Leid Stories—From Detroit, A Call to Action Against Machine Politics Nationwide—10.16.17

This week and next, Detroit will be bristling. A wide array of grassroots organizers and way-outside-the-box political tacticians, from the city and from across the country, will be discussing one thing: how to defeat the entrenched, corrupt political system.

Elena Herrada, a thorn in the side of Detroit’s political machines, Democratic and Republican alike, lets us in on looming battles Detroit’s already besieged communities must fight.

Abayomi Azikiwe, editor in chief of Pan-African News Wire and a co-founder of the Moratorium NOW! Coalition to Stop Foreclosures, Evictions and Utility Shutoffs, discusses grassroots efforts to coalesce political power nationally.