Milwaukee, WI– The Coalition for Justice stands in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and responds to Governor Scott Walker’s recent responses to questions about the movement.

On Friday, August 28, 2015 at Red Arrow Park The Coalition for Justice along with other organizations, community leaders and concerned citizens will host a press conference calling Governor Scott Walker out on disregarding and disrespecting African Americans.

“The Governor’s remarks don’t come as a surprise to us not that he almost refused to answer the questions surrounding the Black Lives Matter Movement, but in the end he completely disregarded us and the work that we’re doing,” says Nate Hamilton, Co-Founder of the Coalition for Justice.” “With the comments he made we want to know where the Governor thinks that leaves African Americans.  Are we not American or are we not voters?” Hamilton adds.

It’s time to call Governor Walker out on these comments and more.

WHEN: Friday, August 28, 2015

WHERE: Red Arrow Park, 920 N. Water Street, Milwaukee,WI

TIME: 1:00 p.m. 

Contact: Nate Hamilton 414-839-7204

HOLD THE DATE! November 7-8, 2015 in New York City

Workers World Party fights for a socialist society—where the wealth is socially owned and production is planned to satisfy human need. That’s also what workers around the world, from Cuba to China, have been struggling for. The U.S. rulers have spent trillions of our tax dollars trying to stop them in a global class struggle. WWP promotes international working-class solidarity, the right of every nation to sovereignty and self-determination, and militant resistance at home to imperialist interventions and wars.

“The Black Lives Matter uprising is fundamentally a reincarnation of the Black liberation struggle. The capitalist class understands that its continued existence is dependent upon keeping such a liberation struggle as separate and isolated from the working-class movement and progressive movement as possible. Conversely, the more that the entire movement takes up the liberation struggle, the more difficult it becomes for the capitalist state to carry out massive repression.

“Keeping the oppressed isolated is key for the ruling class. The best circumstances for the system to succeed with its plan to crush this uprising of the oppressed is to keep such a struggle geographically, or at least politically, to a greater rather than a lesser extent, isolated from the working-class and progressive movement.

“The participation of young white activists in support of the Black Lives Matter uprising has been impressive, even unprecedented. Still, taken as a whole, the Left, specifically the white Left, has largely been missing in action thus far. This is dangerous and it must be rectified.

“No doubt, if the capitalist state can get away with isolating and then smashing the Black Lives Matter uprising, then it will feel in an even stronger position to use the same repression against the whole working class. There’s a great deal at stake here, because the crisis of capitalism makes bigger confrontations between capitalism and the working class inevitable if not imminent.”

Larry Holmes, “What is the Left going to do about the government’s plan to crush the Black Lives Matter uprising?”
http://www.workers.org/wwp/what-is-the-left-going-to-do-about-the-governments-plan-to-crush-the-black-lives-matter-uprising/

http://www.workers.org/

BLACK WOMEN’S LIVES MATTER! Cierra Finkley was arrested for protecting herself and her daughter from her abusive boyfriend. The DA is charging her with homicide and she is in need of legal support. Please contribute to her legal fund! See the whole story

https://www.facebook.com/justice4cierra

Hear Cuban MD & Gay Activist Alberto Roque Guerra who coordinated Cuba’s medical program of comprehensive treatment for transgender people. Dr. Roque has written, presented & consulted widely on LGBT issues in Europe, Latin America & the U.S. This will be his first visit to Wisconsin.

Free & Open to the Public
Wednesday, September 2, 2015 | 7 P.M. The Milwaukee LGBT Community Center
1110 N. Market St., 2nd Floor | Milwaukee, WI 53202 | (414) 271 – 2656
Co-Sponsors (list in formation): The Wisconsin Coalition to Normalize Relations with Cuba (www.wicuba.org), The Milwaukee LGBT Community Center, & others

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NOTE: Leslie Feinberg wrote extensively on this topic in hir “Lavender & Red Series,” which were published in the book “Rainbow Solidarity In Defense Of Cuba:” http://www.workers.org/lavender-red/LavenderRed_Cubabook.pdf