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LANSING, Mich., Feb. 6, 2024 - State Rep. Alabas Farhat (D-Dearborn) introduced House Resolution 182 today in response to the bigoted opinion piece about Dearborn published in the Wall Street Journal last Friday. Following the piece's publishing, leaders from across the nation, including Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and President Joe Biden, have spoken up against the vile rhetoric leveled against the city and its residents. "As a proud resident of Dearborn, I am deeply troubled by the fear-mongering...
State Rep. Abraham Aiyash (D-Hamtramck), Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-Detroit), State Sen. Stephanie Chang (D-Detroit), Breathe Free Detroit, the Detroit Hamtramck Coalition for Advancing Healthy Environments, Ecology Center and local residents. : Rep. Aiyash, Congresswoman Tlaib, Sen. Chang, environmental justice advocacy groups and residents hosted a press conference to call on the city of Detroit to hold US Ecology South accountable for its repeated odor violations and failure to be a good...
LANSING - Sens. Erika Geiss (D-Taylor), Stephanie Chang (D-Detroit), Adam Hollier (D-Detroit), and Paul Wojno (D-Warren) have introduced legislation that would require public schools to include lessons about the cultures of people of color and indigenous communities in their social studies curriculum to ensure that students are receiving an equitable education that responsibly represents history. Senate Bills 797, 798, 799 and 800 would require teachers to include one unit of instruction...
Senators Adam Hollier and Marshall Bullock join the League of Conservation Voters in asking the commission to draw fair maps based on real data and analysis. MLCV has a history of standing with Black and Brown communities who are often marginalized by reports and data that seek to erase their lived reality. We can not stand by as the MICRC make such consequential decisions with patently false data and analysis. Their own data suggests that a BVAP below 45% does not allow the Black community to...
NORTHVILLE, MI – Near a park bench dedicated to a Northville family of five who were killed by a drunk driver in 2019, Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) honored Congresswoman Debbie Dingell today for her fierce advocacy in Congress in memory of Issam, Rima, Ali, Isabella and Giselle Abbas. Dingell is leading the push in Congress to pass the bipartisan Honoring the Abbas Family Legacy to Terminate Drunk Driving (HALT) Act, which will ultimately require lifesaving drunk driving prevention t...
Washtenaw County Prosecutor Eli Savit has signed several policy directives designed to reduce inequities and promote public safety. Savit's 4-year term serving Washtenaw County citizens began January 1, 2021. His biography states "Most recently, Eli served as the City of Detroit's senior legal counsel, where he led criminal-justice reform work for Michigan's largest city." Savit is continuing his criminal-justice reform efforts in Washtenaw County. Savit said of his policy directives, "At the...
Marilyn Oliver was born and raised in Ecorse and has seen the city's ups and downs over the years. Now having been re-elected as the Ecorse City Treasurer, Oliver says she sees her role in city government as one that is able promote community in Ecorse. "I do not think that we reach out to the community to encourage involvement and engagement; I try to do that from this office," she says. Oliver spent 37 years working in the utility sector, where she gained skills in customer service,...
