Mid-South Peace & Justice Center

Nonviolence Skills Training
2014-06-28 09:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago)

The Storyteller as Activist
2014-07-29 18:30 - 20:30

Founding & Funding your Grassroots Group
2014-09-11 18:00 - 20:00

The Labor Liberation Workshop
2014-09-30 18:00 - 20:00

Privilege and Oppression Awareness
2014-10-02 18:00 - 20:30, 2015-01-29 18:00 - 20:30

Facilitation Skills Workshop
2014-11-20 18:00 - 20:30, 2016-08-04 18:00 - 20:30

2015 Living the Legacy of Nonviolence
2015-01-17 18:00 - 22:00

People's Conference on Juvenile Justice
2015-03-28 09:00 - 18:00

2015 Gandhi-King Conference
2015-04-10 10:00 - 17:00

2015 Gandhi-King Conference - Youth Registration
2015-04-10 12:00 - 2015-04-11 16:00

Community Organizer Training
2015-05-29 18:00 - 2015-05-31 17:30

Founding and Funding Your Grassroots Organization
2015-06-25 18:00 - 20:30

G.O.T.V. - Get Out The Vote Workshop
2015-07-30 18:00 - 20:30

Facilitation Skills
2015-08-20 18:00 - 20:30

Privilege and Oppression Awareness Workshop
2015-09-17 18:00 - 20:30, 2016-08-18 18:00 - 20:30

Grants 101: the what, where, and how
2015-10-01 18:00 - 20:30

Media 201
2015-10-22 18:00 - 20:30

2016 Mother's Day
2016-04-15 12:00 - 13:00

Nonviolent Communication Skills Workshop
2016-04-28 18:00 - 20:30

Community Organizing Skills Training
2016-05-27 18:00 - 2016-05-29 18:00

HOPE Weekly Meetings
2016-09-14 14:30 - 16:30, 2016-09-21 14:30 - 16:30, 2016-09-28 14:30 - 16:30 | Memphis Center for Independent, 1633 Madison Ave, Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Join HOPE (Homeless Organizing for Power & Equality), Memphis’ only grassroots group made up and lead by individuals who have formerly or are currently experiencing homelessness.

Cooper-Young Fest: People Powered Party
2016-09-17 11:00 - 18:00 | First Congo Patio, 1000 S Cooper, Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
At this year’s Cooper Young Festival, the Mid-South Peace and Justice Center invites all of our members to join us on the patio deck of First Congo Church near the intersection of Cooper and Young. Come by while you are enjoying the festival and take a break and RENEW your membership or JOIN up for the first time.
Then, sit a spell and hear about our work and share your ideas about how we can organize to make our city a better place.

Groove to our music from our DJ and other musical guests and an open mic for the community to share songs, poetry, karaoke and have a good time and fellowship in some lovely weather.
We will have Nathan’s or Veggie hot dogs on the grill and some of delicious PEOPLE POWERED RUM PUNCH to share with all of our members.
How do you become a member? Just check out the link below, all of our memberships are on a sliding scale based on income so that membership is accessible for anyone!
Become A Member Here

CAUSE AN EFFECT: Eat at Chipolte, Support MSPJC
2016-09-20 16:00 - 20:00 | Chipotle on Poplar, 5865 Poplar Ave Ste 104, Memphis, TN, 38119
Make dinner a selfless act by joining us for a fundraiser to support Mid-South Peace & Justice Center. Come in to the Chipotle at 5865 Poplar Ave Ste 104 in Memphis on Tuesday, September 20th between 4:00pm and 8:00pm. Bring in this flyer, show it on your smartphone or tell the cashier you’re supporting the cause to make sure that 50% of the proceeds will be donated to Mid-South Peace & Justice Center. Gift card purchases during fundraisers do not count towards total donated sales, but purchases made with an existing gift card will count.
right click to save & print this flyer, or show it on your smart phone.

