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Ryan Harvey, Truthout: 'While the country watched the protests in Wisconsin spill into the State Capitol Building, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder was passing a controversial bill that many consider a direct attack on the constitutional rights of the citizens of Michigan. Public Acts 4-9, also called The Emergency Financial Management bill, gives already existing 'Emergency Financial Managers' (EFMs) sweeping new powers, allowing them to literally suspend the entire elected bodies of municipalities they deem to be failing, and suspend collective bargaining agreements with unions for up to five years. Immediately after the bill passed, an EFM took complete control over the city of Benton Harbor as well as Detroit s public school system. EFMs are also in power in Pontiac and Ecorse.'

http://www.truthout.org/democracy-hold-benton-harbor/1304445865



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