Our Current Projects
Greater Detroit DSA is presently actively involved in several coalition building projects:
Living Wage Campaigns
Campaigns for "living wage" ordinances -- prohibiting local governments from contracting with, or otherwise aiding, businesses that do not pay their workers at least a poverty-line wage -- have been passed in Detroit, Ypsilanti Twp., Ypsilanti City, Warren, and Ann Arbor. Greater Detroit DSA has been in the middle of these efforts. Right now, the Metro Detroit Living Wage Coalition is considering where to make the next push. The next target will probably be Madison Heights.
Eastpointe also enacted an ordinance, but it was put to referendum. Detroit DSA provided much of the labor for a successful door-to-door campaign which sustained the ordinance in September of 2001.
For more info, contact David Green, (248) 855-3169.
Universal Health Care
We are working with the Michigan Universal Health Care Access Network (MichUHCAN) on "U2K Campaign," a project to bring the need for universal coverage into the 2000 elections.
For more info, contact Earl Mandell, (248) 540-9329, or Ed Pintzuk, (248) 737-2275.
Campaign Finance Reform
In line with DSA's nation-wide focus on reforming the financing of electoral campaigns, the Greater Detroit Local has joined the Michigan Campaign Finance Network
For more info, contact Tom Olechowski, (313) 922-4610.
Saving Social Security and Medicare
The Greater Detroit Local has also joined the New Century Alliance to Protect Social Security and Medicare.
For more info, contact Helen Samberg, (248) 539-3019.
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