A vacant house next to the former Michigan Central Station building near downtown #Detroit. “It’s a surreal city”, says Justin Wedes, activist and organizer with the @DetroitWaterBrigade, when I ask him about the empty streets of his native city. “It is not fair to call it all abandonment because a lot of this was manufactured in a sense that people were pushed out of their homes by mortgages that could not be refinanced, escalating taxes that couldn’t be kept up. Foreclosure and eviction are endemic here and so i think what you see here as you drive through the abandonment and this kind of decay is a ghost town with people still in it. That’s important for people to understand that there is life amidst the ruins. That this is not an abandoned city. It’s a city that has been abandoned by jobs, business - capitalism, you might say.” - Click on the photo to hear Justin talk about the choices most Detroiters have to make on a daily basis. #usa #watercrisis #right2water #DetroitWater #water #azdarya
Posted on: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 16:26:38 +0000
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