Committee Against Utility Shutoffs
Michigan Sierra Club: 200,000 DTE Energy shutoffs in 2011
By Lawrence Porter, Shannon Jones, April 16, 2012
The Michigan Sierra Club reports that DTE Energy shut off nearly 200,000 customers in 2011.
CAUS meeting endorses SEP presidential campaign
By Shannon Jones, March 13, 2012
Supporters of the Committee Against Utility Shutoffs voted to endorse the SEP campaign of Jerry White for president and Phyllis Scherrer for vice president at its monthly meeting in Detroit last week.
Detroit residents speak about deadly house fire
By David Brown, March 6, 2012
A house fire Sunday night in a Detroit working class neighborhood claimed the life of an elderly woman and hospitalized her husband. WSWS reporters spoke with some of the neighbors.
Autopsy shows retired Michigan auto worker froze to death after utility shutoff
By Lawrence Porter, February 24, 2012
On Wednesday, the local media in Flint confirmed that the death of John Morgan, the 86-year-old retired auto worker found in his truck on Monday, was due to hypothermia and existing heart and lung problems.
Retired autoworker in Flint, Michigan dies after utilities are shut off
By Lawrence Porter, February 23, 2012
Early Monday morning neighbors found 86-year-old John Morgan, a retired Flint autoworker, dead in his truck parked outside in his driveway on Parkway Avenue, only a few days after the local utility company shut off his electricity for a bill of $291.
Detroit and Obama’s “recovery”
Utility shutoffs soar amidst mass poverty in Michigan
By Lawrence Porter, February 16, 2012
An analysis of data by the World Socialist Web Site shows that utility shutoffs in southeast Michigan increased by nearly two and a half times between 2007 and 2011.
Detroit residents speak out on utility shutoffs
By Lawrence Porter, February 16, 2012
The WSWS spoke to workers at the DTE payment center in Detroit on the experiences they have had with utility shutoffs.
SEP/CAUS public meeting: Oppose Detroit budget cuts!
February 11, 2012
The Socialist Equality Party, Committee Against Utility Shutoffs and International Students for Social Equality are holding a public meeting on February 16 to plan and organize a fight back against the latest attack on the jobs, wages and benefits of the working class in Detroit.
Two die in Detroit house fire
By Lawrence Porter, January 10, 2012
On Saturday evening an elderly brother and sister tragically died in a house fire on Detroit’s west side, only blocks away from a fire station “browned out” as a result of city budget cuts.
House fire caused by space heater kills three in Ohio
By Naomi Spencer, December 30, 2011
A Columbus, Ohio family was killed in a house fire on Christmas Eve after a space heater ignited the mattress they were sleeping on.
SEP and CAUS hold meeting to oppose Detroit budget cuts
By Shannon Jones, December 19, 2011
The Socialist Equality Party and the Committee Against Utility Shutoffs held a public meeting December 17 in Detroit to begin the political fight back against the attack on the working class, in the Detroit area and throughout Michigan.
Detroit mothers speak on wintertime utility shutoffs
By Lawrence Porter, James Brewer, December 15, 2011
Single mothers Charita Collins and Ervetta Wilcoxson, both unemployed and facing utility shutoffs, speak to the WSWS.
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