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Let Me Tell You – Launch Event
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Friday, June 24, 6-8pm218 N. Adams St, Ypsilanti, MI48197 Join us to launch Let Me Tell You: Every Sentence Has a Story! Hear stories of how individuals living the reality of long sentences, and those that love them, survive, cope, and even thrive through long imprisonment and punishment. Celebrate our full humanity together and gain tools for how to…
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Detroit League of Women Voters Announce June Candidate Forums
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The Detroit and Gross Pointe Leagues of Women Voters are hosting candidate forums for the upcoming August 2 Primaries. For a full calendar of all forums dates as well as links to video recordings of the events, please visit the LWV’s ON-LINE CALENDAR .
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MI Coalition Spotlights Need for Jail-Based Voting Improvements
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From Public News Service Lily Bohlke, ProducerFriday, June 17, 2022 Jail-based Voting is needed. Voting-rights groups in Michigan are working to increase awareness about and access to voting in jails. In Michigan, anyone not serving a prison sentence is eligible to vote, although there are barriers often making it nearly impossible for those in…
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Support Jailed Voters
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Sign up to send election reminders to justice impacted folks! Vote By Mail in Jail is seeking volunteers to send postcards to incarcerated folks so they can remind their families and friends that they can vote and that their vote matters. Post cards will be provided that include important dates and requirements for voting –…
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Millennials & the Vote
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Be sure to watch the recording of this fantastic event HERE. VAAC Member, Amani Sawari shook the house with her powerful spoken word piece Ballot Means. Join millennials for a community conversation about voting. This event will take place on Friday, June 17th 2022 from 1pm – 2:30 pm. Register HERE. From Michigan United: Join…
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Candidate Forum Alert!
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Candidate Forum Alert! With important elections coming up in August and November, now is the time to get to know who is running and hear from them directly. That’s why we are launching this new feature to let you know about candidate forums that are planned throughout the election season. If you know of any…
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Sentencing Project Article on extending Voting Rights in Prison
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VAAC has a long term goal to influence Michigan policy to allow for voting in prison. Currently Maine, Vermont and Washington DC allow people who are currently incarcerated serving a sentence to vote. Connecticut, Oregon, Illinois, New York and New Jersey are working on legislation to bring voting to those incarcerated with felony sentences. The Sentencing…
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Inkster Expungement and Community Resource Fair
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Inkster Expungement & Community Resource Fair hosted by Attorney General Dana Nessel, Mayor Patrick Wimberly and the Inkster Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. Saturday, June 25, 2022, from 9 am – 1 pm. at Booker T. Dozier Recreation Complex, 2025 Middlebelt, Inkster, MI 48141. Expungement Walk-ins are available on a first come first…
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Get yourself & your organization ready for the 2022 elections
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The Michigan Collaborative to End Mass Incarceration (MI-CEMI) created a toolkit to educate voters and candidates about Ending Mass Incarceration and Promoting Public Safety. Please join our weekly VAAC meeting on June Friday, June 17th, from 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm when Chuck Warpehoski will take us through the messaging we need to adopt and…
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Black Voters Matter Event in Grand Rapids
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Black Voters Matter Event in Grand Rapids. June 4th, 2022 from 2-4 pm. 1970 S. Division, Grand Rapids. At this event, you can register to vote, update your voter record, sign petitions, check your voter status and more! There will be food, music, giveaways and fun! For more information, visit the Grand Rapids PROACTIVE Facebook…
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Expungement Fair in Southfield
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Michigan Liberation presents an Expungement Clinic & Resource Fair! Saturday, June 4, 2022, from 11 am – 3 pm. at St. David’s Episcopal Church 16200 West 12 Mile Rd., Southfield/Berkley, MI 48076 Pre-register by clicking this LINK This event is open to the public.
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Voting Rights and the Criminal Legal System
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Click HERE to watch the video recording of this powerful, informative event. The Detroit League of Women Voters and Detroit Public Library are sponsoring a panel on Voting Rights and the Criminal Legal System. This discussion will bring together representatives of several organizations that address the treatment of voting rights of currently and formerly incarcerated…
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