DETROIT Beautification projects have been popping up all over the country. These projects often include cleaning up trash, planting trees and shrubbery, and repairing fences and busted plumbing, but sometimes might just be adding LED lights to a freeway.
Two years ago, Gabriela Santiago-Romero and other Latina organizers came together as Southwest Detroit Community CARE, or Southwest CARE, to help those in need during the early days of the pandemic.
It has been one week since the workers from the Midtown location of Great Lakes Coffee - under the moniker Comrades in Coffee - have officially gone on strike.