Occupy The PGA
May 23-27 (big day: Sat. May 26) - Benton Harbor, Michigan
Demonstrate in protest of land stolen by Whirlpool Corporation
“The thrust [of the county courthouse] is to physically remove and destroy families through the use of the criminal justice system. Every person they can put in jail; every person whose voting rights they can revoke with a felony conviction; every person they can cause to lose their job by putting them on probation; every person they can cause to lose the ability to pay for basic necessities through imposing ruinous court costs and probation is all part of the process. In the 1960s, it was called Negro removal. In Bosnia, it was called ethnic cleansing. It could be called genocide, the removal of the minority population for the purpose of redevelopment of the land. That’s what’s happening in Benton Harbor and the foremost leader of the resistance is Rev. Edward Pinkney.” -Atty. Hugh "Buck" Davis

Sunday, January 08, 2012

Benton Harbor Emergency Manager ends year with sizable deficit

Joseph Harris, Benton Harbor Emergency Manager, has been saying the city budget is now balanced. However, according to an article in the January 7 Herald Palladium, this is not true. The headline is: Auditors: BH still seeing red - Contrary to Harris' prediction, city ends fiscal year with sizable deficit; audit shows accounting mistakes, pension fund. City commissioner Muhammad is quoted in the article: "To spend over a half million dollars that does not exist is bad accounting practices by any standard," Muhammad said in an email to The Herald-Palladium. "The intoxication of Public Act 4 has caused the Emergency Manager to tailspin on the interstate of politics and government."
Posted by Gordon at 10:57 AM