4:30-7:30 P.M.
Milwaukee educator and head griot of the Black Holocaust museum, Reggie Jackson, will discuss why Milwaukee is often referred to as the most segregated city in the nation. Learn about the past, present and future effects of segregation on our city and neighborhoods.
Union Wisconsin Room Lounge, 1-2:15 P.M.
Galen Abdur-Razzaq will present a lecture on Monday, February 11, 2019 titled History of Jazz. It is a 75 minutes PowerPoint interactive presentation chronicling the music from the turn of the century to present day and highlights various artists, their influence on the evolution of jazz and their struggles.
Madison Membership Meeting / Junta de membresía de Madison
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Junta de Membresía
Centro Hispano
810 W Badger Rd., 2 P.M.
Madison, WI 53713
Abierta al público
Acompáñanos para nuestra junta de membresía mensual. Hablaremos sobre los próximos pasos en la lucha por las licencias de conducir.
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Membership Meeting
Centro Hispano
810 W Badger Rd., 2 P.M.
Madison, WI 53713
Open to the public
Join us for our monthly membership meeting! We’ll discuss the next steps in the fight to restore driver licenses for all in Wisconsin.
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901 N 9th Street, Milwaukee, 11:30 A.M.-1 P.M.
Why do we picket?
1. To educate people on the inhumane conditions at MSDF
2. To memorialize the 17 people who have died in MSDF since it opened.
3. To let WI taxpayers know that each day someone spends in MSDF for a crimeless rule violation it costs us $100.84 vs $40 to treat that person in the community where their job, housing & support systems stay secure.
4. Former Governer Tommy Thompson has said building MSDF was a mistake. Its time the state corrects that error.
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Please join us during the lunch hour on February 20 on the 10th Street side of the courthouse. Partway through the picket we might march over to the state office building on 6th and Wells, where the DOC has offices.
Parking is metered or nearby public lots. If you don’t mind walking a couple blocks, its often easier to find free parking on the other side of the freeway.
We’ve been holding down this monthly picket since the spring of 2017. A coalition of Milwaukee organizations have joined up to shut down MSDF. This facility is a building within a building, where captives have no access to fresh air or sunlight. They are triple bunked in lockdown cells for over 20 hours a day. There is no outdoor rec. The facility was built and is run using funds that should be used for diversionary programs to keep people out of jail, instead it’s being used to keep them on supervision under arbitrary and vindictive probation and parole officers.
We are organizing this protest on every 23rd (unless that lands on a weekend, when there’s less foot traffic). The National Religious Campaign Against Torture has called for actions on the 23rd of every month (to bring attention to 23 hour a day lockdowns). http://www.nrcat.org/about-us/take-action-current-legislation/563-together-to-end-solitary
Can’t come?
SIGN THE PETITION!!!!
If you haven’t signed the petition yet yourself, please do here: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/its-time-to-close-milwaukee-secure-detention-facility-msdf
On Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019, teachers, paraprofessionals and staff from four Chicago International Charter School (CICS) campuses went on strike to improve learning conditions in their schools by lowering class sizes, protecting student counseling and special education services, and winning equal pay for equal work. Meanwhile, millions of dollars have been withheld from CICS classrooms to pay for insider investments, executive salaries, skyrocketing management fees and to protect a corporate surplus of $36 million.
Chicago Teachers Union members at CICS schools demand that the tens of millions of dollars the company holds in reserve be used to hire more staff, reduce class sizes, extend maternity leave and pay a decent wage. CICS has the ability to settle this contract but refuses to do so, so we are keeping the pressure on.
On Feb. 9, we invite families, students, all CTU district and charter members, and labor and community allies to come out and show their support for CICS strikers. Stand in solidarity with families, teachers and support staff throughout the network. Join us!
https://www.ueunion.org/political-action/2019/us-labor-against-the-war-condemns-coup-in-venezuela
U.S. Labor Against the War, which UE is part of, released a statement earlier this week condemning the Trump Administration’s intervention in the internal affairs of Venezuela:
The U.S. has no legitimate claim to intervene in the internal affairs of other countries, to take sides in internal political disputes, or to undermine governments elected by the people. We have seen the disastrous consequences of recent U.S. interventions in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and, through its alliance with Saudi Arabia, in Yemen. U.S. intervention in Venezuela can only bring further hardship and suffering, as followed U.S. support for the 2009 coup in Honduras that overthrew the elected government there and contributed to the stream of asylum-seekers now on our southern border seeking relief from that disaster.
History professor Greg Gandin argues in a recent article in The Nation that support for the coup in Venezuela is aimed at undermining Medicare for All, a Green New Deal to provide jobs, and other policies that working-class Americans desperately need.
“A political coalition cannot dominate the domestic policy debate unless it also dominates the foreign-policy debate,” says Gandin, and the attempted coup in Venezuela is Trump’s attempt to follow in the footsteps of Reagan and the Bushes, using foreign policy to “reorder” domestic politics:
Trump, himself presiding over a nation suffering a seemingly insurmountable crisis and challenged by a united (or united enough) opposition, is desperate for something to break the deadlock. [ … ] Venezuela beckons.
UE’s General Executive Board, meeting last week in Pittsburgh, declared that “Trump’s formal recognition this week of the unelected, pro-business Juan Guaidó as the “president” of Venezuela will only create more tension, violence and economic instability in a country already suffering from U.S. economic sanctions and support for violent anti-government forces.”
UE Policy, passed by rank-and-file delegates to UE’s 2017 convention, demands that the U.S. government cease all harassment of the democratically-elected government of Venezuela:
Recently Trump imposed new sanctions on Venezuela and said he would not rule out a “military option.” The U.S. media and politicians have recently been even more overwrought in their denunciations of President Nicolás Maduro’s elected government, ostensibly because it held an election for a constituent assembly. Apparently holding an election without the U.S.’s permission is a sure sign that you are trying to impose a dictatorship.
For today’s episode, we kick off the hour with Gregory Wilpert, who offers a brief political history of Venezuela and an overview of the United States’ involvement. For the second segment, Allen is joined in the studio by Juancito Trucupey, a Madison-based Venezuelan musician. Juancito shares his experience as a Chavista living in Caracas and plays a song called “Pubelos tristes” by Otilio Galíndez.
On Saturday, February 9, there is a “U.S. hands off Venezuela” rally taking place at 12:00 PM at the State Street steps of the Wisconsin State Capitol building in Madison. All are invited.
