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November 19, 2015

Detroit Activists Head to Jury Trial for Blocking Water Shutoffs 
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In Detroit, nine activists headed to a jury trial Wednesday on charges
of blocking trucks from shutting off residents' water during the summer
of 2014, when the city cut off running water from tens of thousands of
families. The United Nations has condemned the ongoing water shutoffs as
a violation of international human rights law. Defendant Marian Kramer
of Michigan Welfare Rights Organization spoke out before the opening of
the trial.

Marian Kramer: "How would you like for your children drink some water
early in the morning and end up with lead poisoning? How would you like
you turning your faucet on and don't have the ability to be able to wash
yourself up or anything like that? That's our basic human right, and
we're here to defend that. And the prosecutor constantly gets up talking
about how she represents the people. She doesn't represent the people,
she's representing the interests of the corporations."

 

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