FREE DETROIT - NO CONSENT

Free Detroit – No Consent was founded on April 4, 2012 – the day that  five City Council members voted to accept the state proposed “Financial Stability Agreement” – another variation of the” Financial Management Law”. That day marked the end of Democracy in the City of Detroit!

We refuse to hand over our constitutionally sanctioned rights to the State of Michigan. Public Act 4 taxes the people; however, the people are no longer represented by the officials that were elected – taxation without representation is horrifically unconstitutional. Presently “we the people” do not have a voice regarding the management and future of Detroit.

We view Pubic Act 4 as a Racist Test Case. The Consent Agreement and the Emergency Manager strategies are racist and white supremacist in effect. Public Act 4 takes away the power to govern from the duly elected Black officials, and places it in the hands of Whites and cooperative Blacks who will do the bidding of the corporate community. If it succeeds in taking away the democratic rights of Detroiters to elect our own representatives, Republicans will push to have other states enact the same unconstitutional legislation.

Even if the appeal of Public Act 4 is placed on a referendum in November 2012 the City of Detroit will be faced with the Financial Stability Agreement. This agreement places the City of Detroit’s finances under control of a Financial Advisory Board [primarily of non-residents], a Chief Financial Officer and Program Management Director. The Mayor of Detroit and the City Council become powerless – functioning in name only.

Free Detroit/ No Consent is not fighting for a loss - we are fighting for what is right: our VOICE, our VOTE and DEMOCRACY.   

We urge the citizens of the City of Detroit to choose not to consent but to RESIST!  

“STAND UP FOR DEMOCRACY”

khushhh: profits over people money over she who sustains us some regression progression we have come to   Just keep praying… it’ll get better, I know it will.NOT!!If your feet don’t hit the street and your voice ring out - NOTHING WILL CHANGE!Your normal every day actions have lead to exactly where you are today… how do you like it? 
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khushhh:

profits over people 
money over she who sustains us
some regression progression we have come to  

Just keep praying… it’ll get better, I know it will.
NOT!!
If your feet don’t hit the street and your voice ring out - NOTHING WILL CHANGE!
Your normal every day actions have lead to exactly where you are today… how do you like it? 

(via amodernmanifesto)

Dance Before the Storm - Levellers (by Levellers)

Its a fine morning for a REVOLUTION to gain its feet - hope to see you in the STREET!

I had a Dream Today… The day you choose to be part of a revolution and find out the movement has come and gone past you …. and you look at what you have left, after conceding to offer so much just to continue on.At what point do you stand up? Will it be before you find your legs cut off at the knees? Or will you be content even then and wait until you no longer have legs left to stand upon?When you reach for something better will you reach soon enough that your finger tips grasp what you desire? Or will the effort be lost because your hands will have been cut off without your knowing? Perhaps even then you just sink back and say it’ll change, they will realize they removed my dreams from grasp.But then you find it isn’t just your dreams… it has moved to your needs. And your reach has been limited even farther as your arms have been removed.Government has this way of repressing if you don’t stand up, reach out, and speak out. If you see something is wrong - DO SOMETHING. You may find all you have left is your voice, use it! If you don’t you’ll be left watching the horror of being a spectator in your life as everything you dreamed of, desired, fought to have, and conceded loss to get by - GONE, a HOLLOW LIFE with just your eyes left to watch the walls come tumbling in around you as you no longer have a voice left to speak with.WHAT DO YOU REPRESENT? WHAT IS YOUR STAND? WHAT DREAMS DO YOU REACH FOR?WHAT WILL YOU SPEAK OUT AGAINST AND FOR?WHAT TERRORS WILL YOU ALLOW YOUR EYES TO SEE BEFORE YOU DIE?WHAT HOPE WILL YOU LEAVE YOUR CHILDREN? … and then it was GONE By Stephen Boyle - May 17, 2012Printable copy at http://goo.gl/TEXrr 
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I had a Dream Today…

The day you choose to be part of a revolution and find out the movement has come and gone past you …. 
and you look at what you have left, after conceding to offer so much just to continue on.

At what point do you stand up? Will it be before you find your legs cut off at the knees? Or will you be content even then and wait until you no longer have legs left to stand upon?

When you reach for something better will you reach soon enough that your finger tips grasp what you desire? Or will the effort be lost because your hands will have been cut off without your knowing? Perhaps even then you just sink back and say it’ll change, they will realize they removed my dreams from grasp.

But then you find it isn’t just your dreams… it has moved to your needs. And your reach has been limited even farther as your arms have been removed.

Government has this way of repressing if you don’t stand up, reach out, and speak out. If you see something is wrong - DO SOMETHING. 

You may find all you have left is your voice, use it! If you don’t you’ll be left watching the horror of being a spectator in your life as everything you dreamed of, desired, fought to have, and conceded loss to get by - GONE, a HOLLOW LIFE with just your eyes left to watch the walls come tumbling in around you as you no longer have a voice left to speak with.

WHAT DO YOU REPRESENT? 
WHAT IS YOUR STAND? 
WHAT DREAMS DO YOU REACH FOR?
WHAT WILL YOU SPEAK OUT AGAINST AND FOR?
WHAT TERRORS WILL YOU ALLOW YOUR EYES TO SEE BEFORE YOU DIE?
WHAT HOPE WILL YOU LEAVE YOUR CHILDREN?

… and then it was GONE

By Stephen Boyle - May 17, 2012
Printable copy at http://goo.gl/TEXrr 

Taryn Mychal Mai is working her way up the charts. Fuzzytek just held a photo session with her… watch for some magic shortly! (via BO.LT)
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Taryn Mychal Mai is working her way up the charts. Fuzzytek just held a
photo session with her… watch for some magic shortly! (via BO.LT)

Contact sunflowers@occupy-detroit.us to learn more about the Sunflower Brigade.

National Day of Protest Against Bank of America (#BOA) is May 9 (#m9boa). #Detroit demands suspension of $16.9 billion in debt collection servicing fees. BAIL OUT THE PEOPLE, not the banks! 

Learn more at on the Free Detroit website.

National Day of Protest Against Bank of America (#BOA) is May 9 (#m9boa). #Detroit demands suspension of $16.9 billion in debt collection servicing fees. BAIL OUT THE PEOPLE, not the banks! (via BO.LT) Learn more at on the Free Detroit website.
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National Day of Protest Against Bank of America (#BOA) is May 9 (#m9boa). #Detroit demands suspension of $16.9 billion in debt collection servicing fees. BAIL OUT THE PEOPLE, not the banks! (via BO.LT)

Learn more at on the Free Detroit website.