Five-minute action you can take on Friday, December 1st, 9am-12pm to support UWS students, faculty and staff! Use the below scripts (or your own words) to call and email UWS administrators and tell them to stop the cuts!

See this letter for more context and info: https://goo.gl/forms/t1u5a5RAefFs9djH2

Contact Info:
Chancellor Renee Wachter
rwachter@uwsuper.edu
ph. 715-394-8221

Interim Provost Jacalyn Weissenburger
jweissen@uwsuper.edu
ph. 715-394-8449

Interim Vice Chancellor for Enrollment Management Brenda Harms
bharms1@uwsuper.edu
ph. 715-394-8155

**Take three minutes and *CALL* each of the above numbers. Feel free to use the below script or your own words!**

Phone script:
I am calling to express support for the overwhelming community opposition to your recent decisions to shutter 9 majors, 15 minors, and 1 master’s program and to place 15 other programs on warning — nearly one third of your institution’s total programs. Your decision explicitly targets programs where students tend to engage in critical, creative inquiry and independent thinking to make sense of the world. Don’t deny UWS students the kind of quality, rigorous, and expansive education that is becoming increasingly restricted to the upper classes. Please listen to your students and your wider community, and rescind this decision by Monday, December 11th.

**Then, take an additional minute or two to send an *EMAIL* to the above addresses. Feel free to copy and paste the below template or send your own!**

Email template:
Dear Chancellor Wachter, Interim Provost Weissenburger, and Interim Vice Chancellor for Enrollment Management Harms,

I am writing to express support for the overwhelming community opposition to your recent decisions to shutter 9 majors, 15 minors, and 1 master’s program and to place 15 other programs on warning — nearly one third of your institution’s total programs. Your decision explicitly targets programs where students tend to engage in critical, creative inquiry and independent thinking to make sense of the world.

Your public moves make it clear that the source of your decisions are rooted elsewhere than the best interests of University of Wisconsin-Superior (UWS) students, staff, and faculty. Justifications for denying UWS students a quality, rigorous, and expansive education have included:
*claims that first generation college students — 46 percent of your student population — are not intelligent enough to make choices about what they desire to study,
*spinning a summer “taskforce”, which focused only on minors and specifically made no recommendations to remove programs, to argue that faculty were involved in an “ongoing [decision-making] process” to make the cuts,
*shifting the blame for the need for program cuts away from your own and the state’s political agenda and onto poor faculty advising and teaching without any evidence to back this up,
*and claims that the decision will not affect faculty jobs because faculty will be asked to teach outside their areas of expertise (which will aid in enrollment how, exactly?).

Don’t deny UWS students the kind of quality, rigorous, and expansive education that is becoming increasingly restricted to the upper classes. Please listen to your students and your wider community, and rescind this decision by Monday, December 11th.

Sincerely,
[your name, affiliation]

USW Local 8751 Puerto Rico Solidarity EDUCAMOS v2 11 28 17

Boston School Bus Drivers’ Union, USW 8751 / District 4
25 Colgate Rd. • Roslindale, MA 02131
Telephone (617) 524-7073 Fax (617) 524-1691
http://www.BostonSchoolBusUnion.org
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EDUCAMOS – un sindicato de verdad November 28, 2017

President Eva Ayala

P.O. Box 642

Comerío, Puerto Rico 00782

RE: USW Local 8751 says, “Solidarity Forever with EDUCAMOS!”

Dear President Eva Ayala,

It is with outrage and inspiration that we in Boston have followed EDUCAMOS’s daily struggles over

these past two months to fight school closings and privatization, defend the peoples’ rights to fully-funded education in the face of the devastating hurricanes and austerity attacks of PROMESA, Secretaries of Education DeVos and Keleher and the colonial U.S. government, now lead by the arch-racist Donald Trump.

We applaud your mighty efforts – teachers and school workers alongside students and their families –

in the face of severe government and bankers’ demands to cut the budgets. We see your demonstrations and writings, our sisters and brothers, and the obstruction from all of the military and police who have been sent from U.S. cities in a futile attempt to stop the Puerto Rican peoples’ just struggle to recover, rebuild and live free of colonial oppression.

In Boston – colonial home of Puerto Rico’s district court, the Boston Group (hired guns for school

privatization), the Blackstone Group (funders of the hotel and casino gentrification devastation in your island) and Baupost Group (whose vulture extortionist Seth Klarman “owns” $911 million of Puerto Rico’s “debt” to Wall Street) – our union is marching and providing a sound-truck to the Raíces Borikén Collective’s December 17th rally and march, “Decolonize Puerto Rico”. While thousands of families have been forced out of Puerto Rico in recent months – many of whose children are now riding our school buses in Boston – we will continue to fight with you in the hopes that our combined efforts will soon end this criminal plot of forced migration of your people from your land and your nation.

While we realize that it is a small drop in the bucket relative to your needs, our members voted unanimously to send you the enclosed check for $2,000 as a symbol of our great respect for and solidarity with your work.

Cancel the Debt, Now! $Trillions in Reparations for Puerto Rico, Now! End the Jones Act, Now!

Power to EDUCAMOS and the all the courageous Puerto Rican Workers!

http://www.floc.com/wordpress/floc-sues-nc-over-law-stripping-rights-from-100000-workers/

On November 15, FLOC a coalition of civil rights groups filed a federal lawsuit challenging a state law that guts the ability of farmworkers to organize and make collective bargaining agreements with employers.

The lawsuit argues that the North Carolina Farm Act of 2017 impedes farmworkers’ First Amendment right to participate in unions, and asserts that the law is discriminatory, as more than 90 percent of the state’s agricultural workers are Latino. The Supreme Court has repeatedly affirmed that the government cannot impose special burdens on expressive associations such as unions.

