A small group gathered outside the state Capitol on a rainy Wednesday afternoon for the Michigan Poor People’s Campaign “Moral Witness Wednesday” rally to demand that the state’s elected officials support basic human needs from minimum wage increases to reproductive freedom to prison reform.
“Whether you are working on foreclosures, whether you are working on fair wage, whether you are working on reproductive rights, whether you are working on line three and line five, whether you are working on water. … Whether you are working on an unjust system, whether you are working on incarceration, whether you are working on health care, you are all in the same struggle. You are in the same family,” said the Rev. Ed Rowe, the pastor emeritus at Central United Methodist Church in Detroit.
The event consisted of a number of speakers from advocacy groups around the state that each focus on different issues.
However, their messages were all the same: Get involved.
Noelle Kellogg, a program associate with Michigan Organization on Adolescent Sexual Health (MOASH), urged the crowd to join the signature-gathering effort for the Reproductive Freedom For All ballot initiative.
The ballot initiative aims to secure Michigan’s right to safe and legal abortions and other reproductive health measures in the state Constitution.
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