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FILE PHOTO: The Flint Water Plant tower is seen in Flint, Michigan, U.S. on February 7, 2016. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook
(Reuters) - A federal judge in Michigan on Thursday gave preliminary approval to a $641 million partial settlement of lawsuits filed by victims of the Flint water crisis against the state, according to a court document.
U.S. District Judge Judith Levy wrote in the 72-page opinion that the preliminary agreement “does not resolve all of the Flint water cases” and that victims are fully able to pursue their own lawsuits and register objections to the settlement.
New York City police attack striking Hunts Point warehouse workers
Scores of New York Police Department (NYPD) officers attacked a picket line of striking Hunts Point Produce Market workers early Tuesday morning, arresting five workers. Video footage, which has spread rapidly on social media, shows the cops, equipped with riot gear, outnumbering pickets by two to one.
The violent provocation comes as 1,400 workers entered the third day of their strike at the world’s largest produce wholesaler. The striking workers, who receive poverty-level wages of $18-$20 an hour, are demanding a modest wage increase of a dollar an hour.
The mobilization of police under the Democratic administration of Bill de Blasio against workers demanding a few crumbs contrasts sharply to the treatment of the fascist mob that was allowed to storm the US Capitol on January 6. As far as the ruling class is concerned, the main danger is not an open assault on democratic forms of rule, but rather the resurgenc
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From the Associated Press The prosecution of former Michigan Governor Rick Snyder and others in the Flint water crisis is igniting a debate over whether