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Podcast: Belabored
Episode: Belabored Podcast #96: Sick of Austerity in Detroit and Flint
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It’s no coincidence that two longstanding urban crises have exploded in Michigan in the past few weeks: one unfolding in poisoned pipelines of Flint, where children have been sickened by lead contamination, and the other erupting in the dilapidated schools of Detroit, where teachers have launched “sickouts” in protest of deplor...