One World One Family
April 2025 Newsletter
COMMUNITY DISCUSSION PART 2
Americans are witnessing a rapid transformation of government entities that now impact (and will impact further) our community. The articles we will discuss at this session include an article by Bonnie Honig that discusses the value of “public things” – namely the value beyond the monetary. The article by Steven Robinson describes a community pulling together to protect itself from a project that threatened their “public things”. The article by Scheiring, formerly a member of the Hungarian Parliament, outlines the steps Orban has taken to destroy the democratic state but suggests what he says it takes to undo that destruction of institutions held in public trust. What do we, as a community, consider public goods? Can we, through considering what author Bonnie Honig calls “public things”, define what it is we want to fight to preserve? Do we have the will and tenacity to construct a resistance like that described by Robinson? .
Wednesday, April 23 @ 7pm in the Board Room at the Washtington Street Education Center (WSEC). Join us in person or on zoom.
The ARTICLES and ZOOM link are posted on the web page HERE.
Questions? Email owofchelsea@gmail.com
IMMIGRATION 101 – March 31 Panel Discussion
A very full McKune room at the Chelsea District Library heard local activist groups discuss the status of an ongoing, aggressive campaign to deport undocumented residents in Washtenaw County. (Note – Ramiro Martinez, a US Citizen and the partner of one the panelists, was physically restrained and harassed by ICE the day following the presentation.) Speakers included: Laura Sanders, Mary Ann Perone (and Ramiro Martinez) from MIRA* & WICIR*, Marjorie Ziefert and Chuck Kieffer from MIRA, and Rebecca Olszenski from MIRC*. Please contact OWOF if you’d like to get more information about follow up “Know Your Rights” trainings being planned in conjunction with these groups.
*Michigan Immigrant Rights Action, Washtenaw Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights, Michigan Immigrant Rights Coalition (state-wide group)
Immigrant Rights ACTION – Know Your Rights Training.
Learn what is legal and how ICE is required to operate – and what is actually done. Washtenaw County immigrant rights organizers will help you learn how to be a proper bystander – to help and to document, to avoid causing harm to the detainee and yourself. Teams will be formed to approach area businesses to provide the same materials already provided to area restaurants. It is not necessary to be on a team but chances are good you may encounter ICE in action. Training makes for a safer community for all! Email owofchelsea@gmail.com for more information about upcoming training opportunities.
The Board of One World One Family has also chosen to focus on the need for affordable housing in our area. Housing is a regional issue. It will take all of us, working together, to implement housing affordability solutions.
Western Washtenaw Regional Advisory Group (WWRAG) is a group of representatives from all area governmental entities. This group focuses on HOUSING on a quarterly basis. The April 16 meeting will be a working session for a followup session to the Housing Solutions Town Hall (video of 1/18/25 event here). Come learn how this important matter is being addressed. Also note that the new Chelsea Area Housing Commission will have their first public meeting in April as well. All are encouraged to attend!
WWRAG – Wed, April 16 @ 7pm. Chelsea Council Chambers
Housing Commission – Tues, April 22 @ 7pm. Council Chambers
Other EVENT OFFERINGS in our Area
See respective websites for additional information. Feel free to email owofcheslea@gmail.com if you have an event you’d like to be included in an upcoming OWOF newsletter. Thanks!
The US border is not just a geographic location.
The border is everywhere.
It lies within every undocumented immigrant family with the threat that at any moment they can be captured, incarcerated, deported; their lives destroyed. BORDERLAND | The Line Within not only exposes the profitable business of immigration and its human cost, but weaves together the stories of immigrant heroines and heroes resisting and showing a way forward, intent on building a movement in the shadow of the border industrial complex, recognizing the human rights of all.
Come to a screening of this important film!
EQUALITY CHELSEA
General meeting. April 24 10am.
St. Paul UCC, Old US 12
Zoom available. Email them www.equalitychelsea.org
Screening of Will & Harper
April 28 @ 1pm
Chelsea Senior Center
OUR MISSION is more important than ever
One World One Family is committed to justice and equity for all*. We work to be anti-racist and to oppose discrimination in any form. We engage and empower people to have an impact and change systems to ensure everyone can participate fully in a diverse society.
* all / “ahl” / Noun 1.The whole human family, regardless of actual or perceived age, color, disability, familial status, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, height, disability status, marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, source of income, veteran status, or weight. Are you represented?
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