Latest manifestation of the new Jim Crow: a city without water

[firecat]

"Bill and Hillary Clinton were up to their ears in more than $10 million worth of legal debt at the end of Clinton’s tenure as president. Donald Trump was bailed out of four bankruptcies. But Detroit residents are having a basic human right – the access to water – cancelled for being late on bills of $150....residents with delinquent water bills are losing their water while prominent Detroit corporations with much larger delinquent water bills are being left alone. The Palmer Park Golf Club owes $200,000. Joe Louis Arena, home of the Detroit Red Wings, owes DWSD $80,000. Ford Field owes $55,000."

http://detroitwaterbrigade.org/apartheid-detroit-water-corporations-people/

I don't understand how this even BEGINS to be legal. I am living in a very different world than I thought.

Comments

[chaos-by-design.livejournal.com]

I didn't know that could even be done. That is so fucked and Ayn Randian, it's unbelievable. Though I've heard of other really undemocratic things being done in other poor, black Michigan towns, so maybe I shouldn't be too surprised.

I hope that there is enough outrage about it that it can be stopped, or else the rest of the country's infrastructure is up for grabs.

Yeah, it's terrifying that it could happen anywhere.