Together, we can mobilize Black voters and combat suppression, ensuring voices in Black communities are heard and reflected at the polls
Black the Vote is a campaign and call to action, encouraging civic engagement, voter turnout, and uplift issues impacting Black communities. Black the Vote is led by One Love Global in partnership with the Movement for Black Lives and Black Lives Matter.
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The Detroit chapter of Peace & Prosperity Youth Action Movement (PPM) began in 2020 as a natural offshoot of Detroit-based graduates from Freedom Summer Organizing School.
Our founding members coalesced around the following priorities. . . .
Our Priorities
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Environmental Justice, especially increasing access to, ownership of, and the sense of belonging that Black youth experience in green spaces as well as nourishing community gardens and food cooperatives
Education Justice, emphasizing closing resource disparities between urban, predominately Black, and suburban, largely white, schools, and achieving the Black Lives Matter at School demands.
Community Safety & Ending Violence by strengthening neighborly ties and ending gun, police, gender-based violence, without increasing the size and scope of the criminal-legal system;
EDUCATION
JUSTICE
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Guest appearances on 1440 AM Radio to share about our priority issues
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Submitted a public comment to Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission about the importance of keeping youth and young adult Detroiters and their school communities together in districts
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Writing an opinion-editorial piece about our schools and the issues we see everyday
COMMUNITY
SAFETY
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#WhyThemShoes is an action project from Freedom Summer that raises awareness about the issue of gun violence, including police violence, and its impacts on Black youth
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Participated in Church of the Messiah's annual Silence the Violence March & Rally
ENVIRONMENTAL
JUSTICE
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Co-hosted Adopt-a-Block Clean Up & Resource Fair with The People's Action
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Awarded a grant as part of the inaugural cohort for the People, Parks & Place initiative to amplify our work around green space and belonging through 2024!
