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Edgewood UCC's Justice and Peace Task Force invites you to:

Let Freedom Ring: a Public Forum on the Emergency Manager Act
Saturday, February 18th, 11am - 5pm
Edgewood United Church, 469 N. Hagadorn Rd., East Lansing, MI

The Edgewood United Church of Christ Justice and Peace Task Force presents
an urgent public forum on the Emergency Manager Act (Public Act 4 of 2011)
in Michigan. 

Join us for lunch, a keynote speech by Rev. Edward Pinkney of Benton Harbor,
a discussion by six panelists, and time for Q&A. The event, including lunch,
is FREE. 

The Emergency Manager Act allows the governor to appoint emergency managers
for local governments in financial straits, which grants these outside
managers power to assume total authority. It allows them to sell public
assets, shred public contracts and agreements, dissolve governmental bodies,
and remove elected officials. Several Michigan cities including Benton
Harbor, Pontiac, and Flint, are operating under Governor Snyder's emergency
managers now. Detroit and Livonia may be next.

Panelists will include:
Gerald Ambrose: Director of Finance, City of Flint
Jim Anderson: Edgewood Justice and Peace Task Force
Abayomi Azikiwe: Detroit Moratorium Now Coalition
Lynn Jondahl: Former Chair of Taxation Committee, Michigan House of
Representatives
Edith Lee-Payne: Plaintiff in lawsuit challenging EMA constitutionality
Don Power: East Lansing City Council, Former Federal Mediator.

Please see the attached flyer for more information. To register (it will
help us with a lunch count), please email <a href="/cgi-bin/wa?LOGON=A3%3Dind1202%26L%3DJMCINFO%26E%3D7bit%26P%3D5891907%26B%3D------%253D_NextPart_001_0096_01CCE58A.CA58DA50%26T%3Dtext%252Fplain%3B%2520charset%3Dus-ascii" >[log in to unmask]</a> or call
(517) <tel:%28517%29%20332-8693>  332-8693.