The Flint Water Crisis from the Ground Up - 28:56
The Flint Water Crisis from the Ground Up
with
. Sean Crawford, a Flint
resident and auto worker whose
great grandfather was Vice Chair of the Flint
sit-down strike
. Claire McClinton, Member of Flint Democracy Defense
League
It's like living in "some sort of a dystopian novel,"
Sean Crawford writes, "to find National Guard troops going door to door
delivering drinking water on his street. To skimp on water costs, the
governor and dictatorial emergency manager exposed the whole city to lead
poisoning. My hometown of Flint has been known for many things through its
history. First as the birthplace of General Motors, and subsequently as the
battleground of the Flint Sit-Down Strike that formed the United Auto
Workers. That gave rise to a wave of union organizing across the country,
and to the middle class.
The quality of life that Flint residents
struggled for and enjoyed was once the envy of the world. More recently,
Flint became famous as ground zero for the disastrous consequences of
corporate globalization―chronic unemployment and underemployment, increasing
wealth inequality, and the violence and destabilization that can happen in a
community when companies are allowed
to destroy people’s livelihoods.
Whether it was out of fear of political or financial reprisal, anyone who
knowingly allowed the violation of Flint citizens’ health and safety
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