Detroit’s Bankruptcy and Barn Doors
Curt Guyette, Investigative Reporter, ACLU of Michigan, February 14, 2014 There’s an old adage that alludes to the futility of shutting barn doors once the horses have fled. With that bit of folk...
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Swaps, COPs & Lingering Questions
Good description of Certificates of Participation and other terms in the Detroit Bankruptcy. Curt Guyette, Investigative Reporter, ACLU of Michigan, February 5, 2014 In 2005, the city of Detroit faced...
View ArticleAction to fight bankruptcy restructuring underway
By Abayomi Azikiwe, Pan-African Newswire This article appeared in the Michigan Citizen A standing-room-only audience at the Central United Methodist Church came out March 2 after a snow storm to...
View ArticleDetroit Police, Fire Retirement Class Action to Proceed
Lisa Hoffman, The National Law Journal, April 03, 2014 After throwing out a putative class action against Goldman Sachs twice before, a federal judge has switched gears on the mortgage securities suit...
View ArticleLet it Rip – Reparations – May 1
This segment of Let it Rip includes comments from several participants of the 2014 May Day Rally and March at Hart Plaza, Detroit Fox 2 News Headlines
View ArticleMortgage crisis continues
By Jerry Goldberg, May 22, 2014 A new report documents how millions of people across the U.S. continue to suffer the effects of the housing crisis that began around 2005. Published in early May by the...
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Iran billionaire executed over $2.6B bank fraud
Mahafarid Amir Khosravi hanged for committing $2.6 billion bank fraud TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A billionaire businessman at the heart of a $2.6 billion state bank scam in Iran, the largest fraud case since...
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Detroit and Iraq
By Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report, June 25, 2014 The Race to the Bottom under global, militarized capitalism creates communities of shared misery. Increasingly, it is almost as dangerous to be...
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Detroit’s Emergency Manager Shuts Off Water for Thousands of Homes; Is Your...
Interview with Tom Stephens, a lawyer, a lifelong metro Detroit resident and an activist by Joan Braunwasser of OpEdNews.com. My guest today is Thomas Stephens, a lawyer and lifelong metro Detroit...
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