The Michigan Campaign for Justice, which fights for a fair and effective public defense system in Michigan, is seeking a Campaign Director to implement a statewide campaign for the achievement of the following goal:

The I Will Stay If... campaign, which collects and shares your vision for a more successful city, a city where you'll be committed to staying, is coming to Port Huron, Michigan!

On April 21, from 5:00-7:00 p.m., you can visit the Vintage Tavern to add your face--and voice--to the campaign.  Please help us tell our leaders what YOU need to stay in Port Huron.  Thanks so mu

Leadership has changed in Michigan and many other jurisdictions in the Great Lakes Basin. One immediate challenge for incoming governors and premiers will be deciding how to proceed with existing state, provincial and regional commitments in climate and energy policy. The Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP), the Graham Environmental Sustainability Institute, and the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy are sponsoring "Climate Change in the Great Lakes Basin: Policy Options and Public Opinion", a panel that will review current policy commitments and provide an overview of public opinion on climate change and public policy options. The panelists are: Christopher Borick, Professor and Director of the Muhlenberg Institute of Public Opinion at Muhlenberg College; Erick Lachapelle, Assistant Professor of the D

From the American Institute of Architects, a lovely reflection on the ways in which Michigan was the epicenter of many of the experiences and values that drove capital-M Modernism and its architecture.

Our weekly update from the Rust Wire bloggers:
Rust Wire has been posting up a storm in the last week.

The third annual Michigan Policy Summit is coming to Detroit's Cobo Hall (the previous 2 were held in Lansing) on May 16, 2009. The purpose of the Michigan Policy Summit is to give Michigan progressive community an opportunity to come up with solutions to Michigan

The second annual Michigan Policy Summit, this Saturday, May 10, in Lansing, promises to be a bonanza of progressive movers-and-shakers. It launched last year to serve as an alternative to traditional policy conferences, and, according to one of last year's attendees, it's a unique opportunity to meet allies in community organizing, labor, the environment, and other brands of activism - and with good representation from the state's urban centers...