Month: November 2014

EVENT: http://tinyurl.com/p9th56v A series of creative writing workshops that use the late Dr. Maya Angelou’s body of work and life story as a springboard for discussion and inspiration to create original work of any written form. Workshops are facilitated by graduate students and staff of the UWM Department of English, Program in Creative Writing. Workshop […]

EVENT: http://tinyurl.com/khcmvd7 On April 30 Dontre Hamilton was shot 14 times in Red Arrow Park by Milwaukee Police Officer Christopher Manney. This officer has since been released from his post, but has appealed his firing to the Fire and Police Commission (the governing body of our local police force). This Thursday, the Fire and Police […]

EVENT: http://tinyurl.com/n6jt2rg A call has been issued by the Inter-University Assembly (a strike committee involving over 80 higher education institutions across the country) for a 3 day education strike involving students but also workers, which they are also calling on other groups of workers to join in. There is talk of a 24h national strike. […]

Telesur: http://tinyurl.com/mh5gxeg The biggest public universities in Mexico City will hold several actions, starting on Wednesday, to demand the national government finds the 43 missing students of Ayotzinapa. Mexican students seem to not be willing to let the government forget the 43 missing students of Ayotzinapa that were kidnapped by Iguala police, in the state of […]

AUDIO COMMENTARY: http://tinyurl.com/kp6vv27 More commentaries: http://www.prisonradio.org/