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Milwaukee, July 7: LABOR AND COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS TO PROTEST AT THE RIGHT-WING RACIST BRADLEY FOUNDATION JULY 7 IN MILWAUKEE

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 Labor and community activists will participate in a “Stop The Bradley Foundation!” press conference and protest Thursday, July 7, 2016 at the headquarters of the Bradley Foundation, 1241 N Franklin Pl. at 4:30 p.m. This protest is sponsored by the Wisconsin Bail Out The People Movement and supported by organizations such as the South Central Federation of Labor in Madison, the Detroit-based Moratorium Now coalition, People’s Power Assemblies, the United Worker Organization and others. Event: http://bit.ly/1Q3fFoD

Activists from Wisconsin and across the country will participate in the protest including Workers World Party (WWP) Vice Presidential candidate Mr. Lamont Lilly from Durham, North Carolina and his Campaign Manager Ms. Teresa Gutierrez. WWP activists and supporters are now collecting signatures for Mr. Lilly and his presidential running mate Ms. Monica Moorehead to obtain ballot status in Wisconsin. Mr. Lilly will also lead a “Building People’s Power” community conversation July 7 at 7 p.m. at 734 N. 26th Street.

Announcements will also be made  July 7 about how participants can travel to Cleveland to protest the RNC and to Philadelphia to protest the DNC.

Stop the Bradley Foundation!

The Milwaukee-based Bradley Foundation is one of the largest right-wing anti-worker, racist think tanks in the world. The Foundation is an integral part of Wall Street’s right-wing foundation network that has as its goal to wipe out all legal, social and other barriers to making profits by capitalists. This includes: promoting deregulation and privatization including charter/voucher schools; busting or weakening unions; promoting funding for the Pentagon instead of funding for cities such as Flint, Mich.; attacking Planned Parenthood, LGBTQ organizations and communities, immigrants/migrants the Black Lives Matter Movement, First Nations people and environmental organizations; and advocating for the destruction of social safety nets such as Aid to Families with Dependent Children, Social Security Insurance, Unemployment Insurance and WIC (Women, Infants and Children).

Bradley funded the writing of the notoriously racist book, “The Bell Curve,” by Charles Murray and the late Richard Hernstein to the tune of well over $1 million. The book was co-funded by the Pioneer Society, a holdover from the white-supremacist eugenics movement of the 1920s and 30s. The book argued in part that people of African descent are genetically inferior to rich people of European descent. The book has been completely debunked by numerous scholars (including Stephen Hawking) worldwide. Murray’s and Hernstein’s racist eugenics is still being used by Wall Street politicians and policy makers to justify attacks and austerity inflicted by Wall Street interests and their political servants on poor and working people internationally in particular people of color.

In Wisconsin, Bradley for decades has been responsible for funding in whole or in part some of the worst austerity attacks on workers and their communities and this has increased rapidly over the past five years after the implementation of the union-busting Act 10. Bradley’s Board of Directors is full of banking and corporate executives as well as Pentagon affiliated individuals. They all have ties to an assortment of other right-wing organizations including the Koch-brothers funded Americans For Prosperity, the Heritage Foundation, the MacIver Institue and the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute.

Michael Grebe, Bradley’s current President, was the Chair of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s electoral campaigns. Bradley supports many more politicians in Wisconsin that are destroying worker’s quality of life and communities. Bradley played a fundamental role to create and push the union-busting legislation known as Act 10 and right-to-work (for less) and many more laws that took decades for poor and working people to win.

Art Pope, a Bradley board member, an extreme right-wing member of Wall Street, is responsible for many attacks on poor and working people in North Carolina including the latest anti-LGBTQ, anti-worker attacks in that state which has sparked ongoing protests world wide. Pope has been a leading advisor to Bradley and other Wall Street vultures in how to bring the abysmal anti-worker laws and policies of the Jim Crow south to Wisconsin and other states with a history of strong unionism.

The July 7 protest at the Bradley Foundation in Milwaukee will be an educational event to expose how the foundation is an enemy of all poor and working people. Labor and community activists will continue their conversations of how to keep fighting to build a people’s united front for a world of real freedom, justice, dignity and equality for all workers and their communities. And how to win a world without Wall Street and its tools like the Bradley Foundation.

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