Today, #FightFor15 workers and The Movement for Black Lives activists across the country are taking to the streets to fight against racial and economic injustice. Learn more: FightFor15.org
Watch the livestream. Comment. Share. Let the world see that you are fighting right there with us.
https://workersworldbaltimore.org/
Saturday’s Exciting Program:
10—10:30 Registration – Food canteen is open
10:30 promptly —11 am — Welcome and opening talks – Rev. CD Witherspoon, Baltimore civil rights activist, Mumia Abu-Jamal “Harriet’s Daughters” and Monica Moorehead, Workers World Party’s Presidential candidate
11—12:30 pm — First Panel: Fighting racism, police terror, and the war against immigrants; Fighting for Indigenous, women’s, and trans liberation
– Special message from Vaughn Prison rebellion –
Floor discussion – Questions & comments
12:30—1:50 pm – Second Panel: Capitalism is at a dead end, socialism is the future – Floor discussion
1:50—2 pm – Special presentation: Joining a revolutionary socialist party – Lamont Lilly, Workers World Party’s Vice-Presidential candidate and participant in the Freddie Gray protests
2—2:30 pm – Lunch in Hall
2:30—3:30 pm Keynote presentation: “Resistance in the Epoch of Trump – Next Step May Day” Larry Holmes – First Secretary, Workers World Party
3:30—5 pm – Third Panel: Stopping the war, at home and abroad – Floor discussion – Questions & comments – Special report on defending Cuba and Venezuela –
5—6 pm – Anti-capitalist, socialist and anti-fascist unity in the epoch of Trump
6—6:30 pm Dinner in Hall
6:30—7 pm The artist’s role in revolution – Special preview and screening of “Up.Rise the Film” by film makers Rebecka Jackson and Rasika Ruwanpathirana
7—8:30 pm – Summations and action proposals for May Day
9 – Midnight Get-together at Harriet Tubman Solidarity Center, 2011 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218 – Drinks on us!
When movements come together, we are unstoppable. Join us Tuesday: http://bit.ly/FF15APRIL4 #FightFor15 #BeyondTheMoment
One year ago Berta Cáceres – renowned Honduran Indigenous and social movement leader – was assassinated. The hydroelectric company DESA, members of the Honduran military (trained by the US), and the Honduran government are implicated in her assassination.
On March 2, 2017 Representative Hank Johnson (D-GA) along with 24 other Congress members re-introduced the Berta Cáceres Human Rights in Honduras Act (H.R. 1299). Please ask your representative to co-sponsor this important piece of legislation!
Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to your representative’s office. Once connected, ask to speak with or leave a message with your representative’s Latin America policy aide.
Script Example:
“My name is _____. I am a constituent from (your city and state). I am calling to ask Representative _____ to co-sponsor H.R. 1299, The Berta Cáceres Human Rights in Honduras Act, calling for suspension of US security aid to Honduras until human rights violations committed by the Honduran security forces cease. The Honduran security forces have been implicated in repression against activists, and even though a US-trained military intelligence official has been charged in Berta’s murder, those who ordered her murder remain free, and environmental and indigenous leaders continue to be threatened, attacked, and criminalized. Can I count on Representative _____ to sign on? Please call me this week at (your phone number) to let me know if Representative _____ will sign.”
Hosted by Capuchin Community Services and Capuchin Franciscan Province of St. Joseph
7-9 p.m. 1927 N 4th Street, Milwaukee (St. Francis of Assisi)
Free off-street parking north of the church
Wheelchair accessible. Free & open to the public
A Read-In to mark the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s historic speech on April 4, 1967 – “Beyond Vietnam” – when he offered his most radical critique of racism, militarism and extreme materialism in the U.S. Dr. King was assassinated exactly one year later (April 4, 1968) on the eve of the launch of the Poor People’s Campaign which would declare poverty a human rights violation.
After the speech is presented, there will be a discussion on its meaning then and for today, including George Martin and Rev. Joseph Ellwanger, longtime activists in the civil rights movement & who worked with Dr. King. This is part of a national movement of popular education by the Movement for Black Lives, United for Peace & Justice, and Veterans for Peace. Local sponsors include: the Martin Luther King Justice Coalition, United Methodist Women, End the Wars Committee of Peace Action – WI, Vets for Peace, National Lawyers Guild, Progressive Moms of Milwaukee and UBLAC (Uplifting Black Liberation and Community).
