From The Flint Courier News: MICHIGAN – Voting Access for all Coalition (VAAC) launched a new video series to inspire voters to cast ballots to reform the criminal legal system in Michigan. The series of two compilation videos and seven shorter individual videos can...
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PRESS HIT: Coalition demands release of body cam footage from fatal shooting during an eviction
From Detroit Free Press: A coalition of police accountability and housing advocates called for the release of police body cam footage from a fatal shooting that took place during an eviction on Detroit's west side in July. A group of more than 30 people marched from...
PRESS HIT: Protesters demand change after Detroit man killed by bailiff during eviction
From The Detroit News: Detroit tenant rights groups are protesting the death in July of a 45-year-old man by a court bailiff who was evicting the man from his Detroit apartment. Sherman Lee Butler, 45, was shot and killed July 12 by a bailiff, who is an independent...
PRESS HIT: Michigan Medicine employees, unions picket for new contract
From Fox 2 Detroit: ANN ARBOR, Mich. (FOX 2) - Michigan Medicine employees took to the picket line Monday morning for a rally as their union pushes for a new contract. The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and United Michigan Medicine Allied Professionals...
PRESS HIT: International coalition pushes for action on Line 5 during Kalamazoo River spill anniversary
From Michigan Advance: Fourteen years after Enbridge’s Line 6B pipeline ruptured, spilling up to a million gallons of tar-sands crude oil into a Kalamazoo River tributary, environmental advocates continue to speak out against Enbridge’s pipelines, calling for a...
PRESS HIT: Created Equal: How incarceration impacts fatherhood
From WDET Detroit Public Radio Father’s Day is this Sunday, and while there are many struggles to being a parent, men who have been incarcerated citizens may find it very tough to be a father. There are many challenges for incarcerated parents — and while serving...