MCHR denounces the violence perpetuated by neo-Nazis and members of the KKK at the recent white nationalist “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, VA. While we condemn their actions, let us not forget that those carrying torches and spewing hatred are not an aberration. Rather, this is our nation’s legacy from its inception. White supremacy […]
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 […]
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 […]
STATEMENT ON THE TRANS PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP (TPP) (Info on the rally is below the statement) The Michigan Coalition for Human Rights (MCHR) joins with 1,500 labor, environmental, faith, and family farm and consumer organizations across the U.S. in opposition to the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP). The TPP is not about “the U.S. writing the rules […]