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Hosted by Young People’s Resistance Committee – UWM
Please join YPRC (formally known as YES) for our second annual Congress! We will be featuring some amazing speakers and workshops to help advance and educate organizers and activists of all experience levels.
This two-day Congress will focus on topics like campaign-building, self-care, leadership techniques, radical artmaking for the movement, and much more. The second day will include a Know Your Rights training for undocumented immigrants and the activists that fight for them.
Breakfast and lunch will be provided! We’ll be hosting a fundraiser and social on Saturday night. The link to that event can be found here: ______ A $10 donation is recommended but not required. All those who donate will receive a special edition YPRC Congress t-shirt.
A full schedule will be released shortly. Invite your friends!
Last week, after nine years on the job, I joined my 2,500 sisters and brothers of IBEW Local 3 in standing up and striking against Charter/Spectrum Cable over their continued disrespect of workers and the customers we serve. This decision was not made lightly.
For years, my coworkers and I have been targeted for punishment because we advocate for our customers. *Customers who deserve the services they were promised. We take great union pride in the work we do, but Charter/Spectrum is refusing to provide us the tools, resources and support we need to do our jobs properly.
In addition, the company has proposed drastic health care cuts for unionized workers and their families and wants to eliminate our pensions and job security. We decided we simply can no longer stay silent.
We can win. With your help we can show a Multi-Billion dollar company like Charter/Spectrum that labor and the community stand together! Here are three actions you can take now to support the fight:
2). Join a picket line near you at Charter/Spectrum pay centers.
3). Join a mass rally in NYC on Wednesday, April 5 at the company headquarters.
In Solidarity,
Joseph Mossa
IBEW Local 3 Technician on Strike at Charter/Spectrum Communications
1-888-448-3150 or 919-833-1619 organizeUE150@gmail.com
On Saturday April 1st, at the Greensboro, NC, Workers Justice Center, union chapter delegates of the “Municipal City Workers Council/Summit” of the N.C. Public Service Workers -UE Local 150 , listened to a Muslim For Social Justice (MSJ) leader speak on an attack on the majority African American Winston-Salem Mosque and the broader Muslim community. This was followed by a critically important rank and file members’ discussion and the passing of a city workers’ summit resolution. The worker representatives from Greensboro, Charlotte, Durham, Winston -Salem, High Point and Raleigh also resolved to bring this resolution to our NC Public Service Workers Union – UE Local 150 statewide leadership and other community groups for discussion and adoption.
The resolution reads,
“Therefore, be it resolved that all city chapters will oppose and take action against Islamaphobia and all forms of discrimination, harassment , retaliation and injustice at our workplaces and in our communities based on any and all worker’s religion and ethnicity, including discrimination based on religious clothing, practice of religion or foreign language.”
Muslims for Social Justice stated that it is dedicated to work with UE Local 150 to recruit more members to UE Local 150 and build working class power.
Hosted by Mobilization4Mumia
8 a.m. – 4 p.m., 1303 Filbert Street, Philadelphia, PA
Fill the courtroom and the streets!
Mumia is innocent and was framed! 35 in prison is 35 years too long!
On April 24, Mumia Abu-Jamal’s birthday, there will be a court hearing on his PCRA (Post-Conviction Relief Act) petition in Pennsylvania courts. This is an action to overturn all of the PA Supreme Court decisions from 1995-2008 that denied him freedom despite the evidence that the police and prosecution manufactured the “proof” of his guilt and suppressed evidence of his innocence.
This latest legal challenge is based on the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Williams case, which ruled that an appellate judge cannot participate in a case in which he formerly had a personal role in a significant prosecutorial decision. Ronald Castille was the District Attorney responsible for opposing Mumia’s 1989 appeal of his trial conviction and death sentence. Then, after being elected to PA Supreme Court in 1994, Castille ruled against Mumia in every appeal brought before him critical of the actions of his former DA’s office. Castille ran for election to the PA Supreme Court bragging that 45 men (including Abu-Jamal) were sentenced to death by his DA’s office and that he was financed by and had been honored by the FOP as “Man of the Year.”
We call for Mumia’s immediate release from prison!
Mobilization4Mumia@gmail.com 215-724-1618
International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal International Action Center Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition (NYC) Campaign to Bring Mumia Home Prison Radio The MOVE Organization Mundo Obrero/Workers World Party Educators for Mumia Abu-Jamal Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Philly REAL Justice
For car caravan information from NYC call 212 9272924. Cars will be leaving NYC at 5 AM from several locations.
