We are the 99%
Occupy Detroit is the power of people united from all backgrounds, ethnicities, cultures, and political viewpoints. We stand in solidarity with Occupy movements across the country and around the globe. We put much of our focus on the needs and problems of Detroit and its surrounding communities.
We work with other activist and community groups in Detroit and Michigan to make banks, politicians and corporations take responsibility for their treatment of all people. We share skills and resources to do the work that the government won’t. We give a voice to those the government won’t hear.
We believe in the basic human right to food, shelter, medical care, education, and safety. We believe each person’s rights should be limited only by the rights of fellow human beings.
We are the 99%.
Join us. It’s time. Find the cause or activity closest to your heart. There’s plenty of room. Every person makes a difference.
Do you want to keep banks from kicking people out of their homes? Fight to keep libraries open for the children who need them most? Help save safe-space community recreation centers? Shout about the lack of classroom tools that teachers need to provide a decent education?
Would you like to restore decaying homes and give homes to the homes? Join multi-front battle battle for mass transit service with reliable buses and logical routes, so riders can get to jobs, school, grocery stores, doctor’s offices? Add your voice to calls for the United States to stop arming countries with tanks and weapons that they use against their own citizens? Or something else?
Occupy Detroit welcomes musicians and writers, artists and photographers, crafters and story-tellers. Most of all, Occupy Detroit is about people working together.
Join us. You are the 99%.
See what people power can do. Watch one example where Occupy Detroit joined other groups including People Before Banks, Occupy Our Homes, Moratorium NOW!, the United Auto Workers international headquarters, UAW Local 600, among others.