ISAAC
Elected officers meet to plan for the ISAAC Leadership Board meeting. In the Library of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church.
Be part of the fun & lively democratic process to choose which three of these local issues ISAAC congregations and organizations will work on together in 2016-17:
Education, Housing, Jobs, Poverty, Racism, Youth Violence
These 6 issues are the top priorities of residents of our core neighborhoods, but we can only choose 3 to work on at once!
Help restore cuts to K-12 education and increase high-quality early childhood programs and positive parenting education in Kalamazoo County.
In the Library of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church. Enter from S. Park St. and use the angled parking spaces.
Help implement the widely successful “Ceasefire” approach to ending youth violence. Clergy from Flint spoke to ISAAC and with the Governor’s office about how well Ceasefire is working there.
Why do we need to talk about racism? First off, when we talk about racism, we are not just talking about how we are as individuals. We’re talking about something bigger than just you and I or us in this room. We’re talking about systemic racism. It’s pervasive. It’s everywhere. When we make efforts to reform education, public safety, poverty, etc., we are able to make some progress. However, even with that progress you can always predict, without fail, who will be left behind? It will be people of color.
And you don’t have to choose whether you want to work on poverty OR to dismantle racism. You don’t have to choose whether you can improve education OR dismantle racism. You can do both. In fact, we need you to do both. We need you to fight for our babies AND fight the racism that keeps them from succeeding. We need you to fight for criminal justice reform, youth violence, fair housing AND fight the racism that keeps these systems from functioning fairly. And until we are able to talk about racism, we will continue trying the same things over and over again and get the same, predictable results. People of color left behind.
We all need to talk about racism, including White people, because racism misshapes and dehumanizes us all. White people must also join in the movement. This is not about helping, fixing, or saving People of Color. This is about White people finding their own self-interest in engaging in antiracism work in order to build authentic, accountable, and just multi-racial and multicultural relationships.
Why do we need to talk about racism? Because we don’t need what happened in Baltimore, Ferguson, Cleveland, and all over the country to happen in Kalamazoo. We will not stand for it.
Fernando Ospina and Lillie Wolff
Help expand public transit in Kalamazoo County. At Disability Network Southwest Michigan at the corner of Vine St.
Contact Michele McGowan, 269-345-1516.
Elected officers meet to plan for the ISAAC Leadership Board meeting. In the Library of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church.
Help expand public transit in Kalamazoo County. At Disability Network Southwest Michigan at the corner of Vine St.
Contact Michele McGowan, 269-345-1516.
Elected officers meet to plan for the ISAAC Leadership Board meeting. In the Library of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church.
Ed Genesis is an artist, poet, musician, organizer, entrepreneur, and community leader. Born and raised in Gary, Indiana and moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan permanently in his early 20’s, his love of art/music, his passion for his people and community, and his gift of creativity are evident in all areas of his work. In October 2018 Ed Genesis released a song to accompany the campaign he was working on around school push out, entitled Junior High, which was distributed nationwide including on his own iHeart radio station, Spotify, and iTunes.