Join us for this week's AMP Seeds event, Hood Work: Neighborhood as Resistance 🌱
We are reflecting on what it means to create networks of care as we celebrate Detroit-rootedness with our in-person Seeds Series gatherings and hold space for grieving and mourning the manufactured climate suffering ([link removed]) that has visited our region this summer.
The intersecting heartbreaks of the present moment call on us to renew our commitment to systemic change and uplift the Detroit-rooted teachings about transformation and grounded connection through the power of community and grassroots organizing.
This Thursday’s Seeds event, Hood Work: Neighborhood as Resistance ([link removed]) , centers the vision of our ancestor Grace Lee Boggs’ ([link removed]) potent organizing principle of “One Inch Wide, One Mile Deep” as we consider the resources and networks of care and creativity needed for our communities to thrive. In the case of unsafe conditions, the event will be moved to a virtual platform and registered guests will receive instructions on how to access the virtual stream.
We look forward to gathering at MoCAD for Hood Work: Neighborhood as Resistance ([link removed]) , a conversation between neighborhood-rooted artists driving Detroit’s cultural renaissance. Hear from Asia Hamilton of Norwest Gallery, ([link removed]) Bryce Detroit ([link removed]) of Detroit Recordings, and Tyree Guyton of the Heidelberg Project ([link removed]) as they discuss how they’re proudly creating from the hoods of our city while resisting gentrification and erasure with creativity, innovation, and community care. The conversation will be moderated by artist Scheherazade Washington Parrish ([link removed]) .
For more information regarding the content of this week's event, check out these interviews:
* Listen in to this conversation with Liz Kennedy and Tyree Guyton on Michigan Radio regarding the Hood Work event ([link removed]) (the interview starts at about 13:02).
* AMP Seeds was also featured on Culture Shift (WDET). Bryce Detroit and Nandi Comer in conversation with Tia Graham ([link removed]) (Friday, July 7, 2023).
Register for Seeds Series! ([link removed])
Save the date and RSVP for all of these special events taking place this summer in Detroit! All events take place at 7 pm.
[link removed] Nourishment: “Gather” Film Screening ([link removed])
August 3rd, 2023 | 7:00 PM | Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
Here on occupied Anishinaabe land and beyond, food is one of the most powerful tools we have to build community and repair lineages lost to genocide, colonization, and assimilation. Join us for a special screening of Gather ([link removed]) , a 2020 film that captures the growing and vast food sovereignty movement of Native Americans across Turtle Island building community, restoring ancestral foodways, and reclaiming Native food and agriculture systems. Stay after the film to hear from “Gather” chefs and activists Twila Cassadore ([link removed]) and Nephi Craig ([link removed]) alongside local food sovereignty activist and farmer Kirsten Kirby-Shoote ([link removed]) as they reclaim and heal their spiritual, political, and cultural identities through food. This panel will be moderated by Black agrarian
activist and Detroit farmer s ([link removed]) hakara tyler. ([link removed])
[link removed] Love: Building an Environmentally Just Detroit ([link removed])
September 14th, 2023 | 7:00 PM | LOVE Building
From summer floods to widespread power outages, all Detroiters are impacted by the escalating climate crisis and unjust environmental policies facing our city. This community panel will bring together an intergenerational coalition of organizers from Detroit’s environmental & climate justice movements dedicated to amplifying the solutions we need to ensure safety and equity for all. Rooting in Detroit activist and water warrior Charity Mahouna Hicks’ call to “wage love,” we’ll share fellowship, strategies, healing, and visions for an environmentally just Detroit.
Honor Disability Pride Month with Detroit Disability Power
On July 26, 1990 the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law and every Julyhttp://www.DetroitDisabilityPower.org/donate since we’ve celebrated Disability Pride Month in the U.S.! The passing of the ADA was monumental for the disability community, but it was only the beginning and we still have a lot of work to do to ensure equity for people with disabilities. As our partners at Detroit Disability Power ([link removed]) put it, “The ADA is the floor, not the ceiling. We organize to build on the wins of the ADA, and create a more accessible and inclusive community for everyone.”
In honor of the 33 years since the passage of the ADA, here are 3 facts about disability:
1) Disability is a normal, beautiful part of human diversity.
2) Disabled people are part of every community on earth–always have been and always will be! The disability justice movement is, therefore, inherently intersectional.
3) People with disabilities account for over 20% of the population–our community leaders must organize with this in mind.
Learn more about disability inclusion and dismantling ableism by checking out these resources compiled by our partner, DDP ([link removed]) and support DDP in moving into the LOVE Building! ([link removed])
Core City is Under Attack!
EVERYONE OUT! Core City is under attack.
[link removed] the Monday July 17th Board of Zoning Appeals public hearing online or in-person at 9:45am to stop Murray Wikol's concrete crusher from going in RIGHT beside Core City homes, businesses, churches, and schools.
No Detroit community should be used as a sacrifice zone for 3-5 seasonal jobs and a whole lot of profit for an industrial developer from Bloomfield Hills. It'll create toxic fugitive dust and bring 10-60 dump trucks to our community A DAY. This is environmental racism and economic discrimination in plain sight.
A free bus is available and will leave from Core City. All Detroiters are welcome.
RSVP now: [link removed]
Indigenous People’s Day in Detroit
[link removed] join us in urging the City of Detroit to formally recognize Indigenous Peoples’ Day as an official city holiday by making public comment during the Formal Session meeting on Tuesday, June 27 at 10am:
* In-person: Coleman A. Young Municipal Center, 2 Woodward Ave., 13th Floor
* Via Zoom: bit.ly/det-council
* By phone: 929-436 2866 OR 312-626-6799 | Mtg ID: 85846903626
[link removed] theme of Afrofuture Fest 2023 is Communal Sufficiency. Join us as we celebrate African Liberation by uplifting our existence outside the realms of capitalist infrastructure. All proceeds go to Feedom Freedom Growers and supports our farm, wellness, political education, and organizing programming.
For more info on FFG, view our latest documentary produced by Visionary Organizing Lab ([link removed]) .
Donate to Support AMP's Work of Cultivating Media for Liberation! ([link removed])
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