Winter Edition
2021
Realizing A People’s Plan In 2021
Despite a year of grievous health crises and economic challenges, we end 2020 affirming the work that is being done to advance the relationships with one another and to promote… Read More
(Re)membering Home – Demolition in Detroit as Dismemberment
By Erin Stanley Alive I learned that my place is alive despite the messaging that land is property, and the world is a machine, Learned it was suffering before… Read More
Youth Activists Check in on Neighbors:
Staying Connected During COVID-19 By Riverwise Editorial Team The EMEAC (East Michigan Environmental Action Council) Youth Street Team recently demonstrated the power of direct organizing. They spent ten consecutive Sundays… Read More
Testimony of Paul Jackson People’s Tribunal on the Execution of Hakim Littleton
Detroit October 25, 2020 Sponsored by the Coalition for Police Transparency and Accountability On Sunday, October 25, the Coalition for Police Transparency and Accountability held a People’s Tribunal at which… Read More
Letter of Hope From Movement Elders to Young Activists
Letter of Hope Learnings from lived experiences From Movement Elders to Young Activists November 2020 The National Council of Elders was organized in 2011 to bring together leaders of the… Read More
Dr. Naomi Long Madgett Poet Laureate of the City of Detroit 1923 – 2020
Born in Norfolk, VA in 1923, Dr. Naomi Long Madgett was an active member of the Detroit community from 1946. In her early teaching career, she was a curriculum innovator… Read More
READING LIST AND NOTES TOWARDS ENDING POLICE VIOLENCE
A call to read, study and debate What does abolition mean? Why is it better than reform? What class do the police (and the military) serve and protect, both inside… Read More
A Block Club In the Making
Piper Carter has embarked on a journey, building community one step at a time. Located near west Chicago Blvd. and Schaefer, Carter and a few neighborhood allies are reconstituting the… Read More
Apocalyptic and Revolutionary Education
Today’s youth face fearsome challenges in what our society calls “mental health,” some as a result of having suffered childhood traumas, but many others simply from the stress of trying… Read More
A LOVE LETTER TO OUR LEGAL COMMUNITY: A CALL TO ACTION AFTER THE 2020 ELECTIONS
Dear Legal Community, This summer, we saw the largest mobilization of protest in U.S. history. Across the country, communities rose up in love and rage, for Breonna Taylor, George Floyd,… Read More
Beyond Policing To Community Peacekeeping
Riverwise 2020 Summer Special Issue Editorial Beyond Policing To Community Peacekeeping Throughout this extended season of crises and mourning, activists nationwide have intensified our thinking about dismantling unjust systems. In… Read More
Beyond Reform: The Detroiters’ Bill of Rights
A strong community-based coalition brought together by Detroit City Council President Pro Tempore Mary Sheffield and Council member Raquel Castañeda-Lopez introduced a Detroiters’ Bill of Rights that outlines basic values… Read More
Police “Reform:” A Totally Obsolete Illusion
Police “Reform:” A Totally Obsolete Illusion In this article, I present excerpts from a historic presentation by the Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality (DCAPB) to the Detroit City Council. This… Read More
Message to Detroit Freedom Fighters: Commemorating the 1963 Protest of the Police Murder of Cynthia Scott
First, we wish to give a warm thanks to all of you courageous souls, especially the youth, for standing up to oppose the systemic… Read More
We Need Federal Funds, Not Federal Agents!
Photo by Adam Dewey Notes From The Movement We Need Federal Funds, Not Federal Agents! by Monica Isaac Before attending a mass demonstration at the ATF building on July 29th… Read More
Spring 2020 Riverwise Editorial/A Matter Of Survival
Photo Credit: Keviyan Richardson Spring 2020, Riverwise Editorial A Matter of Survival The brutal murder of George Floyd has propelled thousands of people into the streets demanding a radical shift… Read More
Not One More
Not One More by Shea Howell One week ago, we tried to grasp what it means to have lost more than 100,000 people in a little more than 100 days.… Read More
Food Justice and Sovereignty during COVID-19
D-Town Farm Food Justice and Sovereignty during COVID-19 By shakara tyler, DBCFSN Board President and Paul Jackson, D-Town Farmer Movements for food justice and sovereignty combat the realities of genocide… Read More
‘She Safe, We Safe’: A New Focal Point For Black Liberation
‘She Safe, We Safe’: A New Focal Point For Black Liberation by Atinusewakaraiye "Tinu" Roland In the midst of a global pandemic that has forced myself and many others across… Read More
Green Chairs Not Green Lights: Keeping Perspective During Covid-19
In 2019, Detroit Community Technology Project (DCTP) partnered with coalition members, the James and Grace Lee Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership (Boggs Center), Green Light Black Futures Coalition, Feedom… Read More
Fighting Racist Surveillance in Detroit
Fighting Racist Surveillance in Detroit Flashing green lights let you know you’re being watched by Bill Wylie-Kellermann Reprinted with permission from Sojourners, March 2020, (800) 714-7474, www.sojo.net. WE GATHERED THIS fall… Read More
Rejecting the blinders and secrets of racism
Rejecting the blinders and secrets of racism by Shaun Nethercott On the 4th of July weekend, 2019, Shaun Nethercott made the following presentation at the Community Unitarian Universalist Church in… Read More
“Bailout Day” Frees Black Mothers
Continuing a legacy of community commitment “Bailout Day” Frees Black Mothers By Nick Buckingham Michigan Liberation is a statewide grassroots organizing group focused on transforming the criminal legal system across… Read More
Great Lakes Activists Continue Fight Against DTE Nuclear Reactor
Great Lakes Activists Continue Fight Against DTE Nuclear Reactor by Jesse Deer In Water Siyo, tohitsu? Hello, how are you? A common greeting amongst my peoples in Northeast Oklahoma, The… Read More
Enduring Connections Sustain Us Through Crisis
Enduring Connections Sustain Us Through Crisis by Megan Douglass There is an old Swahili proverb that has stuck with me ever since I first read it… Read More
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