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The Detroit bankruptcy and the global social counterrevolution - World Socialist Web Site

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The Detroit bankruptcy and the global social counterrevolution
4 February 2014

Last week, the Detroit news media leaked parts of the restructuring plan that Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr is set to implement in the largest municipal bankruptcy in US history. Euphemistically called a “plan of adjustment,” it outlines a savage assault that will set a precedent to escalate the attacks on the working class throughout the US and internationally.

The plan includes ending medical benefits for 23,500 retired city workers and forcing them onto Medicare or Obama’s private insurance exchanges. Retirees will also see their already meager pension checks slashed as the city reduces payments to pension trust funds by as much as 75 percent.

#detroit #états-unis

Emergency Manager seeks to extort $100 million from Detroit Institute of Arts - World Socialist Web Site

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Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr met with officials from the Detroit Institute of Arts Thursday to demand that the museum contribute $100 million to the “rescue” package being assembled by Governor Rick Snyder and a group of wealthy foundations, including the Ford Foundation, the Kresge Foundation and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

The proposed deal would raise $330 million from the nine foundations and another $350 million from the state, with the money supposedly going to “protect” the DIA and city workers’ pensions from the impact of the bankruptcy.

#detroit #états_unis

Bankruptcy judge moves to privatize Detroit public lighting system - World Socialist Web Site

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The plans by Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr to privatize the city’s lighting system moved ahead last week when the federal judge overseeing the bankruptcy proceedings approved the sale of hundreds of millions in bonds.

The plan, announced by Orr in June, aims to reduce the lighting system in Detroit from 88,000 streetlight fixtures down to 46,000, and will see the 120-year-old Detroit Public Lighting Department closed down and its operations taken over by utility giant DTE Energy.

#détroit #états-unis

Detroit union joins legal action to force sell-off of DIA art - World Socialist Web Site

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Détroit, l’agonie toujoàurs

The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) has joined a legal action to demand that Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr sell the cultural treasures of the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) to pay off the city’s creditors.

AFSCME Council 25 filed the motion jointly with several bond insurance companies and banks, including Financial Guarantee Insurance Company, Syncora Capital Assurance, Ambac Assurance, Hypothekenbank Frankfurt AG, and Wilmington Trust Company.

#détroit #états-unis

The Detroit bankruptcy and the assault on democratic rights - World Socialist Web Site

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The Detroit bankruptcy and the assault on democratic rights
By Jerry White
26 July 2013

The bankruptcy filing last week by Detroit’s unelected emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, is the outcome of an anti-democratic conspiracy conducted by top political officials from both the Republican and Democratic Parties in Michigan over the last several years.

From the beginning, their aim was to install a direct representative of Wall Street, armed with powers of the federal bankruptcy court, to run roughshod over any political and legal obstacles to the looting of the city.

#detroit #crise #etats-unis

Detroit workers speak on city’s bankruptcy - World Socialist Web Site

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Detroit workers speak on city’s bankruptcy
By Zac Corrigan
22 July 2013

On July 18, Detroit’s state-appointed Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr and Michigan Governor Rick Snyder sent the city of Detroit into the largest municipal bankruptcy in US history. The bankruptcy filing is the prelude to an intensified assault on the working class, including slashing pensions and health benefits, privatizing services and selling off city assets.

#detroit #états-unis #crise

The Detroit bankruptcy - World Socialist Web Site

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The Detroit bankruptcy
20 July 2013

The bankruptcy of Detroit, the former auto capital of the world, is a milestone in the historical decay of American capitalism. It is as well a new point of departure in the social counterrevolution being carried out by the ruling class to make working people pay for the failure of its system.

Kevyn Orr, the unelected financial tsar, Republican Governor Rick Snyder, Democratic Mayor David Bing and the establishment media all point to the horrific conditions in Detroit—78,000 abandoned buildings, non-functioning streetlights, antiquated and understaffed fire protection—not to indict the politicians and corporate powers who are responsible, but to justify the destruction of the living standards and essential public services of workers who bear no responsibility for the disastrous situation.

Detroit bankruptcy filing paves the way for assault on workers - World Socialist Web Site

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Detroit bankruptcy filing paves the way for assault on workers
By Shannon Jones
20 July 2013

Michigan Republican Governor Rick Snyder and Kevyn Orr, the emergency manager overseeing the financial restructuring of Detroit, defended their decision to force the city into Chapter 9 bankruptcy at a press conference Friday.

#detroit #etats-unis #crise

Emergency manager throws Detroit into bankruptcy - World Socialist Web Site

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Détroit l’agonie, suite et peut-être fin

Emergency manager throws Detroit into bankruptcy
By Jerry White
19 July 2013

The emergency manager overseeing the financial restructuring of Detroit filed a petition in federal court Thursday afternoon throwing the devastated industrial city of 700,000 residents into Chapter 9 bankruptcy. Republican Governor Rick Snyder, who appointed Wall Street bankruptcy attorney Kevyn Orr as the city’s emergency manager last March, immediately approved the filing.

#détroit #états-unis #crise
The largest municipal bankruptcy in US history paves the way for an unprecedented attack on the pensions and health care benefits of city workers, the further slashing of essential services, and the sell-off of public assets to pay the banks and bondholders who hold the city’s debt.

