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  • Leveraging Podcasts Without Starting Your Own 

    Top tier podcasts spend bit on equipment, sound engineers and editors, and marketing to grow their platform.

    But you don’t need to do all that to use podcasts to get the word out.

    MI-CEMI Program Coordinator Michael Taylor (AKA Brother Mike X of the 17 Winters Podcast) hosts a dynamic and informative conversation with

    • Ms. Marjon Parham (Michigan Liberation Respect the Roots Podcast)
    • Josh Hoe (Dream.org and Decarceration Nation podcast)
    • Adam Grant (Executive Director of A Brighter Way and frequent podcast guest)
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  • Political Writing Workshop

    You will leave this training with the basic tools you need to put your group’s goals and demands into an editorial for digital and print media outlets. We’ll cover how to stay on message, the necessity of being clear about goals and demands, who has the power to deliver them, and moving the public to support your campaign.

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  • Compromise Budget Compromises Public Safety 

    Advocates give budget deal mixed reviews for investing in prevention, rehabilitation, and reentry for folks impacted by the criminal legal system

    MICHIGAN – Groups working to make Michigan safer and more just for everyone gave the recent budget mixed reviews for promoting public safety through violence prevention, rehabilitation, and reentry. 

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  • Striving for Justice and True Public Safety in the State Budget

    Advocates call for increases in violence prevention and safe reentry after incarceration

    MICHIGAN – A group of justice advocates called for more support of proven, community-based violence prevention  for those returning to their families and communities. The Michigan Collaborative to End Mass Incarceration (MI-CEMI) hosted a virtual press conference Wednesday calling on elected officials to keep and increase successful programs that keep everyone safer including residents, prison staff, in addition to those incarcerated and formerly incarcerated. This contrasts starkly with the proposed house budget, which slashes programs regardless of the program’s effectiveness or if cutting programs in the short term will cost us more in the longer term.

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  • House Budget Proposes Dangerous Cuts to Healthcare, Food, Youth Justice

    Last week, Matt Hall, the Speaker of Michigan House of Representatives, introduced the House Republicans 800-page budget proposal, gave lawmakers 1 hour to review it, and then passed it out of the House. 

    The budget calls for major across the board cuts. As our fiscal sponsor, the Michigan League for Public Policy notes, it calls for $5 billion in cuts to health care, human services, food safety programs, environmental health and more. Incarcerated people are especially targeted for these cuts to health care, food services, and essential programs. Other cuts threaten constitutionally-mandated public defense, programs to support kids in the juvenile justice system, and the courts. 

    Here’s a summary of some of the key proposals in the House budget: 

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