Michigan Coalitions
As a party which seeks to build the mass movements that can
truly lead to a socialist transformation, it is essential that we work as
socialists in broad movement-building coalitions in addition to exclusively
socialist organizations. The SPMI has therefore compiled a list of left-wing
labor, anti-war, and civil rights coalitions in Michigan
which we encourage all SPMI members to get involved in to whatever extent you
can. As socialists working within these coalitions, we can not only help to
build important movements, but also help to radicalize these coalitions by
raising socialist ideas within them and sometimes recruit new members to the
Socialist Party.
As the Socialist Party’s ‘Who We Are’ Statement states,
“When someone joins the Socialist Party, they're also joining for reinforcing
their commitment to other movements for social justice. Socialists don't simply
function within their own party, in isolation from the outside world. On the
contrary, most Socialists are deeply involved in other, larger movements and it
is from those movements that many new Socialist Party members are recruited.”
If there are any coalitions in Michigan
not included on this list which you think should be added, please contact the
SPMI at: spmi@spmichigan.org or (269)
598-0534
Albion
Albion College Peace Action: jec12@albion.edu, http://www.albion.edu/peaceaction
Ann Arbor:
Code Pink: drchristoffquinn@yahoo.com
Ann
Arbor
Coalition Against the War: plantheplanet@freeasinspeech.org,
(734)214-0912. Weekly demonstrations at Ann Arbor
Federal Building,
http://www.aacaw.org
Anti-War Action: mlomize@umich.edu, weekly meetings and regular
demonstrations and events. http://www.awa.squarespace.com
Coalition to Defend
Affirmative Action, Integration, and Immigrant Rights, and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary (BAMN): 313-468-3398,
donnastern@bamn.com, http://www.bamn.com
Interfaith Council
for Peace and Justice (ICPJ): Memorial Christian Church, 730
Tappan Street on the corner of Hill (come to the
parking lot entrance
and ring the bell), 734-663-1870, info@icpj.net
Michigan Peace Works: 120 1/2 W. Liberty
Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 734-761-5922, info@michiganpeaceworks.org, http://www.michiganpeaceworks.org
Students Organizing
for Labor and Economic Equality: 530 South State
Street
3909 Michigan Union Ann
Arbor, MI 48109.
sole.maintain@umich.edu, http://www.gotsole.info
Students Allied for
Freedom and Equality (SAFE) –Palestinian Solidarity Group: makinglinksbreakingchains@yahoo.com,
http://www.umich.edu/~umsafe/
Students for a
Democratic Society (UofM Chapter): michigan@studentsforademocraticsociety.org,
Post Office Box 7213 Ann Arbor,
MI 48107
http://www.studentsforademocraticsociety.org/michigan
Veterans for Peace: 586/731-4207,
dosmond@wowway.com, http://www.vfpwc.org
Battle Creek
Battle Creek Voices of Peace: 269-965-6431, thesoapboxroadshow@hotmail.com,
monthly meetings
Chelsea
Chelsea Area Network
of Peace Activists (CANOPAS): weekly demonstrations, ,
gourlays@engin.umich.edu, http://www.canopas.org
Detroit
Alliance for Democracy: hstokes@michusa.com, http://www.thealliancefordemocracy.org
Code Pink: mattysa@students.udmercy.edu
Detroit Agricultural Network: JASON.FLIGGER@prodigy.net
Detroit Summer: (313) 438-2254, info@detroitsummer.org, PO Box 32108, Detroit, MI 48232, http://www.detroitsummer.org
