Michigan – Page 29 – People's World

Thousands at Michigan Capitol: We are the people

April 13, 2011 By John Rummel

A cross-section of the people's movement poured into the Michigan Capitol grounds today with this message: "We are the people - protect us, not the CEOs."

Community protests immigration raid on elementary school

April 7, 2011 By John Rummel

Like a scene from a bad movie, agents from the Detroit Immigration and Customs Enforcement office, driving six large tinted-glass SUVs, surrounded an elementary school here March 31.

UAW delegates vow to build mass movement

March 28, 2011 By John Rummel

DETROIT - The United Auto Workers Special Bargaining Convention, held here last week, was like nothing this reporter has attended before: it was three days of preparing the union to do battle with Republicans and Wall...

UAW special convention: “Fight for every worker in America”

March 23, 2011 By John Rummel

DETROIT - Addressing 1,200 union activists, United Auto Workers President Bob King called for a return to the social consciousness of the union's founders.

Financial dictator would rob Detroiters of their vote

March 22, 2011 By John Henry

The same financial power structure that ruined Detroit economically stands in the shadows as mouthpieces of money in the state government threaten the majority Black city.