Students fight to save innovative garden-based public school in Detroit

The mad GOP push for privatization of municipalities and public sector services is raging across the country and particularly in Michigan. Stripping locally elected mayors and officials while invoking Emergency Financial Management power under one administrator is happening in Detroit and Benton Harbor right now. Functional, breakthrough schools are slated to be closed or privatized against the will of local residents who are arrested for protesting to keep the schools open. Public beachfront in Benton Harbor, withheld from development by the local community, may now be seized on the authority of the EFM official against the will of the people. Michigan Governor Rick Snyder is trampling over democracy as he works to facilitate lower cost labor and privatization riches for the amoral business community.
http://www.grist.org/sustainable-food/2011-04-26-students-fight-to-save-innovative-garden-based-public-school-in-

Gov. Snyder's Emergency Manager Crushes Student Protest
http://www.thenation.com/blog/160199/gov-snyder’s-emergency-manager-crushes-student-protest

Citizen's Group Files Petition to Recall Snyder
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/04/20/rick-snyder-recall/

Michigan Pension Boards File Suit Over Emergency Management Law
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/04/23/969343/-Michigan-pension-boards-file-suit-over-emergency-manager-law?utm

Martial Law Now A Reality in Michigan
http://www.prwatch.org/news/2011/04/10625/martial-law-now-reality-michigan