Flint, Michigan accused of ignoring lead-contaminated water to save $$
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Perhaps as many as 1,000 are not going to water distribution centers, they’re not calling 211 and they’re not getting deliveries. It’s because they’re scared. These people are undocumented immigrants living in Flint, mostly on the city’s east side.
It’s hard to imagine, but many of them weren’t even aware of lead in Flint’s water until a couple weeks ago.” One day I turned on the faucet and the water started coming out yellow,” said Lucia. Lucia has been living in Flint for more than a decade. She left Mexico 23 years ago. We’re not using the single mother’s face or name, because she’s undocumented. “I’m not here legally. And I’m always scared that they’ll arrest me, and then deport me,” she said.
Lucia heard about lead in Flint’s water four months ago from her son. Since then, she’s been buying bottled water – and she won’t get close to a distribution center after a recent experience. “I got close to see what they were giving out, and it was water. And the first thing they asked me for was my license,” she said.
Some local groups have been quietly going around the east side trying to distribute water, but the problem is a lot of these undocumented immigrants are scared – and they won’t even open the door for them.
This is a heartbreaking turn in an already devastating situation. This type of long-term poisoning would never have happened in the rich suburbs of Detroit, and was ignored for so long because the residents were black, poor and/or uneducated. Now innocent children of undocumented immigrants are being further harmed as well. The poisoned water is STILL flowing in Flint, and won’t change until a large repiping process is done, which means these people will continue to get poisoned.
It’s hard to imagine, but many of them weren’t even aware of lead in Flint’s water until a couple weeks ago.” One day I turned on the faucet and the water started coming out yellow,” said Lucia. Lucia has been living in Flint for more than a decade. She left Mexico 23 years ago. We’re not using the single mother’s face or name, because she’s undocumented. “I’m not here legally. And I’m always scared that they’ll arrest me, and then deport me,” she said.
Lucia heard about lead in Flint’s water four months ago from her son. Since then, she’s been buying bottled water – and she won’t get close to a distribution center after a recent experience. “I got close to see what they were giving out, and it was water. And the first thing they asked me for was my license,” she said.
Some local groups have been quietly going around the east side trying to distribute water, but the problem is a lot of these undocumented immigrants are scared – and they won’t even open the door for them.
This is a heartbreaking turn in an already devastating situation. This type of long-term poisoning would never have happened in the rich suburbs of Detroit, and was ignored for so long because the residents were black, poor and/or uneducated. Now innocent children of undocumented immigrants are being further harmed as well. The poisoned water is STILL flowing in Flint, and won’t change until a large repiping process is done, which means these people will continue to get poisoned.
Just watched the gov on CNN. Deflecting like a muhfuckr. But that's to be expected. What I found interesting is that he's been subpoenaed to hand over emails from 2011 on. His response? "I've released whatever is pertinent." This dude needs to go man. He's blatantly flaunting the law not to mention evading his culpability.
http://www.dailytribune.com/general...n-water-started-activism-as-royal-oak-student
Glad she stood up for the kids in my city
Glad she stood up for the kids in my city
Back on page 8 he was talking to himself with his other screen name
Paying 20 dollars to be a troll and have a cooning self-bromance conversation on an adult board is some wild ass shit. However, I have not seen a word he has said for months now. He will never be on Walter's level no matter how hard he tries.
