Hello WeROC Community…
Your chance to build relationships and build a better future for everyone is this Thursday, Nov 2! WeROC’s monthly Meeting of the Whole, 5:30-7:30 Thursday Nov 2, Ekklesia Fellowship Ministries, 123 N Adams, Ypsilanti. (Parking across Adams in the city lot, or in the First Congregational UCC lot just to the north.) Light dinner provided.
It really feels like almost every day there are new attacks on our families and neighbors, attacks that are all the more immoral because they hit people with low incomes and people of color first, and hit them hardest. Isn’t that what WeROC is about at our core — An effective way for the people most affected.to have their voices amplified and their leadership recognized, and to win actual victories that mean something? People most affected by wages not moving — by jobs disappearing — by health care (including mental health services) being slashed — by our God-given land, air, water, and climate that everyone needs for a healthy and productive life being desecrated — and by voter suppression and intentional and intentional divisiveness. Isn’t a powerful, united movement of regular people just what we need at this dangerous time in our history, more than ever?
The campaigns that WeROC clergy, leaders, and members have taken on recently are ripe for additional ideas and vision…
- We’ll want to hear from people about ideas for getting serious funding back into crucial county mental health services, including the November 7 millage vote, as part of our County Equity theme.
- Our Education Action Team is eager for more help in exploring how any new mental health funds can also be used to expand the services available in area school districts, supporting young people earlier and better.
- And we’ll also want to hear each others’ ideas for making sure that in the future, much more transparent processes happen in decisions about economic development projects throughout the area and how WeROC might play a positive role, including involving more people that are have to live with any negative consequences in those decisions.
So bring your passion, your curiosity, your vision of a better future for Washtenaw and join with organizations and neighbors who are also serious about finding new, more effective ways of living out our positive values of unity, democracy, and care for each other — in these tough times when greed and division are winning way too often. Hope to see you Thursday!
Tad Wysor, Volunteer WeROC Organizer