Solidarity & Defense

We are a network of people committed to providing solidarity and defense to communities under attack. We organize along directly democratic and participatory lines and are independent of all political parties and their affiliated groups.

We believe in and support people young and old; queer and gender non-conforming; immigrants and refugees; working people, students, the poor; indignados; the ungovernable and those seeking a new society. We remember Trayvon Martin. We fight alongside the Standing Rock Water Protectors and the people of Flint who struggle against the poisoning of our water. We stand with the New York Transit Workers Alliance and the masses at airports demanding to be reunited with their families. When we work together to realize a world where we can live and love as equals, we practice solidarity.

We are Solidarity & Defense Michigan and in order to live and love, we must fight!

5 protests

January 19, 2018, 6:00 pm

Lansing, MI

To Live and Love We Must Fight: Solidarity & Defense Conferences

All across the country people are fighting back. In the wake of Trump’s election, we have seen a surge of resistance, both within the u.s. borders and across the entire globe.

In the spirit of furthering these various anti-authoritarian...

January 19, 2018, 6:00 pm

Lansing, MI

Community Self-Defense Public Panel Discussion

All across the country people are fighting back. In the wake of Trump’s election, there has been a surge of resistance, both within the u.s. borders and across the entire globe.

Solidarity & Defense is a statewide group part of a...

August 30, 2017, 6:30 pm

Lansing, MI

Community Solidarity End of Summer BBQ Cookout!

Free food!! Resistance building!! Make new friends!! Kid friendly!! 

If you're feeling horrified by the news around the country, in Charlottesville, or even here in Lansing* and would like to do something about it, let's get...

July 15, 2017, 3:00 pm

Cleveland, OH

Practicing Community Self-Defense

Michigan Solidarity & Defense has been putting into practice the idea of community self-defense. They will be in town to give a talk on what this looks like and their experiences with it.

Community self-defense means workplace...

July 13, 2017, 6:30 pm

Ann Arbor, MI

Tilted Scales: In Defense of Revolutionary Struggle

Trump's opening salvo on his inauguration day was to crack down on resistance, and now over 200 people face felony charges for protesting that could mean 75 years in jail. Standing Rock is another prime example of the use of heightened state...