McKinney brings Green Party race to Detroit

The Michigan Citizen covers Cynthia McKinney's visit to Detroit.

The Metro Times on the Truth Commission for Water Rights, the event that opened her appearances in the Detroit area.

Moratorium NOW Coalition to Stop Foreclosures Meeting the Saturday

Coalition Meeting
Saturday, May 17, 2 PM
Central United Methodist Church
23 E. Adams, Detroit
Update from the
Moratorium NOW! Coalition to Stop Foreclosures and Evictions
phone: 313-319-0870
website: www.moratorium-mi.org
email: moratorium@moratorium-mi.org

We can stop foreclosures in Michigan! But only a mass movement can do it – by winning passage of Senate Bill 1306 (a 2-year moratorium on foreclosures) introduced by Senator Hansen Clarke last week. You can be sure the bill will go nowhere unless every progressive group and individual gets out organizing – leading up to a huge occupation of people outside the Capitol. With hundreds of thousands of foreclosures in Michigan this is possible. The bankers have already denounced the bill. Will you take on these bankers with us?

Come to the Coalition Meeting
Saturday, May 17, 2 PM
at the Central United Methodist Church, 23 E. Adams (at Woodward), Detroit

Statewide Office for the Moratorium NOW! is now open
The Moratorium NOW! Coalition now has a state-wide office. The Grand Opening was on Monday, May 12. It will serve as the nerve center for building the grassroots, mass movement that is needed to win the 2-year moratorium. We thank Rev. Rowe of the Central United Methodist Church and the Michigan Welfare Rights Organization for making this happen.

Location: 4th floor of the Central United Methodist Church, 23 E. Adams, Detroit

Hours: Monday-Friday, 11 AM - 3 PM

Hours will certainly expand as the movement picks up steam.
We need organizing centers around the state
Every city, every town and every village in this state needs to be organized! Become an organizing center. It's not hard, and we will help you in any way that we can. Call 313-319-0870 today!

Already, the Moratorium NOW! coalition has an organizing center in Benton Harbor. If you live in or near Benton Harbor, please contact Pastor L. Andre Golliday, of the World Embassy Church, at 269-325-7816, to get involved in this very important campaign.

Email your elected state representatives
We have made it easy to do. Go to www.moratorium-mi.org and click on the
JOIN the Email Campaign for a Moratorium NOW link.

Then call your own state senator and representative repeatedly, and insist that they support Sen. Clarke's bill calling for a 2-year moratorium on foreclosures. The phone numbers are available at the website.

"The Foreclosure Crisis: What Can We Do About It?"
Senator Hansen Clarke will be giving a speech "The Foreclosure Crisis: What Can We Do About It?", the Saturday, May 17, at 10 AM at the Royal Oak Community Center, 3500 Marais, Royal Oak.

Leaflets and Background info
Get leaflets and background material on the foreclosure crisis at the Moratorium NOW! website. We will post them as soon as they becomes available.


A Home is a Right!,
Mike Shane
Moratorium NOW! Coalition

Cynthia McKinney to visit Detroit May 3-5

Cynthia McKinney who is seeking the Green Party nomination for President, will be appearing here in Detroit this weekend.

On Saturday, she'll sit on the Truth Commission on Water Rights, hosted by the Michigan Welfare Rights Organization. (flyer)

That evening from 7 - 9 pm, Cynthia will be at a public event to be held at Friends School in Detroit, 1100 St. Aubin Street Detroit, MI 48207-2896

On Sunday afternoon, a fundraising event will be held at Central United Methodist Church, 23 East Adams at Woodward Ave. (flyer)

Stay tuned for more details and events as they are scheduled.

In the meantime, visit www.runcynthiarun.org

Green Party of MI selects Convention Delegates

McKinney Wins 13 of 19 Statewide Votes for 1st Ballot at GPUS Convention July 10-13 in Chicago; 3 for Nader; 1 Each for Mesplay, Swift, Uncommitted; Locals Will Pick, Instruct 5 More Delegates

Party Starting Drives to Boost Membership, Recruit Record Number of Candidates; Will Post "Announced" Candidates List Online by May 13 to Help Groups Considering Endorsements

more here.

