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Grand Theft Water in Detroit
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
14 Nov 2017
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The same corporations that forced Detroit into bankruptcy in 2013 are attempting to steal the city’s water supply, said Josiah Rector, professor of history at Northland College. Dr. Rector presented a history of Detroit’s water system at the Museum of African American History. We need to “reverse the theft of water, air, land and democracy itself,” he said.

Detroit Water Crisis

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