March on City Hall

We must march on City Hall and demand justice delivered as promised through the vote November 6, 2012. The Emergency Manager Law (Public Act 4 of 2011) has been repealed. Public Act 72 of 1990 was repealed in 2011 and according to the law CANNOT BE REVIVED.

Detroit refuses to be a puppet to State Government demands. We must gather and create a Citizen's Reform Agenda, but that requires access to our government - something this administration and those preceding it have made very difficult.

Monday November 19 9:00am rally at Spirit of Detroit

The Public Health & Safety Standing Committee will be held at 10:00am, the 13th floor at Coleman A Young Municipal Center will be packed. Click here for the agenda.

Tuesday November 20 9:00am rally at Spirit of Detroit

The last Council of the Whole meeting will be held at 10:00am on the 13th floor. The agenda is packed and we suspect the entire day until 4pm will be spent in session. Click here for the agenda.

The Call To March

November 6th we watched the votes tally - We saw Michigan Democrats win the Senate. We saw the re-election of President Barack Obama and saw Proposal 1 come in with a NO vote. The next morning we found …

• The Emergency Manager Law had been repealed
  (but nothing changed)
• Detroit’s Proposal C to ensure Corporation Counsel retained independence and the ability to prosecute Mayor Bing
  (and the Mayor continues supporting the Financial Stability Agreement born through Public Act 4, which was claimed to not conform with the requirements of Detroit City Charter)

... and what we did not get was a CELEBRATION in the streets and JUSTICE NOW. We thought certainly someone would start the celebration. We realize now that WE ARE THE ONES to start the celebration!! WE MUST DEMAND JUSTICE NOW!

WE ARE *MARCHING ON* CITY HALL MONDAY & TUESDAY MORNING AT 9AM
WE ARE *CALLING ON YOU* TO STAND UP FOR YOUR RIGHTS AND PARTICIPATE – sitting through a revolution was never the way of accomplishing what is needed.

• We are NOT WAITING 30 days to claim victory.
• We are NOT WAITING for Detroit to have more services farmed out to private business by terms of a contract. 
• We are NOT WAITING for land grabs to be complete and departments to be shut-down sending our residents into unemployment.
• We are NOT WAITING for our public buses to be privatized, or our water, or our lighting, or other departments.
• We are NOT WAITING for more of our schools to be yanked from our hands and have our children attending EAA schools established and controlled through Jim Crow Laws.
• We are NOT WAITING for the State of Michigan to push through new Emergency Manager Laws to “save us” from bankruptcy court.
• We are NOT WAITING for our elected officials to take orders from the State of Michigan on next steps in dismantling our local governments and schools.

Both Monday and Tuesday have critical items coming before City Council committees and the final meeting of City Council for the year until 2012. There will be limited room available on the 13th floor - we need people on the street picketing the issues. Get on the text messaging group by composing a message to the number 23559 with the word @honorMIvote and send the message.

WE ARE THE PEOPLE OF DETROIT and

WE ARE NOT WAITING ANY MORE!

Moving vans ready for eviction

EXERCISE OUR RIGHT TO ASSEMBLE, TO PLAN, TO PARTICIPATE IN GOVERNMENT, TO BE AWARE
EXERCISE SELF-GOVERNANCE THROUGH OUR HOME-RULE CHARTER
EXERCISE WITH OUR FEET IN THE STREET
EXERCISE OUR VOICES HELD HIGH IN REASON AND PROTEST
EXERCISE THE FREEDOM OUR COUNTRY HAS FOUGHT FOR CENTURIES TO MAINTAIN – not overseas, here at home! Our fight for freedom is here at home! We will not be slaves to a state of confusion and despair. Our children deserve to know the hope and spirit of a brighter future. We are not sacrificing to the burdens of devastation placed on us by a CORPO-GOVERNMENT declared state of emergency.

Government SERVES the People – it is their oath of office, it is time to serve as the public demanded through a general election and insist the courts and law-makers of this land follow the will of the people. WE WILL NOT BE UNDONE BY A SYSTEM NOT OF OUR OWN CHOOSING!

Assist us by inviting those that love Detroit to march, to be THE ONES that proclaim the City of Detroit is a held by THE PEOPLE and we will not back-down.

NOTE: Recall Mayor Bing petitions will be circulating while the march is taking place. Detroit voting residents we encourage action!