shutoffs by Detroit�s water
  17. department, a group from Windsor is planning to bring about 250 gallons
  18. of water across the border.
  19.  
  20.  The Windsor chapter of the Council of Canadians says the water will
  21. be carried in a convoy Thursday through the Detroit-Windsor tunnel to
  22. a rally outside Detroit City Hall around 4 p.m.
  23.  
  24.  Organizer Randy Emerson says it�s a symbolic move, but one he hopes
  25. can pay dividends.
  26.  
  27.  �We decided that we should bring water over to them and that way kind
  28. of embarrass the city and the state,� he said, �so that maybe they
  29. would stop shutting off the water for these people because water is
  30. a right.�
  31.  
  32.  Emerson says at least a dozen vehicles will bring fifty, five-gallon
  33. jugs of water.
  34.  
  35.  �The fact that the Canadians have to come over to help out Americans,�
  36. he noted, �that should embarrass the federal government, or the state
  37. government or the city of Detroit to either help out or stop these
  38. water shutoffs.�
  39.  
  40. His only fear is that they�ll have trouble getting through customs.
  41.  
  42. But as Emerson says, it�s only water.
  43.    
  44.    
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  46.    
  47.    
  48. Homrich Inc Shutting Off Water Lines to American Civilians
  49.  
  50. https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/07/10-5
  51.  
  52.  Detroit residents on Thursday launched a direct action to halt
  53. the city's mass shut-off of water to thousands of households,
  54. physically blocking a private corporation from turning off the tap.
  55.  
  56.  Carrying a banner that read "Stop the Water Shut-offs," ten city
  57. residents nonviolently obstructed the entrance to Homrich Inc. � the
  58. private company that was handed a $5.6 million deal from the city
  59. to shut off water services to residences that are behind on their
  60. bills, according to the protest organizers. They were surrounded
  61. during the civil disobedience by a crowd of over 40 supporters
  62. chanting "If the water don't flow, the trucks don't go."
  63.  
  64.  The protesters held the entrance for more than an hour and a half
  65. before all ten were arrested, Bill Wylie-Kellermann, a Detroit
  66. pastor who was among the arrestees, told Common Dreams. "We feel
  67. that it's really time to intensify and escalate the resistance
  68. to the water shutoffs and emergency management," Wylie-Kellermann
  69. declared.
  70.  
  71.  The Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD) announced in June
  72. that it is escalating its disconnections of water services to
  73. residences that have fallen behind on their bills to 3,000 a month.
  74. In a city devastated by unemployment and foreclosure crises,
  75. nearly half of all residents are unable to pay, and the city's
  76. continual increase in water rates is not helping. Thousands of
  77. people have already had their water turned off, including many
  78. who were disconnected long before this June escalation, and tens
  79. of thousands more are next.
  80.  
  81.  Concerned organizations say that the shut-offs have so far unleashed
  82. a human rights crisis that devastates low-income communities of color.
  83. UN experts agree: in response to a complaint from a coalition of
  84. organizations, a UN panel condemned the city last month for violating
  85. the "human right to water," with the UN expert on the right to
  86. adequate housing warning the shut-offs "may be discriminatory"
  87. against African Americans.
  88.  
  89.  Sarah Coffey of the People's Water Board and Water Rights Hotline
  90. put it succinctly to in an interview with Common Dreams: "The only
  91. reason they are getting away with this is because this is a majority
  92. black city."
  93.  
  94.  According to Coffey, the disconnections are likely part of a plan,
  95. driven by emergency manager Kevyn Orr, to get rid of bad debt in order
  96. to privatize the DWSD. Orr's rush to declare bankruptcy for the city,
  97. impose austerity, and gut public services including schools�all
  98. backed by republican Governor Rick Snyder�has left many residents
  99. convinced the water shut-offs are just one more step in a plan to
  100. displace Detroit communities and gentrify the city.
  101.  
  102.  Coffey said that the Thursday morning protest was met with a "spirit
  103. of solidarity" from supporters yet violence from the police, who
  104. injured two of the arrestees, who hail from organizations including
  105. the People's Water Board, Michigan Welfare Rights, Detroiters Resisting
  106. Emergency Management, and the Detroit Water Brigade. All of those
  107. arrested have since been released.
  108.  
  109.  This is not the first protest of its kind in Detroit. Wylie-Kellermann
  110. credited Charity Hicks, long-time Detroit organizer for food, water,
  111. and racial justice, for 'sparking' the protest and said the action was
  112. "in her honor." Hicks, who passed away this week, was arrested this
  113. spring for resisting the shut-off of her home's water.
  114.  
  115.  Wylie-Kellermann said he is hopeful mass protests will grow from here,
  116. including a July 18 rally expected by organizers to draw thousands of
  117. people from across the state and country. "We are hoping this is really
  118. just the first step in a series of nonviolent direct actions that
  119. intensify and broaden the resistance," he said.
  120.  
  121.  According to Coffey, the outcome of the struggle for the "human right
  122. to water" has broad implications because "Wall Street is using Detroit
  123. to create a blueprint for future cities." Coffey added, "The issue of
  124. whether water should be a commodity or part of the commons raises the
  125. question of what kind of future we want."

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