Detroit Emergency Manager

 General

He NEEDS to PACK HIS BAG AND GET OUT OF THIS CITY!

• 8/5/13 Road to bankruptcy paved with secrets and lies 
• 8/5/13 Detroit EM Refers To City As “Dumb, Lazy, Happy And Rich”
• 7/12/13 Regime Change in Detroit A blog piece that looks at how Detroit's EM and upcoming election is a template of "governance" for a cold global, corporate world.
• 5/30/13 Emails show Detroit emergency manager enjoys perks while taxpayers foot bill
• 5/16/13  Moody's: Detroit emergency manager plan puts bondholders at higher risk  Because this is all about banks and bondholders and nothing about the residents of this city (except their money)
• 5/13/13 EM Orr's First Report   More than likely, its really Snyder's team who wrote it with our tax money. It is a ghastly plan full of wage cutting, pension cutting, privatization and questionable financials. They have a cookie cutter plan they have practiced on the other smaller minority cities (see the other blog posts). Every retiree across the country, every city worker, school/library worker, resident of Detroit, residents of surrounding areas, and the residents of Michigan who pay Orr's salary (and now his chief of staff and others) and anyone in this country that believes in democracy and doesn't want this in their city should be protesting this.  
• 4/10/13 Ethics Experts: No Conflict in Jones Day's Detroit Role LOL 
• 4/8/2013 Jones Day Costly EM Contract 
• 4/3/13 Detroit Emergency Manager Disavows Mayor's Letter Stating City Will Stop Honoring Union Contracts Oops? 
• 3/18/2013  Detroit Now Has a White, Republican Mayor and City Council: State Take Over Coming to a Black City Near You 
• Investors in Detroit Municipal Bonds are Nervous If you wonder if the EM was put here for the benefit of bondholders/banks, read this old 2011 article.
• Michigan Citizen  This newspaper has too many articles to list here on the Emergency Manager situation. Check it out.  
• Voice of Detroit Many online articles to explore the issues.
• Free Detroit 

Protests

• 4/5/13 Slow Down  I-75 
• 4/4/13 EM Out Movement Grows
• 4/1/13 Oreo Delivery Protest 
• 3/29/13 Detroit Athletic Club Protest 
• 3/28/13City Hall Protest  
• 3/28/13 Lawsuit: Emergency manager law creates 'new form of government'
• 3/25/13 Visit to Jones Day in Cleveland 

 Detroit Water Department 

• 4/7/13 Detroit Emergency Manager Orr should take privatizing the Detroit Water & Sewerage Dept OFF the table
•  About the judge who took Federal oversight off the Water Department 
•  3/27/13 (the day before the new EM law took effect) Federal oversight of Detroit water department ends after nearly 36 years 
• The People's Water Board advocates for Detroit's Water Department to stay in the hands of the people. 
• How the water department's bonds are "handled" and the plan to reduce the staff to 374 through outsourcing and privatization.
• See Pontiac's water department for an example of what an EM does with one. 
• Here is an older but clear and educational piece on the way water companies work in the world.
• Water for All is an advocacy group for water who published the above.
• Food & Water Watch Problems with Water and Sewerage Privatization
• Sold Up the River for 14 billion 
• Borrowing Trouble: Water Privatization Is a False Solution for Municipal Budget Shortfalls
• DETROIT WATER DEPT. “ON THE TABLE,” SAYS EFM; COMMISSIONERS APPROVE REPORT ROOTED IN LIES

Detroit Institute of Arts

• Selling off artwork that belongs to the people of Detroit (and Michigan, and anyone on earth who comes to Detroit to see it) to pay the debt - NYT article. SHAMELESS GREED. 

Videos of EM Public Meeting June 10, 2013

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZpVoTlGWrw
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PIQGxKekjA 
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEqCBVcX1C4
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZpVoTlGWrw