Background article in Politico, “How a Liberal Michigan Town Is Putting Mental Illness at the Center of Police Reform†by Lynette Clemetson about Anthony Hamilton and his contact with the criminal legal system in Washtenaw County. https://www.politico.com/…/police-reform-mental-health… Here are four things we can do to Read more…
Co-sponsored by Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc.®, Delta Psi Omega Chapter, the Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice, and the NAACP, Ann Arbor Chapter Wednesday, June 30, 2021 ~ 7:00 8:30 p.m. via ZoomREGISTER HERE “The Black Woman is extraordinary. These true stories reveal courage in the Read more…
Join ICPJ for our first FUNdraiser of the year! We will have Ypsilanti artist, Rachel Montgomery, lead us as we paint our own art replication of one of her pieces. There will be time to meet and mingle with other guests and to enjoy the sunshine and being with others again. We will also be selling ICPJ t-shirts that say “Our streets don’t need violent police!” on the back as well as yard signs that say the same. We will have light snacks and encourage you to bring a water bottle. We will practice COVID safety guidelines as detailed by the CDC and based on each individual’s desired safety precautions.
You can get tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/icpjs-paint-mingle-with-rachel-montgomery-tickets-154289749795
General Admission : $45
General Admission + T-Shirt: $55
T-Shirt: $15
ICPJ is a member of Drive Michigan Forward (DMF) — a coalition made up of immigrants and allies. Our goal is to restore driver’s licenses to all and pave the way for basic dignity and security for members of our community.More information here. There are six important requests that we are making Read more…
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, Read more…
Registration Required Here: https://bit.ly/3wuCXld (case sensitive)
Join us on Thursday, April 29 from 7-8:30 to learn about the dangers of facial recognition technology and to join efforts to ban its use in Ann Arbor. Register at tinyurl.com/vwa4yxwm. For more information visit banthescana2.com.
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 ShirleyRegistration Required here. The Guardians of the Forest set fire to the equipment of illegal loggers in a bid to protect their ancestral homelands. Read more…
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.
In this second part of a two-part documentary, different sectors of Colombian society give their perspectives after the peace agreement. Registration Required Here We will screen the second half of the film by Jenni Kivisto & Jussi Rastas featuring interviews with FARC guerrillas about to Read more…
In this first part of a two-part documentary, different sectors of Colombian society give their perspectives after the peace agreement. Registration Required Here.
For this viewing, we look forward to having Maria Perdomo with us for discussion afterward. Maria is an Eastern Michigan University alum who has studied the multidimensional root causes and impact of the Colombian conflict. She has focused mostly on how the conflict has affected the rural areas of Colombia, as well as the grassroots movements and resilience of the Afro-Colombian, indigenous and peasant communities who face the challenges brought by the conflict before and after the 2016 Peace Accords. Maria is currently working as an analyst for the Permanent Mission of Chile to the United Nations, now focusing on the humanitarian, digitalization, crime prevention and criminal justice, and women’s issues portfolios, while also continuing to follow issues related to her dear homeland, Colombia.
Due to the length of this film, we will be showing it in two parts over two months.
Friday, February 5 | 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Saturday, February 6 | 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically exposed inequities caused by long-standing racism in the United States, revealing that the need for change is more urgent than ever. Join us in a free, Read more…
Registration Required HERE for online event. The Latin America Caucus of the Interfaith Council for Peace & Justice invites you to the documentary screening of Ruben Figueroa’s work connecting disappeared Central American migrants in Mexico to their families. For more insight and discussion, Hannah Zwolensky will join us. She Read more…
Wednesday, Jan 13th: 7-8:00pm
An important part of ending mass incarceration here in Michigan is fundamentally reforming our juvenile justice system. In this program, Mary King, the former Director of the Michigan Youth Justice Center, will be talking about some of the critical and time-sensitive reforms needed in Michigan’s Juvenile Justice System to address the horrendous racial disparities we find throughout this system. If, following this program, you decide you would like to become a youth justice advocate, we will be having a more formal, two to three-part training, in the near future. The Episcopal Church of the Incarnation is partnering with the Michigan Youth Justice Center and other organizations and faith communities to create a state-wide network that will promote the reforms our Juvenile Justice system so badly needs.
The zoom link to our gathering is:
https://zoom.us/j/93150340210?pwd=bXNaS2kxMFJpTlhFS0pxNzdhSmI2QT09
Passcode: 510302
The Poor People’s Campaign of Michigan and the PPC Lansing Chapter invites advocates and allies across Southern Michigan to participate in the first PPC Moral Monday event of 2021 – a car caravan at the State Capital calling for fair housing for the poor and criminal justice Read more…
ICPJ is a broad network that is constantly in motion doing work in multiple areas at the same time. Some of our Board members share why they are motivated to do the work they do in the community, and why they support ICPJ.
The Town Hall is hosted by the Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice and the Faith Leaders Forum
The Citizens for Racial Equity Washtenaw (CREW) is a group, co-chaired by Alma Wheeler Smith and Linda Rexer, that investigated whether there are racial disparities in sentences by judges in Washtenaw County. This one hundred page report found that Washtenaw County appears to have the same kinds of disparities in sentencing that we find nationally. We hope you will join us as we discuss the report and how our faith communities might best work to bring an end to this kind of discrimination. We would also appreciate your sharing this invitation with others that you think might be interested in joining us. Please register for the forum at this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMucuCtrj4vH9PFXaSnoJnMpKsgDAyk6u4a
Join Us on November 3 as we do our part to make this election more democratic in process and to make it more fun for those standing in line! Fill out this link to join our crew. We will be sending more details on Monday! https://forms.gle/B6zcskXQs7rAopwp9. Read more…
Rally November 4th ~ 4pm Diag ~ UM Ann Arbor ICPJ has been working with national, state, and county-wide partners over the last several weeks to organize and advocate to COUNT EVERY VOTE. We are part of the Washtenaw Action Council, a loose newly-formed coalition Read more…