Jeanie Wylie Community

Jeanie Wylie Community The Jeanie Wylie Community began in the summer of 2009. Several of us had been spread around the country living in different forms of intentional communities.

We are an intentional community living in Southwest Detroit, invested in our neighborhood, our city, and our world through living out nonviolence, spirituality, simplicity, hospitality, and care for the Earth. We knew that we wanted to live in community together and we were watching Detroit. Detroit was a city rich with movement history and decades ahead of the rest of the country in post-industri

alism. We were watching the experiments that were being created around the city. Urban agriculture was growing all over as an act of resistance and survival. We wanted to learn! We moved to this city to put down roots, to learn from the history, and to join in the creating. Over the past two years, we have invested all over the city, joined movements, learned from mentors, and created relationships in our neighborhood. We have multiple gardens, 15 chickens, 25 fruit trees, a beehive, a gaggle of neighborhood kids running through the house, and space for hospitality. It is a gift. A journey. And a joy. We named our community after Jeanie Wylie-Kellermann. Jeanie died six years ago from brain cancer. She lived on our street. She was a mother, a writer, a teacher, an activist, a feminist, a warrior, a lover of nature, and a journalist. She was committed to Detroit to her very core. She was a journalist who wrote from the street. She loved spirituality and brought together her love of Christianity and her desire for nature. We continue to learn from her and carry her spirit on.

01/16/2017

Those who invoke Martin Luther King to criticize Black Lives Matter misunderstand the life and legacy of America’s favorite civil rights leader.

11/27/2016
11/05/2016

Support 'Detroit Anishinaabe Standing Rock Delegationation' by donating or sharing today!

11/05/2016

Clergy condemned a 15th century document that paved the way for Christian colonization of the Americas.

09/09/2016

Learn the underlying reasons for the emotional resistance many white people have to addressing white supremacy and get the tools to begin releasing it.

08/12/2016

As a founding member of the Raiz Up Collective in Southwest Detroit, Antonio Cosme, 28, has been an outspoken critic of the city’s redevelopment regime: speaking at public meetings, interrupting th…

07/16/2016

We the People of Detroit is excited to announce the launch party for our 1st community research collective publication – Mapping the Water Crisis. This book contains never-before-seen visuali…

"I think we all know, deep down, that something more is required of us now. This truth is difficult to face because it’s...
07/13/2016

"I think we all know, deep down, that something more is required of us now. This truth is difficult to face because it’s inconvenient and deeply unsettling. And yet silence isn’t an option."

I have struggled to find words to express what I thought and felt as I watched the videos of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile being…

07/10/2016

After watching the now viral videos of police officers killing Alton Sterling, an African American man selling CDs in front of a party store in...

07/08/2016

A rally is scheduled in downtown Detroit on Friday after police shot two black men this week in Louisiana and Minnesota.

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