April 18th rally to support AAM strikers

Click here to view the rally flyer

UAW members and supporters will rally at 11:30 am on April 18th at Detroit’s Hart Plaza to support striking workers at American Axle.

More than 3,500 UAW members from UAW Locals 235, 262 and 2093 in Michigan and UAW Locals 424 and 826 in New York have been on strike since February 26 to protest unfair labor practices.

“The support our members have received during this strike is overwhelming,” said UAW President Ron Gettelfinger. “We’ve heard from members of the clergy, from local businesses, from community leaders - and of course from UAW members and the entire labor movement.”

“Our rally on April 18th will be a great time to show solidarity with American Axle strikers, and to demonstrate support for keeping manufacturing jobs here in the United States,” said Gettelfinger.

“Even business publications, like the Automotive News, can’t understand how American Axle can justify giving pay raises to executives while demanding pay cuts from workers,” said UAW Vice President James Settles Jr., who directs the union’s American Axle Department.

“In addition to their unjustified economic demands,” said Settles, “AAM has refused to provide us the information we need for bargaining, and has illegally cut off disability payments and health care for injured workers, as well as compensation — including health care– for laid off workers. That’s why this is an unfair labor practices strike.”

“Our members at American Axle are standing up for what’s right - and we’re inviting our entire community to stand with us on April 18th at Hart Plaza.”


Click Here for more information about the rally from the U.A.W.’s Main Site

Film Showing: The Water Front

THE WATER FRONT is a newly released documentary with a gripping plot following a post industrial community in their struggle against water privatization. The sound track includes the soulful tunes of Detroit bluesman Joe L. Carter’s and resonates with anyone who uses their water tap and takes pride in their home.

-- www.thewaterfrontmovie.com --

Date: Wednesday April 9th, 2008, 6:30 – 7:30 (film) Panel following 7:30 – 8:30
Admission: FREE
Location: 1500 SSB (Social Science Bldg), University of Michigan-Dearborn
UM-Dearborn, 4901 Evergreen Road, Dearborn, MI, http://www.umd.umich.edu/maps_directions/

Panel: Marian Kramer & Maureen Taylor of Welfare Rights, Diana Seales of East Michigan Environmental Action Council,director Liz Miller, film producer and urban planner Curtis D. Smith, Detroit bluesman Joe L. Carter

Contact: Bruce Pietrykowski 313-593-5096 Liz Miller – 860.922.3995
Curtis D. Smith 313.590.6317

Shut it down!

If for no other reason than the increased rates of asthma and other respatory diseases in the area, the Detroit incinerator must be shut down.

If for no other reason than the over 1 Billion dollars of Detroit taxpayers money that has literally gone up in smoke, the Detroit incinerator must be shut down.

If for no other reason than it consumes much of the valuable waste that would otherwise feed the recycling stream, the Detroit incinerator must be shut down.

Shut it down!

The big burn (Metro Times Detroit)

Southeastern Michigan Greens Get Together, Sunday in Ferndale

Southeastern Michigan Greens Get Together -- March 30 -- 2 - 5 pm

All Greens and their family, neighbors and friends are invited for a
Southeastern Michigan Greens get together.

Snacks provided. Those who want to can go out together for
dinner afterwards.

Location:

Kulick Community Center
1201 Livernois, Fendale MI 48220
(between 8 and 9 Mile Roads)

map.

Proposed discussions include:

Discussion of the current political and economic situation in the nation,
state and locally and Green responses

The Cynthia McKinney Presidential Campaign
Information on the Ralph Nader Presidential campaign
Any other Green presidential campaigns

Targeting local and statewide races
Proposals for common work and actions

Announcements

We will work up an agenda and times based on who is there and what they
want to talk about and work together on.