Ethnic Cleansing:
The Ultimate Environmental Racism
What happened in Flint was not a simple case of environmental racism, but ethnic cleansing by lethal means. The ethnic cleansing of the cities – otherwise known as gentrification – is an existential threat to Black people in the United States. Flint signals that the Black Removers are capable of anything in their quest to create cities that are “non-Black by design.”
by Glen Ford | January 27, 2016 | http://www.blackagendareport.com/ethnic_cleansing_environmental_racism
It is imperative that the atrocity unfolding in Flint, Michigan sharpen the discussion of the true nature of the blitzkrieg that has been launched against Black America – as should have occurred a decade ago when Katrina laid bare the grand scheme to remove and disperse poor Blacks from the inner cities by any means necessary. The poisoning of Flint’s water supply is not simply a lethal by-product of some generalized, endemic white racism in the United States. And, although state and federal authorities surely displayed contempt for the welfare of Flint’s predominantly Black and deeply impoverished population, this was not a crime of indifference. Rather, the poisoning of the 100,000 residents of Flint – like the dispersal of 100,000 Black New Orleanians – is the logical result of a nationwide campaign by organized capital to boost the value of urban real estate through Black removal.
The Republican Governor of Michigan, in the service of corporations and banksters, sought to rid Flint and other Michigan cities of Black and poor people, and deputized his emergency financial managers to act accordingly.
The slave-bitch negro coon above is named Darnell Earley. He was the so-called 'Emergency Manager' sent to Flint by RepubliKlan governor Snyder to destroy Flint. Look at the photo below and you'll see Earley celebrating Flint's water supply switch to poisonous water with the then also powerless 'white' mayor of Flint who is standing directly to his right. Exhibiting the height of crass cynicism, the water in their plastic toasting cups was clean non-toxic bottled water. They look like a bunch of Nazis celebrating the death of thousands of Jews.
There is a profound difference between damage that is done through contempt or indifference to the harmed persons’ plight – acts of callous oblivion, such as whites not caring what happens on the Black side of town – and harms that occur as the predictable result of a deliberate course of action, a plan. Polluting industries purposely place their plants in Black neighborhoods because they know African Americans lack the political power to protect themselves from pollution, and that some are desperate for employment despite the risk to their health. This is an example of environmental racism. The industry’s motive is to profit from the operations of the plant. The owner’s aim is not necessarily to harm his Black neighbors, but that is an acceptable (to him) by-product of his business model.
Their purpose is to make life unbearable for the Black poor, to uproot them by creating as hostile an environment as possible.”
The ethnic cleansing of the cities, now sweeping the nation at a dizzying, near-frantic pace [3], is a far higher order of threat than your garden (or landfill) variety of environmental racism. Indeed, it is an existential threat to Black America. Unlike the industrial environmental racists, whose relationship to Black communities is in some ways perversely symbiotic (a place to park their foul facilities near metropolitan centers, and to hire cheap labor), the urban ethnic cleansers want Black people gone – period. Their purpose is to make life unbearable for the Black poor, to uproot them by creating as hostile an environment as possible, in order to clear the way for new, whiter, more affluent populations. The logic of the “marketplace” in racist, capitalist America dictates that the Black presence depresses land and housing values, impeding the artificial inflation of property assets that is the imperative of finance capital. Hegemonic capital – Wall Street – which is in command of both political parties, seeks an urban “renaissance” that is non-Black by design.
That’s why the Obama administration was an eager partner to the bankrupting of Detroit [4] and did nothing to deter the disenfranchisement of half of Michigan’s Black population through installation of emergency financial managers like the one that switched Flint’s water source from lake Huron to the septic Flint River. That’s why emergency managers have trashed Detroit’s schools [5], so that no public institutional basis remains for anchoring the Black presence in the city – a theft of democratic and educational rights that has been perpetrated in Democrat-controlled cities for the past two decades, and is almost always accompanied by gentrification. Activists against police lawlessness now understand the role that cops play in creating a hostile (and often fatal) environment for Blacks in neighborhoods targeted for gentrification by the banks.
“Wall Street seeks an urban ‘renaissance’ that is non-Black by design.”
They trash the schools, they trash public housing, and in Flint, they trashed the water – they are capable of anything to drive out those who would forestall the “renaissance.” And since, as Bruce Dixon reminds us, the capitalists have ensured that the only urban renewal idea allowed in America is Black removal, the ethnic cleansers have had the active support of the Black political (misleadership) class in all their destructive endeavors.
