June 19, 2016
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: 414-395-0665 / wibailoutpeople.org / facebook.com/wibailoutpeople.org
Lamont Lilly, Workers World Party Vice Presidential Candidate in Milwaukee July 7 to Discuss “Building People’s Power” and Socialism
WHO: Lamont Lilly, Workers World Party Vice Presidential Candidate
WHAT: “Stop the Bradley Foundation” protest. And a community conversation on “Building Peoples Power,” sponsored by Wisconsin Bail Out the People Movement that will also feature WWP Presidential Candidate Monica Moorehead via skype.
WHEN: Thursday, July 7, 2016
WHERE: Bradley protest at 1241 N. Franklin Pl., Milwaukee, 53202 at 4:30 p.m.
“Building People’s Power” community meeting at 724 N. 26th Street, Milwaukee, 53233 at 7 p.m.
WHY: Workers World Party, a revolutionary socialist party founded in 1959, is running Monica Moorehead for President and Lamont Lilly for Vice President. WWP is seeking ballot status in a number of states, including Wisconsin, and will run write-in campaigns in other states. Moorehead/Lilly supporters will be petitioning for ballot status in Wisconsin throughout the month of July. On June 15 the campaign issued the following statement:
“Our party, which has run presidential candidates in 1980, 1984, 1988, 1996, 2000 and 2004, entered the electoral process again this time to counter the two reactionary candidates of the major capitalist parties with a socialist message. We believe the responses of both Trump and Clinton to the Orlando tragedy only underscore the need for an alternative voice – one of, by and for the workers and oppressed – to be heard by the masses who are following this election charade with disgust. Both capitalist party front-runners have made a crass appeal to Islamophobia in their statements, with Trump reiterating his neo-fascist position of barring Muslims from entering the country and Clinton beating the war drums for the Obama administration.
“We have no faith in the one percenters’ “pay (billions) to play” electoral process. Our campaign makes an unequivocal break with capitalist business as usual. That is what millions of workers and oppressed are looking for. We see that all over, from the Madison upsurge to Occupy Wall St., from Black Lives Matter to the widespread support for Bernie Sanders, a self-defined ‘socialist’ – although from our point of view his ‘socialism’ is really a program to try to reform capitalism.
“Our ten-point program (http://www.workers.org/wwp/program/) calls for an end to the war on Black people and to racism, for immigrant rights, for economic justice, for women’s and LGBTQ rights, an end to imperialist war, reversing climate change, full employment, an end to mass incarceration and an end to capitalist exploitation and its replacement with socialism.
“Workers World Party is targeting the Bradley foundation to expose its role as a leading right-wing, pro-business ideological think-tank and, like the Koch family’s ALEC, a major architect of the neoconservative program of austerity, privatization, charter schools, resegregation and union-busting – and outright white supremacy as in The Bell Curve. The Bradley Foundation epitomizes everything our socialist campaign opposes.”
Mr. Lamont Lilly is a leading member of the Durham, North Carolina branch of Workers World Party and a member of WWP’s National Committee. As a journalist, an organizer and a speaker, Lilly has traveled widely to support movements against racism and war and for social and economic justice.
Lilly’s political commentary has been featured in Workers World newspaper, Truthout, Counterpunch, the LA Progressive, Black Youth Project, the Durham News, and Triangle Free Press. Lilly was awarded a 2015 Local Hero Citizen’s Award by Indy Week of Raleigh-Cary- Durham-Chapel Hill N.C. for “pushing for workers’ rights and police reform.” (full bio attached)
Monica Moorehead has been an activist and organizer for more than four decades. A member of Workers World Party since 1975, Moorehead now sits on the Party’s national secretariat and is a managing editor of Workers World newspaper. She was WWP’s candidate for president of the United States in 1996 and 2000; in 1996 she sought the nomination of the Peace & Freedom Party in California. Workers World Party
To schedule interviews with Mr. Lilly call: 414-395-0665.
More information on both events is available at: facebook.com/wibailoutpeople.org or wibailoutpeople.org
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