Michigan Welfare Rights Organization

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Community Pickets at the Homes of Politicians

Read more about the Detroit water crisis and pickets in MWRO's Messages to the Grassroots.

Meet us at the next Call'em-Out!!! water war home patrol...

COUNCIL MEMBER MARTHA REEVES

Sunday, April 23, 2006 • 2:00-3:30 p.m.

Meet at the apartment complex on E. Lafayette,

just west of Lafayette Central Park in Detroit

(between Rivard St and Orleans St, see Yahoo! Map)

Council member Reeves recently voted to increase water rates for Detroiters. Tell her you support the Water Affordability Program for low-income residents. For more info Call 'em Out!!! (313) 874-2792.

TINSLEY-TALABI PICKET IS GREETED BY RADIO CAMPAIGN ADS

In the fifth consecutive Sunday picket at the home of a Detroit City Council Member who voted to increase water rates, the target this time was eastside resident Alberta Tinsley-Talabi. Although the Councilwoman has been in office for 12 years, she has done nothing for the thousands of Detroiters who annually live without water. In fact, she was one of the main Council votes to increase water rates, and is opposed to a low-income Water Affordability Program. The Councilwoman wasn't home to personally address the community members, so her neighbors unsuccessfully tried to drown out the protesters with repeated Tinsley-Talabi radio campaign ads blasting from a car stereo. Following the protest, members of Call'em-Out!!! continued to hand out literature in nearby neighborhoods.

ALBERTA TINSLEY-TALABI, DETROIT CITY COUNCIL MEMBER!!

Sunday, April 9, 2006 • 2:00-3:30 p.m.

Pennsylvania St. at Navarre St. in Detroit (see Yahoo! map)

(one block west of Cadillac Bl., and half way between

E. Vernor Hwy. and Kercheval St.)

For the last 12 years, Alberta Tinsley-Talabi has neglected her duty to the people in the City of Detroit by supporting budgets that ultimately drove the City to the brink of collapse while her fortune continues to grow at our expense. She has also done nothing for the 45,000 households that are without water. We deserve better! Let Council Member Tinsley-Talabi and her neighbors know you support the MWRO Water Affordability Program.

For more info Call 'em Out!!! (313) 874-2792

Meet us at the next Call 'em Out!!! home picket...

SHEILA COCKREL, DETROIT CITY COUNCIL MEMBER!!

Sunday, April 2, 2006 • 2:00-3:30 p.m.

Cambridge Ave and Kingston Rd. in Detroit (see Yahoo! map)

(2 blocks north of W 7 Mile, and 3 blocks east of Livernois Ave)

Sheila Cockrel has voted against every effort to establish a Water Affordability Program for low-income residents, and continues to be hostile to the needs of working families and poor people in Detroit!

For more info Call 'em Out!!! (313) 874-2792

RESIDENTS TELL KEN COCKREL, JR., "YOU GOT WATER, WE WANT WATER!" IN LATEST HOME PICKET

For the third consecutive Sunday, Detroit citizens and other concerned area residents picketed the home of a Detroit Council Member who has voted against the will and best interests of the people! On March 26th, it was Kenneth Cockrel, Jr., son of the 1960s "freedom fighter," Kenneth Cockrel, Sr--but this nut fell far from the tree! Next week, get ready as we shame Jr.'s stepmother, Sheila Cockrel--the most notorious and hateful Cockrel of them all! Read more about these pickets below in the Messages to the Grass Roots.

The next Call 'em Out!!! home picket is at...

KENNETH COCKREL, JR., DETROIT CITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT!!

You are cordially invited attend a Call 'em Out Sambo Patrol on

Sunday, March 26, 2006 • 2:00-3:30 p.m.

Corner of Avery St. and Hancock St in Detroit (see Yahoo! map)

(bordering streets: Trumbull, Warren, Rosa Parks, Forest)

This is not your freedom fighter, Ken Cockrel, Sr. from this 60s, but his shameless Negro son of the 21st Century. More info Call 'em Out!!! (313) 874-2792

THE COMMUNITY CALLS OUT COUNCILMAN KWAME KENYATTA!

3/19/06: On Sunday afternoon, residents of the community stopped by the home of one of the newest Detroit City Council  Member's, Kwame Kenyatta. But this wasn't a social visit. Members of Call 'em Out!!!, Michigan Welfare Rights Organization, and other Detroiters picketed the Councilman's home to protest his recent resolution  and vote to increase water rates--especially without the implementation of the MWRO Water Affordability Program--and his support to turn over the Detroit Zoo to the Detroit Zoological Society.

THE WATER WAR CALL'EM OUT!!! HOME TOUR CONTINUES!

NEXT STOP...DETROIT CITY COUNCILMAN KWAME KENYATTA

Join Michigan Welfare Rights members and other community residents as we head out to the home of Councilmember Kenyatta! Let him know we are OPPOSED to his vote for the water rate increase, especially without the implementation of the MWRO Water Affordability Program!
Sunday, March 19, 2006 • 2:00-3:30pm

Meeting place Bretton and Glastonbury, off Southfield Fwy near Grand River and Fenkell (see Yahoo! Map)

THE COMMUNITY CALLS OUT COUNCILWOMAN MONICA CONYERS!

3/12/06: Members of Call'em Out!!!, Michigan Welfare Rights Organization, and other Detroit residents decided to pay a friendly visit to Councilwoman Monica Conyers' home on this warm winter afternoon.  Mrs. Conyers was one of the council members to lead the vote on Friday for an increase in water rates, despite NO implementation of the Water Affordability Program to help low-income residents pay and manage their water and sewage bills. When we arrived at her home, she quickly got into the passenger side of a SUV and drove off with a friend--is she giving us the bird? You decide!! Read more about this in the Message to the Grass Roots (3/12/06) below.

Join Michigan Welfare Rights members and other community residents as we head out to the home of Councilwoman MONICA CONYERS!! Let her know we are OPPOSED to her votes for the water rate increase, and her contempt for low-income people in Detroit! (This event is organized by Call'em Out!!!)
You are cordially invited to a WATER WAR CALL'EM OUT!!! SAMBO PATROL
Sunday, March 12, 2006 • 2:00-3:30pm

Dishonor Detroit City Council Member MONICA CONYERS with a Sambo Patrol!

Meeting place W. 7 Mile @ corner of Pontchartrain (see Yahoo! Map)
Wear helmets, kneepads, protective eye wear, teeth guards and enough body padding to thwart brass knuckles. Please No Designer Wear. Monica is known to be a little disorderly. Call'em Out!!! 313-874-2792  

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