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OTHER ISSUES

Listed below are Amber Fellow's stances and proposed plans to rectify other issues the Ypsilanti community is facing.

PUBLIC SAFETY

  • Build an unarmed crisis response and de-escalation team 

  • Create an accountability and transparency mechanism for the YPD     

  • Invest in community-driven solutions that support wellbeing

  • Resource harm reduction initiatives, diversion and reentry programs

  • Create public safety policy that is trauma-informed
     

REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE

  • Make Ypsilanti an abortion rights sanctuary

  • Fund access to contraceptives, STI checks, prenatal and pregnancy care, domestic violence support, and childcare

 

RACIAL JUSTICE

  • Advocate for national and state Reparations program to repay debts owed to Black and Indigenous people

  • Create Reparations Commission 

  • Incentivize and resource Black-owned businesses

  • Work with Indigenous elders and communities to explore Landback opportunities

  • Challenge statewide affirmative action ban

 

VOTING RIGHTS and DEMOCRACY

  • End the partisan election system

  • Broaden decision-making power by putting Ypsi’s most important issues to city-wide vote

  • Resource initiatives to re-enfranchise marginalized groups

  • Amend the city charter to end rampant cronyism

 

LGBTQIA+ / QUEER LIBERATION

  • Lend city-owned space for queer and trans mutual aid groups, mental health outreach, crisis support

  • Create and enforce housing, workplace protections for queer and trans residents

  • Resource initiatives that support Black and brown LGBTQA+ residents

 

DISABILITY JUSTICE and ACCESSIBILITY

  • Enact ordinance for universal design and visitability based on city demographics

  • Advocate for more Ypsi representation on the AAATA board

  • Create forum for discussing COVID response

  • Fight for rent control for fixed-income residents

IMMIGRANT RIGHTS

  • Make Ypsilanti a sanctuary city

  • Sever all ties between the YPD, courts, probation and parole office, and ICE

  • Ramp up labor protections for immigrants

  • City Hall more accessible to ESL/non-English speaking residents
     

WORKERS’ RIGHTS

  • Resource worker unions

  • Challenge the 2012 Snyder-era statewide anti-labor laws 

  • Support service worker unionization

  • Create labor dispute mechanism 

  • Offer parking passes for service workers in Ypsi

 

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE and INFRASTRUCTURE

  • Include the interests of marginalized residents and the natural world in development decisions

  • Municipalize the energy grid

  • Incentivize tree and native species planting, protect existing habitats

  • Invest in public transit, bikeability and walkability, divest from car infrastructure

 

YOUTH

  • Build a recreation center and create more public commons

  • Resource civic groups and sports

  • Improve parks and playgrounds, install permanent bathrooms in Riverside Park

  • Challenge School of Choice, support restorative justice programs at YCS

 

ELDERS

  • Assist programs that support aging-in-place, address senior isolation, and connect elders to their community

  • Fight for rent control for fixed-income adults

 

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

  • Enact commercial vacancy tax and fight for commercial rent control

  • Re-evaluate the DDA, audit resources

  • Resource Ypsi’s creative community 

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