Saturday June 18th Wayne State University Student Center 5PM
We need you to reach out to mobilize families with children in your circles, youth leaders, children and
We need you to reach out to mobilize families with children in your circles, youth leaders, children and
youth activities to compel them to represent a moral voice to stop water shutoffs for the most vulnerable people in Detroit.Three quarters of the children in Detroit are living below 150% of the federal poverty
level ($35,775 for a family of four). Exposing children to an opportunity to care about other children is
a way to nurture their humanity by caring for other children in need.
Please make the sacrifice of time to personally compel people to join in and wage love..
The Allied Media Conference has agreed to support our cause by spreading the word nationwide
about Mayor Duggan's refusal to accept the warnings that massive water shut offs are a threat to
public health and an assault, punishing vulnerable people who cannot afford the current payment
rates and policies. There is not a reasonable process in place for evaluating shut offs for vulnerable populations such as elderly, pregnant women, persons with serious medical conditions or chronic
health challenges, young children in the home, landlord tenant discrepancies.
This is unreasonable and unacceptable. Like Flint we have been persistent as advocates,
now we have decided to lift up the children’s voices to call out to the Mayor in front of the nation.
Do what you can to get a save date out especially if you can get church youth groups,
Do what you can to get a save date out especially if you can get church youth groups,
boy and girl scouts, school groups etc. Post on your Facebook page, email blast, blog etc.
We have youth voice but need all hands and feet, lots of children and lots of adult support.
We can do this!
Water Warriors and Allies,
We are mobilizing young people to lead a Children’s March on Saturday June 18 at 5:00 pm launched from the international Allied Media Conference being held at Wayne State University. We will march from the south side of the Student Center. We will walk down Second then go over to Woodward and walk in front of the restaurants in Midtown (this is the start of the dinner hour).
We are asking everyone to wear BLUE!
The young people in leadership have had involvement in the water work at various levels, water stations, Lansing lobby days, undoing racism, fundraising, canvassing, prayer vigils, the water justice walk from Detroit to Flint and much more. We reach out to you to bring children to be in the March - all are welcome to show they care about the people by participating in sending a message to Mayor Duggan:
Stop the water shut offs!
Please send out an email blast to your circle of influence, youth groups, churches, recreation centers, after school programs. Put it out on social media. Get the children out. The youth are developing a flyer. Please help in any way you can. This is urgent and critical to our community.
Water is a human right. Water is life. The best interests of the people should come before profits. Sick people, elderly, pregnant women, households with young children and those with chronic illness should be handled with sensitivity. The foundation of the Mayor and Governor’s resistance is their motivation to privatize water by targeting black communities. As they turn a deaf ear, thousands are harmed, losing their children, losing their homes and suffering because they cannot afford the water. Human services are supposed to to help,not hurt.
Join us as we take to the streets to lift the voices of children crying out for water restoration as human right!
See the flyer with info about the march.
Urgent Call to Action:
"Even as the quality of available water is constantly diminishing, in some places there is a growing tendency,
despite its scarcity, to privatize this resource, turning it into a commodity subject to the laws of the market.
Yet access to safe drinkable water is a basic and universal human right, since it is essential to human survival and,
as such, is a condition for the exercise of other human rights. Our world has a grave social debt towards
the poor who lack access to drinking water, because they are denied the right to a life consistent
with their inalienable dignity." -- Pope Francis, Laudato Si
