Another Detroit is Happening
Heal Detroit Cleans Up Detroit, Block by Block: “The Takeover”
Group Emphasizes Cooperation over Confrontation
Heal Detroit will launch its second community restoration event:
Heal Detroit Clean-Up Campaign
“The Takeover”
Saturday, August 7th, 2010
9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Palmer Park Community Picnic
3:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Pontchartrain Drive & Seven Mile Road
The clean-up will occur in the following neighborhoods:
- Grand River/Greenfield/Fenkell
- Southeastern Detroit
- Old Westside
- Seven Mile/Van Dyke
- State Fair/I-75
- Seven Mile/Evergreen/Greenfield
- Southwest Detroit
- Puritan/Martin Park
- Brightmoor
- Mack/Bewick
- Highland Park
- Zone 8
“If the city is to change and violence is to abate, we must start from the bottom up,” said organizer Lakeisha Harris. That’s why we as citizens of Detroit are taking the lead to change the physical and cultural atmosphere in our city.”
Following the tragic shootings of 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley Jones and 17-year-old Jerean Blake, and the issuance of a call to a community-wide response to violence by Detroit-based entertainer Al Nuke and organizer Lakeisha Harris, Heal Detroit came together last month to initiate a march that drew more than 500 people who walked from the east and west sides of Seven Mile Road to converge at Palmer Park for a rally focused on peace-making throughout Detroit. The group consists of citizens and numerous community-based organizations. The groups “Urban Network,” “It Takes a Village Y’all,” and “Peace Zones 4 Life,” will serve as co-sponsors for the event.
Heal Detroit invites community organizations and businesses alike throughout the city to the clean-up and picnic. For more information, contact Lakeisha Harris at 313.974.5932.
Post AMC & USSF Conversation
Please join us for a post AMC & USSF conversation.
Wednesday, July 14th at 6:30 pm at the Boggs Center.
The Spirit, the participation, the emerging theory and practice as well as the growing commitment that: Another World is Possible! Another US is Necessary and Another Detroit is Happening was experienced by all those who attended the AMC and the USSF. Detroit is becoming a Chiapis of the North. We witnessed history and we made history.
On Wednesday, July 14, at 6:30, we invite you to share your reflections, your significant moments, new relationships and your questions/challenges that emerged in the “10 Days that Shook Detroit and our Country.” What did you learn? What does it mean for our work locally, regionally and nationally.
The Detroit Anchor Organizations, and all the organizations and friends from across the country and Detroit did a tremendous job to make this gathering a success.
We want to specifically thank all the Ambassadors and friends of the Boggs Center, DCOH, Detroiters for Dignity and Democracy who helped with the book sales, T-Shirt distributions, setting up for Grace’s 95th Birthday and participating in so many workshops and discussions. Each of you helped people “fall in love with Detroit” as well as “experience an expanded vision of the future of Beloved Communities and Cities of Hope. The diversity, the multi-generational dialogues, the poetry, the songs, music and quiet conversations renewed some and inspired us all.
From the opening ceremony at the AMC to the opening march, to the discussion between Grace and Immanuel Wallerstein; to the conversations at the PMA on Education with Vincent Harding & Bill Ayers to the Long Haul workshop with Starhawk, Margo and Shea; to the workshops organized by Yusef Shakur, to Word & World, to the DAY Project, to Detroit City of Hope and the Coalition Against Police Brutality discussion by Ron Scott; to the Asian American gathering at Genesis Church to the I Dream a Garden Dance, the list goes on and on. Please share your pictures of the Matrix Theatre gatherings, puppets, parties and friends. This was a truly inclusive social movement gathering.
On Wednesday, July 14th, we hope to learn about the many other activities that made this a special historic gathering for you, for our city and for our country. You contributed to the re-imagining of our country, the redefining of work, economics and education and truly put on the agenda the recognition that the only reason for the Next American Revolution is the belief that we can advance human evolution. We are redefining community and democracy as we walk together in these times. As Grace often says: “We are Growing our Souls.”
A popular democratic 21 century movement is emerging in our country, some will say the Next American Revolution has begun while others will say: “the only reward for good work is more work.”
See you Wednesday, July 14th @ 6;30 at the Boggs Center.
3061 Field Street, Detroit 48214. For more information call 313-923-0797.