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Detroit, March 25, 2017: Workers World Party Fightback Conference on the Resistance Against Racism and Capitalism & the Struggle for Socialism
‘Plymouth,’ MA, November 24: 47th Annual National Day of Mourning 2016
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Since 1970, Native Americans have gathered at noon on Cole’s Hill in Plymouth to commemorate a National Day of Mourning on the US thanksgiving holiday. Many Native Americans do not celebrate the arrival of the Pilgrims and other Europeean settlers. Thanksgiving day is a reminder of the genocide of millions of Native people, the theft of Native lands, and the relentless assault on Native culture. Participants in National Day of Mourning honor Native ancestors and the struggles of Native peoples to survive today. It is a day of remembrance and spiritual connection as well as a protest of the racism and oppression that Native Americans continue to experience.
Join us as we dedicate the 47th National Day of Mourning to the #NoDAPL Water Protectors at Standing Rock and to the struggle for recognition of Indigenous Peoples Day. We will have a special message from our brother, Native political prisoner Leonard Peltier, and we will ask everyone to join in calling on President Obama to grant clemency now and free Leonard Peltier.
Help us in our struggle to create a true awareness of Native peoples and demonstrate the unity of Indigenous peoples internationally.
United American Indians of New England/LPSG
Best contact method via email: info@uaine.org
http://www.uaine.org/
facebook group: United American Indians of New England
twitter: ndnviewpoint@mahtowin1
Absolutely No Drugs or Alcohol Allowed
Pot-luck Social to Follow
Basic Schedule outline with tentative times:
12 noon prayers (no photos during this time plz) at Cole’s Hill (the hill above Plymouth Rock)
12:20pm Native speakers
2pm march with rallies by plymouth rock and the site of the Metacomet historical marker
3-5pm indoor potluck social
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All out for Rasmea Odeh November 29 federal court hearing – most important of the case – in Detroit!
http://www.stopfbi.net/
If you’re not in the Midwest and can’t make it to Detroit, organize a solidarity event in your city!
WHEN: Tuesday, November 29th, 2016, changed to 8 a.m. EST
(rally at 8 a.m., hearing starts at 9 a.m.)
WHERE: U.S. District Court, 231 W. Lafayette Blvd., downtown Detroit, Michigan
Facebook event
The Rasmea Defense Committee is calling on everyone to mobilize for Detroit on November 29th, and tell us here that you’re attending or if you need a ride or if you can provide transportation!
Supporters from Chicago and other parts of Illinois, Milwaukee, Detroit / Dearborn, Grand Rapids, Minneapolis / St. Paul, Cincinnati, Indiana, and other Midwest areas are already committed to attend.
In addition, NY is organizing a solidarity action on November 28th, Harvard Law School is discussing the case on November 11th, and others in Florida, Texas, and California are planning actions as well.
If you are NOT in the Midwest, we are calling on you to also organize support events for Rasmea on or around November 29th. Again, it is the most important hearing in the case, and it also falls on the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, so there may already be Palestine support forces near you that are organizing events we can join with Rasmea’s story.
Let us know once it’s scheduled, by emailing info@stopfbi.net.
And continue to support #Justice4Rasmea by donating to the defense, and staying in touch through justice4rasmea.org and justice4rasmea@uspcn.org.
Background:
On Tuesday, November 29th, 2016, the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, Rasmea Odeh will once again be in a Detroit courtroom—this time for the most important hearing in her case to date—before Judge Gershwin Drain. This Daubert hearing will, in all likelihood, have two mental health experts from each of the prosecution and defense sides testify before the judge, and then he will hear legal arguments as to whether the testimony of Dr. Mary Fabri—the clinical psychologist from the world-renowned Kovler Center for the Treatment of Survivors of Torture, who diagnosed Rasmea’s Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)—is scientifically valid and applicable to the facts of the case.
Recall that before the 2014 trial, Dr. Fabri, who has worked with torture survivors for over 25 years, was prepared to testify as to how Rasmea’s PTSD, caused by the torture and rape she experienced at the hands of Israeli military interrogators in 1969, affected her answers to questions on complex immigration forms decades later in the U.S.
Judge Drain originally ruled her testimony irrelevant and inadmissible, which led to Rasmea’s unjust conviction; but earlier this year, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that he had erred, and sent the case back to him for the Daubert hearing.
Recently, Rasmea was subjected to 17 hours of mental examination by a government expert. Her defense had argued strongly to oppose this questioning prior to the November 29th hearing, but Judge Drain still allowed it. Even though the government continues to try to challenge Rasmea’s story, and claim that she does not have PTSD and did not get brutalized by the Israeli authorities in the 1960s and 70s, Rasmea remains steadfast and strong, and will continue to exercise her constitutional right to assert a meaningful defense.
Rasmea and her lawyers are confident that the results of this hearing will lead to a new trial sometime in early 2017, in which Dr. Fabri will testify before a jury, and the details of Israel’s torture and crimes against Rasmea will be heard. But if Judge Drain rules against her on November 29th, we will again appeal the decision.
