Wisconsin Bail Out The People Movement

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Talk given by Stephen Millies at the “Unity for Socialism and Revolution” conference in Los Angeles on March 16.

Seventy years ago — on Oct. 1, 1949 — Mao Zedong declared “China has stood up!”

The People’s Republic of China was born. A quarter of humanity had liberated itself from imperialist enslavement.

The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 had opened the door to oppressed people. The socialist revolutions in East Asia — China, Korea, Vietnam and Laos — smashed through it.

This year also marks a very different and cruel anniversary. Thirty years ago, the wave of counterrevolutions began, terrible setbacks that overthrew the socialist countries of Eastern Europe and ultimately the Soviet Union.

This immense tragedy was a greater defeat for workers and oppressed people everywhere than Hitler’s triumph over the German working class. The Ethiopian Revolution and the socialist government in South Yemen were swept away as well.

We still have five countries building socialism: the People’s Republic of China, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Cuba and Laos.

Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution has also declared independence from Wall Street. It’s defeating the CIA’s sabotage of its electrical system.

Over 1.5 billion people live in these countries. Those who are not willing to defend these revolutions against the Pentagon will be incapable of forging new victories…. https://bit.ly/2VyLRvi

NLF tank entering the U.S. Embassy grounds in Saigon signalled the liberation of Vietnam on April 30, 1975.

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Red for Ed Wednesdays

MTEA union educators will wear RED this Wednesday to celebrate Tuesday’s School Board victories and every Wednesday following until we see our students and our classrooms fully funded! We will wear red to show our collective solidarity and strength as we organize to win an MPS budget and a state budget that are student and educator-centered.

MPS Administration’s current meet and confer proposals have been unacceptable and Republicans in Madison continue to say they will block the state funding increases Governor Evers campaigned on. Educators from around the state are uniting to demand better from their local districts and the state. We will fight for the funding we know our students and classrooms deserve and every Wednesday our RED will act as a reminder of our commitment. We will take photos and post on social media explaining why we’re wearing red using the hashtags #WIRedForED and #FightForFunding.

“MTEA Leaders recently voted to stand with you in your May Day demand for #DriverLicenses4All. We’re proud to stand with all of you because what happens to the families of our students matters to us and happens to us. It is our job as a union of educators to stand with you and to demand what we all want for our own families. We know that when we join together, when we stand together we can win. The people, all the people have the power. Sí, se puede and Solidarity!”

– Amy Mizialko, MTEA President

Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association

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Rock Against Fascism

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On Sunday 4/7, propaganda from American Vanguard was found on Madison’s near east side, the Tenney-Lapham neighborhood specifically.

The literature that the neo-fascist group, or their supporter(s), inserted in to childrens’ little free libraries in the neighborhood, is xenophobic, anti-semitic, racist, ignorant and, quite honestly, frightening.

The group, American Vanguard, is the same one that Alex Fields Jr joined, who killed Heather Heyer in Charlottesville at the “Unite The Right” rally on August 12, 2017, and should not be taken lightly.

The fact that they consciously chose to target childrens’ free libraries is indicative of their intention to spread hateful ideas to the masses, no matter how unethical the means.

The community has responded by calling a “Solidarity Cookout,” scheduled for tomorrow, Monday April 8, from 6pm – 8pm at the Tenney park shelter, or near it if it is reserved. This is a chance to show the right wing our opposition, and to silence them with merely our numbers and camaraderie. So far, community members will be bringing supplies to make tacos (pork and veggie options). If you are able, consider bringing some food or drinks, chairs or blankets, and if anyone has a portable speaker to listen to music, that would be awesome!