Peace Zones For Life: How Detroit is Building Community, Stopping Violence

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Sandra Hines with the Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality and the Peace Zones for Life project about the long-term work to reduce violence and work for justice in the city of Detroit.Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/About Our Guest:Sandra Hines is a resident of Detroit, MI, and a life-long organizer who has worked on numerous issues including police brutality, preventing the privatization of the schools, economic justice, and ending violence. She is the president of Peace Zones For Life, and a member of the Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality.Related Links:Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutalityhttp://detroitcoalition.org/Video on Peace Zones For Lifehttps://youtu.be/Q_zGB2qEU4kContact for Peace Zones for Life: Sandra Hines (313) 658.2072Read More About Peace Zones:http://stateofopportunity.michiganradio.org/post/our-neighborhoods-our-streets-march-peace-detroitMusic by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.orgAbout Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timelineRivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/