Our community is incredibly active, check out these other great radical organizations!
Daytime Warming Center
The Ypsilanti Freighthouse is now a daytime warming center. They opened their doors on November 13th and remain open until March 28th. Their active hours are Monday through Thursday from 8 AM – 6 PM. Sign up to volunteer!
Care Based Safety
Care-Based Safety is dedicated to acting with principle and intention. We are taking careful steps in building a community response program that brings loving, unarmed support to people directly impacted by structural violence – without police. In our planning, response, and practice we center the needs of people who are Black, Indigenous, undocumented, unhoused, LGBTQIA+, using drugs, and/or experiencing mental health struggles.
Influence Ypsi
Ypsilanti based compost cooperative dedicated to engaging our community in composting and the benefits of composting through action and education.
Michigan Action for Cuba
Anti-imperialist group in Michigan organizing to improve the relationship between the United States and Cuba via people to people connection and resource sharing.
Peace House/Sunday Brunch
Join us the 3rd Sunday of each month for our free brunch- Market Place Hall, 16 S. Washington, Ypsi. Want to help support us? One time donations by Venmo- @ATKTBrunch, or Patreon monthly donation: https://www.patreon.com/peacehousebrunchypsi
Safer Shared Air Collective
Organization committed to increasing safer air in spaces we share. Mitigating spread of viruses and protection from air pollutants.
Washtenaw General Defense Committee
The Michigan General Defense Committee is a non-sectarian, revolutionary, anti-capitalist, community defense organization. We organize where the class struggle is sharpest – in our workplaces, neighborhoods, and housing
Washtenaw Camp Outreach
Washtenaw Camp Outreach responds to the survival and crisis needs of people who are currently unhoused and living in tents, through mutual aid and solidarity. We are equally committed to building networks of care and support, and upholding the self-determination and dignity of all of our neighbors regardless of housing status
What’s Left-Local radical news outlet
Print and online quarterly news source for Ypsilantians that seeks to provide reliable political, personal, and community-centered news. If there’s a story that you want to tell about your life in Ypsilanti or the broader comm-unity, let us know! If we published something that you loved, or something you didn’t, let us know! What’s Left is dedicated to sharing the news of Ypsilanti and of the people that live here.
We Rise – Inkster
MANY members have been volunteering with We Rise in the neighboring city of Inkster. Both Ypsilanti and particularly Inkster have suffered decades long institutional-racist disinvestment of their school systems, and We Rise represents an amazing community led effort to keep Inkster’s children educated, fed, and emotionally supported.