Month: February 2015

EVENT: http://tinyurl.com/lys63l6 GATHER OUTSIDE CHASE BANK, WOODWARD AND FORT STREET, and MARCH TO GREEKTOWN FROM DETROIT TO GREECE, SAY NO TO THE WAR ON THE WORKING CLASS! CANCEL THE DEBT STOP PENSION CUTS Austerity in Greece has meant conditions much like those faced by Detroiters: A poverty rate of 44%, up from just 3% in […]

http://overpasslightbrigade.org/blog/ Piercing winds and negative wind chills were not enough to keep hundreds of Wisconsinites from attending two actions against Governor Walker’s proposed budget cuts on the University of Wisconsin’s campus on Saturday, February 14. It was a cold, cold way to spend Valentine’s Day, with the wind in Madison whipping off of Lake Mendota, […]

http://fightfor15.org/s-petition/april-15/ There is a crisis in America. Working families have endured decades of stagnant incomes. We are increasingly forced to choose between keeping a roof over our heads, paying our bills or feeding our kids. Meanwhile, corporate executives earn ever-increasing salaries ― precisely because wages for everyone else have stayed the same. On April 15, […]

INTERNATIONAL ACTION CENTER: http://iacenter.org/

EVENT: http://tinyurl.com/k9aced8 Get involved in the fight against $300 million in cuts to the UW system! Tentative Agenda: 1. Summing Up February 11 March 2. Campaign Demands & Strategy 3. Immediate Next Steps 4. Fall 2015 SAC Grants

http://www.spyghana.com/youth-must-broaden-horizons-meet-challenges/ Black Liberation Month: http://panafricannews.blogspot.com/ The following are excerpts from an African American History Month lecture delivered by Mr. Abayomi Azikiwe at Henry Ford College in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, on Feb. 11, 2015: “…Not only should we seriously study African American, African and world history, but we must make history ourselves. Racist […]

teleSUR: http://tinyurl.com/p7zw88k “…[President] Maduro stated that the plot, which was scheduled to coincide with anti-government demonstrations planned for the one-year anniversary of the start of violent, opposition-led demonstrations which began last Feb. 12, was uncovered after military officials who had been approached to participate reported the schemes to authorities. Maduro called on the Venezuelan people to be on alert and prepared to […]