Last year, Yellow journalistic Detroit Free Press leaked a bit of truth accidentally :
"For
more than 35 years, _a federal judge has overseen (as in overseer on a plantation -CB)
the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department_ (emphasis added -CB), but
with the end of a lawsuit ...that power now shifts to Detroit's
emergency manager.
U.S. District Judge Sean Cox closed out a pollution lawsuit filed in 1977, ruling that the department had mostly complied with federal pollution laws. The ruling means the department won't have to seek court permission for major decisions or spend millions on lawyers to keep the court apprised of its work. The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality will regulate pollution discharges into the Detroit River. "http://www.freep.com/article/20130328/NEWS05/303280152/36-years-later-lawsuit-against-Detroit-water-department-finally-comes-to-end
U.S. District Judge Sean Cox closed out a pollution lawsuit filed in 1977, ruling that the department had mostly complied with federal pollution laws. The ruling means the department won't have to seek court permission for major decisions or spend millions on lawyers to keep the court apprised of its work. The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality will regulate pollution discharges into the Detroit River. "http://www.freep.com/article/20130328/NEWS05/303280152/36-years-later-lawsuit-against-Detroit-water-department-finally-comes-to-end
Charles Brown So, all these years the suburbs, Oakland , Macomb , Wayne, had been complaining about the water rates , those water rates were ultimately controlled by white federal judge, not the Black Mayors and City Councils of Detroit , as was the big lie going around the suburbs all that time.
Back at the 1977 takeover, Judge Feikens made a public statement that Black were not ready to run a water department yet. Mayor Young had been elected the first Black Mayor of Detroit in 1973, and was re-elected in 1977. So, Feikens racist statement was directed at Mayor Young personally. Federal Judge Anna Diggs-Taylor, publicly reprimanded her colleague Feikens for the racist statement.
The lawsuit was only about sewerage. Judge Feikens took it upon himself to run the water part , too.
Therefore, Feikens was the real head of the DWSD from then for most of the next 36 years. So, the buck stops at Feikens court bench, and Cox's, for failure to solve any problems with Detroit Water and Sewerage Department.
Are Detroiters getting Justice ?
Charles Brown Victor Mercado, the former director of DWSD who was just convicted, I believe, was an employee of the federal court, not the City of Detroit. His salary was something like $360,000.00 per year; but Kilpatrick didn't decide to pay him that much. Feikens did.
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Support is growing from labor, community, clergy, and environmental activists, along with those attending the national Netroots Nation convention in Detroit this week for a march and rally Friday July 18 to call for an immediate moratorium on the water shutoffs.
National Nurses United, the lead sponsor of the event, and the dozens of groups and activists organizations supporting the action, call the shutoff a public health emergency and a major violation of human rights. NNU is the largest U.S. organization of nurses.
Among the broad and growing list of local, national, and international endorsers are the International Union United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW AFL-CIO), Michigan Sierra Club, People’s Water Board, Food and Water Watch, Netroots Nation, Metropolitan Detroit AFL-CIO, Michigan Nurses Association, Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions, We the People of Detroit, Moratorium Now!,and Michigan Welfare Rights Organization.
The event will also call for a tax on Wall Street speculation which could raise hundreds of billions of dollars for communities like Detroit which have been pummeled by recession, unemployment, and other pain directly linked to the Wall Street meltdown and plunder of major urban areas. The Robin Hood tax on Wall Street trading, is embodied in HR 1579, sponsored by Rep. Keith Ellison, to rebuild Detroit and the rest of America.
Rally supporters charge that Gov. Rick Snyder and his handpicked emergency manager officials are enforcing the water shutoffs to promote the privatization of the public water department, the latest gift, they say, to Wall Street financial interests who have bankrupted the city.
Other endorsers of the march and rally include: Utility Workers Union of America, Friends of the Earth U.S., AFSCME Council 25, CWA Local 400, National Action Network-Michigan, UAW Local 600, Detroit Eviction Defense, Detroiters Resisting Emergency, National People’s Action, Health GAP (Global Action Project), East Michigan Environmental Action Council, Color of Change, Franciscan Action Network, Detroit Water Brigade, Detroit Public Schools Education Task Force, Michigan Election Reform Alliance, Student Global AIDS Campaign, Coalition of Labor Union Women, Detroit Active and Retired Employees, and many other groups.
