Baxter Jones Speaks on God Given Right to Water
Channel: Michigan WRO
Date: 09/12/2014

Community activist Baxter Jones was arrested along with several Detroit residents and allies as they prevented Homrich trucks from leaving their facility to shutoff water to poor, low income Detroit water customers. At a December 8, 2014 press conference in Detroit that proceeded a court hearing on disorderly charges, Baxter speaks about the human right to water and negates the right of corporations or governments to deny water to people. Homrich is demolition, remediation, and environmental contractor hired by the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department to conduct massive shutoffs of water service to residential homes. Since June 2014, they have shutoff water to nearly 100,000 residents.