Repost from FightBackNews.org August 2009 Peoples’ occupation to resist the eviction taking place By Steff Yorek Minneapolis, MN – Fight Back! News is reporting from the home of Rosemary Williams on the 3100 block of…
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Please check out this two part series from Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines program May 14, 2009, Despair, revival in Detroit wind methods of injection intracavernosa.11. Magro G et al. The management of type 2 diabetes: ain…
‘CIPIENTS SPEAK by Maureen D. Taylor State Chair, MWRO May 2009 On Thursday, May 14th, 2009, most Americans woke up to the grim news that in order for Chrysler to save itself, 25% of the…
‘Cipients Speak!! By Maureen D. Taylor, State Chair, MWRO Many cities across the country are experiencing economic declines like Detroit is going through, but we have the distinction of being “first” on many painful lists….
Not since 1984, when President Reagan sold us a pile of mess called Trickle Down Economics have we seen such high unemployment rates in Michigan. The state reported unemployment rates of 12% in February 2009….
(reposted from the People’s Tribune, March 2009) Over the past year, more than 2.2 million homes have been lost to foreclosure, a record number. Some four million jobs have vanished, and jobs continue to be…
Yesterday’s national story reporting that 1 in 50 children in America are homeless (dead link FamilyHomelessness.org) raises, again, our concerns about how much the current financial bailout plans will help low-income and poor families. “Children without…
Excerpt from Commentary by the editors of Fight Back!, March 2009 …In Minnesota, welfare rights, labor, student and other community groups have formed a People’s Bailout Coalition to make the rich pay and to protect…
Michigan remains among the top five states with homeowners in foreclosure or late in their mortgage payments. Along with California, Florida, Nevada and Arizona, Michigan has had some of the sharpest increases in delinquent loans…
There seems to be a lot of doubt these days from state and local politicians about whether or not to accept federal stimulus funds. Curiously, they didn’t seem to have this same doubt when it…