Detroit
Action Network for Reproductive Rights: detroitaction@netscape.net,
(313) 378-2369
Finding Alternatives to Military Enlistment (FAME): famedetroit@gmail.com, bi-weekly meetings, http://www.famedetroit.org
Gray Panthers of
Metro-Detroit: 248-549-5170,
beelock47@comcast.net, http://www.graypanthersmetrodetroit.org
Latinos Unidos/Centro Obrero (Detroit Workers Center): Elenaherrada@comcast.net, 1920 Scotten St. Detroit, MI 48209. Organizes and assists immigrant workers in the Detroit area. Volunteers always welcome
Michigan Emergency Committee Against War and
Injustice (MECAWI): Weekly meetings Wednesday at 7PM, 5922 Second Ave., Detroit, MI 48202, http://www.mecawi.org
Michigan
Welfare Rights Organization: (313) 964-0618, 23 E. Adams,
4th Floor, Detroit, MI 48226,
info@mwro.org, http://www.mwro.org
SE
Michigan Jobs With
Justice: jwjsem@gmail.com, (313) 961-0800, 600 W Lafayette
Ste 200 Detroit, MI 48226
Sweetwater Alliance:
313.580.7484, PO Box 44173, Detroit,
MI 48244,
snakeman1549@yahoo.com, http://www.waterissweet.org
Veterans for Peace: 586/731-4207,
dosmond@wowway.com, http://www.vfpwc.org
Flint
Michigan Citizens for
Peace: weekly demonstrations, http://www.mipeace.org
Grand Rapids
Code Pink: gr_codepink@yahoo.com
Grand
Rapids
Peace Team: grpt@iserve.net, (616)
454-1642, P.O. Box 68039 Grand
Rapids, MI 49516,
http://www.peacepresence.org/peaceteam
West Michigan Justice
and Peace Coalition: monthly meetings, mmattison@allvantage.com,
http://www.justiceandpeacecoalition.org
Holland
Holland Peacemakers: mail@hollandpeacemakers.org, P.O.
Box 3272 Holland, MI
49422-3272, http://www.hollandpeacemakers.org
Kalamazoo
Code Pink: martha.faketty@sbcglobal.net
Kalamazoo
Non-Violent Opponents of War (KNOW): 269 387-5284, bilinda13@yahoo.com, demonstrations Sundays 12-1
and Tuesdays 4:30-5:30 at the Kalamazoo
Federal Building
(corner of W. Michigan and Park), http://www.kzoo4peace.org
Kalamazoo Society for International Development: 269-387-7188, 1000 Oliver
Street
# 303 Kalamazoo, Michigan
49008
Students for a
Democratic Society (WMU Chapter): jennifer.m.barns@wmich.edu
World Can’t Wait: worldcantwaitkazoo@yahoo.com
Jackson
Jackson Interfaith Peace Keepers: boblewis@hotmail.com, http://www.jackson4peace.us, monthly
meetings
Lansing
Direct Action: da@direct-action.net, http://www.direct-action.net
Greater Lansing Network Against
War and Injustice (GLNAWI): glnawi2004@yahoo.com,
(517) 410-1243m (517) 281-7942, http://www.glnawi.org,
weekly anti-war demos
Marquette
Marquette Citizens for Peace and Justice: bi-monthly
meetings, weekly demonstrations, mqtcowi@yahoo.com, seney@coveworld.net, http://www.coveworld.net/mqtcowi/indexindex.html
Students of Socialism
(NMU): nmusocialists@yahoo.com, Box
15, University Center Marquette, MI 49855, http://www.nmu.edu/graduate_studies/student_org_detail.shtml?org=216
Midland
Midland Citizens for
Peace: monthly demonstrations, info@midlandcitizensforpeace.com,
P.O. Box 2725 Midland, MI 48641, http://www.midlandcitizensforpeace.com
Monroe
(county)
Monroe for Peace and Justice: monroeforpeace@gmail.com
Newaygo
(county)
Newaygo County People for Peace: http://www.michiganpeacenetwork.org/members/?org-id=24,
monthly meetings
Traverse City
Mideast Just Peace: mkrom@centurytel.net,
http://mideastjustpeace.org
We Are Traverse City: P.O. Box 9
Traverse City, MI 49684,
(213) 943-5050, http://wearetraversecity.com