Mr. Gregorio Martinez was joined by UAW supporters, Detroit Eviction Defense activists, friends and neighbors on March 30, 2013 for an anti-forclosure protest. Martinez advocates met at his home and then marched to the local Chase Bank branch at 7301 Wyoming (at Warren) to protest the Chase foreclosure of Mr. Martinez’s home. Mr. Martinez, a 69 [...]
According to MarketPlace.org, Michigan is 5th in the nation for the percentage of mortgages that are underwater. Of 1,362,525 mortages, 32% are underwater with a combined debt of $162,345,487,149. MarketPlace.org provides an interactive map that displays this data for each state. While the numbers tell the extent of the problem, they do not describe the [...]
Angry neighbors, concerned citizens and community-support marched Saturday on the sidewalk in front of Metro Property Management, LLC, at 10641 Joy Road in Detroit, to protest the eviction of Urealdene Henderson. Ms. Henderson, who has lived in her paid-off home for more than 36 years, faces eviction because the Wayne County Treasurer’s office mistakenly sold [...]
More than three years and many court hearings after his battle started, paraplegic Jerome Jackson is still fighting to keep his home — and his supporters have taken the fight to the public in a hearing of their own. Jackson is struggling to maintain his independence in the face of an agency’s decision to stop paying [...]
If there’s one documentary, or for that matter, one film you see in a theater this year, I recommend Detropia. The documentary is an artfully honest look at the harsh realities of post-industrial Detroit, a place so universally fascinating that the film opened in NYC . Directed and produced by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, Detropia unrolls the devastating consequences [...]
Tired of the frighteningly superficial noise out there? Here’s “American Autumn,” an enthralling and sometimes heartbreaking documentary about the birth of Occupy Wall Street and the critical issues that drive the Occupy movement today. It’s a blunt and thorough reminder that corporate interests rank far higher than those of the people: foreclosure evictions when there [...]
While a not-so-small army of police officers barred members of the 2012 Occupy National Gathering in Philadelphia from crossing a street to enter a free, public concert, Occupy Detroit live-streamer Diara Lo caught this unusual discussion. In it, a Philadelphia police liaison and several articulate Occupy members, some from New York, engage in a thoughtful, [...]
A young filmmaker who stumbled into a job at the New York Times spent the last three years making a documentary about what he saw there: a corporate newspaper industry trying to rescue sinking profits by cutting labor-intensive journalism, particularly investigative reporting. Now he needs less than $8,000 for stock-footage licensing fee and costs for [...]