Month: March 2015

http://wisaflcio.typepad.com/wisconsin-state-afl-cio-blog/ Political attacks against working families are marching across the United States.   From Michigan to Indiana, Missouri to West Virginia – working people and their unions are facing extremist politicians who rather do the bidding of those who fund their campaigns than the people they took an oath to serve. Unfortunately, Wisconsin’s democracy is the […]

teleSUR: http://tinyurl.com/nxpfth9 President Barack Obama has issued an executive order declaring that Venezuela “constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security … of the United States” and declared “a national emergency to deal with that threat.” Venezuela has been at the forefront of those countries offering socially just alternatives to free-market extremism across […]

The Youth Need to Be Heard! Stop the Cuts to Education! On Friday, March 20, from 10am to 5pm, the Joint Finance Committee is holding their ONLY public hearing on the state budget that will slash hundreds of millions of dollars from our public schools.We are calling on ALL youth in the Milwaukee area to […]

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Visitation will be from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, with a service at 4 p.m., East High School, 2222 E Washington Ave, Madison, WI 53704 Robinson’s mother, Andrea Irwin, speaking at a rally on the East Side Wednesday afternoon March 11, said the funeral would be open to the public. “I want everyone to be there,” […]

MADISON, MARCH 11 — Hundreds of youth, students, workers and their allies marched today to demand justice for Tony Robinson and Dontre Hamilton, $15 and a union and adequate funding for public education. The days events were sponsored by the Coalition for Justice, Young Gifted and Black and Wisconsin Jobs Now. The protests began with […]

Two Sons. Two loved ones. Two Black Men. Two different lives. Same tragic outcome. Same injustice.‪#‎JusticeForDontre‬ ‪#‎JusticeForTony‬ The Hamilton Family and the Coalition for Justice stand in solidarity with the Robinson Family and all of the groups organizing in Madison dedicated to fighting for true justice, true freedom, and the right to live in Black […]