Month: October 2012

FLYER: http://tinyurl.com/bygqczp UW-Milwaukee Union room 260 Nov. 13, 6:30 pm Featuring Brother Domingo Solis 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Free and open to the public Main public event:  Marquette U, Wed., Nov. 14, 7 pm, Cudahy building room 1, featuring Marvin Garcia and Jan Morrill. The issues: corporate responsibility, fair trade vs. the CAFTA right for […]

From the WI AFL-CIO, http://www.wisaflcio.org/ The Stand Up For Medicare and Medicaid Ambulance Tour will be crisscrossing the state in the days leading up to November 6 Election to raise awareness of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan’s scary plans for healthcare.  Join us at an event near you! Ambulance Tour Schedule: •    1:00 pm, Monday, […]

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From the AFL-CIO: The CEO and board members of American Crystal Sugar (ACS)—the nation’s largest sugar beet processor—have blocked 1,300 workers from their jobs for more than a year, denying them incomes and health care benefits. What’s worse, ACS made record profits last year and paid CEO David Berg $2.4 million in compensation. All this […]

http://tinyurl.com/8tnr33o 7 p.m., UW-Milwaukee Student Union Room 240, 2200 E Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee Free and open to the public. Sponsored by LASC, and for more info 414-447-8369. ###

MEDIA RELEASE PDF of Release: http://tinyurl.com/9toysl5 For more information contact: Brian Verdin  414-241-4608 or greenverdin@yahoo.com Citizens’ Tribunal October 22nd, Monday, 5:30 to 8 pm DNR Building, 2300 N. MLK Dr. With the Milwaukee Police Department (MPD) under federal investigation for the Derek Williams case and the arrests of MPD officers for illegal strip and cavity […]

http://milwaukeefairtradecoalition.org/ On Monday, October 15, two Colombians from the Bananeras De Uraba fair trade farm will be in Milwaukee as part of National Fair Trade Month:  Jorge William Restrepo & Felipe Echeverri Zapata. We’re splitting them up for the four events below. They will share with us the benefits fair trade has brought to their farm, and […]