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Detroit

Despite Hundreds of Arrests, Striking Workers Undaunted in Fight for $15

Striking workers in Kansas City, Missouri

Decrying State's "Systemic and Deliberate Failure," Detroit Students Demand Constitutional Right to Literacy

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

The schools are "irreparably damaging children's futures," new federal lawsuit charges

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Detroit Ready to Sue Banks, Private Companies for Unpaid Property Taxes

Nadia Prupis, staff writer

The Detroit skyline.

'For too long, there are those who chose not to pay what they owed in taxes,...

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'America is Back,' Trump Declares, Announcing Tax Cuts for Billionaires

Nika Knight, staff writer

"It was self-contradictory word salad," one critic said after Donald Trump's...

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Detroit Schools Shuttered as Lawmakers 'Illegally' Withhold Teacher Pay

Detroit Teachers Hold Sickout to Protest Broken Funding Promises

Disregarding Privacy, Court Rules Common Cell Surveillance Method is Legal

Lawsuits, Including RICO Charge, Pile Up for Embattled Michigan Governor

Facing Dual Crises, Former Flint Manager Resigns as Detroit Schools Head

As Obama Visits City, Teacher Sick-Outs Shutter Nearly All Detroit Public Schools

Detroit Teachers Hold Sick-Out to Demand Fixes to School's "Abominable" Problems

From Terrible to Worse for Those Living in One of America's Most Polluted Zip Codes

Concluding Lifetime of Dedicated Activism, Grace Lee Boggs Dies at Age 100

Between 'Schools and Smokestacks,' Detroit Rises Up for Climate Justice

Calls for Obama Intervention as Detroit Threatens Water Shut-Off for Another 25,000 Residents

'A Crime': Groups Say Detroit Bankruptcy Plan Benefits Rich, Attacks Working People

Newswire

Food & Water Watch

Detroit Needs Affordable Water, Not More Shutoffs

People's Action

Michigan Women Disrupt Donald Trump in Detroit

Sierra Club

Tomorrow: Hundreds of Protesters to March on Detroit in Call for Justice

Food & Water Watch

Social Justice Organizations Demand Economic Relief for Affected Detroit Residents

Food & Water Watch

Concerned Americans Demand that President Obama and the Department of Health and Human Services Intervene in Detroit Water Crisis

ACLU

Federal Lawsuit Challenges Michigan City’s Rejection of Atheist Display

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David Macaray

A Startling Shift in Demographics: Everything Seems to Be Going South

Valerie Vande Panne

Smells Like Environmental Racism

Zenobia Jeffries

What Is It Like to Live Without Running Water? Detroit Families Know

Arn Pearson

Flint Is a Casualty in the Right Wing's War on Local Democracy

Laura Flanders

A Great National Sick-Out - It's Past Time

Bill Quigley

Water Resistance Trial Underway in Detroit

Laura Gottesdiener

A Foreclosure Conveyor Belt: The Continuing Depopulation of Detroit

Nick Turse

RoboCop, Detroit, and the Rise of Our Contemporary Dystopia

Maude Barlow

Everyone in Detroit Should Have Access To Clean Water

Emma Lui

Testing the Human Right to Water in Detroit

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