Monthly Archives: May 2015

UW Green Bay, May 5: Stop Budget Cuts To UW System! Education Is A Human Right!

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EVENT: http://tinyurl.com/lgkuglz

Join us outside the University Union at UWGB after class on Tuesday from 2:00-2:30 to quickly help us get our voice heard by politicians around the state!

Rally in between classes to make your voice heard! Postcards, call in station, learn how to contact your legislators, duct tape selfie, sidewalk chalk, make your voice heard from 2:00pm-2:30pm. Come for a few minutes in between classes if you can–sign a postcard, take a photo, and be on your way within 5 minutes!!

This event is occurring in coordination with the larger day-long rally organized by Fix This Budget NOW.

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Latin America: Labor Legislation and the Rights of Workers

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teleSUR: http://tinyurl.com/n97rpns

Over the last decade, several progressive Latin American governments, such as Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador and Venezuela, have increased labor rights and protections to their respective citizens by passing pro-worker legislative measures.

This bloc of progressive states has pursued progressive policy options in order to empower workers by formalizing employment, raising wage levels and promoting the right to collective bargaining.

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Milwaukee, May 15: Al-Nakba: Rally for the Right to Return!

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Al-Nakba: Rally for the Right to Return!
Join a coalition of Milwaukee Palestine solidarity organizations as we remember Al-Nakba, and demand the right of return, and the end of illegal Israeli settler colonialism and ethnic cleansing.

Between 1947 and 1949, Jewish-Zionist and Israeli military forces forcibly expelled over 800,000 Palestinians from their homeland, destroying hundreds of Palestinian villages and massacring Palestinian men, women and children. This is known to Palestinians as “Al-Nakba” which means, “The Catastrophe” in Arabic.

Today, Al-Nakba continues as the State of Israel expands it’s occupation and ethnic cleansing of Palestine. We demand the Right of Return to millions of Palestinian refugees and their descendants.

Sponsored by:
Milwaukee Palestine Solidarity Coalition
Cosponsors:
Jewish Voice for Peace – Milwaukee
Friends of Palestine
Students for Justice in Palestine at Marquette University
American Muslims for Palestine, Milwaukee
US Palestinian Community Network – MKE
Milwaukee Antiwar Committee

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Philadelphia, May 13: MOVE: 30-Year Commemoration of the 1985 Bombing

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MOVE: 30-Year Commemoration of the 1985 Bombing
FLIER: http://tinyurl.com/k2otvme
BOOK: http://tinyurl.com/plb4gna
1:00 a.m. Rally at 62nd and Osage Ave., followed by a noon press conference, followed by a march, car, and bike caravan to 38th and Market St.

2:00 p.m. arrive at 38th and Market St., where food vendors will be set up from 2:00 – 7:00 p.m.

4:00 – 9:00 p.m.- Program at the First District Plaza at 3801 Market St.
The Program will include the following speakers:
Angela Davis and Alice Walker (via filmed statements), Ward Churchill, Cornell West, Amina Baraka, Chuck D., The Universal African Dance and Drum Ensemble, Chairman Fred Hampton Jr., Glenn Ford, Mmoja Ajabu, Impact Theater and The Welfare Poets.

MORE speakers to be confirmed soon!!

Contact Information:
Ramona Africa- 267-408-7802
onamovellja@gmail.com

FIST (Fight Imperialism Stand Together) Marches in Milwaukee’s May Day

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Members of the youth group FIST march in Milwaukee's 2015 May Day parade. Members from Rockford, IL, Janesville, Milwaukee and Chicago participated. Besides standing in solidarity with the sponsors of the march Voces de la Frontera and Youth Empowered in the Struggle (YES), FIST members distributed hundreds of fliers that support the youth led rebellion in Baltimore and that are demanding justice for Freddie Grey and all those murdered and maimed by police terror.

Members of the youth group FIST march in Milwaukee’s 2015 May Day parade. Members from Rockford, IL, Janesville, Milwaukee and Chicago participated. Besides standing in solidarity with the sponsors of the march Voces de la Frontera and Youth Empowered in the Struggle (YES), FIST members distributed hundreds of fliers that declare support for the youth led rebellion in Baltimore and that are demanding justice for Freddie Grey and all those murdered and maimed by police terror. FIST members also distributed signs declaring “JOBS Not Police Terror.” [Photo: Ben Herrenbruck]