Dear Supporters of Democracy in Michigan,
It has come to our attention that right-wing elements in state government are hard at work to make sure the petition to repeal the emergency manager dictator law never makes it to [...]
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Citizens from around the state of Michigan continue to express outrage in the wake of a decision by republican appointees at the State Board of Canvassers meeting rejecting expert testimony, physical evidence and scientific evaluation showing a petition to repeal [...] The stripping of democracy from Michigan’s voters continues with the 2-2 vote by the Board of Canvassers on Thursday, April 26, 2012. This vote did not invalidate the over 200,000 signatures collected by thousands of volunteers over a course of [...] 
Citizens in the Stand Up for Democracy Coalition are announcing they have received notice from the Secretary of the Board of State Canvassers reporting the group has collected 203,238 valid voter signatures needed to place the repeal of Public Act [...]
Michigan Forward and Stand Up for Democracy learned via media reports that a group Citizens for Fiscal Responsibility plans to challenge the type size used on the petitions. We have not received official word from the Bureau of Elections about [...] Michigan Forward Chairman, Brandon Jessup presented March 19th at the University of Michigan, Gerald R. School of Public Policy on Michigan’s Emergency Manager Law. The panel discussion examined the law’s impact on citizens, public employees, local governments, and communities in [...] 
Michigan’s Controversial Emergency Manager Law: A Panel Discussion On Fundamental Issues of Governance Monday, March 19, 2012 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Annenberg Auditorium 735 S. State Street 1120 Weill Hall Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Free [...] 
On Tuesday, March 13, Sen. Johnson spoke on the Senate floor in regards to the proposed consent agreement offered to the City of Detroit. 
Public Act 4 of 2011, “The Local Government and School District Fiscal Accountability Act” or Emergency Manager Law has created elite bureaucrats with absolute power to remove democratically elected officials, dissolve municipalities and school districts and to unilaterally destroy public [...] 
Michigan Forward, Detroit Branch NAACP, Stand Up for Democracy held a press conference today, Monday, March 5, 2012 at 1:30 P.M. at the Detroit Branch NAACP to announce a coalition formed to ensure there is a fair and accurate process [...] |
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