Democracy Now! Daily Digest 17FEB16

Wednesday, February 17, 2016 democracynow.org Stories "Thirsty for Democracy: The Poisoning of an American City": Special Report on Flint's Water Crisis Today, we go to Flint, Michigan, for a Democracy Now! special on the ongoing Flint water crisis. In 2014, an unelected emergency manager appointed by Michigan ... Read More → Michigan's Water Wars: Nestlé Pumps Millions of Gallons for Free While Flint Pays for Poisoned Water As Flint residents are forced to drink, cook with and even bathe in bottled water, while still paying some of the highest water bills in the county for their poisoned water, we turn to ... Read More → What Did GM & the Governor Know? GM Stopped Using Flint Water Over a Year Before Emergency Declared In October 2014, General Motors recognized the Flint water was corroding its engines. They got permission from the city's unelected emergency manager—who was appointed ... Read More → Meet the Flint Official Whose Bid to Restore Safe Drinking Water Was Blocked by an Unelected Manager To learn more about how how Flint ended up with an unelected emergency manager, we spoke with Flint City Councilmember Eric Mays. Eleven months ago, in March ... Read More → Inside How Citizens, Journalists, Doctors & Scientists Exposed the Flint Water Crisis Cover-up We speak with Curt Guyette of the ACLU of Michigan. He is an investigative reporter who was just named Michigan Journalist of the Year by the Michigan Press Association. ... Read More → Headlines → Obama Says He Will Tap "Indisputably Qualified" Candidate for Supreme Court Poll Shows Sanders, Clinton Tied in Nevada Ahead of Caucus U.N. Says Yemen Faces "Humanitarian Catastrophe" with Over 6,000 Dead Cuba and U.S. Sign Deal to Restart Commercial Flights for 1st Time in 50 Years Utah: Author Terry Tempest Williams Buys 1,750 Acres of Oil & Gas Leases to Block Drilling South Dakota Could Become 1st State to Pass Anti-Transgender Bathroom Bill Chicago: 12 Arrested After Blocking Traffic to Protest Deportations Providence College Students Stage Sit-in over Racism on Campus Boutros Boutros-Ghali, 1st U.N. Secretary-General from Africa, Dies at 93 Forward this email → Donate today →

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