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Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "detroit"

Michael Moore: 10 Steps Obama Should Take for the Future of GM

Michael Moore: 10 Steps Obama Should Take for the Future of GM

Michael Moore, MichaelMoore.com. June 1, 2009.
The President -- and the United Auto Workers -- must seize this moment and create a big batch of lemonade from this very sour and sad lemon.

How to Put Detroit Back to Work

How to Put Detroit Back to Work

Mischa Gaus, Labor Notes. May 18, 2009.
Why not retain workers who know how to manufacture complex machines and make use of exhausted auto factories, rather than letting them crumble?

Fending Off the Mortgage Industry: Savvy Activists Are Winning in Court and on the Streets, Keeping People in Their Homes

Fending Off the Mortgage Industry: Savvy Activists Are Winning in Court and on the Streets, Keeping People in Their Homes

Valeria Fernández, ColorLines. April 13, 2009.
How one Detroit community group is saving homes and protecting human rights over the right of a corporation to make a profit.

As Obama Prepares to Take Over the Auto Industry, It's the Japanese Who Can Save U.S. Jobs

As Obama Prepares to Take Over the Auto Industry, It's the Japanese Who Can Save U.S. Jobs

Sally Kohn, Sanford M. Jacoby, AlterNet. March 31, 2009.
Unlike U.S. companies, most large Japanese corporations balance short-term opportunities with long-term needs.

Free Market? How Detroit Designed Its Own Catastrophe

Free Market? How Detroit Designed Its Own Catastrophe

Michael Tomasky, Comment Is Free. March 31, 2009.
Why don't automakers produce hybrid vehicles that aren't SUVs?

Is Obama's Car Czar Plotting to Crush the Auto Unions?

Is Obama's Car Czar Plotting to Crush the Auto Unions?

David Sirota, Blog for Our Future. March 1, 2009.
Obama put corporate raider Steve Rattner in charge of overseeing the auto industry and his "plan" seems to be to crush the autoworkers.

Mexican Gov't Aiding Ailing U.S. Automakers

Mexican Gov't Aiding Ailing U.S. Automakers

Staff, New America Media. February 13, 2009.
Mexican officials are offering financial assistance to foreign-owned companies with plants in Mexico.

Republicans On Why They Hate Unions

Republicans On Why They Hate Unions

Emptywheel, Firedoglake AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. December 20, 2008.
As if you needed any more proof that the Republican attempt to break the UAW a week ago Thursday was really just a political stunt.

Chapter 11 Is the Right Road for US Carmakers

Chapter 11 Is the Right Road for US Carmakers

Joseph Stiglitz, The Financial Times. December 13, 2008.
If we bailout the Big 3 directly, much of the money will just support shareholders and bondholders.

Why Detroit, Like New York, Shouldn't Be Allowed to Go Bankrupt

Why Detroit, Like New York, Shouldn't Be Allowed to Go Bankrupt

Jane Hamsher, Firedoglake AlterNet: PEEK. December 11, 2008.
Bankrupting Detroit could trigger a global economic meltdown.

Slashing Wages Will Hurt Workers, But It Won't Save the Big Three

Slashing Wages Will Hurt Workers, But It Won't Save the Big Three

Jane Slaughter, Mark Brenner, Labor Notes. December 8, 2008.
Some conservatives are using inaccurate numbers to pin the blame for Detroit's pain on union workers.

George W. Bush = Modern-Day Nero

George W. Bush = Modern-Day Nero

Booman, Booman Tribune AlterNet: PEEK. December 6, 2008.
Bush says he is concerned that the automakers will not survive, but he is totally unwilling to take any action.

Michael Moore: Save the Auto Industry and Kick Its CEOs to the Curb

Michael Moore: Save the Auto Industry and Kick Its CEOs to the Curb

Michael Moore, MichaelMoore.com. December 5, 2008.
These auto execs don't deserve a dime. Fire all of them, and take over the industry for the good of the workers, the country and the planet.

Obama's Health Care Reform Plan Is Based on the Clintons' Failed 1990s Model

Obama's Health Care Reform Plan Is Based on the Clintons' Failed 1990s Model

Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. December 4, 2008.
Look only to the Detroit automakers' current economic straits to understand why.

How to Save Motor City

How to Save Motor City

Marissa Colon-Margolies, The Nation. December 1, 2008.
Letting Detroit fail: catastrophic. Transforming it into a lean green machine-maker: visionary.

Smart Ways to a Bailout -- Step 1: Stop Demonizing the UAW

Smart Ways to a Bailout -- Step 1: Stop Demonizing the UAW

Art Levine, Huffington Post. November 24, 2008.
Confronting the big lie about the autoworkers, swallowed whole by union-bashing pundits even in The New York Times.

Democrats' Soft Spot for Automakers Have Shielded Detroit from Its Own Bad Decisions

Democrats' Soft Spot for Automakers Have Shielded Detroit from Its Own Bad Decisions

Garland McLaurin, American News Project. November 17, 2008.
The automobile lobby is back on Capitol Hill to secure $25 billion in loans. Will the money get wasted or put to good use?

Why Bail Out the Car Companies When They Bailed Out on Us?

Why Bail Out the Car Companies When They Bailed Out on Us?

Joseph Romm, Climate Progress. November 12, 2008.
Detroit has been lobbying against the future of all Americans who want to end our oil addiction.

The $4 Moment

The $4 Moment

Carl Pope, Huffington Post AlterNet: PEEK. June 9, 2008.
America's oil policies have meant economic suicide for Detroit.

Having Laid Waste to Their Country, U.S. Indifferent to Iraqi Refugees

Having Laid Waste to Their Country, U.S. Indifferent to Iraqi Refugees

Adam Doster, In These Times. April 30, 2008.
For the Bush Administration, admitting that Iraq is in the throes of a humanitarian crisis disrupts the narrative that the war is winnable.