That is why we are mobilizing heavy for this hearing. It is as important a moment as any we have had in the case.
From the beginning, the Rasmea Defense Committee has pointed out that the legal proceedings against Rasmea are nothing but a pretext to intimidate those who organize and struggle to realize a liberated Palestine. Demonstrations in support of her have taken place across the U.S. since her arrest in 2013, and we are again going All Out for Detroit on November 29th.
The Rasmea Defense Committee is led by the U.S. Palestinian Community Network and the Committee to Stop FBI Repression
Washington D.C, Jan. 20: Make It Ungovernable! Protest the Presidential Inauguration in Washington DC
ALL OUT to Washington, DC, January 20 to PROTEST the Presidential InaugurationAfter the most divisive, racist, misogynist, contentious presidential campaign in modern history, Monica Moorehead for President and Lamont Lilly for Vice President urge everyone to converge in Washington, D.C., on Friday, Jan. 20 to protest the inauguration of the next president.
No matter who wins the 2016 election, the people must take to the streets. This election year proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the capitalist system cannot represent the interests of the people. It revealed that democracy under capitalism is a sham.
While Trump and Clinton were fighting among themselves, often like children, Black and Brown people continued to be shot by racist police. Neither candidate ever expressed genuine support for the demands of the Black Lives Matter movement, essential in this period of police terrorism.
Clearly Donald Trump has galvanized racist, right-wing, anti-immigrant thugs. These elements have been stoked, and they will not likely crawl back into the gutter. But we cannot give up on all these workers. They have been misled by Trump, and we should struggle to win their hearts and minds.
Misogyny ultimately became a major issue this election season. At the heart of the “Trumpite” sexism against Hillary Clinton is not just hatred of women, but racism that is central to their odious ideology.
These forces are not reconciled to the historical fact that the first Black president was elected. They erroneously fear the “browning of America.” They think migrants are changing the fabric of “their” society and that they steal jobs, when in fact it is the corporations that lay off and shut factories.
The answer is solidarity and unity of all those who work and struggle for a living. Our enemy is not in the factory or the office but in the board room.
Neither Trump nor Clinton have a real program to address unemployment or underemployment. Neither will order the banks to put families back into foreclosed homes or to lower rents. Neither will unilaterally cancel the student debt. Neither will stop anti-LGBTQ laws from sweeping the country.
Trump is a dangerous buffoon. But Hillary Clinton is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Her political history is one of war and intervention. She is responsible, along with others, for the coup in Honduras and for war in Libya and Syria. She is historically aligned with the forces that dismantled welfare and led to mass incarceration.
As the economic crisis deepens, what can we expect? Under capitalism not only more of the same, but an intensification of all the ills that are byproducts of capitalism: war, racism, sexism, islamopho¬bia and the exploitation of all workers.
It is very likely that Hillary Clinton will win the election as she has proven her ability to well represent the 1%. We can be assured that in her first 100 days, there will be an escalation of war.
What’s the solution? Unity in fightback! Only our solidarity can push back the 1%! What matters is not who is in the White House, but in the streets.
We urge everyone – Black, Latinx, Native, Arab, Asian and white, women, trans people and men, young and old, queer or straight, documented or undocumented, people with disabilities, in a union or not, of every faith and belief from around the country – to converge in Washington on Friday, Jan. 20.
Join tens of thousands to present a people’s agenda!
Bus or travel information to Washington TBA
Visit http://www.workers.org/wwp/all-out-to-washington-dc-january-20-to-protest-the-presidential-inauguration/
or call 917-740-2628
Milwaukee, Nov. 12: Cuba: Transition and U.S.
Saturday, Nov. 12, 2016
10 a.m. Redeemer Lutheran
Church, 19th and Wisconsin Ave., back door
Local activists Steve Watrous and Art Heitzer will discuss what it’s like in Cuba today (with new photos), changes there, the warming of relations with the U.S., and how the Obama administration could do more. Atty. Art Heitzer was a founder in 1994 of the Wis. Coalition to Normalize Relations with Cuba and he chairs the National Lawyers Guild Cuba Subcommittee. He continues to represent U.S. travelers prosecuted for travel to Cuba. Steve Watrous is president of the Milwaukee UNA chapter and a sociology professor at MATC. He spent two weeks of July in Cuba on a Witness for Peace delegation plus a visit to the Cuban UNA office.
A forum of the United Nations Association – Greater Milwaukee Chapter. Free and open
to the public, with refreshments.
Ms. NINA SIMONE – Revolution
Madison, November 11: Occupy Bascom: The Noose Will Never Be Free
Join the Black Liberation Action Coalition (BLAC) as we occupy Bascom in response to the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s lack of value for People of Color on campus and in the community. We know that the lynching at Camp Randall along with many other incidents that have occurred at UW are acts of violence and warrant more than a superficial statement and/or initiative from administration. We will be delivering our specific demands and need your help in letting people in positions of power know that their blatant support of white supremacy will not be tolerated.
