Month: May 2022

  • ICPJ Generations Campaign Launch Party ~ Sunday, June 26th

    Register at the link here:
    https://bit.ly/ICPJGenerationsLaunchParty

    All Are Welcome!!!

    For no-cost tickets, please complete this form: https://forms.gle/SnxcBZCQb7ubKW6w5
    or email Info@ICPJ.org, or leave a message at 734.663.1870

    Now it the Time to Act Boldly for Racial and Economic Justice!

    ICPJ is launching the Generations Campaign – an opportunity to deepen community conversations, to build investment in our work and the community, and to honor the wisdom and passion of seasoned advocates and emerging leaders.

    The status quo is a powerful force. We cannot overcome it alone. We recognize that to build the relationships necessary to create just change, we need to move outside of what is, and move toward what will be.

    We need to mobilize more people in our communities to act, across differences, with aligned values toward a shared vision of racial and economic justice.

    We need to organize ourselves in ways that respect history, culture, and differences and that prioritize and build authentic relationships to deepen the impact of our work.

    We need to repair the systemic and intergenerational harms of white supremacy, capitalism, and militarism. We need to repair harms through transformative systems change – and also with liberating, healing practices within our relationships and in the ways that we go about this work.

    We need to sustain ourselves and our community so that we are ready for what comes next.

    The Generations Campaign is a three-year campaign to build ICPJ’s organizational capacity and our collective, community capacity to accelerate action to match the urgency of now.

  • Washtenaw Faces Race: Rescuing Democracy 2022

    Washtenaw Faces Race: Rescuing Democracy 2022

    Informed and educated citizens are essential to a working democracy. To this end, Ypsilanti District Library and Washtenaw Faces Race  present an evening conference of informative and thoughtful speakers who discuss how the issue of racism in the U.S. is currently and always has been entangled with threats against democracy. We invite you to attend this VIRTUAL community conversation.

    Rescuing Democracy 2022 – Before it’s too late

    Friday, May 13, 6-9pm

    REGISTER AT http://tinyurl.com/wfr2022
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    MORE INFORMATIONAThttps://washtenawfacesrace.weebly.com/2022-conference.html.
    FLYER IS ATTACHED

    The January 6, 2021 Capitol insurrection signaled the resurgence of the type of overt white supremacy that characterized most of U.S. history. Its aftermath affirmed a right wing subversion of the democratic process, facilitating a shift toward autocracy. 

    America’s history of racism enables these threats. Our democratic ideals are in danger. Can we rescue them before it’s too late? PROGRAM OVERVIEW

    Introduction and Overview

    What’s So Good About Democracy, Anyway?

    • Kay Wade, Social Studies Curriculum Specialist, Ann Arbor Public Schools

    Racism: Multi-Purpose Tool for Division and Conquest

    KEYNOTE: White Supremacy, White Populism, and Christian Nationalism: Can Democracy Long Endure

    Affirming Inclusive Democracy: Resisting media disinformation

    Also featuring selections from the: 

    Sponsors: Washtenaw Faces Race, Ypsilanti District Library, Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice, and the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History