This story, by Bryce Covert, was originally posted on Common Dreams, here. On Wednesday, Michigan lawmakers held a hearing about water affordability and safety. Many of those who came to testify were residents of Detroit who have been dealing with water shutoffs, which resumed last week for thousands of people. One of them was Annette […]
Representatives from several nations attend “International Social Movement Gathering” Click here for a schedule of the event. DETROIT – Michigan Welfare Rights Organization and the Detroit People’s Water Board Coalition are hosting a gathering of more than 300 social movement organizers and activists this weekend to strategize solutions to the denial of affordable water and […]
Michigan Coalition for Human Rights invites you to: THE MAKING OF AMERICA’S PREMIERE SOCIAL ETHICIST — REINHOLD NIEBUHR IN DETROIT: 1915-1928 Presented by Rev. Harry T. Cook Monday, May 18, 7:30 p.m. Barth Hall, 4800 Woodward Avenue, Detroit Facilitator: Rev. Harry T. Cook Cook is a retired Episcopal priest and a scholar of religious ideas […]
This editorial, by MCHR board member Bill Wylie-Kellermann, was recently posted here and was originally printed in the Spring 2015 edition of On the Edge, a paper of the Detroit Catholic Worker. THIS MORNING, guys came into the soup kitchen full of news that Kelly’s Mission up the street (where a number of our guests […]
From Ferguson to New York, from Inkster to South Carolina, an alarming number of African-Americans are being shot, killed and/or beaten by police; victims of racial profiling. To date, there have been few, if any consequences for the perpetrators of these crimes. Hear Professor Blanche B. Cook’s presentation on this disturbing practice and its effect […]
