Detroit Demonstration at Mayor Bing's State of the City Address, Tues., March 23, 5:30pm

Detroit Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day march through downtown on January 18, 2010. This event represented the seventh year in a row that the commemoration was organized in the city. (Photo: Abayomi Azikiwe)
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DEMONSTRATE AT MAYOR BING’S

STATE OF THE CITY ADDRESS

TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 2010 – 5:30 P.M.

Max M. Fisher Music Center
3711 Woodward Avenue, Detroit

45% unemployed in the City of Detroit – Families losing their lives due to DTE shutoffs – Our neighborhoods destroyed by foreclosures and evictions – Detroit schools continuing to fail – City services diminished due to lay-offs…

Instead of hare-brained schemes to “downsize the City” and lay-offs and privatization at behest of the banks, it’s time for the Mayor to stand up for the workers and poor who have been devastated by the economic depression.

Mayor Bing: Declare a State of Economic Emergency in the City of Detroit!

* Moratorium NOW to Stop all Foreclosures, Evictions and Utility Shutoffs in the City
* Stop lay-offs and privatization – Balance the budget by suspending debt service to the banks
* Request President Obama declare Detroit a Disaster Area and fund a Public Works Program to provide jobs now

Under Michigan law, specifically MCL 10.31 et. seq., upon application of the Mayor the governor can proclaim a state of emergency and designate the area involved. Mayor Bing, with the support of City Council, needs to formally apply to Governor Granholm to declare a State of Economic Emergency in Detroit, and demand she use her police powers to place a two-year Moratorium on foreclosures, evictions and utility shutoffs in the city.

In addition, as part of the State of Emergency declaration, the Mayor must demand that the Governor apply to President Obama for money to bail out Detroit, the hardest-hit city in the country. We need funds to pay for jobs for youth to rebuild the houses that have been stripped and destroyed, and money to stop the destruction of public education and services in our city.

Called by Moratorium Now! Coalition to Stop Foreclosures, Evictions & Utility Shut-Offs

313-887-4344 www.moratorium-mi.org