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508 8 minutes read Thousands demonstrate against water shutoffs in Detroit, July 18, 2014. Liberation photo: Kris Hamel
On Dec. 8, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan and Water and Sewerage Department Director Gary Brown announced that the extension of the moratorium on water shutoffs that went into effect under the COVID-19 emergency will continue through 2022.
This extension was won through persistent struggle by activists from We the People Detroit, People’s Water Board, Michigan Welfare Rights Organization, Hydrate Detroit, Moratorium Now! Coalition, and others. Since 2014, these forces have fought against the disastrous effects of 141,000 water shutoffs in a city of 672,000 people.
But water warriors are greeting the mayor and Brown’s announcement with skepticism and mistrust. Coming from the perpetrators of the mass water shutoffs, the moratorium extension was opportunistically announced the evening before Duggan, the city’s first white mayor since the election of C
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