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MCHR Annual Meeting- Thursday, June 18th

Date: Jun 18th 2015, 7pm  |  News

2015 MCHR Annual Meeting: Thursday, June 18th at 7 pm at Our Lady of Fatima Church (13500 Oak Park Blvd.) Secure parking. Light refreshments provided. Board Elections and Annual Report, 7 pm US Foreign Policy in the Mideast and North Africa: The Business of Chaos- Professor Saeed Kahn and Abayomi Azikiwe. We need YOU to […]

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Meet The Detroit Residents Fighting Back Against Having Their Water Shut Off

Posted June 4th, 2015  |  News

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 […]

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Hundreds Converge on Detroit to Grapple with Water and Housing Crises

Posted May 29th, 2015  |  News  |  Press Releases

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 […]

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The Making of America’s Premiere Social Ethicist: Reinhold Niebuhr in Detroit: 1915-1928

Date: May 18th 2015, 7:30pm  |  News

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 […]

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Gentrification and Race: Can We Have a Real Conversation?

Posted May 17th, 2015  |  News

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 […]

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