Month: August 2014

4 p.m., Red Arrow Park (Water & E State Street), Milwaukee

This guest blog on Friday’s march and sit-in at the MPD administration building was written by Pastor Steve Jerbi of All People’s Church in Riverwest. http://tinyurl.com/pzlkllc  

http://www.stopfbi.net A status hearing in front of Judge Drain is still planned for Tuesday, September 2, in Detroit, and the Rasmea Defense Committee is calling for supporters to pack the courthouse and call the prosecutors to demand that they drop the charges on that day. The date of the actual trial will be rescheduled. Full […]

PressTV: http://tinyurl.com/k35c9af Iran’s Foreign Ministry has condemned the US’s “targeted discrimination” against African Americans after an unarmed Black teenager was fatally shot by the US police and protests over the killing were met with a heavy crackdown.    

United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) statement: http://tinyurl.com/pqo3q4u What can be done?  Marches and rallies around the country must continue and demand an end to police militarization and the legalized human rights abuses against millions of citizens. There are groups organizing to send people to Ferguson to show solidarity. Black Life Matters (blacklifematters.org) is organizing buses […]

http://www.handsupunited.org “…Monday Aug. 25 Mike would have been a college freshman attending class for the first time.  Instead, that very day his mother will be burying him. This is why we are calling on all college students to walk out of class at 1PM EST and congregate publicly in solidarity with Mike Brown and other victims of police brutality. […]

PETITION: http://tinyurl.com/q9zjtlg The Red Sea Jazz Festival is a bi-yearly event in Israel’s city of Eilat. The festival could have been a festival to celebrate the free spirit of Jazz music, and this beautiful tradition of oppressed minorities. Instead, it is a government event of propaganda, which uses Jazz music as a tool for whitewashing […]