The events of Katrina told us where this leads: mass Black expulsion, to...where? Hitler’s original program for the Jews was expulsion from a German-dominated Europe. We know where that led. Which is why it is so urgent that the Black political conversation be centered on ethnic cleansing, the highest and most dangerous stage of contemporary U.S. environmental racism: the creation of an environment in which Blacks have been made to disappear.
Sincere Smith (above) , age 2, of Flint, Mich., suffers from a full-body rash his mother blames on bathing in municipal water from the Flint River.
"This boy actually fears the water. It's like kryptonite to him."
http://time.com/4187507/time-flint-water-crisis-cover/
Quality bgol scholar Jamesatl. Smart dummy they've been making money buying up aquifers etc.
I put that coon right on ignore
So, a year ago they shipped filtered water to the gov't employees in Flint, so they wouldn't have to drink the "public" water. They were denying this. At the same time, they were telling the residents of Flint to "Hang in there." A whole ago, huh? This was broken by the Detroit Free Press today.
http://www.freep.com/story/news/loc...state-workers-flint-got-clean-water/79470650/
Amid denials, state workers in Flint got clean water
Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press 6:59 p.m. EST January 28, 2016
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LANSING In January of 2015, when state officials were telling worried Flint residents their water was safe to drink, they also were arranging for coolers of purified water in Flint's State Office Building so employees wouldn't have to drink from the taps, according to state government e-mails released Thursday by the liberal group Progress Michigan.
A Jan. 7, 2015, notice from the state Department of Technology, Management and Budget, which oversees state office buildings, references a notice about a violation of drinking water standards that had recently been sent out by the City of Flint.
"While the City of Flint states that corrective actions are not necessary, DTMB is in the process of providing a water cooler on each occupied floor, positioned near the water fountain, so you can choose which water to drink," said the notice.
DETROIT FREE PRESS
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"The coolers will arrive today and will be provided as long as the public water does not meet treatment requirements."
Caleb Buhs, a spokesman for DTMB, said the water coolers were provided in response to the city health notice in late December or early January, which he acknowledged was about a contamination issue the city said had already subsided. The state continued to provide the coolers of purified water, right up to today, because "there were more findings as we went along," Buhs said.
Buhs said his department never told state workers the tap water was unsafe to drink, but only provided an alternative, as a landlord would do for tenants.
Lonnie Scott, executive director of Progress Michigan, said it appears the state was not as slow as initially thought in responding to the Flint drinking water crisis.
“Sadly, the only response was to protect the Snyder administration from future liability and not to protect the children of Flint,” Scott said. “While residents were being told to relax and not worry about the water, the Snyder administration was taking steps to limit exposure in its own building.”
http://www.freep.com/story/news/loc...state-workers-flint-got-clean-water/79470650/
Amid denials, state workers in Flint got clean water
Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press 6:59 p.m. EST January 28, 2016
(Photo: Ryan Garza/Detroit Free Press)
LANSING In January of 2015, when state officials were telling worried Flint residents their water was safe to drink, they also were arranging for coolers of purified water in Flint's State Office Building so employees wouldn't have to drink from the taps, according to state government e-mails released Thursday by the liberal group Progress Michigan.
A Jan. 7, 2015, notice from the state Department of Technology, Management and Budget, which oversees state office buildings, references a notice about a violation of drinking water standards that had recently been sent out by the City of Flint.
"While the City of Flint states that corrective actions are not necessary, DTMB is in the process of providing a water cooler on each occupied floor, positioned near the water fountain, so you can choose which water to drink," said the notice.
DETROIT FREE PRESS
State panel rejects Snyder recall petitions
"The coolers will arrive today and will be provided as long as the public water does not meet treatment requirements."