The lawsuit was brought on behalf of FLOC and two FLOC members. It was filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the North Carolina Justice Center, and the Law Offices of Robert J. Willis. The groups are asking the court to block implementation of the law as the challenge proceeds.

Hosted by Workers World Party

You are invited to a New York City Workers World Party meeting:

Hear Monica Moorehead, WWP Secretariat member and founding member of U.S. Out of Southern Africa Network, which protested U.S. corporate and bank complicity with apartheid during the 1980s.

Plus, report from WWP 2017: Young revolutionaries breaking the chains of capitalism

Video from National Day of Mourning 2017

Updates on:
Sun. Dec. 3 International Day of People with Disabilities
https://www.facebook.com/events/145556362836498/

Sat. Dec. 9 Free Mumia Demo in Philadelphia
Bus leaves NYC at 7:30am
For bus tickets, contact Gil ( gilobler@gmail.com) ASAP.

For info: 212.627.2994
http://workers.org/

• Since the days leading up to the election to now, Honduras has been in a constantly escalating state of militarization and intimidation intended to strike fear into those willing to vote against Juan Orlando Hernandez and the National Party.

• Two members of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE), Marco Lobo and Eric Mejia, have shared statements that Salvador Nasralla’s lead in the vote is irreversible.

• Despite this, there has been an unprecedented delay in the official announcement of the winner of the election.

• As the delay persists, there are widespread reports on social media of voter fraud to benefit Juan Orlando Hernandez and the National Party.

• This includes a video of piles of blank ballots being stamped en masse for Juan Orlando Hernandez and incidences of scattered violence around the country as National Party forces try to gain control of ballot boxes (including stabbings, shootings, kidnappings, and other forms of threats and intimidation)

• According to social media reports, Une TV’s broadcast building (which has recognized Salvador Nasralla as the President Elect of Honduras) has been circled by either military or police.

Call 919-808-3010 and tell the Durham County District Attorney to drop ALL the charges!

www.facebook.com/events/143364819645672/

On August 14, 2017, in the wake of fascist violence in Charlottesville, anti-racist fighters in Durham tore down a confederate statue because the state of North Carolina refused. They now face felony charges for their righteous action. Tell District Attorney Roger Echols: Tearing down white supremacy is not a crime!

Then join us Dec. 5 to PACK THE COURT at the next hearing:
www.facebook.com/events/1983733975245436/

The courts prosecuting our brave comrades for battling the Confederacy are trying to wear us all down with delays and continuances. But we won’t stop fighting. We hope you won’t either.

#DefendDurham #DoItLikeDurham #TakeEmDown

Hosted by Madison Nlg

17 West Main Street, Madison, WI Department Of Justice Building, 4:30 P.M. 

14 year old Jason Pero was shot and killed by an Ashland County Deputy in front of his home in Odanah Wisconsin on the Bad River reservation November 8. Neighbors and relatives challenge the official story put out by the Wisconsin Dept. of Justice and their videos contradict the officer’s claim that he was in danger from a middle school kid with a knife. The Bad River tribe has demanded a federal investigation. Come bring lights, drums and songs to remember this young singer, drummer and keeper of his Anishinabe peoples’ traditions. Demand justice for him and protection for indigenous people across the world as we close out Native American Heritage month in the U.S.A. Our heritage should no longer excuse violence against our indigenous relatives. We will begin at Wisconsin DOJ’s office on West Main Street and proceed to the US Attorney’s office on West Washington Avenue.

Hosted by Chicago Workers World Party

7-8:30 P.M. Central Time

ML STUDY GROUP: OCTOBER REVOLUTION EDITION! (part 2)
**Invite Friends and Comrades**

Marxist-Leninist Study Group is a discussion series for people hoping to learn more about socialism.

It is held the first Monday and third Wednesday of every month, light snacks and beverages provided.

If you are not available in person, tune in using Facebook Live to participate!
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John Reed’s account of the Russian Revolution of 1917 in “Ten Days That Shook The World” captures the exciting spirit of the times and provides us with a first-person testimony about what was going on that has been endorsed by Lenin himself as a “truthful and most vivid exposition”!
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For the 5th Marxist-Leninist Study Group, we will be reading an excerpt from “Ten Days that Shook the World”:
-XI: The Conquest of Power
~Total: 33 pages

The reading can be found for free at the link below:
https://www.marxists.org/ebooks/reed/ten-days-that-shook-the-world-reed.pdf

UPCOMING CLASSES ALSO ON DECEMBER 20 AND JANUARY 1, 2018: Chicago Workers World Party

Hosted by Young People’s Resistance Committee

Location TBA, 6 P.M.

Griselda Aguilera Cabrera was still a child when she joined the mass movement to end illiteracy during the Cuban Revolution. She was the youngest person to serve as a teacher during this historic time, when the Cuban nation eradicated illiteracy in the span of a couple years.

Join Young People’s Resistance Committee (YPRC) for this once-in-a-lifetime event. We will show the 30-minute documentary “Maestra” about the literacy campaign, followed by a discussion with Griselda. She will discuss how the Cuban people have achieved so much against all odds, and the work that still needs to be done.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/panafricanjournal/2017/11/25/pan-african-journal-special-worldwide-radio-broadcast

Listen to the Fri. Nov. 24, 2017 special edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. The program airs initially from 9:00pm-Midnight EST and afterward on podcast. This episode features reports on Zimbabwe, Egypt, Libya and Tunisia. We continue our in-depth examination of developments in the Southern African state of Zimbabwe over the last few weeks.