Interfaith Council for Peace & Justice

The Board and staff of ICPJ would like to thank all who contributed to make the 2019 Harvest Dinner a success!
We appreciate all who joined to fill the room with warmth and love ~ we appreciate all who supported with volunteer time and donations!

Thank you for celebrating our Honorees

ICPJ Peace & Justice 2019 Honoree
Yodit Mesfin Johnson
 
Peace & Justice Network Organization of the Year
Washtenaw Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights (WICIR)
 
Anti-Racist Advocate Award
Janet Nord
 
Emergent Leader Award
Hoai An Pham
 
Network Weaver Award
Ron Gregg 

~ Our Warmest Appreciation ~

Harvest Dinner Table Sponsors
Amy Rosenberg
Ann Arbor Thrift Shop
Episcopal Church of the Incarnation
First Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Ann Arbor
Janet Nord & Friends
Muslim Community Association of Ann Arbor
Vineyard Church of Ann Arbor
Washtenaw Poor People’s Campaign
Yodit Mesfin Johnson

Harvest Dinner Honorary Hosts
Mohamed, Mouna, and Imad Al-Azem
Mayor Beth Bashert
Francis Lyman
Betsy and Loch McCabe
Mary Anne Perrone
Veena Kulkarni-Rankin and Mike Rankin
Renee Roederer
Ashish and Norma Sarkar
Bryan and Layale Weinert
La’Ron Williams
Dwight Wilson

Harvest Dinner Sponsors
Jeffrey Alson
Janice Brimacombe
Jim Crowfoot and Ruth Carey
Dr. David and Carol Clifford
Betsy Foote and Tom Gebhardt
Mary Ann Hergenrother
Tallulah Lyons
Council Member Elizabeth Nelson
Jeanine Palms
Eli Savit
Jan Wright
Ian MacGregor and Vickie Wellman

Thank you for your generous contributions…
Michael Jadrich Ortiz and Vineyard Church for providing the sound system!

Reverend Donnell Wyche and Vineyard Church of Ann Arbor for generous in-kind donations to make the dinner successful!

Thank you for donating a professional photography session!
Abben & Lily, a local photography group for weddings, family portraits and other photo shoots. Visit abbenlily.com/

Thank you, David Hile, for donating gorgeous artwork included in our raffle! davidhile.com/about/

We are grateful for the donation from Tippins Market 4845 Ann Arbor-Saline Rd, Ann Arbor, MI 48103

Thank you to our Harvest Dinner Committee
Munir Khan
Betsy McCabe
Donna Mitchell
Bryan Weinert
Reverend Donnell Wyche

Thank you to our Harvest Dinner event volunteers!

Pam Hennigan
Caylin Luebeck
Rebecca Kanner
Sudha Bhat
Sarah Khan
Bob Milstein
Darlene Ladson-Barbosa
Betsy McCabe
Emmeline Weinert
La’Ron Williams
Cathy Bartholomay
Maria Ibarra-Frayre

Saturday, January 11th ~ 9 am to 12:30 pm (Doors Open at 8:30 am)
St. Luke’s Church at 4205 Washtenaw Ave., Ann Arbor (Great Room)

Hosted by Friends in Deed, Facilitated by ICPJ
This workshop is open to the public with prior registration for $35 per person. Download the flyer here. To register, please visit: poverty_simulation_jan11.eventbrite.com

To sign up as a volunteer, no experience necessary, please complete the form here.
For more information, contact [email protected]

A Poverty Simulation is a three-hour experiential learning workshop in which participants are sensitized to the realities of living in poverty. This is a simulation, not a game. In the simulation, participants are given scripted role assignments and structured situations. Some are newly unemployed, some have suffered a recent death in the family, and others are working low-paying jobs, sometimes only part-time. Still others are disabled or are senior citizens receiving social security. The availability of cash assistance is extremely limited in today’s world. “Families” meet the obstacles and bureaucracy of day-to-day life. Some families have preschoolers, others have elementary-aged children and some have teenagers. The task of the “families” is to provide for basic necessities and shelter during the course of four 15-minute “weeks.”

The 2019 ICPJ Spring/Summer Newsletter is available for download. Check it out for updates on Immigration Justice, Affordable Housing, Youth Arts Alliance, Colombia Peace Accords, Delegation to Honduras, and more.

We are calling on the ICPJ community to take a moment to send letters to your representatives to support asylum for Emilio and Oscar Gutiérrez Soto, members of the Ann Arbor community. We have made it easy – follow this link, enter your information, modify the suggested letter if you like, click, and send the letter(s).

Emilio Gutiérrez Soto is a Mexican investigative journalist who exposed military corruption in Mexico. Since then Emilio and his son, Oscar Gutiérrez Soto, had to flee to the US due to the active and imminent death threats targeted against them. They have been living in the US for ten years, always abiding by immigration regulations. Despite their compliance and strong case for asylum, their asylum petition has been denied.

Emilio and Oscar Gutiérrez Soto have become an important part of our community in Michigan. Help us support their efforts to seek asylum in the US and prevent them from being deported to Mexico, one of today’s deadliest countries for journalists. Please reach out to your representatives and speak up for Emilio and Oscar through the letter campaign.

See more information: https://www.michigandaily.com/section/government/dingell-upton-urge-halt-deportation-knight-wallace-fellow-emilio-gutierrez-soto

The 2018 ICPJ Winter Newsletter is available for download. Check it out for a report back from the 2018 Facing Race Conference, updates on Congregational Sanctuary, human rights organizing for immigrant youth, and much more.

Thank you.

I am so proudly grateful for what you and the whole ICPJ community do to:

• Train up the next generation of activists
• Speak out against injustice
• Provide sanctuary in the face on unjust deportation orders
• Change minds, change hearts, and change policies
• Care for the Earth
• Bring people together
• Speak out against Islamophobia

And so much more.

Thank you for making the world a better place.