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[VIDEO UP] WCDP Monthly Meeting – Addressing Poverty
Video up! See below ⬇️ or watch on Youtube 📺 Saturday, September 9, @ 9:45 am – 12:00 pm The WCDP held an educational program and a formal general membership meeting for the purposes of approving bylaws changes and resolutions proposed by...
Resolution condemning Ypsilanti Charter Township Board’s lack of transparency in allocation of ARPA funding
Passed by the Washtenaw County Democratic Party Executive Board on 7/18/2023. Download a PDF of the resolution. RESOLUTION: Washtenaw County Democratic Party Executive Board condemns Ypsilanti Charter Township Board’s lack of transparency in allocation of ARPA...
WCDP June Monthly Meeting – Hate Crimes Panel
Sunday, June 4 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Hate Crimes in Washtenaw County and Michigan: Forms, Targets, Magnitude, Responses Panelists: Joe Halsch, President, Jim Toy Community Center Roland Hwang, president, American Citizens for Justice, Inc. Carolyn Normandin, Regional...
[VIDEO UP] WCDP Monthly Meeting – Our Democratic State Legislature
Video up! See below ⬇️ or watch on Youtube 📺 Saturday, May 6 @ 9:45 am – 12:00 pm First Democratic MI Legislature in 38 Years: Accomplishments So Far and Plans for the Future The Michigan legislature, with a narrow Democratic majority, has...
Statement from the WCDP Chair: April 2023
Greetings! We Michigan Democrats are reveling in our electoral success of 2022, when – for the first time in 40 years – we swept all three branches of state government: executive, legislative, and judicial. Years of hard work made this success possible. We need to...
[VIDEO UP] WCDP Monthly Meeting – Community Violence Intervention
Video up! See below ⬇️ or watch on Youtube 📺 Saturday, April 1 @ 9:45 am - 12:00 pm Community Violence Intervention: The Washtenaw County Approach to Making Communities Safer and Saving Young Lives Many of the gun deaths plaguing our...
[VIDEO UP] WCDP Monthly Meeting – Homelessness in Washtenaw County
Saturday, March 4 @ 9:45 am - 12:00 pm Video up! See below ⬇️ or watch on Youtube 📺 Program: The Housing and Homelessness Crisis in Washtenaw County There has been a significant spike in people experiencing homelessness in Washtenaw County this...
A Discussion with Justice Richard Bernstein.
Justice Bernstein’s offense. Many Democrats across the state of Michigan were outraged last month when newly re-elected Michigan Supreme Court justice Richard Bernstein publicly condemned one of the first hiring decisions of the newly appointed Justice Kyra Bolden,...
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