Students at the Catherine Ferguson Academy in Detroit fighting to keep their school. The pregnant young woman at the school raise their own food through their urban gardening efforts. Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb wants to shut the school.
Students at the Catherine Ferguson Academy in Detroit fighting to keep their school. The pregnant young woman at the school raise their own food through their urban gardening efforts. Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb wants to shut the school.
The “Koch Brothers” make an unexpected visit to the protest rally at the Capitol in Lansing, Michigan, to thank all the little people for giving them their money.
NAACP Detroit Chapter President Rev. Wendell Anthony at the union protests at the Capitol in Lansing, MI
AFSCME Administrative Director Herbert Sanders at the protest rally at the Capitol in Lansing, Michigan
UAW President Bob King spoke at a rally attended by thousands in Lansing, Michigan, protesting GOP assaults on collective bargaining, the new Financial Managers law, the tax shift that raises taxes on the elderly and the poor to give corporations tax cuts and much more.
Sen. Gretchen Whitmer spoke at the AARP rally. The rally was organized by the Michigan chapter of the American Association of Retired Persons to protest Michigan Governor Rick Snyder’s proposed tax shift that would raise taxes on seniors and the poor to pay for corporate tax cuts.
Ron McGuire of Dearborn; Jerry Doelle of Birmingham; Jim of East Lansing — all came to the Capitol under the auspices of the Michigan Chapter of the American Association of Retired Persons to show their anger at Governor Rick Snyder’s budget plan, which taxes the elderly and the poor to cut taxes on corporations. Video by Bonnie Bucqueroux for Lansing Online News and Michigan Messenger
