reverend david alexander bullock, national spokesman for the change consortium.nk you for being here. >> thanks for joining us. >> reverend williams, you led proare tests today. give the viewers a sense of the water crisis people are facing. >> well, reverend sharp ton, 50 years ago lyndon johnson signed the civil rights bill. today we are marching and fighting for not race segregation but now class segregation. where people aren't getting access to basic public services because governor snyder decided to dehydrate detroit. >> the poverty rate in detroit is over 38%. unemployment is high as 14.5. they just increased the water bill rate by 8.7. the detroit water rate is plus 119% over the past decade. something seems wrong with the picture. >> that's right are. something is wrong. >> we have a race to the bottom instead of a race to the top, reverend sharp ton. we are organizing and mobilizing folks are from across the city of detroit, across the state of michigan to prepare ourselves to be engaged in this election. because the buck stops in one place. and that is

and joining me now, david alexander bullock, a detroit pastor and national spokesman for the change agent consortium, a citizens organization that improves access to food, job skills, and economic development. joining me by phone is maude barlow of the council of canadians. maude, i'm going to start with you. i'm told you plan to lead a convoy of canadians to bring water to detroit on july 24th. tell us what you're planning to do and why. >> well, i sure am. delighted to speak to you, joy. we're going to bring a convoy of many, many people now. it looks like it's going to be quite big. across the detroit border. we're going to bring many, many liters, gallons you call them, of water as a symbolic statement that we canadians are in sympathy and solidarity with the people whose water has been turned off. we consider it a form of social crime. we consider it very seriously a violence of their human right to water and sanitation. and we're going to show cross-border solidarity. i think it's very, very important, some boymbolic state for us to make. >> you've also appealed to the white house a

pastor david alexander bullock is the national spokesman for the change age consortium. thank you for being here. >> good to be here. >> help people understand the human extent of this issue. >> yes. it is tragic in the city of detroit people are having their water shut off, the most vuler? able. if you're 60 days behind or $150 or more, your water is being shut off. no advance notice. no conversation. the emergency manager, kevin orr, has told the water department to shut off people indiscriminately. at the same time, the commercial customers, the big bills, of e lewis arena, and state of michigan has $8.4 million water bill but the state of michigan's water is not being shut off. we believe in the city of detroit, this is really war on the poor. preying on the most vulnerable populations. as you stated in your opening comments, the water rates are going up, unemployment is up, insurance costs are up, but the money is down. and so the water department, the emergency manager in an attempt to show that the water department can collect is preying on the most vulnerable. we