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Hush House
Greetings,
I have pasted in recent films about The Hush House as
some of you said that you didn't see them. We recently were awarded the MLK Community Leadership Award by WSU. Please share
information about The Hush House. Of course, we need donations of money, time, supplies (we have a detailed list that we would
be happy to share!), technology and everything else that you can imagine. Please join with us as we imagine the power
of global community in action!
We are the leaders that we have been waiting for.
We have vision of the future; join with us to make a new reality, together!
A short list of supply needs:
We are in special need of: laptops, PC's, software of
every type, solar panel kits/supplies, windmill generator supplies, gardening tools, fencing, seeds (esp. herbs/vegetables);
building supplies, poster board, wood stakes, sewing machines, thread, material, art supplies, food pantry supplies, canned
heat, tables and chairs.
Garden Project: We are in need of volunteers to turn up garden beds
for the herb gardens that will sustain the children's and youth entrepreneurial project. We also need volunteers forgeneral
grounds prep and clean up; we will start the first weekend in April through May, 2009! Sign up Today; you may also call the
office to sign up,(313 896-2521), but we would really like to meet you in person at the Open House! -see details below
Open House: Sunday March 29, 2009 4pm-6pm 6179 Wabash Detroit, MI
48208 Come out and find out more about The Hush House, many exciting programs and project models that can be replicated
and sustained in our local and regional communities, over the country and the world! Share with real people working
on real solutions in the fertile reality of community of grass roots activism with global vision!
Starting in April!
The Hush House Field of Visions, Dreams and Hope: Lead Coordinator,
Prof. Christine Neufeld, EMU
Please watch for more information on this exciting project! Call
and volunteer time now for April-June, 09. This is a creative Restorative and Social Justice Project that will allow multi-generational
volunteers to work together to create, share, care, and inform-together!
Please feel free to call for more information:
313 896.2521 The Hush House Office
Peace, Mama Sandra
6179 Wabash
Detroit, MI 48208
See also; Roshawn and Oya's interviews
LIFE, PEACE & LOVE!!!
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A Celebration of Life & Home Going for:
Weusi Olusola's
President of Pioneers for Peace,
Husband, Father, Mentor,
Activist, Leader
and Organizer
On this Saturday March 21st
Pioneers for Peace and
Weusi’s Family invites you to Honor and Celebrate Weusi’s Life:
Make a Commitment to
LIFE, PEACE & LOVE!!!
MAKE A Commitment to
INVEST in YOUTH & COMMUNITY!
A life's goal will matter after death March 16, 2009 07:19 AM Weusi Olusola lived every day with a sense
of purpose.
So it's no surprise that his funeral will have that same sense of purpose.
On Saturday, Olusola's family will host a peace march and life celebration to honor the 38-year-old
antigun and antigang activist who died Friday of cancer. The march will begin at 11 a.m. at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial
Park at West Grand Boulevard near Rosa Parks Boulevard. The celebration will begin at 1 p.m. under tents behind the Joseph
Walker Williams Center, 8431 Rosa Parks, where Olusola last played basketball standing, and where, for 20 years, he played
wheelchair ball.
Olusola was paralyzed at 16 by bullet wounds from a drive-by shooting that left an 8-year-old girl
dead. Ten years later, he cofounded Pioneers for Peace, an organization of shooting survivors who convinced hundreds of kids
that a long life legal is better than a short life with guns. Celebrate a life and cause In life, Olusola rarely asked
for anything. But now his family and friends are asking for him. "We want every youth, adult, block club, organization, school,
fraternity, sorority, musician, high school band, private and government agency, corporation and elected official in southeast
Michigan to come to the park, grab T-shirts and march," said Saba Gebrai, director of the Park West Foundation, which worked
with Olusola on several peace efforts. His family members are asking all of southeast Michigan to come to the march and walk
for him. They are asking southeast Michigan to come to the life celebration and sign up to be a Pioneer for Peace for (Weusi),
offering guidance to young people in a city that saw 344 homicides last year and 8,443 violent crimes in just the first half
of 2008. They are asking youth organizations to set up tables under the tent for (Weusi), to explain to young people how they
can change their lives. The 38-year-old activist would want people to come and say good-bye on Saturday. But he also would
want them to come to work.
Contact ROCHELLE RILEY at 313-223-4473 or at rriley@freepress.com.
Hope Lives Here
by Larry Gabriel
Mike Wimberley stood with a pickax in his hand as he looked over a vacant lot on Baldwin Street. He
wore a pair of insulated coveralls and a hooded sweatshirt against the Saturday morning November cold. A group of student
volunteers from the University of Michigan scurried around this and a nearby lot planting some 170 fruit trees and bushes
donated by the Michigan State University Extension Service. Not even big enough to be called saplings, the plum, peach, blueberry,
pecan, pear and apple plants look like sticks poking out from the ground in weeded lots. They could be switches your grandmother
would send you out to gather so she could tan your hide.
Across the street from the lot, a boarded-up house sports a sign: For Sale, $500 down, minimum $295
a month. It's typical of the east side neighborhood near Van Dyke and Forest — boarded-up houses, empty lots —
the look of desperation.
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The system as we know it does not work for us.
We're in a five-year campaign to transform ourselves.
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Then, as Wimberley takes me up the street to tour the area, a woman leans out of her upstairs window
and hollers, "Good morning, Mike." He greets her and replies affirmatively when she asks if he'll be at church on Sunday.
The exchange softens the hard feel of the surroundings. The personal warmth makes it seem more a neighborhood, a community.
Indeed, it is. They call it the Hope District, a self-help community, along East Forest between Mt.
Elliott and Cadillac. The Hope District is a project of the Friends of Detroit and Tri County, a nonprofit with the mission
to provide human services, vocational skills training, life management skills and an improved quality of life to inner-city
residents. Wimberley has been associated with the group since its beginning in 1994; he's been executive director since 2002.
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