Detroit

City union strikes in Detroit

Debt service to banks saps budget The writer is a longtime Detroit Water & Sewerage Department city worker and past…

October 3, 2012

Colombian hunger strike comes to GM’s home

Working at breakneck speed under antiquated conditions at the General Motors Commodores plant in Bogotá, Colombia, more than 200 workers…

September 17, 2012

Michigan LGBTQ community is ‘Hungry 4 Equality’

Detroit — David Garcia, executive director of Affirmations, Detroit’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community center, went on a…

September 2, 2012

’We are all Asotrecol’

Activists from Detroit and Ann Arbor, Mich., came together on short notice for an emergency demonstration to support the fired,…

August 24, 2012

Corporate-backed officials seek to subvert referendum on ‘dictator law’

A long-fought battle to place a referendum on the ballot to repeal Public Act 4 came closer to realization with…

August 13, 2012

Sizzling summer in Detroit: Profit motive creates heat misery

Detroit  — The recent heat waves have had a devastating effect in Michigan, which already suffers from high rates of unemployment,…

August 2, 2012

Struggle grows to stop eviction by Fannie Mae

Save Jennifer Britt’s Detroit home   Home foreclosures and evictions are still plaguing people throughout the United States. Since 2007,…

July 29, 2012

Detroit financial crisis continues

Detroit — If a legal challenge to the so-called “Financial Stability Agreement” is not dropped by Detroit’s Law Department, the…

July 18, 2012