Don’t miss the MCHR Annual Meeting- Thursday, June 18th at 7 pm at Our Lady of Fatima Church (13500 Oak Park Blvd.)
MCHR members: Don’t forget to VOTE to accept or decline the slate of new board member nominees. If you are a member and you cannot attend the meeting, you can vote either accepting or declining the slate by email to support@mchr.org or by calling the office at 313 579 -9071 .
You do NOT need to be a member to attend the talk at the annual meeting that follows the election.
2015 MCHR Board Nominations:
Dina Fattom: Arab youth activist including American Arab Anti Discrimination Committee, DC: communications graduate interested in ensuring that everyone’s voice is heard, working to outfit Gaza hospitals with solar panels to ensure consistent power despite shutoffs.
Johanna Gaymer: AmeriCorps member at MSU Extension Macomb County Foreclosure Prevention, experience in immigration law.
Lydia Wylie Kellerman: Word and World, Jeannie Wylie Kellerman community; writer; activist.
Jerry King: UAW Chrysler Local 140, SOA Watch board; Chairperson of SOA Watch Labor Caucus SE Michigan and Co-Chairman of the UAW Local 140 Civil and Human Rights Committee and a coalition member of the Detroit Eviction Defense.
Keandra “Key” Locke: Runs G.L.O.W. (Girls Leaning on Women) mentoring program in Pontiac and Lyrics on Vinyl- a record store in Pontiac that also serves as a youth gathering place and sometimes hosts social justice events
Gloria Lowe: Founder and director of We Need Green Too, longtime community (Jefferson/ Chalmers) and environmental activist, writer.
Lui Francesco Matsuo: Call To Action Youth Rep. Interests: LBGT rights, Nuclear weapons/energy
Prof. Tom Pedroni: Associate Professor of Curriculum Studies and Policy Sociology and Director of the Leonard Kaplan Education Collaborative for Critical Urban Studies at Wayne State University, directs the Detroit Data and Democracy Project. His current research examines educational and social inequality in Detroit.
Joel Reinstein: AA activist, Jewish Voice for Peace at U M, BDS and Palestinian Rights; contributor to Socialist newspaper.
