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Out in the Community: Clearing Barriers, Celebrating Early Voting, and Making Every Voice Count
VAAC in Action Across Detroit Over the past week, Voting Access for All Coalition (VAAC) has been on the ground helping people across Michigan exercise their right to vote — from clearing warrants to celebrating early voting and sharing clear, accurate information about how to cast a ballot. Fresh Starts at the Warrant Clinic At…
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Join Our Urgent Storytelling Workshop: Fight Back Against Voter Suppression
Your story can make a difference—help protect our freedom to vote Across Michigan, dangerous petition drives are threatening our freedom to vote. Disguised as efforts to promote “election integrity,” proposals like proof of citizenship would require voters to show hard-to-obtain documents just to register, update their information, or cast a ballot. That’s why we’ve joined…
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Political Writing Workshop
You will leave this training with the basic tools you need to put your group’s goals and demands into an editorial for digital and print media outlets. We’ll cover how to stay on message, the necessity of being clear about goals and demands, who has the power to deliver them, and moving the public to…
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Compromise Budget Compromises Public Safety
Advocates give budget deal mixed reviews for investing in prevention, rehabilitation, and reentry for folks impacted by the criminal legal system MICHIGAN – Groups working to make Michigan safer and more just for everyone gave the recent budget mixed reviews for promoting public safety through violence prevention, rehabilitation, and reentry. Cuts to Community-Based and Peer-Led…
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Compromise Budget Compromises Public Safety
Advocates give budget deal mixed reviews for investing in prevention, rehabilitation, and reentry for folks impacted by the criminal legal system MICHIGAN – Groups working to make Michigan safer and more just for everyone gave the recent budget mixed reviews for promoting public safety through violence prevention, rehabilitation, and reentry. Cuts to Community-Based and Peer-Led…
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Michigan Voices: Ending Prison Gerrymandering
VAAC Executive Director Angela Davenport calls for fair representation in Michigan Read Full Article Here Prison gerrymandering distorts democracy. It occurs when incarcerated people are counted as residents of the prisons where they are held rather than their home communities during redistricting. The result is an artificial imbalance: rural districts where prisons are located gain…
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Michigan Voices: Ending Prison Gerrymandering
VAAC Executive Director Angela Davenport calls for fair representation in Michigan Read Full Article Here Prison gerrymandering distorts democracy. It occurs when incarcerated people are counted as residents of the prisons where they are held rather than their home communities during redistricting. The result is an artificial imbalance: rural districts where prisons are located gain…
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Roll Into Unity: Detroit’s Rolling Together Skating Party
Skating, joy, and building stronger community connections This weekend, join VAAC at the Rolling Together Skating Party at the Lexus Velodrome! As we fight for voting access and community empowerment, we also celebrate the joy of coming together. This family-friendly event, hosted by the Detroit Police Department and Detroit Public Safety Foundation, shows how unity…
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Striving for Justice and True Public Safety in the State Budget
Advocates call for increases in violence prevention and safe reentry after incarceration MICHIGAN – A group of justice advocates called for more support of proven, community-based violence prevention for those returning to their families and communities. The Michigan Collaborative to End Mass Incarceration (MI-CEMI) hosted a virtual press conference Wednesday calling on elected officials to…
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House Budget Proposes Dangerous Cuts to Healthcare, Food, Youth Justice
Last week, Matt Hall, the Speaker of Michigan House of Representatives, introduced the House Republicans 800-page budget proposal, gave lawmakers 1 hour to review it, and then passed it out of the House. The budget calls for major across the board cuts. As our fiscal sponsor, the Michigan League for Public Policy notes, it calls…