Protests – Motor City Muckraker

Exclusive: Feds went undercover to investigate peaceful demonstrations in Detroit, Lansing

By Steve Neavling on April 3, 2013 Government, posts, State of Michigan

Feds went undercover to investigate protests over the emergency manager, wages for teachers and city workers, inadequate transportation and rising poverty. No violence ever broke out.

Black religious leader, protesters hand-deliver Oreo cookies to Detroit officials

By Steve Neavling on April 1, 2013 City Government, Emergency Manager, Government, Mayor's Office, posts

Saying some Detroit officials are “black on the outside, but white on the inside,” Minister Malik Shabazz and more than a dozen protesters tried to hand-deliver Oreo cookies to city hall offices in the latest protest against an emergency manager in Detroit.