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The Private Prison Industry: Resistance isn't Futile.

The private prison industry is on the march. In recent months the industry moved to take over 24 state prisons in southern Florida and buy five prisons in Ohio. Now it's making moves in Michigan.

Detroit activists demand to meet with millionaire DTE Energy CEO

Metro Detroit-area citizens rallied today with the community group Good Jobs Now Detroit to demand a meeting with DTE Chair and CEO Gerard Anderson. The southeast Michigan utility CEO runs a company that has posted almost $1 billion in profits, but had a income tax rate of negative 3% in 2010. Activists also protested the company's high salaries for its top executives and the company's continued shutoffs of light and heat of low-income Detroit residents.

Pro-Worker Leaders in Michigan Propose Constitutional Amendment to Protect Rights

At a rally yesterday at the State Capitol in Lansing, Michigan, Democratic leaders Senator Gretchen Whitmer and Representative Richard Hammel announced that they will be submitting a bill to amend the Michigan constitution to guarantee collective bargaining rights.