The Water Tyranny In Detroit Is Coming To Your Town Next
As Jobs Dry Up and The Economy Implodes "The Detroit Experiment" will go full speed in every city
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DETROIT ? The State of Michigan?s fascist iron glove is pounding on Detroiters, using mass water shut-offs without notice, and mass concentration camp imprisonment at the Mound Road state facility. There, hundreds are locked into filthy holding rooms without sanitation, proper food, water and medical care, guarded by Michigan Department of Corrections personnel.
That is the horrendous story Charity Hicks told VOD, after her arrest during mass water shut-offs in her east-side neighborhood near Osborn High School. On May 23, members of the People?s Water Board, Moratorium NOW! and others protested the shut-offs outside the Detroit Water Board building as part of a series of weekly ?Freedom Fridays.?
?There was a contractor on the block shutting off the whole block,? Hicks said. ?They were no-knock, no-notice shut-offs of homes including those where pregnant women and children live. After they shut mine off, I went two houses over to ask the man if he could wait until the family could gather some water together for their immediate needs. They were coming early in the morning, between 6 a.m. and 8 a.m. and people had no time to brush their teeth or wash up. He told me he doesn?t have to give notice to the homes, and that he was just doing his job.?
Hicks said she told him that was the same explanation given by Nazis at the concentration camps, and by Detroit police when they are busting people?s heads.
Hicks said he wore some sort of water department decal without the name of Detroit, over his company badge. She said people she knows living in the Warrendale neighborhood had earlier complained about the shut-off workers not being official City of Detroit employees.
The Detroit Water Board approved a $5.6 million, 730 day contract with Homrich Wrecking April 24, Contract No. DWS-894, ?Water Shut-Off/Turn-On Project,? according to the Board?s minutes.
?The Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD) is initiating this project to reduce DWSD?s delinquent water accounts,? DWSD Director Sue McCormick said in a letter to the Board. ?As part of the overall plan to increase DWSD?s revenue collection, the Department will increase its efforts of water shut-offs for customers with a 60-day or more past-due balance. . . This project will target approximately 70,000 residential accounts throughout the City of Detroit over a period of two (2) years.? (Click on
Hicks said the contractor got mad when she asked to see the termination orders for herself and her neighbors.
?He told me they are on the computer and he couldn?t produce them,? Hicks said. ?They are shutting people off with no procedures and no due process, despite the critical importance of the water infrastructure. The guy went to his car to look up the orders I thought, and I followed him so he could show me on the computer. I was leaning up slightly into the car to se
DETROIT ? The State of Michigan?s fascist iron glove is pounding on Detroiters, using mass water shut-offs without notice, and mass concentration camp imprisonment at the Mound Road state facility. There, hundreds are locked into filthy holding rooms without sanitation, proper food, water and medical care, guarded by Michigan Department of Corrections personnel.
That is the horrendous story Charity Hicks told VOD, after her arrest during mass water shut-offs in her east-side neighborhood near Osborn High School. On May 23, members of the People?s Water Board, Moratorium NOW! and others protested the shut-offs outside the Detroit Water Board building as part of a series of weekly ?Freedom Fridays.?
?There was a contractor on the block shutting off the whole block,? Hicks said. ?They were no-knock, no-notice shut-offs of homes including those where pregnant women and children live. After they shut mine off, I went two houses over to ask the man if he could wait until the family could gather some water together for their immediate needs. They were coming early in the morning, between 6 a.m. and 8 a.m. and people had no time to brush their teeth or wash up. He told me he doesn?t have to give notice to the homes, and that he was just doing his job.?
Hicks said she told him that was the same explanation given by Nazis at the concentration camps, and by Detroit police when they are busting people?s heads.
Hicks said he wore some sort of water department decal without the name of Detroit, over his company badge. She said people she knows living in the Warrendale neighborhood had earlier complained about the shut-off workers not being official City of Detroit employees.
The Detroit Water Board approved a $5.6 million, 730 day contract with Homrich Wrecking April 24, Contract No. DWS-894, ?Water Shut-Off/Turn-On Project,? according to the Board?s minutes.
?The Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD) is initiating this project to reduce DWSD?s delinquent water accounts,? DWSD Director Sue McCormick said in a letter to the Board. ?As part of the overall plan to increase DWSD?s revenue collection, the Department will increase its efforts of water shut-offs for customers with a 60-day or more past-due balance. . . This project will target approximately 70,000 residential accounts throughout the City of Detroit over a period of two (2) years.? (Click on
Hicks said the contractor got mad when she asked to see the termination orders for herself and her neighbors.
?He told me they are on the computer and he couldn?t produce them,? Hicks said. ?They are shutting people off with no procedures and no due process, despite the critical importance of the water infrastructure. The guy went to his car to look up the orders I thought, and I followed him so he could show me on the computer. I was leaning up slightly into the car to se
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