Representing and advocating for welfare recipients, low-income people, and economically disenfranchised Michigan residents. #Right2Water #DetroitWater
Detroit, MI
Joined November 2008
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MI WelfareRights Org retweeted
At @MichiganEGLE #EJConference #Detroit listening to @EPAGreatLakes #KathyTriantafillou discussing @EPAEnvJustice data and mapping tools like #EJScreen @WHCEQ #CEJST and @CDCgov #EJI to report community-level harmful health effects & socioeconomic data
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.@MichiganEGLE EJ screening tool reports state data on various health indicators & community health. Presented by Katie Lambeth michigan.gov/egle/maps-data/…
MI WelfareRights Org retweeted
Alan Walts discussing #Justice40 & EJ TCTAC’s in @EPAGreatLakes & following up on Regional Admin Debra Shore’s description of how @EPAEnvJustice is changing how to get real $ resources to community based orgs! At @MichiganEGLE michigan.gov/egle/outreach/u…
MI WelfareRights Org retweeted
Join us for #MIWorldWaterDay in #Lansing with @NRDC @CleanWaterMI @FlintRising @MichiganPPC @MWRO & more! miworldwaterday.net
This #WaterWednesday is a celebration of the United Nations' #WorldWaterDay in our Great Lakes and the issues important to Michigan families.
Join us in Lansing to lobby for #WaterIsAHumanRight
miworldwaterday.net
MI WelfareRights Org retweeted
@BootsRiley at @waynestate Re: organizing lessons from Detroit, ‘There’s a difference between what u want ppl to do vs what u want them to know…that guided the style & how culture works….To change the culture u gotta have material aspects to the struggle! #Powerful
MI WelfareRights Org retweeted
Read more about what we can learn from the midterm elections from Maureen D. Taylor @MWRO
peoplestribune.org/2022/11/l… #Michigan #mwro #MidTermElections2022
MI WelfareRights Org retweeted
Appreciating @EPAGreatLakes #Region5 @MichiganEGLE leaders traveling & listening to community-based orgs like #Saginaw Community Alliance for the People on need to link utilities funding w/ HH affordability, COVID arrearage forgiveness & work force dev. @MWRO @PeoplesWaterDet
MI WelfareRights Org retweeted
Pleasure to meet w/ #Saginaw #Michigan residents & @MitchLandrieu @lieslclark @debrashore @EPAGreatLakes @RepDanKildee on new principle forgiveness $ for local water infrastructure. Thx to @conansmith @MichEnvCouncil @MWRO @PeoplesWaterDet @michigansierra @MichiganLCV @BGAlliance
MI WelfareRights Org retweeted
As America's largest anti-poverty program, Social Security is vital & life-changing for millions. I am its champion on the @WaysMeansCmte Social Security subcommittee, and work every day to fight poverty and ensure that every American can age with dignity. #ProtectSocialSecurity
MI WelfareRights Org retweeted
Such an important story on a long struggle with wealthy elected officials who refuse to be held accountable!
Yesterday we spoke with @nayyirahshariff of @FlintRising about the decision made by the MI Supreme Court to drop all the charges on the people responsible for the Flint water crisis.
Check it out here: youtu.be/pwajZ2RTIwc
MI WelfareRights Org retweeted
Yesterday our partners at @PeoplesWaterDet had a powerful conversation with Nayyirah Shariff of @FlintRising about the recent decision by the MI Supreme Court. Check it out here: youtu.be/pwajZ2RTIwc
MI WelfareRights Org retweeted
This is happening! We need our legislators to do the right thing. We Can't Wait any longer.
@GovWhitmer @MIHouseDems @MISenate
MI WelfareRights Org retweeted
The Sisters of Mercy join with the rejected millions—those without health insurance, without living wages, without clean water, without voter protections.
#PoorPeoplesCampaign #MercyForJustice #MoralMarch #ToThePolls
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#GlobalWomensStrike, Women of Color/GWS & Payday men's network delegation taking part in #PoorPeoplesCampaign Mass Assembly & Moral March in DC, join livestream poorpeoplescampaign.org/june…
MI WelfareRights Org retweeted
American dream for seniors is having their retirement be valued less and less. Just starving those people out, after they worked their whole lives.
MI WelfareRights Org retweeted
We demand a White House Poverty Summit with President Biden to allow this administration to meet with a delegation of poor and low-wealth people, religious leaders, and economists and to commit to an Executive Action Plan to Eliminate Poverty in 2022. #MoralAssembly2022 – at Washington, DC
MI WelfareRights Org retweeted
.@RepRashida and I have been fighting for justice together since long before we got to Congress, and I’m so proud to continue working together in Congress to take action and say #WaterIsAHumanRight.
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This highlights the problems with getting water infrastructure funds to the communities that need it the most--only 7% of utilities in the past 20 years have received these funds. michiganradio.org/environmen…
MI WelfareRights Org retweeted
Learning from amazing #Hamtramck MI High School students about their concerns w lead in drinking water + unsafe plastic bottled water. They say govt should help w reverse osmosis treatment + help for families with shutoffs & affordability probs. (Student faces hidden for privacy)
