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Cancel the #DetroitWater Debt and Start Afresh

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Mary Ann Skweres
11 years ago

Water is essential to human life. It is, or should be, a human right.

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Erin Winslow
11 years ago

Incidentally, I am banned from posting on the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department facebook page due to my questioning their policy of turning-off people's water. For those who think of this as a "can't pay, won't pay" issue, remember that it is also a PUBLIC HEALTH issue. Epidemics start easily in areas with poor sanitation but they can spread to the posh parts of town very quickly. TYPHUS & CHOLERA are no longer a problem in developed countries because of access to clean water for drinking, bathing and washing. Shut-off that access and it is only a matter of time before they become a problem once more.

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Bonnie Weinstein
11 years ago

I will help publicize this petition on my blog at bauaw.org

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Sara Cramer
11 years ago

When I was a child Water was free as it should be now because it belongs to everyone not just some privilaged few and it is positively necessary for survival. . My father used to say "Next thing you know they'll be charging us for water" Well now they are. So what's next? Will they find a way to measure the air we breath? Water belongs to all of us so lets make it free.

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MAUREEN CONNOR
11 years ago

New York

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Naomi Zurcher
11 years ago

It's the Milagro Beanfield War combined with The Magic Journey, Detroit style. This very game has been played before. The power gangsters will create any fiction to dispose of disenfranchised people.

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GENE
11 years ago

Nestle & other corp sell water to china water is new cash cow

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Bob Weingarten
11 years ago

All the best for the campaign! Those who sow misery will reap fury!!

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Michael Piazza
11 years ago

Bronx

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Dawson Darling
11 years ago

Did you shut off water to the golf courses yet?

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Daniel Cahill
11 years ago

Do not bill me. I did not agree to give at this time.

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Eleanor Hungate
11 years ago

Yakima, WA

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Charles Layne
11 years ago

Detroit needs to consider very seriously establishing a "Detrot Bank" in the form of the state bank in North Dekota. If you are not familar with the concept, Google "Ellen Brown".

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Bernadette Hopkins
11 years ago

We will be out this Saturday in Ireland protesting the water charges here and will be thinking of you in Detroit -stay strong. Big love. B

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Angela Turley
11 years ago

I wish you luck. Sorry I can't help in any other way.

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Palma Cady
11 years ago

Minneapolis

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Jamie Griffin
11 years ago Featured

Detroit residents pays more than any other city that the water board supplies water to! Why is that? If I own a product and supply my product to others it would be at a higher rate not lower!

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Geoff Langhorne
11 years ago Featured

I am on a disability pension and have donated. I am however a radio producer and would be interested if you'd like to discuss for broadcast the impact on those wigh disabilities, parricularly with fixed incomes. 289-700-7671

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Jan Sutherland-Wells
11 years ago

A true American horror story.

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Demeeko Williams
11 years ago Featured

Water is a Human Right. this is outrageous to pay high rates for little to no service. turn the damn water back on. stop the shutoffs. its not detroiters fault but now this is our fight to take back our city