Detroit 17 People Die Because Their Lights and Gas Were Turned Off
by December 10, 2010 a group of community organizations including Michigan Welfare Rights, came together in front of DTE Energy offices, to protest the death of 17 people who died last year due to utility shut offs by DTE.
On this date in 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a policy named later, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In it are some of the most profound words that outline what are the boundaries are how people and Nations should treat one another. In honor of this great anniversary, Mi Welfare Rights invited all peace loving and anti-poverty advocates to march against the shut off practices of the energy company. We march in the memory of the 17 people, and to alert Detroit energy company that such deaths cannot ever happen again.
Among the organizations represented was the Detroit chapter of Amnesty International, which has taken the position that the right to neccesary utilities is a basic human right.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/bbcufi]
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