Quick email today with two help requests. Newsletter coming next week. We need help this Saturday! OWOF has reserved a table at the Farmer’s Market this Saturday 5/27 to help promote the Gun Violence/Safety Awareness Rally on Friday 6/2 and the Pride March on Saturday 6/3. Can you take an hour to help at the […]
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One World One Family Newsletter April 2023 April seems to be hanging on a little longer – at least in the cold, dreary weather. We’re still calling it April for this newsletter too! MARK YOUR CALENDAR – GENERAL OWOF MEETING! Join us on Sunday, May 7 from 1-3 pm at Pierce Park Pavilion. It
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The Public Safety Strategic Planning Group – the group who is addressing police reform for our community – needs our input. Do you remember the Listening Sessions and calls for Police Reform? This group is the answer to that call. They are a serious group of citizens intent on bringing the highest standards to Chelsea
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Chelsea’s 2023 MLK Jr. Days of Service and Social Action Martin Luther King Jr. Day was a pretty amazing series of events this year. Twelve different community organizations sponsored activities and events and over 300 people participated at various times. Over $900 was raised to fund the activities (largely from a grant from the Michigan
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Hopefully you have all had some exposure to the activities planned for MLK Jr Day. In case you haven’t, this is the announcement of the different activities and links for more information. One World One Family created the first MLK Jr. event in Chelsea’s in 2002. This is our 21st straight year! This year,
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Reminder for Saturday! It's time to be seen! BRING A NON-PERISHABLE DONATION FOR FIA (Faith-In-Action).
New readings posted! Let's get together and talk next week! Wed, April 23, 7pm Articles, link and meeting info here: https://owofchelsea.org/resources/community-discussion/
Mr. Martinez participated in our immigration panel discussion on March 31. This happened the very next day!! Please call your representatives to stop the abuses of ICE and share with your friends and neighbors so they know what is going on!
Several new housing projects will be discussed ! Come learn.
To follow up on our excellent Immigration 101 discussion, this is an event to understand what is happening beyond our borders that causes so many people to leave their homes, families and cultures to make the perilous immigrant journey. Jesuit priest, Father Ismael Moreno (known to all as Padre Melo), is one of the foremost voices for human rights in his native Honduras. Close to the people most affected by oppression and poverty, Padre Melo is a soulful and analyst of the reality that the majority of Hondurans live. He is director of Radio Progreso/ERIC, a radio station center for reflection, research and communication at the service of the people throughout Honduras and Central America.
Reminder for the program on the current state of immigration in Washtenaw County and what we can do. Speakers will be from local and state Immigrant Rights groups. Monday, Mar 31 6.00 pm in the McKune Room. In-person only.
VERY important opportunity - to learn and to help. Monday, March 31 6-7.30 McKune Room CDL
