Month: August 2016

http://www.maskmagazine.com/the-toxic-issue/struggle/national-prison-strike-on-attica-anniversary In Alabama and Texas, prisoners have enacted multiple strikes and uprisings over the last few weeks. Now they are calling for a national prison strike on the anniversary of the Attica Prison rebellion. More info: http://peoplespowerassemblies.org/sept-9-2016-nationwide-prisoner-action/

http://portside.org/2016-08-29/black-women%e2%80%99s-wages However, as the gender wage gap narrowed during the 1980s and early 1990s, the racial pay gap between white and black women grew. By 2015, white women’s wages had grown to 77 percent of white men’s, compared to 66 percent for black women relative to white men—a racial difference of 11 percentage points. The […]

http://www.stopfbi.net/ Rasmea Odeh, a survivor of vicious torture at the hands of the Israeli military, will be compelled to undergo hours of psychological evaluation by a government forensic examiner, according to a ruling by Federal Judge Gershwin Drain.  Drain cancelled a September 22 hearing on the matter in Detroit, where supporters from across the Midwest […]

Community Conversation with Monica Moorehead, Presidential Candidate for Workers World Party Friday, September 16. 6:30 – 8:30 P.M. 3020 W Vliet Street, Milwaukee at the African American Women’s Center (Former Carpenter’s union hall). Free and open to the public. Monica Moorehead has been an activist and organizer for more than four decades. Moorehead has long […]

Community Call to Action re: the Public Safety Action Plan “If you are silent about your pain, they will kill you and say you enjoyed it.” Zora Neal Hurston Common Council’s Public Safety Action Plan is No Starting Point as Common Council President Ashanti Hamilton Stated UBLAC’s Community Call to Action this Thursday at the […]

Sam Marcy, the late Chairperson of Workers World Party (http://www.workers.org/), wrote a pamphlet, “In Defense of the L.A. Rebellion,” in 1992 after the people in Los Angeles rose up against racist police terror. What Marcy wrote almost 25 years ago is still applicable today for Milwaukee and other cities where in particular Black and Brown […]

Make contributions for bail at: Disarm, Divest, Dismantle and Abolish the Police From community activist about August 30 police attacks and arrests: “So the way Milwaukee Police Department attempts to de escalate and begin to repair relations with the community is by lifting the curfew on Sherman Park and showing an enormous amount of police […]