Michigan

Resistance ramps up against Detroit bankruptcy as role of banks is exposed

Oct. 28 — Detroit residents, workers and retirees have been protesting and assembling on an almost daily basis to resist…

October 29, 2013

Drop the charges against Rasmea Odeh

Workers World is publishing the following statement from the Arab American Action Network, dated Oct. 23, that we received from…

October 24, 2013

Michigan fight for marriage equality continues

Jayne Rowse and April DeBoer never expected to be viewed as celebrities or heroes. Yet the two Michigan nurses, who…

October 24, 2013

Michigan anti-fracking movement worries gas industry

Capitalist propaganda has a peculiar way of turning reality on its head. A case in point is the well-funded effort…

September 18, 2013

Comunidad batalla contra bancarrota de Detroit y exige pensiones

¡"Esto es guerra"! fue el titular de un volante emitido por la 'Coalición ¡Moratoria Ahora! para Detener las Ejecuciones Hipotecarias,…

August 6, 2013

Community battles Detroit bankruptcy, demands pensions

“This Is War!” was the battle cry headline on a leaflet issued by the Moratorium Now! Coalition to Stop Foreclosures,…

July 31, 2013

Detroit bankruptcy: WAR ON PENSIONS!

City of Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr, the figurehead named by reactionary Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder to run Detroit and…

July 24, 2013

Struggle on to ban fracking in Michigan

Hundreds of grassroots activists across Michigan are working to make this state the second, after Vermont, to ban horizontal hydraulic…

June 28, 2013

Motor City Pride: ‘Marching toward equality’

This year’s Pride march in downtown Detroit on June 9 raised a timely slogan: “Marching toward equality.” Most lesbian, gay,…

June 13, 2013

Michigan protesters support Walmart workers

Close to 100 supporters of Walmart workers demonstrated June 7 outside the Walmart Super Center in Dearborn, Mich. Among them…

June 11, 2013