A Call to Action in Michigan
The MICHIGAN chapter of WDA is a collaboration of writers, readers, editors, and booksellers, standing together to champion democracy everywhere, and the institutions that embody and protect it. We defend civil liberties: the right to vote and have our votes counted, to gather and protest, to write and read, and to access learning that informs and enriches the lives of citizens. We battle censorship in all its guises. A nation can only be strong if it invites a multitude of perspectives into its decision-making process, educates its citizens, and treats the least of them as equal in value to its most powerful.
MICHIGAN WRITERS!
Please join us for this Town Hall as we explore a way forward…
Oppose the American Oligarchy!
Right now, an oligarchy is taking shape in the United States. Elon Musk, a billionaire who has no political experience, is not eligible to hold executive public office, and who has not been vetted by the FBI has been granted access to federal payment systems and the social security database. President Trump may have been democratically elected, but Elon Musk was not. We must hold our elected officials accountable to protect democracy. Use these phone numbers and call scripts to act now.
WRITERS RESIST!
Donald Trump and his administration have drafted an executive order to eliminate the US Department of Education, which was created in 1979 to coordinate most financial assistance to education. The Department's mission is to serve America's students by ensuring equal access. Make no mistake: this is an attack against the marginalized. This is an attack against literacy. This is an attack against our fundamental rights.
CALL NOW TO PROTECT EQUAL ACCESS TO EDUCATION.
Highlights
IT CAN’T HAPPEN HERE — AGAIN! in Michigan
Venues & Times
Ann Arbor: Private home at 7 pm (please reach out to Judith DeWoskin for the address).
Patmos, Greece: Literary Salon (organized by Rachel DeWoskin)
Rehearsing in Patmos
Reading in Patmos
Democracy Book Club
Our Partners
Writers for Democratic Action is able to do the work we do because of our partners—the independent bookstores, libraries, and literary organizations who offer so much support, community, solidarity, information, and free expression to all of us. Please show up at one of our partner bookstores or libraries for conversations, readings, books, voter registration drives, and comradery. Thank you to our MICHIGAN partners:
Participating Bookstores & Partners
Bettie's Pages (Lowell)
Between the Covers (Harbor Springs)
The Bluestocking Bookshop (Holland)
Book Beat (Oak Park)
Books and Mortar (Grand Rapids)
Booksweet (Ann Arbor)
Brilliant Books (Traverse City)
Detroit Book City (Lathrup Village)
Hamburg Township Library (Hamburg Township)
Literati Bookstore (Ann Arbor)
The Robin Books (Lansing)
Room Project (Detroit)
Schuler Books (Grand Rapids)
Sidetrack Bookshop (Royal Oak)
Socialight Society (Lansing)
Taylor Community Library (Taylor)
The Well Read Raccoon Books & Curiosities (Houghton)
DEMOCRACY BOOK CLUB Event
BURNING QUESTIONS
with Margaret Atwood and Rachel DeWoskin
September 29, 2022
Michigan Steering Committee
Rachel DeWoskin, Chair
Bill Ayers
Peter Ho Davies
Rachel Cohen
Anne Gere
Roger Rappaport
Bella Rotker
Ellen Stone
Cassandra Verhaegen