Caleb Buhs, a spokesman for DTMB, said the water coolers were provided in response to the city health notice in late December or early January, which he acknowledged was about a contamination issue the city said had already subsided. The state continued to provide the coolers of purified water, right up to today, because "there were more findings as we went along," Buhs said.
Buhs said his department never told state workers the tap water was unsafe to drink, but only provided an alternative, as a landlord would do for tenants.
Lonnie Scott, executive director of Progress Michigan, said it appears the state was not as slow as initially thought in responding to the Flint drinking water crisis.
“Sadly, the only response was to protect the Snyder administration from future liability and not to protect the children of Flint,” Scott said. “While residents were being told to relax and not worry about the water, the Snyder administration was taking steps to limit exposure in its own building.”
What I don't understand is that the US Military has a surplus vehicles just sitting out in the fucking desert or other place.
They could have Water Buffalo's on every corner in Flint.......Hell almost every house.
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They could have Water Buffalo's on every corner in Flint.......Hell almost every house.
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It's breaking now. The toxic levels are 10 TIMES HIGHER than they first thought.
The Govenor and coon ass city manager need the death penalty but we all know the fall guy will be the city manager
It's been longer than that. The state was telling Flint Residents it was fine to drink the water, all while they were changing up the system in the state building & issuing bottle water to employees.... This water crisis goes back to 2009.
It may be time to consider abandoning the entire city
During Katrina was the lower ninth ward of where ever the black folk were abandoned for good? Legacies were built there. It might be time you stay in your lane and tend to your business instead of just throwing away the legacies that were built by the residents there.
Y'all wouldn't dare speak ill of new orleans . Without Detroit and Flint you wouldn't have a black middle class.
The unions and labor rights safe working conditions that a majority of folk us most certainly take for granted now.
When katrina popped off atheist were heading to church crying for answers now u like forget them.
This is what the Cacs want
I'm not happy about it, it's a tragedy.
But the city has become unliveable. They say it will take 10 to 20 years to fix the pipes. What are people suppose to do, bathe with Poland spring for the next 10 years?
I read that if a kid drinks one glass of lead water, he lose iq points. We can't just let people live there with polluted water.
They need to move people out, and then start arresting folk. Starting with that crooked governor.
What other option is there to get clean water to the people of Flint? Bottled water is not a long term solution. Neither are filters.
Clean water is only solving 5% of their problems.
But whats sad is that we still gotta go through hell to get that meager 5%.
Most of us are at the mercy of those who dont give a fuck about us. Even those of us with money.
But thats mainly because we've allowed ourselves to be in this position.
You got people in a position whereas they gotta ask mofos to provide them with a natural element??? Think about that for a sec.
What will it take for you to reach your threshold?
But whats sad is that we still gotta go through hell to get that meager 5%.
Most of us are at the mercy of those who dont give a fuck about us. Even those of us with money.
But thats mainly because we've allowed ourselves to be in this position.
You got people in a position whereas they gotta ask mofos to provide them with a natural element??? Think about that for a sec.
What will it take for you to reach your threshold?
someone assist w embed?
This is the Flint water crisis of Louisiana—a majority black, impoverished town suffering with contaminated water for years
Clean Up the Drinking Water of the Impoverished Community of St. Joseph, Louisiana
The town of St. Joseph in Tensas Parish, LA is the poorest community in the state. Nearly 40% of the population is below the poverty line, and the unemployment rate is likewise staggering.
Since at least 2012, the community has been under a more-or-less constant boil water advisory. Residents, though, say that the problems with the water system were present long before this date. This, of course, affects mostly the poor, black population within the town proper.
City and state leaders have failed to timely and adequately address this issue. Meanwhile, the poorest among us are without drinking water. This petition calls on President Obama to declare a federal emergency in St. Joseph and to divert federal resources for the repair of the town's water infrastructure.
Al Jazeera reported this shit over a year!!??? Man, these people are flat out evil...
Notice how the networks trying closing shop on Al Jazeera... Networks can't stop the Internet tho
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