#RentersDayofAction For Dignity & Respect! MEMPHIS
2016-09-22 13:00 - 16:00 | Morris Park, Poplar Ave & Manassas, Memphis, TN, United States
On September 22nd, 2016 H.O.P.E. will join the National Renters Day of Action for Dignity & Respect to declare a Renter State of Emergency and take to the streets to demand an end to Rising Rents, Evictions and Gentrification.
Join us on Thursday, September 22nd at 1pm-4pm where we will hold a rally and host an action in solidarity with 40 other cities around the nation but with not only our brothers and sisters who live on our streets, in our shelters and in low income housing. Housing is the single biggest unaddressed civil rights issue in our city and that is going to change. After the action we will return to Morris Park and share a meal together in fellowship.We urge everyone to bring dishes, fruit and water to share.
Background-Local
WE BELIEVE THAT ACCESS TO SAFE, AFFORDABLE AND ACCESSIBLE SHELTER IS A HUMAN RIGHT.
Memphis has no free shelters for men, less than 70 beds for women experiencing homelessness, we have cases in some shelters where women are sexually harassed and access to shelter is tied to sexual exploitation. We have no shelter for the LGBT community and we have slumlords that economically exploit our people via taking their food stamps, work shelters which fail to pay a living wage and none of our shelters are 100% compliant with the AMERICAS WITH DISABILITIES ACT.
•We call on the city of Memphis to create a new city run, free shelter for people experiencing homelessness, that is fully compliant with the ADA and provides shelter without religious mandates and is open to all of our pe
•We call on the city of Memphis to enact an ordinance for minimum standards for all shelters including transparency and accountability to the consumer, ADA compliance new standards for sexual misconduct, standards for staff training and ethics and the creation of an oversight board within the executive branch made up of those currently and formerly unsheltered which will provide oversight into allegations of misconduct within shelters.
•We call on Mayor Jim Strickland to DELAY the demolition of Foote Homes until ALL residents of Foote Homes and the Warren and Tulane Apartments have been safely relocated to proper housing AND only after the promised 448 NEW units of HUD subsidized housing replacing Warren and Tulane are online.
BACKGROUND-NATIONAL
Check out the 2 Page Info sheet at bit.ly/RDA_Info
Now more than ever housing is unaffordable for millions of people. Rents nationwide are higher than they have been in history, evictions are at epidemic levels! Our communities can’t wait for affordable housing anymore. Working-class people, low-income, communities of color, immigrants and formerly incarcerated folks are bearing the brunt of this crisis as housing become even more unattainable and our cultures and communities are displaced.
As more and more of us become renters, and the crisis escalates – it’s time for the #RenterNation to stand up to declare our power and fight back for our homes, our cities and our communities!
In 50+ cities across the country we will take to the streets to end the epidemic of evictions, rising rents and displacement!
We call on renters, low-income homeowners, people without homes, families, unions, tenant associations, organizations and all people who believe that we need a culture and policies that prioritize housing as a fundamental human right to stand up and take action by the thousands on September 22, 2016!
Wherever you are. Take to the streets and fight back!
PLEDGE TO TAKE ACTION 9.22.16 AT: www.HomesForAll.org/rentersday
Download the #RenterPower Action Toolkit at: bit.ly/RDA_TOOLKIT
CITIES THAT HAVE COMMITTED TO ACTIONS SO FAR:
* Atlanta, GA * Boston,MA * Chelsea, MA * Chicago, IL * Seattle, WA * Spokane, WA * Harlem, NY * Brooklyn, NY * Lynn, MA * Long Beach, CA [2 actions] * Portland, OR * Oregon Statewide Action * California Statewide * Santa Rosa, CA * Oakland, CA * San Francisco, CA * Los Angeles, CA * Santa Fe, NM * Springfield, MA * New York, NY * Newark, NJ * Grand Rapids, MI * Nashville, TN * Memphis, TN * Detroit, MI * Denver, CO * Fremont, CA * Pittsburg, PA *

Living the Legacy of Nonviolence 2017
2017-01-14 17:30 - 20:00
