Royal Oak

Bring your family. Bring a dish to share. Come out and hang with us. Always a surprise in store. Feel free to bring games, a lawn chair and anything else to make the day great. SwT will be grilling hotdogs (veggie option, too).

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We are going to the Detroit Zoo on Saturday
July 13 meeting at the Penguin House at 10.

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Get involved with the Bernie 2020 campaign in Michigan! Michigan for Bernie is holding its first organizer training in the Metro Detroit region on May 4th!

This training will cover:

• The organizing philosophy and guiding principles of Michigan for Bernie
• Best practices for local organizing
• Leadership development
• Communicating on social media
• Diversity and inclusion
• And everything else!

This is a free event! Lunch will be provided. Please bring a pen/paper, laptop, tablet, or whatever you use to take notes.

Rank MI Vote is hosting our second statewide meeting for all who are interested in seeing Ranked Choice Voting implemented in our great state. In this meeting we will introduce the organization, Rank MI Vote, outline our structure and goals, and detail how volunteers can get involved.

The meeting will be conducted as an online webinar, available through both the interaction Zoom platform and through youtube live. We also welcome any supporters who can travel to join in in Royal Oak!

Regular monthly meeting plus pot-luck lunch afterwards.

Our guest speaker will be a representative from MOGO, the bike-share organization that will be coming to Royal Oak and nearby suburbs in the next month. Safe, healthy, inexpensive: learn how bike share will help Royal Oak residents and business customers navigate local downtowns.

The meeting portion of the event ends at 11:30. Please join us immediately after the meeting for a pot-luck lunch from 11:30am to 1pm.

Hear Nicholas Jansen, Michigan State Director of the the Sunrise Movement, provide a briefing on the Green New Deal that envisions fighting climate change while creating a more green economy. The Sunrise Movement is a dynamic youth led organization. Nicholas is the featured speaker for Gray Panthers of Metro Detroit meeting.

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In 2018, Michigan voters and Voters Not Politicians made history by passing a redistricting reform amendment with 61% of the vote to end gerrymandering.

Join Voters Not Politicians at a Democracy Reform Town Hall to learn more about Michigan’s new redistricting process and how you can participate. The group will also discuss other critical democracy reform issues to strengthen the democratic process through citizen action in Michigan.

International Transgender Day of Visibility
Flagship Event

Tuesday, March 26
6:00 to 8:30pm

Five15 Media, Mojo, and More
600 South Washington Avenue
Royal Oak, MI 48067

​Transgender Michigan
invites you to celebrate
the 10th anniversary of
International Transgender Day of Visibility

Open Mic
Featuring poetry, storytelling, music, and more!

Refreshments available from Five15 $

Gray Panthers of Metro Detroit is pleased to invite you to hear David Sanchez, an Immigration Rights Organizer with
Michigan United and Abril Stewart-Valdes, a Michigan ACLU Immigrant Rights Attorney, give presentations on "Stand Up for Immigrants Rights: An Action Agenda for Michigan".

Coffee and socializing start at 9:30 a.m. The program starts at 10 a.m.

Lainey Frydrych, Founder of GrowYourAdvocacy.com, will give a slide presentation about the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. The NPVIC is an interim step endorsed by the League of Women Voters, with the ultimate goal of eliminating the Electoral College. Come learn more about why the LWV has proposed eliminating the Electoral College since 1970, and how you can help get MI join 12 others states that have already enacted the NPVIC into law.

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