Metro Detroit residents sell plasma to support families
With 40 percent of residents living in poverty, many Detroit workers are forced to find alternative ways to make money, including selling their plasma.
•Kathleen Martin
The 2013 SEP election campaign of D’Artagnan Collier for Detroit mayor
Thousands forced to live without water in Detroit
Detroit's policy of mass water shutoffs has been called a human rights violation by the United Nations.
•James Brewer
Michigan governor names 4th emergency manager for Detroit Public Schools
New Emergency Manager Darnell Earley has pledged further cuts to impoverished Detroit schools.
•Nancy Hanover
Mass abstention in Detroit mayoral primary election
Less than 18 percent of eligible voters turned out in Tuesday’s Detroit mayoral primary.
•Eric London
Former CEO and county sheriff winners of Detroit mayoral primary, boycotted by large majority of voters
Mass alienation from the entire political system dominated Detroit’s mayoral primary election, with an estimated 17 percent of registered voters going to the polls.
•our reporter
Vote for D’Artagnan Collier, SEP candidate for Detroit mayor!
The Socialist Equality Party calls on all workers in Detroit to cast a vote for SEP candidate D’Artagnan Collier in today’s mayoral election.
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SEP holds election rally capping Detroit mayoral campaign
SEP Detroit mayoral candidate D’Artagnan Collier outlined the party’s socialist program before an audience including firefighters, teachers, students and retirees at Wayne State University
•Shannon Jones
Detroit workers at SEP election meeting speak to WSWS
Workers spoke with reporters from the World Socialist Web Site on the need to mobilize the working class against the bankruptcy of Detroit.
•our reporters
Build Detroit area workers committees to oppose bankruptcy
This resolution was passed unanimously at the Socialist Equality Party election meeting.
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D’Artagnan Collier holds rally at Detroit-area Chrysler plant
Auto workers at a Detroit Chrysler plant gave a warm reception to D’Artagnan Collier, SEP candidate for mayor of Detroit.
•a WSWS reporting team
D’Artagnan Collier speaks on Detroit radio
D’Artagnan Collier, Socialist Equality Party candidate for Detroit mayor, was interviewed on WCHB-AM 1200, Detroit’s Urban Newstalk radio station, about social conditions facing Detroiters.
•Nick Barrickman
SEP Detroit mayoral candidate D’Artagnan Collier in televised debate
In the course of the live forum involving 13 candidates, Collier advanced a socialist program to defend the working class.
•Shannon Jones
Growing anger among Detroit workers against attack on pensions, services
Opposition is mounting among Detroit workers to the drive by the city’s emergency manager Kevyn Orr and Michigan governor Rick Snyder to use the city’s bankruptcy to slash social services and rip up workers’ pensions.
•Usman Clemens
Oppose the Detroit bankruptcy!
The SEP is calling on workers and youth to distribute this statement as widely as possible and build the August 4 campaign meeting at Wayne State University.
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D’Artagnan Collier end-of-election meeting in Detroit
No to bankruptcy! Mobilize the working class against the bankers dictatorship!
D’Artagnan Collier, Socialist Equality Party candidate for Detroit mayor, will speak at 2 p.m. on August 4 at Wayne State University.
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Tenants facing eviction attend SEP meeting on crisis in Detroit
SEP mayoral candidate D’Artagnan Collier addressed the meeting, which was called to discuss a socialist program for the revitalization of the city.
•Shannon Jones
Collier says the real source of crime is inequality and poverty at Detroit mayoral forum
Collier denounced layoffs, foreclosures and other “social crimes” and presented a program for the working class in Detroit to fight social inequality.
•Bryan Dyne
Detroit’s Henry Street apartment evictions placed on hold
After facing the threat of eviction, residents of the Berwin Apartments in Detroit, Michigan were informed by the owner that the sale of the property had fallen through.
•Lawrence Porter
Public meeting Monday, July 15
A socialist program for the revitalization of Detroit
D’Artagnan Collier, Socialist Equality Party candidate for Detroit mayor, will speak at 7pm at the Unitarian-Universalist Church.
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Emergency manager moves Detroit closer to bankruptcy
Kevyn Orr is moving towards a bankruptcy filing in order to gut pension funds and secure the interests of Detroit’s biggest bondholders.
•Bryan Dyne