Voices: Detroit’s DTE shutoff crisis has a face, and it looks like mine

Editor’s note: Amani Sawari is an energy justice strategist at the Detroit nonprofit We Want Green Too, which is an intervener in DTE Gas Co.’s rate case.

The day my power was shut off, I wanted to scream, and I wanted to hide.

That tension is the part of this crisis that people rarely describe out loud. A shutoff creates shame, and the shame is what keeps it hidden…

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