This year ICPJ turns 60! Throughout time, programs and projects have changed, but the spirit of the people and our focus on disrupting harm and uplifting love have stayed the same. Join us to connect with friends you may not have seen in awhile, and Read more…
Tuesday, May 27th, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM Registration Required: https://givebutter.com/Neighborhood_Auxiliary Dive deep. What is your role in the movement to build peace & justice? To build community power & resiliency? Are you a Bridge-Builder? Advocate? Reformer? Caregiver? Helper? Inviter? Organizer? Change Agent? Truth-teller? Rebel? Read more…
May 24 – 26th Ann Arbor MI Saturday: 10am – 5:45pmSunday: 2pm – 6pmMonday: 10am – 2:30pmParticipants must be able to attend the whole workshop Registration Required: https://tinyurl.com/AVPbasic2025 What is an AVP Basic Workshop? This interactive workshop provides people with tools for creating cultures of Read more…
Thursday, May 29th 6-8pm1420 Hill Street, Ann Arbor900 Oakwood St., Rooms 310A&B, Ypsilanti Registration Required: https://givebutter.com/KeysToWinning There are five interactive mini-workshops that you can choose from: Widespread MobilizationPresenters: Trische’ Duckworth (Survivors Speak) & Arika Lycan Alliance BuildingPresenters: Cynthia Bodewes (WeROC) & Brian Geiringer (Ann Arbor Read more…
Meta Peace Team (MPT) and the Interfaith Council for Peace & Justice (ICPJ) are hosting this nonviolence & de-escalation training to prepare & organize ourselves to respond to animosity and hatred with nonviolence, de-escalation, empathy, and love. The training is a proactive response to increasing Read more…
Tuesday, May 13th 7pmFirst United Methodist Church, 120 S. State St., Ann Arbor Water For Life follows Indigenous activists in Latin America as they face death threats and murder to save their precious water resources from mining and hydroelectric projects. Water For Life tells the story Read more…
Film Screening & Discussion Tuesday, April 29th 7PMZion Lutheran Church | 1501 W Liberty Rd, Ann Arbor Registration Required: https://givebutter.com/Borderland The United States border is not just a geographic location. The border is everywhere. It lies within every undocumented immigrant family with the threat that at Read more…
Saturday, April 12th 1-3pm16 S. Washington, Ypsilanti Registration required:https://givebutter.com/WCSOAccountabilityAndTransparency ICPJ was asked by the Sheriff’s Office to facilitate the Accountability and Transparency Policy Action Team so that it would exist outside of the office. Members of our VOTE Caucus and Abolition & Harm Reduction circles Read more…
Are you looking for a welcoming, affirming community that centers racial, economic, and environmental justice? Are you interested in building community resiliency — meeting needs now and organizing for the structural changes we need for the future? Are you concerned about the direction of our Read more…
Saturday, March 22nd 1pm-5pm Register here: https://givebutter.com/StopTheCoup Register here: https://givebutter.com/StopTheCoup In 2020 ICPJ hosted a series of virtual workshops, “Keys to Winning Against a Coup.” We find ourselves again in need of fortifying ourselves against a government takeover. This workshop will cover: “Pillars of Power” Understanding Read more…
Registration Required: givebutter.com/StructuralRacismSeries2025 Join us for this series led by Ayo Magwood, an educational consultant specializing in ideologically-neutral, evidence-based, and solution-oriented education on historical and structural racism, Asian and Latinx racialization, and interracial conflict and cooperation. Join the sessions you are able to attend through the Read more…
ICPJ recruited a Michigan Justice Fellow with grant support from the Community Foundation of Southeast Michigan. {Rescheduled Date!} On Monday, February 24th from 6-8 pm at 16 S. Washington in Ypsilanti, Corn Williams and Kat Layton will share information about what they learned while going Read more…
We are excited to share our plans as we shift into a new structure and culture of collaboration. ICPJ is really a network and we are making our internal and external work align with that vision. One part of that is that launching of our Read more…
Krystal’s plea to us all is clear: “Help me save my life. Fight with me. Fight to win.”Support Krystal. Help bring her story to the world. Krystal Clark, incarcerated at Michigan’s Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility (WHV), which she calls “the Valley of Death” is suffering Read more…
As Michigan’s legislative session enters its final weeks, we need to push elected officials to act with courage and urgency. In order to do that, we need all of us. Please help pressure our elected officials to move the Drive SAFE bills (HB 4410, 4411, Read more…
Thursday, December 5th, 6-8pm Registration required: https://givebutter.com/REJTownHall With a new Sheriff’s administration starting January 1, 2025 there is an important opportunity for the community to be in involved in supporting accountability from the start. The VOTE Caucus published a Racial and Economic Justice Questionnaire in Read more…
Autumn is a beautiful season to gather in supportive and warm community, to share stories, and to reflect upon & celebrate our movement’s growth. We gather despite difficult times ~ with love and the dream that we can build community resilience that reflects our values Read more…
