Activists voice hope as they travel from Michigan to address lawmakers: ‘For the first time,I felt like I could say: “Somebody’s doing something”’Jessica Owens carried a baby bottle in her hand filled with water from her faucet, the bottom lined with a grainy substance of some sort. She had been carrying the bottle since October, and when state officials conceded that Flint’s water supply had potentially poisoned thousands of residents with lead. And she planned to bring it to the first congressional hearing on the city’s water crisis. “We carry these because this is what they’ve offered to our children,” Owens said on the bus that would remove her on a marathon 24-hour round trip to Washington DC to face members of Congress. In all, four buses carrying more than 100 people traveled the 1150 miles from Flint, or Michigan to Washington and back,carrying parents, hourly workers who skipped work, or even children who were ready to finish whatever it takes to capitalize on the national momentum surrounding Flint and finish whatever it takes to invent their water safe again.
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Source: theguardian.com