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Tom Stephens
An Open Letter to the Michigan Civil Rights Commission on Their Report: “Systemic Racism Through the Lens of Flint”
01 Mar 2017
by Tom Stephens There were some positive aspects to the report on the poisoning of Flint, Michigan. But, the commission left the responsible officials off the hook, as if “racism” exists without “…
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The Flint River Lead Poisoning Catastrophe in Historical Perspective
17 Feb 2016
by Tom Stephens The takeover of Michigan’s majority Black cities by emergency managers was the direct cause of the poisoning of Flint. However, the legal groundwork for the crime was laid a…
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Gangster Corporate Contract for Takeover of Detroit
12 Feb 2014
by Thomas Stephens Wall Street, corporate Republicans and Democrats and the lawyers that serve them have structured a contract that guarantees “a realigned, restructured, pillaged, decapitated and…
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Judge Rhodes to Detroit: Don't Pay the Banksters
05 Feb 2014
by Tom Stephens The judge in Detroit’s disastrous bankruptcy process has, at least temporarily, blocked the wholesale transfer of much of the city’s assets to predatory bankers. But public dialogue…
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Don’t Let Jones Day Sell Out Detroit!: Rejecting Kevyn Orr’s Dickensian Vision for Our City
23 Oct 2013
by Tom Stephens The bankruptcy that Detroit’s dictatorial Emergency Financial Manager has in mind would “put the whole city in hock to Barclays so they can pay off Bank of America and its bankster…
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ABC’s of Detroit Bankruptcy
20 Aug 2013
by Thomas Stephens How do you spell the political and economic murder of a Black metropolis? The catastrophe in Detroit, from A to Z.
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The Rebirth of Detroit
06 Aug 2013
by Tom Stephens There are three Detroits: a gentrifying central business district; a larger Black and Latino city of poverty and oppression; and the rich surrounding suburbs. “The first two ‘Detroits…
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Zen Throat-Cutting in Detroit
19 Jun 2013
by Tom Stephens When Capital comes to collect, laws don’t matter; even unjust laws are being broken to speed the process of stripping Detroit of its last “asset.” The question must now be raised: “At…
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EMFing Democracy: Destroying Detroit In Order To “Save” It
07 May 2013
by Tom Stephens A system in terminal decay has no mercy. The Emergency Financial Manager regime imposed on Detroit is “an entirely new and unprecedented form of antidemocratic local government…
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Detroit: The Parable of the Banksters and the City
16 Apr 2013
by Tom Stephens The corporate takeover of Detroit is “a completely unprecedented spectacle” of infinite corruption and brazen bullying by the 1%. “Jones Day and its megabucks corporate client list…