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Democracy Watch: Federal Lawmakers Push to Re-Open Flint Water Probe Amid Accusations of State Stonewalling
January 23, 2017On the same day that Gov. Rick Snyder gave short shrift in his State of the State speech to the ongoing Flint crisis his administration created, U.S. Reps.
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Mass Mobilization and Tools of Change
January 20, 2017Because enslaved Africans were known to attack their masters, burn plantation crops, destroy farm equipment and organize insurrections, laws governing their conduct called “slave codes” placed severe limits on when they were allowed to congregate.
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Supporting Black Labor: Ending Criminal Record Exclusions in the Workforce
January 19, 2017As we honor Martin Luther King, Jr and his legacy this week, it’s important to examine the intersection of two issues that he devoted energy and attention to: race relations and economic equality.
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Flint Residents Deserve Unfiltered Truth
January 13, 2017Once broken, trust can be almost impossible to repair.
This maxim is more than evident in Flint, where residents were repeatedly given false assurances that their water was safe for 18 months following the disastrous switch in April 2014 to the Flint River as the city’s water source.
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ACLU of Michigan and Education Law Center Call on State to Protect Schoolchildren from Effects of Flint Water Crisis
January 09, 2017DETROIT– The state of Michigan has failed to take adequate steps to ensure safe drinking water in all Flint public school buildings, the ACLU of Michigan announced today during a media briefing in Detroit.
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