The social devastation of Detroit - World Socialist Web Site

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Detroit, l’agonie, la suite

The social devastation of Detroit
18 July 2013

A vast social crime is being carried out in Detroit. Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr, appointed by Michigan Governor Rick Snyder to exercise a dictatorship over the city’s finances, is implementing an historic attack on the working class that will have devastating consequences for hundreds of thousands of people.

#téroit #états-unis #crise

Detroit emergency manager terminates union contracts, transfers city lighting to DTE - World Socialist Web Site

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Detroit, l’agonie sans fin, suite.

Detroit emergency manager terminates union contracts, transfers city lighting to DTE
By Bryan Dyne
29 June 2013

As part of the opening moves in his plans to restructure Detroit, the city’s unelected emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, has decided to terminate the contracts of three of the city’s unions—the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 1023, the Detroit Fire Fighters Association (DFFA) and the Detroit Police Lieutenants and Sergeants Association (LSA). As a result, the collective bargaining agreements for ASFCME Local 1023 and the LSA will expire on July 6 and the contract for the DFFA will end July 1. No new terms have been announced.

#états-unis #detroit #crise

La contre-révolution sociale à Detroit
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L’administrateur d’urgence de Detroit, Kevyn Orr, a annoncé vendredi un plan pour éliminer les pensions de retraite et l’assurance santé de tous les travailleurs actuels ou retraités de la ville, condamnant près de 20 000 personnes et leurs familles à la pauvreté et à une mauvaise santé. Ce dictateur de fait de Detroit demande l’élimination de 9 milliards de dollars en dépenses de santé pour les travailleurs d’un seul trait de plume.
Orr a présenté une attaque contre la classe ouvrière sans précédent dans l’histoire moderne. Même le gouvernement Grec, agissant pour le compte de l’Union européenne et des banques pour imposer des mesures d’austérité brutales, n’a pas proposé des attaques aussi vastes contre la santé et les retraites.
Cette mesure marque une nouvelle étape dans la campagne de l’élite dirigeante américaine qui se sert de la crise économique ayant éclaté en 2008 et du chômage de masse qui en résulte pour détruire tous les gains obtenus par les travailleurs durant tout un siècle de luttes. Cela, comme a insisté le World Socialist Web Site, n’est rien de moins qu’une contre-révolution sociale. Detroit est censé établir un précédent pour d’autres attaques du même genre aux États-Unis et ailleurs.

Social counterrevolution in Detroit - World Socialist Web Site

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Détroit à l’agonie, suite.

Social counterrevolution in Detroit
17 June 2013

Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr announced a plan Friday to wipe out the pensions and health benefits of all current and retired city workers, condemning nearly 20,000 retirees and their families to poverty and poor health. The de facto dictator of Detroit is calling for the elimination of $9 billion in workers’ benefits at one stroke.

Orr outlined an attack on the working class unprecedented in modern history. Not even the Greek government, acting as the instrument of the European Union and the banks in imposing brutal austerity measures, has proposed such a sweeping attack on basic health and retirement benefits.

#états-unis #détroit #crise

Bankers to gather in Detroit to plot asset-stripping - World Socialist Web Site

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Bankers to gather in Detroit to plot asset-stripping
By Nancy Hanover
10 June 2013

On Friday, June 14, Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr will present a restructuring plan to city creditors, only days prior to a scheduled $39.7 million payout on the city’s swap agreements with the banks. Orr’s plan will put forward more specific details on his proposed destruction of city services, looting of assets and attacks on retiree health benefits.

#détroit #agonie #états_unis

The threat to sell off the works in the Detroit Institute of Arts - World Socialist Web Site

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Vendre les oeuvres du musée de Détroit pour couvrir la dette municipale (suite)

The threat to sell off the works in the Detroit Institute of Arts
29 May 2013

The threat by Detroit’s unelected financial tsar, Kevyn Orr, to sell off the collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts, or major pieces from it, to help pay the city’s creditors has provoked widespread anger and revulsion.

The DIA is a beautiful museum, from its 1920s’ beaux-arts building to the breathtaking courtyard of Diego Rivera murals and its collection of more than 65,000 works. It is a source of legitimate pride to Detroit’s population.

#detroit #etats-unis #dette #ghost_towns

Détroit, l’agonie qui n’en finit pas : voilà le truc auquel on avait pas pensé : vendre la collection d’art pour régler les dettes de la ville. ça ressemble à la fin de l’humanité.

Emergency financial manager considers selling off Detroit Institute of Arts collection

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Emergency financial manager considers selling off Detroit Institute of Arts collection

By Bryan Dyne
25 May 2013
The Woodward Avenue façade of the Detroit Institute of Arts

Detroit’s unelected emergency financial manager, Kevyn Orr, has asked for an appraisal of the collection held by the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) to determine whether the city could sell off the art works to help pay off Detroit’s $15 billion in long-term debt.

#détroit #états-unis #dette

Détroit, l’agonie permanente

Detroit Mayor Bing proposes $300 million cut in city budget - World Socialist Web Site

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Detroit Mayor Bing proposes $300 million cut in city budget
By Bryan Dyne
15 April 2013

Detroit’s Mayor David Bing presented a $1 billion budget for the city’s fiscal year 2013-2014, $300 million less than the previous year. While it is Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr who has ultimate authority over all spending, Bing’s proposal will set the tone for subsequent financial decisions.

#états-unis #detroit #crise