OURWalmart - Occupy Detroit Black Friday Action

THRIVE Update & Plan for 2013

About a year ago Occupy Detroit met for a movie night to watch Thrive shortly after it was released. The film makers have offered a quick update on Thrive looking forward into 2013.

Thrive: What On Earth Will It Take?

Doo-Occupy to Bail Out America!

"Oh Fannie Mae"

11-20-12 Detroit city council holds meeting in phone booth

The People March on Detroit

DETROIT RALLY AND MARCH - Monday & Tuesday 

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• The Emergency Manager Law had been repealed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 didn’t get was a CELEBRATION in the streets and JUSTICE NOW. We were the ones and 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!

Detroit Rally and March starts this weekend

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.

WE ARE THE PEOPLE OF DETROIT and
WE ARE NOT WAITING ANY MORE!

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.

What To Do After The Emergency Managers Are Removed

Submitted by Stephen Boyle

I believe now is the time we turn attention to the Bankruptcy courts and demand the banks take an appropriate risk to what they provided to the investments held in trust. A number of banks could go under when faced with the burden of supporting the risk they created through unfair lending practices.

LET THE BANKS BURN 

LET THE BANKS GO BANKRUPT 

Local government needs to create and support
value in our communities
rather than a privately held demigod currency.   

There are critical services to the people of cities that will be facing Chapter 9 Municipal Bankruptcy and these cannot be shipped off/privatized. THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THESE SERVICES IS NOT SECONDARY TO DEBT TO IRRESPONSIBLE BANKS. The atrocity of decimating the livelihood of people is far greater than decimating the dollar (a manipulated value at best, and credit standing is likewise a manipulated value).

PEOPLE FIRST

The banks must be in second position to critical services. Negotiation of the amount of debt AND credit standing must be established through the courts. We need courts to act responsibly with the lives they are entrusted. Corporations do not cry, they do not bleed, and they don't experience pain the way people do.

Courts were established to carry out the justice people defined for them to use in governance. Some courts understand the public they serve and others are confused by responsibility to the public's best interest.

There will be resistance and the foundation of the country needs to be upheld. Taxation without representation will lead to civil unrest - which plays into the nationwide plans for a police-state. We are a nation that not only endures unrest - the policies of our leadership has created unrest throughout the world and our creations are coming home to roost.  Corporations have put themselves in a higher position and stuck their hands up the back of political puppets. When the hand of the puppeteer gets severed off the puppet is going to go limp and fall over. Those leaders that resist corporate takeover will remain standing and be supported by the people whom they support.

I could go on and on about the injustices of Emergency Managers and EFMs in the State of Michigan, but what is needed now is a plan forward and correcting the system that has become weakened through sustained sickness. The State is going to attempt to continue the sickness requested by those interests controlling our government. Those same interests that would rather put the country at war physically than face being the source of an internal WAR ON THE POOR.

Stop the enslavement of people to a system that is failing.

Occupy this Blog Detroit: Detroit ... Full of Issues

Being part of a Revolution is a matter of personal investment and the risks we are able to take. How can we work together to see something come from the discussions being held? Is it OK to just hold discussions without action, or is that in some way irresponsible to the cause desired?

Can we make a difference for you, your children, or for Michael (pictured here) who is homeless, can't walk, is confined to a wheelchair and makes it on the streets asking for contributions.

Read more in the linked article...
Occupy this Blog Detroit: Detroit ... Full of Issues