Jesse Jackson Calls For Mass Protest Against Detroit's Emergency Financial Manager
Source: Detroit Free Press
The Rev. Jesse Jackson called for a mass, nonviolent protest in Detroit against the new emergency financial manager at a rally this morning at city hall.
The activists alongside Jackson pledged to file a lawsuit next week challenging the constitutionality of Michigan's new emergency manager law, which takes effect Thursday and grants broad powers to the incoming emergency financial manager, Kevyn Orr.
Jackson, who was joined by Detroit Councilwoman JoAnn Watson, Congressman John Conyers and a union representative, also called on the U.S. Department of Justice to intervene to protect Detroiters' right to vote.
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We marched too long and bled too much and died too young for the right to vote to have a governor, whether its Gov. Snyder or Wallace or whoever
to take away the impact of our vote, he said.
Read more: http://www.freep.com/article/20130322/NEWS01/130322040/Jesse-Jackson-calls-mass-protest-against-Detroit-s-emergency-financial-manager-
Deep13
(39,154 posts)I campaigned for him in '88. This manager law is a 15th Am. violation.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)While I'm not a huge fan, his speaking style draws you to what he is saying. It's almost hypnotizing.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)I hope this can get go all the way to the Supreme Court. Americans need to understand what is going on there - I've mentioned it to some people and they have not heard a thing about what is being done to Michigan.
socialist_n_TN
(11,481 posts)As I've said about this in the past, massive civil disobedient protests and labor strikes. LOTS of labor strikes. That's the ONLY thing that MIGHT slow Snyder's roll. Nothing else even has a chance of working.
ReRe
(10,597 posts)... is getting old. He will go till his dying day standing up for the People. People who were burned up in a factory fire where the exits were locked. People who have been disenfranchised at the polls. People with an IQ of 60 on death row. Speaking to protestors in Wisconsin in the freezing cold. Prostesting all over the country against the illegal wars of GWB. If no one else will speak up or come to the rescue, Jesse will be there, speaking truth to power. Thank you, Jesse and thank you Purveyor for posting this.
Demeter
(85,373 posts)and the suburbs sure as hell don't care.
Get the suburbs to rise up against it, and we might see something.
alp227
(32,015 posts)(BTW both commenters are black; one of their profiles lists Malcolm X under "inspirational people" and likes the "I love it when I wake up in the morning and Obama is president" page. Not lost Freepers who confused freep.com and freerepublic.com. )
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)as Detroit fail so we are plowing new ground here most certainly.
There are no easy answers...none at all.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Then you would see something.
FrodosPet
(5,169 posts)Only they are doing it in U-Hauls. White flight turned into black flight starting in the 1970s.
We People
(619 posts)Perhaps network news would be more likely to shine the light on this situation if he were given the title of ACD, "Appointed City Dictator."
I hope enough people heed Rev. Jackson's call and call attention to democracy being systematically denied while the Voting Rights Act has been called into question.
LiberalFighter
(50,862 posts)midnight
(26,624 posts)Crepuscular
(1,057 posts)Where was Jesse when Gov. Granholm appointed the EMF to manage Ecorse and Pontiac?
Would he have compared her to Wallace, as well?
He's following the old "never let a crisis go to waste" political playbook.
Maybe Jesse should have spent more time voicing concern when his corrupt buddy Kwame was raping the city of hundreds of millions of dollars in political patronage schemes.
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