Join MWRO and the People’s Water Board as we gather with hundreds of water warrior from across the Midwest, U.S. and internationally to discuss water contamination, shutoffs, unaffordability, inadequate sewage systems, infrastructure needs, and public…
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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…
MWRO is working with local organizations to defend the right to housing and stop the nearly 75,000 tax-foreclosures scheduled to happen this year in Wayne County, Michigan, where Detroit is located. Please help us get…
For immediate release International human rights network intervenes in case challenging large-scale disconnection of water supply to tens of thousands of low-income residents in Detroit New York. February 9, 2015. The International Network for Economic, Social…
Michigan Welfare Rights Organization welcomes allies and friends from the Council of Canadians and cities across Ontario, Canada as they deliver dozens of gallons of fresh water to Detroit residents whose water has been shut…
Michigan Welfare Rights Organization welcomes Netroots Nation to Detroit, July 17-20, 2014. Thousands of “bloggers, newsmakers, social justice advocates, labor and organizational leaders, grassroots organizers and online activists” are converging this week in the Motown…
There’s much going on in Detroit these days as MWRO with members of the People’s Water Board and Food and Water Watch work to protect the human right to water. In the latest news, Detroit…
(Reposted from Detroit Greens) Michigan Welfare Rights Organization members will be there and we know you will be too! Tonight at 6:30pm, Wayne State University, downtown Detroit as a stoneâhyperuricemia, very well marked, and dwellDIAGNOSTICS…
By Gwendolyn Gaines and Sylvia Orduño, MWRO We’re pleased to announce that the first meeting of the People’s Water Board in Detroit was a big success! Representatives from several organizations, including the Green Party, Sierra…
The Michigan Sierra Club is convening a Detroit-based coalition to form a People’s Water Board. The People’s Water Board Mission is: Water is life. The People’s Water Board advocates for access, protection, and conservation of…