Monthly Archives: January 2017

January 8: Milwaukee Coalition Against Trump Mass Meeting

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The Milwaukee Coalition Against Trump is excited to host our second Mass Meeting! The meeting will provide important updates on the progress of the coalition and upcoming events.

This meeting will be focused on organizing three initial committees to help build for the January 20th protest and the 100 days of resistance:

1. Fliering Team: This committee will organize fliering and petitioning in different neighborhoods and suburbs to help build upcoming events and to gather signatures for the petition (to be announced).

2. Art Team – This committee will design and create banners, signs, noicemakers and anything else creative for the upcoming mass protest. We hope to organize a contingent of singers and musicians as well.

3. Video Team – This committee will be making short videos to share online to help build coalition events and fight Trump’s agenda.

*Childcare will be available
*Sorry, this space is not wheelchair accessible

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Milwaukee, January 14: Artists Against Fascism – Support IWW General Defense Committee & Milwaukee

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Artists Against Fascism – Support IWW General Defense Committee & Milwaukee

“The strategic adversary is fascism… the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.”

Michel Foucault

Anti-fascist musicians and spoken word artists will contribute this evening to raise money for Industrial Workers of the World General Defense Committee and Milwaukee Anti-fascist Action. The money will be used to to defend the working class against repression carried out by fascists. With the rise of the far white supremacist right, the entryist “alt-right”, and the election of mysogonist, racist Trump, we need to unify, stand together to protect what working class gains we have made and to press forward to gain more.

Artists playing are:

Contraptions
Jesse James
Eric Blowtorch and the Inflammables
Lady Cannon
Chimp Eats Banana

Doors open at 6:00, artists start around 7:00, merchandise will be sold to raise money as well. $5.00 minumum donation would be ideal, but no one will be turned away due to lack of funds.

Milwaukee, January 9: Support Prisoner Organizing

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Join us at the large meeting room of the Center Street Library on Monday, January 9. The first part of the event is introduction to abuses and organizing inside the Wisconsin prison system, and the activity the Incarcerated Worker Organizing Committee is doing to assist. Part two involves writing to incarcerated people, participating in mass mailings, penpal writing and brief letters of support. Please join us if you’re interested in opposing guards’ violence, wage theft, sexual assault and exploitation, providing emotional support and strategic assistance to people behind bars.

Food and drinks are provided, childcare is available upon request.

To get more involved, respond to this survey form, to identify activity you are able and interested in doing, we will connect you to specific tasks that can help the work along:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1jIToClitl8JErcqDRPNdOB_FY2jwgXlNncV8nVI_81E/
If you are interested in helping but are unable to make this event then fill out this survey, and we can followup with you.

Milwaukee, Feb. 4: Planned Parenthood Benefit

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MKE Punk Fest Presents…
“These Doors Stay Open” (Part 1)
A Planned Parenthood Benefit ShowOur goal is to raise $5,000 for Planned Parenthood over the course of 4 shows in 2017. (Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall) Join us Feb 4th for the 1st show of the series at Quarters in Riverwest.

12:30p – Mike Brumm and 1st Cousin Once Removed
1:00 – Jacob Green One Man Band (VT)
1:30 – Self Help Club
2:00 – Gas Station Sushi
2:30 – Scarecrow Dave
3:00 – Action Jelly
3:30 – Moth Light
4:00 – The Brash Menagerie
4:30 – Hi/Jack
5:00 – False Flag Rennaissance
5:30 – So Far So Bad
6:00 – Warden
6:30 – Electric Adventure
7:00 – The Women
7:30 – Floor Model
8:00 – Rocket Paloma
8:30 – Spatola (Kenosha)
9:00 – Mr Russia (IL)
9:30 – Horrible (IL)
10:00 – GRMLNZ (IL)
10:30 – Rhetoric Vendetta (Lake Geneva)
11:00 – The Meatcurtains
11:30 – Billy Dreamer

Door at Noon, Show starts 12:30pm sharp
21+ $5 or more suggested donation
www.mkepunkfest.com

Part 2:https://www.facebook.com/events/656524151193669/
Part 3: Summer All Ages TBA
Part 4: Fall 21+ TBA

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