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Big 3 Automakers Shut Down as Coronavirus Outbreak Grinds US Industry to a Halt

Workers leave Fiat Chrysler Warren Truck Assembly on March 18, 2020 after the Detroit three automakers agreed to UAW demands to shut down all North America plants as a precaution against coronavirus.

'You Wanna Go Outside With Me?' Joe Biden Tries to Fight Union Worker After Disagreement Over Gun Control

Eoin Higgins, staff writer

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden meets workers and discusses gun rights as he tours the Fiat Chrysler plant in Detroit, Michigan on March 10, 2020.

The auto-worker accused Biden of plotting to take his guns away.

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Biden Says 'The Bernie Bros Are Here' as Protesters Disrupt Detroit Rally to Denounce NAFTA, Champion Green New Deal

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Biden Rally

Activists from various groups interrupted the campaign event to highlight the...

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'About Damn Time': Detroit Pauses Water Shutoffs Amid Coronavirus Outbreak

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

A demonstrator holds a sign during a Detroit water shutoffs rally in 2014.

"It shouldn't take a crisis like the spread of coronavirus to restore people's...

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Then-Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee former Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) speaks during a hearing before the House Commercial and Administrative Law Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee June 21, 2007. Conyers died Sunday.

Former Rep. John Conyers, Who Served in Congress for 53 Years, Dies at 90

Rep. Rashida Tlaib hugs Sen. Bernie Sanders at a rally at Cass Tech High School in Detroit on Oct. 27, 2019.

'It Always Seems Impossible Until it Is Done': Bernie Sanders, at Detroit Rally With Rashida Tlaib, Calls on Audience to Believe in a Better Future

Slamming Use of Poor Communities as 'Dumping Grounds' by Corporate Polluters, Jay Inslee Unveils Plan to Hold Fossil Fuel Giants Accountable

Abdul El-Sayed

Making Case for Green New Deal, Abdul El-Sayed Argues It's Also a Public Health New Deal

Striking workers in Kansas City, Missouri

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

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

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

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

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

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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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Eleanore Catolico

Why Detroit Could Be the Engine for the Green New Deal

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