Month: April 2021

Sunday, May 23rd, 3 – 5 pm (Remote)

Registration Required: https://bit.ly/3d5Hkur (link is case sensitive)

Click here to see the bios of Board member candidates nominated by the current ICPJ Board during its March 2021 Board meeting. Voting will take place during the Annual Meeting, from 3-5pm.
The Board-recommended nominees are:
Duaa Aljirafi
Trevor Bechtel
Kira Berman
Trische’ Duckworth
Bryan Foley
Kwame Hooker
Rev. Shonagh Taruza
Hillary Watson
Rabbi Josh Whinston

Vote on Bylaws changes here: https://forms.gle/1b9pNsHFYQciE4on7

Each current member of ICPJ may vote on the below bylaw changes. Voting begins April 23rd and ends May 23rd at 3:30pm (ET). If you need assistance, please email Info@ICPJ.org

Overview of Recommendations
#1 Recommendation — Article V: Update Board Responsibilities
#2 Recommendation — Article V: Update Number of Board Members possible
#3 Recommendation — Article V: Include Director/CEO/Co-Directors as voting members of the Board
#4 Recommendation — Article V: Add Executive and Programming Committees
#5 Recommendation — Article V: Create Youth Board Term of One Year

Flores Exhibit, with Voices of Youth in Border Detention
May 6th, 6:30 pm

Registration Required Here: https://bit.ly/3wuCXld (case sensitive)

Tuesday, May 11th | 7-8:30pm

Screening of two short films: Brazil: Guardians of the Amazon and Brazil: Impunity in the Amazon, followed by discussion with Ethan Shirley
Registration Required here.

The Guardians of the Forest set fire to the equipment of illegal loggers in a bid to protect their ancestral homelands. The destruction of the Amazon rainforest has increased sharply with the rise to power of Jair Bolsonaro, who insists that indigenous people own too much land.

“Among the nine federated states that make up the Brazilian Amazon, Rondônia has lost the most forest: a surface area the size of New York has been wiped up the map, up 50% from the year before.” Impunity in the Amazon continues from the Guardians to speak with small farmers in other areas of Brazil and the threats to their land and livelihood such as cattle farming and soya agribusiness.

Ethan is a conservationist, legal scholar, and extinction researcher. Working on conservation and sustainable development in the Brazilian Pantanal since 2003, his research addresses issues of past extinction in woolly mammoths as well as modern questions of ecology, environmental law, and policy to prevent extinction in the future. He holds a Master’s in Fisheries and Wildlife and a Juris Doctor from Michigan State University. Currently, he is a PhD candidate in Paleontology at the University of Michigan. He also holds active positions on the boards of Focus Conservation Fund, a conservation and ecotourism nonprofit, and Juara Foundation, which supports education and research in conservation priority regions.

The ACLU Of Michigan has released their report: The Border’s Long Shadow How Border Patrol Uses Racial Profiling and Local and State Police to Target and Instill Fear in Michigan’s Immigrant Communities. The report shows how U.S. Border Patrol, an agency within the U.S. Customs and Border Protection is engaging in racial profiling throughout the state of Michigan and uses state and local law enforcement agencies to target immigrants and other people of color.

For activists, check out this media toolkit to help spread the research.