Our cultural heritage should not be for sale. Sign the petition to save Detroit Institute of Arts

[LuckyTheDog]

Don't let the banksters steal a priceless art collection from the citizens of Michigan.

The Detroit Institute of Arts has been a cornerstone of Detroit culture for more than 100 years. But today it's facing an unprecedented threat: liquidation.

Detroit is in financial crisis, but selling off its masterpieces is not just an inadequate fix, it’s also the wrong one.

Liquidating the museum’s Picassos and Warhols to cut a check to Wall Street creditors work only as a stopgap measure -- a quick fix that would leave the city only slightly more solvent and culturally bankrupt. Decades of poor governance got us into this mess in the first place, don’t let the DIA be its latest casualty.

Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr should do everything within his power to preserve our greatest cultural monument. And if Detroit goes into bankruptcy, Governor Snyder must step in to ensure that the city's treasures are preserved -- not just for Detroiters, but for generations of Americans to come.

Sign the petition here: http://www.savethedia.com/petition

[longship]

1. Wonder what they'd do with the Diego Rivera murals?

I mean if the banksters had a choice. Probably put them in a private collection. Of course, to do that one would have to take a big wall out of the museum. But at least nobody would be poisoned by Rivera's socialist art.

[LuckyTheDog]

2. Trust me, they could take them

Have you ever seen how much of the Parthenon was carted off to the British Museum?

[longship]

4. I grew up in Detroit.

This makes me very sad. I spent many, many days at the DIA in my life. And those Rivera murals are pretty astounding, as are many other of the institute's artworks.

To sell it off would be a travesty.

[LuckyTheDog]

6. Given the chance...

Detroit's bankers would steal the airbags out of the city's police cars, if that could bring in some quick cash for them.

[GReedDiamond]

3. Done, KnR...nt.

[DonRedwood]

5. k r