See you there.

Fred Vitale
State Chairperson

Support the Union of Part-Time Faculty at Wayne State University

An appeal to Union of Part-Time Faculty (UPTF) supporters:

In recent weeks, the Union of Part-Time Faculty at Wayne State
University has reached a critical juncture in our negotiations for our first contract that began in November 2007. The WSU administration has said "no" to job-security for our members, even those with many years of service to the university. Rather than recognizing longevity as a contractual basis for future employment, the administration has proposed a vague concept: "first consideration." As a replacement for the simple and democratic principle of seniority, first consideration is both inadequate and ill-defined. The UPTF has informed the administration that it will not accept a contract without serious job security provisions. The union is also dismayed by Wayne State's attempt to maintain 15 separate wage scales for instructors doing the same work.

To support the union's proposals, contact WSU President Irvin Reid and tell him that you support the fundamental right of job security and equal pay scales for UPTF members. If writing an email to Reid please cc it to: uptf@aftmichigan.org.

For more information and/or background on the UPTF visit: www.uptf.org.

Thank you for your support.

In unity and solidarity,
The UPTF Union Council

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Office of the President
Attention: President Irvin D. Reid
Wayne State University
4200 Faculty/Administration Building
Detroit, MI 48202
Phone: (313) 577-2230 / Email: president@wayne.edu
Fax: (313) 577-3200

Letter to President Reid.pdf

Earth Hour 2008

Information about Earth Hour 2008, history, 2007 - Earth Hour 2008

Detroit Greens on 5th Anniversary of War in Iraq

Detroit Demonstration Against the Wars at Home and Abroad - Saturday, March 15th

On the 5th Anniversary of the Iraq War March and Rally to Demand:

* Troops Out NOW! from Iraq & Afghanistan

* Money for Our Cities - Not for War!

* Stop the War on Palestine – End the Siege of Gaza

* U.S. Hands off Iran

The United States’ plans for global domination are being met by worldwide resistance.

· The occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan are a military disaster.

· Iran – which threw out the U.S. installed dictator (the Shah) in 1979 – refuses to bend its knee to Washington and Wall Street, so Bush and Co. are threatening a new war.

· Israel, armed and directed by the United States, rains down death and destruction upon the Palestinians. Yet the Palestinian people continue to demand their right to a homeland and the right to return to their homes in Zionist Israel. In Gaza where the Palestinian people are subjected to a brutal siege – no food, water or electricity allowed in – over 500,000 Palestinians broke through huge border wall with Egypt to get supplies. This was the greatest jailbreak in history!


Saturday – March 15, 2008 – Noon

Gather at Coleman A. Young Municipal Center

(Woodward Ave. at E. Jefferson Ave, Detroit)

March up Woodward Avenue - 1:00 PM

Rally in Central United Methodist Church – 2:00 PM (Woodward Ave. at Adams St.)


Sponsored by: Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice

313-680-5508


Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice

The Detroit Cynthia McKinney for President March Meeting is tomorrow, Wednesday March 12

Meetup.com Meeting Reminder

The Detroit Cynthia McKinney for President Meetup
Your Meetup has a meeting Wednesday, March 12 at 7:00PM!

What:
The Detroit Cynthia McKinney for President March Meeting

When:
Wednesday, March 12 at 7:00PM

Where:
Cass Cafe
4601 Cass Ave
Detroit MI 48201

*Fred Vitale*
/Organizer of The Detroit Cynthia McKinney for President Meetup/


The Detroit Cynthia McKinney for President March Meeting

Join American Axle workers on the picket line today

Detroit Greens and other supporters will join the
striking American Axle workers on the picket line today,
Monday March 10 from 6:30pm - 7:30pm.

Meet at:
UAW Local 235
2140 Holbrook, Hamtramck
(just E. of the I-75 Holbrook exit)

Please bring canned food for those working the picket line.