With driving on a suspended license being the third most common reason for arrests that lead to jail, DJC’s advocacy at the state level and direct services at the local level are targeting the heart of a carceral system that criminalizes poverty.As detailed in our Highway Robbery report, historically white suburbs fund their courts and...Read More
The Detroit Justice Center will be moving into our new headquarters in The LOVE Building later this year, and we got to tour our new office recently. We can’t wait to welcome our clients and whole community into this space this fall, and to share a home with Detroit Disability Power, Detroit Community Technology Project,...Read More
Episode Summary “For anti-colonial movements in the past and still today, regaining access to land that you and your people were displaced from is a core part of what it means to be free.” In this final episode of the first season of Freedom Dreams, our guests take on black liberation through land ownership and...Read More
CPA's President thanked Amanda "for your commitment to social justice and the creative energy you bring to building institutions for social change."Read More
Episode Summary In our penultimate episode of the season, we’re talking about radical solutions in health care. We look at the historical example of the 1970 Lincoln Hospital Takeover in the Bronx with former Black Panther and Young Lord Cleo Silvers. Casey also goes down the history rabbit hole discussing their MA thesis. We also sit down with Fiyah...Read More
This episode focuses on one of the larger issues often brought against anti-policing movements: it’s not enough to imagine that the absence of police equates to the absence of harm. Violence and harm are real, so what can we do about them? First, the youth of Detroit Heals Detroit take us through how they found...Read More
DJC Announces their podcast Freedom Dreams, the show where we believe another world is possible and we’re talking to the people who are building it.Read More
In this week’s episode, we head with Julia Putnam over to The James and Grace Lee Boggs School in Detroit to learn about place-based education and its relationship to community action. Many think of school as a place where you get to know yourself…but what if it was also how you got to know your...Read More
In this episode, we look at participatory budgeting: a way of democratizing government spending so that investments reflect community priorities. We learn from Shari of the emancipatory power of a democratic funding process. We talk with Angelica from the Seattle coalition who fought with groups like Decriminalize Seattle and King County Equity Now to use...Read More