We also know that a lot of people are angry and ready to fight in response to the election. While we can no longer control the outcomes of the presidency for this term, we can and will demand control over local institutions that directly impact our lives and the lives of people we care about. Donald Trump’s explicit display of white supremacy is unacceptable. The University of Madison-Wisconsin’s display of white supremacy is unacceptable. The city of Madison’s display of white supremacy is unacceptable. All of these issues are interconnected and must be challenged locally. The ultimate goal is to shift power into the hands of the most impacted.
We understand the importance of mobilization, but also understand it’s limitations. Our campaign of community control does not stop after one day of direct action. With your support, we can make this a movement, not simply a moment. See y’all Friday.
All Power to the People!
*The Black Liberation Action Coalition (BLAC) is a united front of students and community members. It was organized in 2015 by Black student leaders and Freedom Inc, a community based organization. We have a history of protest and action in which some of our demands have been met, but there is still a lot more work to do.*
Harlem, NY, November 11-13: Workers World Party National Conference
LIVESTREAM: https://www.facebook.com/mooreheadlilly2016
The elections are not the last word — keep fighting for socialism!Join Workers World Party and hundreds of activists from around the country and the world for the annual WWP National Conference on Nov. 11-13 in New York.2016 has seen nothing short of an assault on the movement for justice, liberation and self-determination. But it has also been an incredible year of struggle, where the most militant people have risen up to say no more to exploitation, violence and repression, all facilitated by capitalism.
The conference will come only days after the presidential elections. Working and oppressed people will, without a doubt, be disappointed by the results. But where will we go from there? How will we channel our righteous rage and frustration into action? These are the questions we will take up as we honor the brave young people, communities and organizers who have confronted power and are claiming the future.
Regardless of who becomes the next president of the United States, we know that the truth remains: So long as the U.S. has the ability to terrorize Black and Brown people at home and abroad, so long as workers can barely afford to live, so long as LGBTQ people and women are under attack, so long as the politicians, bosses and bankers rule our lives, we must fight, fight, fight!
If you are interested in learning about and discussing why we must keep fighting for socialism, join Workers World Party at the Malcolm X & Betty Shabazz Center in New York City — the historical site of the Audubon Ballroom, where Malcolm X was assassinated on Feb. 21, 1965.
The annual WWP National Conference will convene revolutionaries and organizers from the frontlines of struggles, from Black Lives Matter to Palestine Solidarity, from anti-war to Fight for $15, from the LGBTQ struggle to women’s liberation and immigrants’ rights.
We lift up the struggles that need solidarity, not only here in the U.S. but also around the world — to end the blockade still on Cuba, end U.S. war aggression in Syria, stop the subversion of Venezuela, and show solidarity with migrants to the U.S. and the European Union. We lift up the banners of internationalism and socialist unity to build toward a revolution that will liberate all workers and oppressed people.
We choose ourselves — not the warmonger Hillary Clinton who called Black youths “predators,” not the hate-mongering billionaire Donald Trump who nurtures Klan and Nazi types. We choose solidarity — not the state’s tools of division, not the comfort of isolation.
We choose the movement — not the lies of the election, not the idea that the powers that be will fall on their own. We choose a path to revolution — not the lure of a softer, kinder capitalism, not another day of chains and cages. Let us continue to build the movement against capitalism, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, Islamophobia and more!
Black Lives Matter! Defend Native sovereignty! Abolish the police! Smash capitalism! LGBTQ liberation now! End women’s oppression! Free Palestine! The working class has no borders!
https://www.facebook.com/mooreheadlilly2016
Milwaukee, November 15: CUBA, Prospects & Challenges
Tuesday, Nov. 15 at 7 PM
Central United Methodist Church (CUMC)
639 N 25th St
Milwaukee, WI 53233
Free and open to the public
Nearly two years ago President Obama and Cuba’s President Raul Castro of Cuba announced plans to normalize relations. Since then, how much has really changed?
Two top leaders from the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) will be in Wisconsin to help build bridges of friendship between the people of Cuba and of the
United States. Founded in 1960, ICAP has worked to promote solidarity between the people of Cuba and nations worldwide.
On November 15 at 7pm hear Sandra Ramirez Rodriguez, Director, of the North American Division of ICAP, and Leima Martinez from ICAP’s North America Division, speaking on Cuba’s perspectives on strengthening ties between our peoples. For example, Cuba is currently providing free medical school to two women from Wisconsin, and its medicines have been credited with prolonging the quality of life for at least one Wisconsin man with advanced lung cancer. What more can be done so that our citizens can travel and trade more freely and learn from each other?
For more info contact: LASC 414-447-8369 or WI Coalition to Normalize Relations with Cuba 414-273-1040, www.wicuba.org.
Sponsored by: Wisconsin Coalition to Normalize Relations with Cuba, Latin America Solidarity Committee, Milwaukee Area Technical College, Plowshares Marketplace and Education for Peace Waukesha, National Network on Cuba and Cuban Institute of Friendship with Peoples (ICAP).
