PRIOR ACTIONS

Washtenaw Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights (WICIR) is a project of the First Congregational Church United Church of Christ, Ypsilanti. Read more about WICIR here.

ALERTS: RALLY  Join Us, Stand Up Tonight!

Washtenaw Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights (WICIR) is a project of the First Congregational Church United Church of Christ, Ypsilanti. Read more about WICIR here.

ALERTS: Fight Another Bad Bill in Michigan

HB 4388 — Amendments to the Social Welfare Act of 1939 is a bad bill for Michigan. It is wasteful, confusing, redundant, and morally wrong. Further it may violate current federal and state law and policy, and potentially endanger all of the federal funding contributed to Michigan’s public benefits programs. What on earth could possibly justify passing a bad law like this? Simple: it is anti-immigrant. In the minds of the racist Michigan congresspeople who have signed on to this bill there must be some race-hate-for-votes calculus that allows them to support this type of legislation. Get the facts, read more here, then write to your congressperson to make sure this bill doesn’t become law.

Washtenaw Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights (WICIR) is a project of the First Congregational Church United Church of Christ, Ypsilanti. Read more about WICIR here.

ALERTS: Demand KS Rep. Peck’s Resignation

Where: Spirit of Detroit      2 Woodward Ave Detroit, MI

When: Tuesday, March 15 · 2:00pm – 4:00pm

What: A group of undocumented students from Michigan will come out of the shadows and tell their stories. They are no longer afraid and will not have their lives dictated by Arizona style legislation. They are undocumented and unafraid.

Contact: Dayanna 313-319-5524 or Jose 313-721-5056         Email: info@1michigan.org

Bus to Downtown Detroit Departs @ Clark Park in front of Western Int High School 1:30PM. $5 to get on Bus / $20 with T-shirt & Bus Ride

Join us at the 2nd Annual Pilar’s Outreach for Haiti. We are a group of local individuals and small business owners joining forces with Pilar’s Cafe in hopes of helping to alleviate suffering for the people of Haiti. Last year we were moved by the devastation of Haiti’s earthquake and organized Pilar’s Outreach for Haiti, a benefit that mobilized community support and raised $8000 for earthquake victims.  This year, with chronic malnutrition and inadequate health services compounded by a cholera epidemic and over a million displaced people living in tents, we are compelled once again to take action on behalf of our fellow brothers and sisters in Haiti.

• Where: First United Methodist Church, 209 Washtenaw Avenue, Ypsilanti, MI 48197
• When: Friday, March 25th, 2011, 6:00 – 10:00 pm
• What: dinner prepared by Pilar’s, live dance music by Los Gatos, a silent auction, and children’s activities
• How: Get your tickets ahead of time ($15/adults; $5/kids) at Pilar’s Café located at 2261 W. Liberty, Ann Arbor, MI

Proceeds from this event will go to Partners in Health (PIH), a
501(c)(3) non-profit organization, on the ground in Haiti for over twenty years, 94% of their budget goes directly to serving Haitians utilizing a community empowerment model. In their own words, “We must continue to highlight the plight of the urban and rural poor throughout Haiti whose struggle against poverty and injustice pre-dated the earthquake and has been made immeasurably more difficult by the disaster.”

Please join us in our efforts to raise $10,000 for Partners in Health. In order to make this event, and more importantly, this fundraising effort, a huge success, we are seeking sponsors to commit to one or any combination of the following:

• Cash donations to Partners in Health
• Matching-fund sponsors
• Ingredients for our dinner
• Items for our silent auction

In appreciation of your tax deductable donation (tax id # 04-3567502), your business will be included in a special section of our program. We are extremely grateful for your time, consideration and generosity.

If you have questions or to make your donation, please contact us
at: 734-829-9978 or pilarsoutreachforhaiti@gmail.com

Yes you can do it. Now!

Please let your opinion be known about the proposed anti-immigrant (racist) bill that is awaiting a vote in Michigan’s house. Read the article in the AnnArbor.com then vote in the poll at the bottom of the page. Do we want the U.S.A. to turn into something like this…

Stand Against Racist Bill: HB 4305

Here’s what you can do to fight this injustice:

1. Tuesday, 3/1/11, @ 11:00 in Rm 424 of the Michigan State Capitol, join the clergy-led press conference sponsored by AIR (Alliance for Immigrant Rights and Reform). We urge all WICIR members and friends to attend this important meeting to show our opposition to HB 3205 this Bill.
   
2. Wednesday 03/02/2011: call and fax Gov. Snyder’s office to urge him to to block this bill in its early stages or veto it if it reaches his desk.
   

Stand Against HB 4305

Last week a group of anti-immigrant legislators introduced Michigan’s own version of Arizona’s controversial racial profiling law – House Bill 4305. Here are some reasons we must act today to stop this racist bill:

• It would require local police to do a job they didn’t apply for and haven’t been trained for: immigration enforcement.
• It would require aggressive racial profiling of Michiganders. In fact it would allow for legal suits being brought against our police if they weren’t racially profiling aggressively enough.
• It would increase expenses for taxpayers
• It would decrease our police officers’ effectiveness in doing the job they were trained to do since it would take them away from doing that job.

Governor Snyder has said he wants to attract immigrants and entrepreneurs to Michigan to boost our economy – but HB 4305 would drive them away.

Tell Governor Snyder to promise to veto HB 4305.

Governor Snyder wants Michigan to be a place where immigrants feel welcome, but HB 4305 is a direct assault on the immigrant community. Our economy will never recover if we drive off entrepreneurs and throw away tax dollars defending racial profiling laws.