With guest trainers Dr. Sarah Nahar and Jonathan Brenneman, organizers and educators working at the intersection of faith, social movements, and nonviolent strategy.
March 7 from 12:30-5:30 (lunch and childcare available); at St. Luke’s in Ypsi. https://givebutter.com/NVDATraining
Come to learn, practice, and share your questions, ideas, and consent!https://givebutter.com/SociocracyCircle4Name
Join us as we work to prepare for what we know, and what we don’t know. We will share more information soon!
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Join us on Thursday, December 11 from 5:30-7 pm at 16 S. Washington for the next community meeting focused on accountability and accessibility in the Sheriff’s Office. This is an opportunity for the community to directly name the conditions that we want to organize within and what we want to see in our neighborhoods. Snacks provided.
Register: givebutter.com/WCSOAccountabilityAndTransparency.
You can read the full responses to the community questions put forward during our last session at linktr.ee/ICPJ.
Join us on Saturday, November 22 from 10 am- 4 pm for our fall Connect & Act event. This is a great way to get involved whether you are new to movement work, or if you are a long-time organizer. When times get hard, we circle up and get to work! Register for in-person or hybrid attendance: Givebutter.com/CircleUp2025
In these times, we need music to encourage each other to stay strong, build community, and act for justice!
Come to our next Resistance Songs Sing-Along on Sunday, July 20, from 3 to 5 pm. We’ll be at the Episcopal Church of the Incarnation, 3257 Lohr Rd, Ann Arbor. Everyone’s welcome to sing along, lead a song, or just clap! Bring songs to share, instruments, and your energy!
This event is organized by Edith Lewis, Amelia Hefferlin, and Layla Ananda.
We look forward to singing with you!!
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 ones you have not yet met. We reach back so that we can move forward to meet the moment of tomorrow. Cheers to 60 years!
Register here: https://givebutter.com/60YearsStrong
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?
Let’s dive deeper into the roles and ways that each of us contribute to movements for justice.
Saturday: 10am – 5:45pm
Sunday: 2pm – 6pm
Monday: 10am – 2:30pm
Participants must be able to attend the whole workshop
What is an AVP Basic Workshop?
This interactive workshop provides people with tools for creating cultures of justice and peace in their personal and communal lives. This interactive workshop is an intensive, three-day learning experience which teaches interpersonal conflict resolution skills through a series of step-by-step processes. These experiences in small groups and one-to-one interactions build a sense of community and trust through exercises focusing on:
AVP workshops seek to assist people in personal growth and change, recognizing that healing ourselves and supporting the healing of others is an important part of justice work. We join together, participants and facilitators both, to explore our own corners of violence and seek more satisfying ways to respond. Each workshop is generally 12 – 20 participants.
Who is AVP for?
Everyone! And especially those who are or want to be actively engaged in creating positive change in the world. While not a civil disobedience specific training, you’ll find tools in AVP helpful, while not specifically a community organizer training, you’ll find tools in AVP helpful, while not a conflict transformation training, you’ll find tools in AVP helpful. If you’ve been doing peace building work for a long time or you are brand new to engagement, AVP workshops have useful tools. If you live in this world today, you’ll find tools in AVP for navigating the harshness of the world and planting seeds of beauty.
Where did AVP come from?
In the 1970’s, a group of inmates (the “Think Tank”) at Greenhaven Prison in New York had witnessed the Attica riots and were also concerned with the “revolving door” they clearly saw in their institution. Youth were appearing in prison for fairly minor offenses, only to return (sometimes multiple times) for increasingly more serious and violent crimes. That era saw conflict on our streets around the Vietnam War. As a result, the Society of Friends (Quakers), who were active in the prison and were known to have conducted non-violence training and intervention around the war demonstrations. Together, the inmates and the Quakers developed non-violence workshops, with the involvement of people like inmate Eddie Ellis (who later became nationally recognized for his work on prison reform) and Bernard Lafayette (SNCC and CORE Freedom March activist). The first workshop was held at Greenhaven in 1975.
Since then, AVP has continued to be facilitated by incarcerated people alongside volunteers from the outside while also spreading globally with people in communities across a diversity of cultures finding it valuable. From refugee camps to college campuses, rural farming communities to inner cities. While many Quakers continue to be involved, AVP is not a religious program, rather it is one that some participants integrate their faith or other worldview into while participating.
Registration Required: https://givebutter.com/KeysToWinning
There are five interactive mini-workshops that you can choose from:
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 threats and violence against Black, Brown, Indigenous, Jewish, Arab, Muslim, Palestinian, and queer communities.
We are organizing peace teams for Ypsi Pride, Friday, June 6th. If you want to join a Peace Team, please register for & attend this training.
Registration Required: givebutter.com/PeaceTeamTraining_2025May
Water For Life tells the story of three extraordinary individuals: Berta Cáceres, a leader of the Lenca people in Honduras; Francisco Pineda, a subsistence farmer in El Salvador; and Alberto Curamil, an Indigenous Mapuche leader in Chile, all of whom refused to let government supported industry and transnational corporations take their water and redirect it to mining, hydroelectric projects or large scale agriculture. Despite reassurances from companies and the authorities, they knew what lay ahead: contaminated water, environmental devastation, and the destruction of their communities.
It is a story of courage and determination, betrayal and corruption, death threats and murder, and of unexpected victories in the countryside and in the courts. It is a story that asks how economic development can grow in harmony with environmental protections. Above all, Water For Life illuminates a growing recognition of Indigenous rights and a rising demand for corporate responsibility and environmental justice that’s being seen around the world. It is a story that begins and ends with water.
This is a 2023 Documentary, 1h 29 min. Screening followed by community discussion.
Sponsored by: The Interfaith Council for Peace & Justice Latin America Caucus; and the University of Michigan, Latin America and Caribbean Studies (LACS)
Please share this flyer with others!
Registration Required: https://givebutter.com/Borderland
It lies within every undocumented immigrant family with the threat that at any moment they can be captured, incarcerated, deported; their lives destroyed. BORDERLAND | The Line Within not only exposes the profitable business of immigration and its human cost, but weaves together the stories of immigrant heroines and heroes resisting and showing a way forward, intent on building a movement in the shadow of the border industrial complex, recognizing the human rights of all.
There is a war on immigrants being waged every day in this country, and not just along the southern border – we have become a Borderland, the border is everywhere and within every immigrant. A massive surveillance, militarized and carceral apparatus has been built to capture, detain and deport millions of immigrants. Conservative forces which seek to influence government policy have created a road map for the mass deportation of immigrants. This is a travesty and we need to shift public opinion to support a movement for policy reform that values the human rights and aspirations of immigrants, and welcomes the economic and cultural contributions they bring to our society. The protagonists of Borderland | The Line Within, all immigrants themselves, express these values while exposing the border industrial complex that provides the scaffolding for the war on immigrants.
This is a 2024 Documentary, 1h 50 min. Screening followed by community discussion.
Sponsored by: The Interfaith Council for Peace & Justice Latin America Caucus; and the University of Michigan, Latin America and Caribbean Studies (LACS)
Please share this flyer with others!
| 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 have agreed to take on this effort. Join us for a community meeting where we will decide what accountability and transparency look like. We will hear about previous organizing efforts and questions still to be answered. We will identify areas where policy changes need to happen based on all that we know. And we will build a foundation for setting expectations for what a just public safety office should look like in Washtenaw County.
Sheriff Dyer will attend the session in order to listen to the community, but this is about naming what we expect to see. In a future meeting, she will have an opportunity to share policy actions she plans to take based on the listening sessions.
