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Securing Democracy Resource Guide

Posted April 21st, 2022  |  Action Resources  |  News

Securing Our Democracy Books Healing the Heart of Democracy: The Courage to Create a Politics Worthy of the Human Spirit:  Parker Palmer, Jossey-Bass, [2011] Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections, and Saving America, Ian Haney Lopez, The New Press, 2019. American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America, Chris Hedges: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/American-Fascists/Chris-Hedges/9780743284462 […]

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Action Resources: Fall 2018 Film Series – “Confronting Police and Vigilante Violence”

Posted November 9th, 2018  |  Action Resources

Inform yourself…

• MSNBC, “Everyday Racism in America”
• BYP 100: Black Youth Project 100, Facebook
• MI National Lawyers Guild
• National Police Accountability Project
• National Immigration Project
• Sugar Law Center
• American-Arab Antidiscrimination Committee
• MI Radio: Peace Zones for Life
• ACLU, Know Your Rights
• ACLU Racial profiling
• ACLU:, reforming police practices
• Click on Detroit Channel 4
• Channel 6 ABC, Philadelphia: Laquan McDonald, Stephon Clark and other police shooting deaths that shocked the nation

Get Active/ Local Groups…

• Detroit Coalition against Police Brutality, 313 963-8116
• Resist and Refuse
• Detroit Board of Police Commissioners

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Action Resources: Fall 2018 Film Series – Detroit 48202

Posted November 9th, 2018  |  Action Resources

Inform yourself…

• Film, “Detroit 48202: Conversations Along a Postal Route”
• Right to the City, “Homes for All”
• Pratt Center: Sustainable Community Development
• The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit, Thomas J. Sugrue
  Redevelopment and Race: Planning a Finer City in Postwar Detroit, June Manning Thomas
  Detroit News; Foreclosures to be sold back to owners in ACLU, city settlement: Click here
• Huffington Post, “ Detroit Doesn’t Need Hipsters To Survive, It Needs Black People”
• Metro Times; Study finds Detroit’s foreclosure crisis fueled by illegal tax assessments
• Democracy Now: As Downtown Detroit Gentrifies, Longtime Black Residents Fight Illegal Tax Foreclosures

Get Active and Local Groups…

• Detroit Eviction Defense
• We the People
• Detroit People’s Platform
• Community benefits agreement
• Community Land Trusts
• People’s Water Board
• Facebook, Redemocratize Detroit
• Boggs Center: Address: 3061 Field St, Detroit, MI 48214, Phone: (313) 923-0797
• Neighbors Building Brightmoor, 313-68-SHINE (313-687-4463)

Peace Action
195 W. 9 Mile Rd. #208
Ferndale, MI 48220
248-548-3920
FAX: 248-548-3057
peaceaction@peaceactionmich.org

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Action Resources: Fall 2018 Fall Film Series – “American I Too”

Posted October 11th, 2018  |  Action Resources

Inform yourself……

• Film, “America I Too”
• Film, “I Was Born in Mexico, But…”
• Film, “Immigrant Nation: The Battle for the Dream”
• Migration Policy Institute, Frequently Requested Statistics on Immigrants and Immigration in the United States
• Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights
• Immigrant Legal Resource Center
• Find Law, Deportation
• USA Today, The Process of Deportation
• Deportation 101 (downloadable community resource guide)
• Immigrant Defense Project, The Community’s Response to Stop Deportation Dragnet
• Justice for Immigrants
• AFSC, American Friends Service Committee – Immigration Rights

Get Active…Contact your Congress People
MCHR: Volunteers (computer entry, phoning, mailing, registration) welcome and needed!
Become a member! 313 579-90714 (office) Marge Sears or info@MCHR.org

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MCHR Voter Resource Guide Provides Key Information for Election 2018

Posted September 25th, 2018  |  Action Resources  |  News

MCHR has prepared a voting information guide which features links to various organizations, initiatives, texts of Michigan ballot initiatives and additional resources related to mid-term election on November 6, 2018.

Download resource guided here.

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