According to Global Exchange, the Easter Bunny is choosing Fair Trade Chocolate this year, and he encourages you to do the same. Here’s the press release they sent. It’s good to remember social change can be fun, and tasty! Continue Reading »

Last week Joel Devonshire, a member of ICPJ’s Latin America Task Force, had the following “Other Voices” piece published in the Ann Arbor News. Continue Reading »

The Ann Arbor City Council is considering a resolution to push Congress to bring an end to the war in Iraq, and ICPJ is supporting this effort.

Here is our statement to the Ann Arbor City Council Caucus session regarding this peace resolution: Continue Reading »

by Chuck Warpehoski, Director, Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice

Remarks at the Week of the People Press Conference on March 13, 2007

Good morning and thank you for joining us for this morning’s press conference to kick off the Week of the People.

I’m Chuck Warpehoski, the Director of the Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice. Our program for today is that I will give opening remarks, followed by comments from our other speakers, and we’ll finish with questions and answers.

This press conference kicks off the Week of the People our chance for We the People to take our country back from the current path of war and turn it in the path of peace.

And we’ve gathered a strong coalition of students, veterans, people of faith, civic groups, peace organizations, artists, musicians, parents, and others to join us for this week celebrating peace and democracy.

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Our phone has been ringing off the hook for these tickets, the opening should be amazing. Here’s how you can get your tickets (more details at zeitounamovie.org) :

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Beehive Collective presents “DISMANTLING MONOCULTURE: Tales of Ants and Economics in the Americas.”

With three giant illustrated portable murals, a six foot tall fabric storybook “slideshow”, and an engaging narrative, the Bees take audiences on an interactive VISUAL tour of the connections between COLONIZATION, MILITARIZATION, and RESOURCE EXTRACTION in the Americas.

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