VAAC’s Danny Jones Published in Detroit News on Prison Gerrymandering

Danny Jones, chairperson of the Voting Access for All Coalition, speaks from personal experience in a recent opinion article in the Detroit News, describing the harmful practice of prison gerrymandering: counting prisoners as residents of districts where they are imprisoned, even though they have no ties to that community, likely call a different district home, and are not even allowed to vote.

Michigan Liberation Monthly Assembly, September 3, on Ending Cash Bail

This Friday, September 3rd, from 6 to 8pm Michigan Liberation will be holding our Monthly Assembly.  The focus this month is on Ending Cash Bail. We’ll also be hearing from other organizers and organizations about some of their ongoing campaigns, including Clean Slate, End Truth and Sentencing  /  Restore Good …

VAAC Goal for National Voter Registration Month this September

At this week’s Tuesday morning Voting Ed and Outreach meeting, we set a goal for September (National Voter Registration month): to distribute flyers and posters to all the settings we have listed on our Community outreach spreadsheet during the first two weeks of September; to make contact with all 83 county jails …