http://www.globalresearch.ca/african-american-polit…/5518530
Read this report by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire, analyzing the role of the African American electorate from 1960 to 2016 and its significance within the broader context of the struggle for national liberation and social justice. The article was published by the Center for Research on Globalization (globalresearch.ca) based in Montreal.
Why: Starting on April 4th, 2016, Texas prisoners affiliated with the IWW through the Incarcerated Worker Organizing Committee began work stoppages, fighting back against slave wages and prison brutality. April 9th is a national day of action to support them, putting pressure on business that profit from slavery, and showing prisoners they have outside support. This also helps build visibility for the national prisoner strike action, which has been called for September 9.
What: In Milwaukee, this support involves people gathering at Fuel Cafe in Riverwest, at the central table. We will talk about Texas prison conditions and the resistance happening, and update on current developments. Then we will go as a group to a nearby business that profits from prison labor, and publicize the Texas prisoner conditions and action there. After, we will do a quick debrief and help co-ordinate future activity in Milwaukee for people who are interested. Materials and contacts will also be available for people who want to start letter-writing with prisoners in Wisconsin.
When: The gathering begins at 11:30 AM this Saturday, the discussion, action and debrief will be over by 1:00 PM.
More information about the Texas prison strike: https://iwoc.noblogs.org/post/2016/03/29/texas-prisoners-organize-threaten-to-strike-april-4th-with-iww-prisoner-union/
More information about the IWW and the Incarcerated Worker Organizing Committee: https://iwoc.noblogs.org/join/
More information about the September 9th call for prison work stoppage: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/national_prison_strike_campaign_vows_to_end_american_slave_system_20160402
MUMIA NEEDS US AGAIN!
PLEASE SIGN Mumia Hepatitis C Petition to PA Gov Wolf
ALSO, PLEASE CALL, FAX, AND E-MAIL NOW!
Medical Malfeasance and
Deliberate Indifference at SCI-Mahanoy
are Killing Mumia Abu-Jamal
We are concerned about Mumia’s deteriorating health, as has been witnessed in recent weeks by his visiting doctor, clergy, counselors, teachers, family and friends. Evidence of intensifying Hepatitis C symptoms and possible development of the diabetes that nearly killed him a year ago calls for immediate and appropriate treatment.
We, therefore, urge you to DEMAND:
PHONE, FAX, AND E-MAIL THESE DEMANDS TO:
PA GOVERNOR, TOM WOLF
Phone: 717-787-2500
Fax: 717-772-8284
E-mail: governor@pa.gov
PA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, SECRETARY,
JOHN WETZEL
Phone: 717-728-2573, 717-787-2500
E-mail: ra-contactdoc@pa.gov
MAHANOY PRISON, SUPERINTENDENT,
Theresa DelBalso
Phone: 570-773-2158
(You have to be transferred to her secretary, and she refuses to give out the fax number or e-mail for the Superintendent. Not surprising, given that this new superintendent has a very heavy military background)
Sponsored by: International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal, MOVE, Educators for Mumia, Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition (NYC), Campaign to Bring Mumia Home, International Action Center
Monica Moorehead & Lamont Lilly 2016 “Racism can’t be voted away, our fight is in the streets!” On #PrimaryDay we fight to abolish capitalism, defend Black lives, and for socialism! Learn more about our 10-point program: workersworldparty.org
Tuesday, April 12, 7pm | monthly meeting of WI Cuba Coalition, at Central UMC, 639 N. 25th St., MKE. We’ll review our March 13 benefit concert & discuss distribution of the proceeds; the impact of President Obama’s visit to Cuba; and our future plans including the 27th Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba, visiting MKE on July 9, 2016.
Monday April 25, 4:30pm | Marquette U. Raynor Library, 1355 W. Wisconsin Ave., in Beaumier Suites B&C. Cuban historian Dr. Servando Valdez Sanchez is a scholar at the Cuban Institute of History in Havana, and will present a bi-lingual PowerPoint & talk entitled: “Cuban Perspectives and Challenges in the New Century: The Origins and Possibilities of the Opening with the United States.”
A talk by Nidia Quintero, General Secretary of FENSUAGRO, Colombia’s largest agricultural workers union.
Wednesday, April 6 at 7 PM – 9 PM
Come hear about rural workers and their families from Nidia Quintero, the General Secretary of FENSUAGRO, Colombia’s largest agricultural workers unions.
We are hopeful that the current peace process will end 50 years of war but Colombia is still the most dangerous place in the world to be a trade unionist. Colombian activists need our solidarity to stop death squads from sabotaging the peace process.
Like nearly 6 million rural Colombians, Quintero comes from a farm family displaced by U.S. sponsored war. Fifteen of her fellow union organizers were assassinated between 2000 and 2004. Sadly, this includes her husband, a union leader, and her 19-year-old son, also an activist. In 2008 Nidia became FENSUAGRO’s Secretary for Rural Women, and in 2010 she was elected to FENSUAGRO’s executive committee before becoming General Secretary.
Quintero is encouraged by peace agreements that promise to return farmers to their lands and homes, along with infrastructure for new crops and markets. The peace must provide security for labor organizers. Nidia Quintero will talk about the hopes and dreams of rural workers and all workers in Colombia.
https://www.facebook.com/events/132570000470661/
Sponsored by (In formation): Alliance for Global Justice, Antiwar Committee Chicago, Colombia Action Network.
Contribute here: http://bit.ly/1ouFmrD
In response to Trump’s rally held at UWM, hundreds of students—led by groups such as Youth Empowered in the Struggle, African Student Association, Students for a Democratic Society, Black Student Union, Students for Justice in Palestine, Black Lives Matter, Wisconsin Bail Out The People Movement etc.—from all around Milwaukee showed up to protest the violent, hateful rhetoric used by Trump and his supporters. Recognizing hate speech as a force of terror, we acted in solidarity with those targeted and let Trump know his hate is never welcome here. Despite protesting peacefully and within our rights, one of our fellow students—Chivaliea Hayes—was arrested and cited with “resisting arrest”. We need to raise $300 in order to help Chivaliea pay this unjust citation. Please donate in support of our students, in support of our right to assemble, and in support of democracy.
Contribute here: http://bit.ly/1ouFmrD
4/4/16 Milwaukee Theatre, 500 W Kilbourn Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53203, 6:30 p.m.
Donald Trump is racist, xenophobic, misogynist, imperialist supporter. He advocates mass deportation, torture, state-sanctioned discrimination against Muslims, subordination of women, and more broadly undermines the values and goals of the labor and people’s movements. It’s clear now more than ever, that Trump’s campaign stands against human and labor rights. The people of Chicago, North Carolina and across the country have confronted and shut down Trump and his supporters and will continue to do so worldwide. If you are on the side of humanity and the Earth, join us at these protests in Wisconsin!
NOTE: April 4 is the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s murder in Memphis Tennessee in 1968. Dr. King was in Memphis to stand in solidarity with striking sanitation workers.
