Friends of VOD, please click on http://VoiceofDetroit.net or posts below to read the latest people's news with a focus on Detroit. Note Angela Davis will be in Detroit tomorrow, Oct. 25. Other important articles: Dillon-Bing Cabal demands drastic cutbanks, Vote NO on 1, the Emergency Manager Law, extensive coverage on disastrous EMA contract which would cut 81 percent of Detroit Water and Sewerage Department workforce and on proposal for Belle Isle no-cost "lease" to the state.  Also note police brutality coverage which gives a new slant to Detroit police chief Ralph Godbee's resignation. 
 
Stories are still coming on the rally against immigration raids in Southwest Detroit held Oct. 21, bus riders' confrontation at Council regarding "intolerable" service, Marathon Oil's war on the community, and news on Michigan juvenile life without parole cases.
 
VOD thanks you for your continued readership and support. Please contribute articles, photos, etc. to broaden our coverage, like the excellent articles by Chris Ford on the EMA contract and by Glenn Morgan, Jr. on the prison system.  Additionally, you can support VOD either by direct contributions (note red DONATE button) or by subscribing for free to VOD editor Diane Bukowski's email alerts on Examiner.com, to increase her payments for each story there. Go to http://www.examiner.com/social-issues-in-detroit/diane-bukowski to do so. 
 
In the struggle, Diane and VOD staff  

§  Recent Posts

§  ANGELA DAVIS IN DETROIT WED. OCT. 25, 2012 7-9 PM

§  DILLON-BING CABAL AT COUNCIL, DEMANDS ACTION ON DRASTIC 'RE-STRUCTURING' OF DETROIT

§  VOTE NO ON PROP 1–REPEAL PA 4, MAKE THE BANKS PAY

§  STOP THE VIOLENCE: STOP POLICE BRUTALITY, CRIMINALIZATION OF YOUTH

§  EPA WANTS 45-DAY HALT TO EMA DETROIT WATER CONTRACT; COUNCIL PRESSES AHEAD

§  EMA CONTRACT—A $48 M DAYLIGHT HEIST

§  NYPD BRUTALLY BEAT HOMELESS YOUTH STAYING IN SYNAGOGUE

§  FREEDOM RIDE TO WASHINGTON, D.C. FOR EDUCATION JUSTICE, 2012

§  COUNCIL SABOTAGES PUBLIC HEARING ON BELLE ISLE 'LEASE'

§  CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS FAVORABLE TO REVISED "LEASE" SEPT. 25

§  VOTE NO ON PROP 1–REPEAL PUBLIC ACT 4, THE LOCAL DICTATOR LAW

§  NOV. 6: VOTE NO ON 1, YES ON 2, 3, 4, YES ON M, WCCC, COUNTY PROPOSALS; TV ADS NEEDED TO DEFEAT PA 4

§  NATIVE SONS ON LOCKDOWN: A MESSAGE TO THE BLACK COMMUNITY IN THE 'D'

§  DETROIT POLICE SEX SCANDALS: WHO IS MONITORING POLICE BRUTALITY?

§  MICHIGAN ACTIVISTS RALLY TO SUPPORT AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AND U OF TEXAS PLAN

§  CALI DEATH ROW PRISONER STEVE CHAMPION, TOOKIE WILLIAMS' FRIEND, ON HUNGER STRIKE

§  RIOT POLICE ARREST STRIKE SUPPORTERS AT ILLINOIS WALMART WAREHOUSE

 

§  WHIRLPOOL SUBSIDIARY KITCHENAID APOLOGIZES FOR DEAD GRANDMA OBAMA DEBATE TWEET

 

§  DETROIT AFSCME 207 WATER STRIKE ENDS IN VICTORY

 

WATER WORKERS' STRIKE CONTINUES DESPITE DWSD CLAIMS