“Cutting off water to community residents is a disgraceful attack on the basic human right of access to safe, clean water,” said NNU Co-President Jean Ross, RN. “Nurses know the critical link between access to water and public health. Lack of water, like unsafe sanitation, is a major health disaster that can lead to disease outbreaks and pandemics. The city must end this shutoff now.”
The lawsuit was only about sewerage. Judge Feikens took it upon himself to run the water part , too.
Therefore, Feikens was the real head of the DWSD from then for most of the next 36 years. So, the buck stops at Feikens court bench, and Cox's, for failure to solve any problems with Detroit Water and Sewerage Department.
Charles Brown Victor Mercado, the former director of DWSD who was just convicted, I believe, was an employee of the federal court, not the City of Detroit. His salary was something like $360,000.00 per year; but Kilpatrick didn't decide to pay him that much. Feikens did.
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July 18 March,2014 Rally from Netroots Nation:
Support Builds for Friday March to End Water Shutoff
Nurses, Activists, Cite Public Health Emergency
Call to ‘Turn on the Water. Tax Wall Street’
Support is growing from labor, community, clergy, and environmental activists, along with those attending the national Netroots Nation convention in Detroit this week for a march and rally Friday July 18 to call for an immediate moratorium on the water shutoffs.
National Nurses United, the lead sponsor of the event, and the dozens of groups and activists organizations supporting the action, call the shutoff a public health emergency and a major violation of human rights. NNU is the largest U.S. organization of nurses.
Among the broad and growing list of local, national, and international endorsers are the International Union United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW AFL-CIO), Michigan Sierra Club, People’s Water Board, Food and Water Watch, Netroots Nation, Metropolitan Detroit AFL-CIO, Michigan Nurses Association, Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions, We the People of Detroit, Moratorium Now!,and Michigan Welfare Rights Organization.
What: March and rally calling for a moratorium on water shutoffs
When: Friday, July 18
March: 1 p.m. Cobo Center, corner of Washington and W. Congress St., Detroit
Rally: 1:45 p.m. Hart Plaza, Detroit
The event will also call for a tax on Wall Street speculation which could raise hundreds of billions of dollars for communities like Detroit which have been pummeled by recession, unemployment, and other pain directly linked to the Wall Street meltdown and plunder of major urban areas. The Robin Hood tax on Wall Street trading, is embodied in HR 1579, sponsored by Rep. Keith Ellison, to rebuild Detroit and the rest of America.
Rally supporters charge that Gov. Rick Snyder and his handpicked emergency manager officials are enforcing the water shutoffs to promote the privatization of the public water department, the latest gift, they say, to Wall Street financial interests who have bankrupted the city.
Other endorsers of the march and rally include: Utility Workers Union of America, Friends of the Earth U.S., AFSCME Council 25, CWA Local 400, National Action Network-Michigan, UAW Local 600, Detroit Eviction Defense, Detroiters Resisting Emergency, National People’s Action, Health GAP (Global Action Project), East Michigan Environmental Action Council, Color of Change, Franciscan Action Network, Detroit Water Brigade, Detroit Public Schools Education Task Force, Michigan Election Reform Alliance, Student Global AIDS Campaign, Coalition of Labor Union Women, Detroit Active and Retired Employees, and many other groups.
“Cutting off water to community residents is a disgraceful attack on the basic human right of access to safe, clean water,” said NNU Co-President Jean Ross, RN. “Nurses know the critical link between access to water and public health. Lack of water, like unsafe sanitation, is a major health disaster that can lead to disease outbreaks and pandemics. The city must end this shutoff now.”
"Could
it be a plan to increase cost of delivery in low infrastructure areas,
thus forcing people to relocate as the price of water escalates?"
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/17/1314562/-Detroit-Watershutoffs-Thursday-CheckIn
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/17/1314562/-Detroit-Watershutoffs-Thursday-CheckIn
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