Can’t make to the vigil to close the School of the Americas/WHINSEC in Ft. Benning, Georgia, this year? When you make a donation to the SOA Vigil scholarship fund, you help make the trip affordable to students and others who otherwise couldn’t afford to attend.

The 34th Annual Washtenaw County/Ann Arbor CROP Hunger Walk took place on Sunday, October 12th, and as the last walkers arrived at the finish, we had already raised over $45,000! Approximately 500 walkers joined together to walk against hunger, each of them raising funds for local hunger relief and international development and assistance. Among these walkers were congregants of many spiritual communities, clergy, families, children, elders, and community members who have been walking at the CROP Walk for over 30 years! Click here for photographic memories of this year’s CROP Walk.

We will continue to collect funds raised for several more weeks, so check back for the most recent updates.

Thank you to all who participated and made this year’s CROP Hunger Walk a great success!

On September 9, Fr. Roy Bourgeois, founder of School of the Americas Watch, spoke in Ann Arbor. If you missed the talk, you can see it now.

He also gave a lunch discussion for religious leaders, which you can see here (please note, the image quality is poor on this one).

Voter Education & Get- Out-The-Vote (GOTV) Activities - Brown Chapel AME Church Site, 1043 W. Michigan Avenue, Ypsilanti

• Saturday, October 11, 2008 at 10:00 A.M. Election Day Planning Meeting (Coalition Members & Volunteers)
• Saturday, October 18, 2008 at 10:00 A.M. Ballot Issues & Voter Empowerment
  Mary Bejian, Deputy Director, ACLU-MI Mark Francher, Staff Attorney, ACLU-MI
• Saturday, October 25, 2008 at 10:00 A.M. “Navigating the Election Process at the Polls” Derrick Jackson, Chief Deputy Clerk; James Price, MOTV Program Coordinator Washtenaw County Elections Division
• Saturday, November 1, 2008 at 10:00 A.M. Phone Bank Canvassing
• Tuesday, November 4, 2008 at 7:00 A.M. On-Site & Off-Site Election Day Activities

The Community is Invited to Attend and Participate in the Voter Empowerment Activities of the Coalition.

For further information, please contact: Pastor Jerry Hatter/Church Office at (734) 482-7050, Pastor Mark Lyons at (734) 663-9369 Ext. 4, or Carmelita Mullins at (734) 434-8726 / karma44@ comcast.net.

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Get on the bus! Join ICPJ as we attend the vigil to close the SOA/WHINSEC and promote human rights in Latin America, Nov 21-23, 2008

Come to the vigil to close the SOA/WHINSEC

The School of the Americas (renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation in 2001) has trained some of the worst human rights abusers in Latin America. Join ICPJ as we take a delegation to the annual vigil to say no to militarism in Latin America and Yes to human rights and justice. On November 21 to 23, ICPJ will join with School of the Americas Watch at the annual vigil to close the SOA/WHINSEC. We will be taking a bus, and we have scholarships available.

Visit our Latin America Task Force page for more information about this event.

The bus is full! These registration options are for people who have already begun the registration process but not completed it.

1. Download the registration form (Word or PDF) and mail it in to ICPJ with your deposit
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Come hear of the damage caused by cluster bombs by those who have had to live through them.

Meet two cluster bomb survivors, one from Lebanon and one from Afghanistan, as well as the mother of a Marine who was killed by U.S. cluster munitions.

Friday, October 10, 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. at Memorial Christian Church, 730 Tappan, Ann Arbor, MI 48104. Coffee and Bagles provided.

For more information, please contact Jennifer Mills at millsjen@umich.edu or download the poster.