Water Shut-off Protest Marches Through Downtown Detroit [Pics]

[Danny]

Interesting: Detroit is about 80-85% black but a quick glance at the pics looks like the protesters were about 80-85% white.

because they march for poor black and white Detroiters for free lunch. Keep your eyes on the prize.

[NickCharles]

My comment is logical, if water is a human right. It means only humans not plants and animals can have access to water, which is totally not true. Water is our birthright to everyone. having pure clean water provided by corporations and public utilities is not a human right and its not free. It's the use of regional metropolitan technology that is part of the human right. Detroit Water and Sewage did what's in their policy just like DTE Energy, At&t Comcast, Dish Network, ect.. If you can't pay your bills, your utilities will be shut off.

Matter of fact when friend just came to his SW Detroit family flat home from Europe. He's has no running water. His water was shut off for not paying his three month bill. He pay all the remaining bills online, but his water is not turn on. So we went to the water board building in Gilberttown Detroit to find out what's the matter. He found that that landlord was $814 behind on his bills. My friend tried to put his water bill under his name. In order to do that he must provide the landlord's lease. However the landlord is away in somewhere in Europe and he can't contact him. So he will have to find some other means to find his landlord so that he can get the water in his name.

To all you Detroiters and suburbanities who don't have any water in their homes. Here's a lesson given to you all by homeless people:

Any human can get water. Get a bucket, go to a river, fill it up, filter out the toxins and voila clean drinking water.

Let's say you need to a bath. Find a unisex restroom and wash you whole body.

Ask you neighbor if you want clean drinking water. Come up with problem solving method to get access to pure drinking water. To some civilize folks in the forum it's ridiculous but it may come and handy just in case human civilization ends.

Danny, it now is apparent that we agree, in both concept & application.

As it turns out, between your somewhat ambiguous remark and my inability to correctly infer, from that remark, where you really were going, two people who [[probably, in most ways) are on the same page seemed to be in entirely different chapters.

In any case, both your forthright bluntness & your dispassion toward "political correctness" lend your posts an air of non-self-conscious honesty which gathers, to you, my sincere respect.

You're just a wee bit "hard to figure," at times.

Keep on being you. You are one of the pillars that prevent this forum from collapsing down onto itself.

[Jimaz]

Detroit Water Shutoffs on Pause, but Is It Enough?

Detroit Activist Abayomi Azikiwe discusses how the growing push for privatization has enriched Wall Street and left ordinary people behind, as more protests are scheduled to be underway.

The privatization angle is discussed beginning at 8:24.