Michigan Coalition for Human Rights Take on Hate Action Statement The election of Donald Trump as President of the United States has been followed by a sharp rise in hate incidents against immigrants, African Americans, Jews, Muslims, LGBTQ community members and women. These attacks have taken place both in private and public locations, including work […]
Michigan Coalition for Human Rights (MCHR) hereby declare our heartfelt solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in their current struggle to protect what remains of their ancestral lands, waters and sacred sites. We recognize that Native American and First Nation peoples have endured centuries of violent settler colonialism that has dismantled and robbed them […]
TRANS PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP—True or False? “TPP levels the playing field for our workers and helps to ensure countries abide by strong labor and environmental rules. “ – Pres. Barack Obama, August 2, 2016 Ask autoworkers in GM’s assembly plant in Colombia where many hundreds suffer workrelated injuries, are then fired and denied compensation, illegally ! […]
July 4, 1776, The United States of America declared its independence from the British Empire. Americans would come to celebrate this day as an ancestral symbol of freedom, as a metaphorical breaking of chains of which only a tyrannical oppressor held the key. Some Americans would not feel as lucky. Snatched from their land, battered […]
