Month: April 2016

Prison Slavery Affects Us All Why would McDonald’s pay its workers $15 when they can exploit prison labor for pennies? Wisconsin state institutions, including UW Milwaukee utilize forced prisoner labor to make their furniture and materials. Wisconsin prisons hold more African Americans per capita than any other state because Milwaukee Police Department and County Sherriff’s […]

Protest At Boeing Shareholders Meeting Stop Boeing from selling weapons to Israel! Members of the Antiwar Committee Chicago crafted a shareholders’ proposal demanding transparency regarding Boeing’s weapons sales to Israel. Boeing initially denied the proposal but the Securities and Exchange Commission forced Boeing to include it in the agenda and put it to a vote […]

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_Qv6IywwY4 Close to 40,000 Verizon workers are on strike, fighting to stop the telecommunication giant from gutting their contract and outsourcing their jobs. Deborah Casey and Leaburn Kennedy, members of CWA Local 2204 in southwestern Virginia talked about why they are determined to win this battle and Local CWA #3204 member and AT&T worker, […]

http://wiscosh.org/pdf/wmd/2016WMD-Milwaukee.pdf http://wiscosh.org/events.html As much and as fast as things change one thing remains fairly constant: workers die needlessly due to workplace incident, or exposure to hazardous substances which cause illness/disease.No workplace or work-related death is pleasant but striving and straining to breathe every minute of every day for the last several years or decades of […]

Dontre Day!

Coalition for Justice IMPORTANT MASS MEETING THIS THURSDAY AT ALL PEOPLES CHURCH, 5975 N. 40TH STREET from 6-8 P.M. We’d love to have as MANY folks in the space to recap the Fire and Police Commission Mtg from last week and DONTRE DAY!!!!! ‪#‎SHARE‬