In spring 2015, Michigan Welfare Rights Organization worked alongside the Sierra Club and Detroit People’s Platform on the Great Lakes Water Authority’s (GLWA) development of a new Water Residential Assistance Program (WRAP). Through this new…
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The foundation on which society rests has forever changed. In September-October of 2010, it was revealed that DTE Energy — the largest energy provider in Michigan — had 80,000 utility customers in Detroit’s Wayne County…
On Thursday, 2/11/10, a team of negotiators from MWRO met with DTE. While DTE has made some concessions, we are continuing to march to eliminate ALL wintertime shut-offs. Therefore our next Resurrection March will be:…
Please watch this MWRO “Resurrection March – Death Watch” protest in front of DTE headquarters with MWRO member, Ann Grimmett. Over the past couple of months, five Detroiters have died in DTE shut-off related deaths….
Once again, another cold winter is upon us and MWRO is actively helping low-income people who have had their electricity, natural gas and/or water shutoff then talk about-advanced, but do not constituteWD, Wicher PA (1998)…
In part two of this series from Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines program May 14, 2009, Despair, revival in Detroit Part 2, they take a closer look at what local residents are doing to survive in…
An Open Letter from Ann Grimmett: As a native Detroiter and a member of MWRO (a national welfare rights union), I was honored to be included in the hosting of a contingent in town mapping…