Month: August 2019

https://bit.ly/2TGxV26 ….No doubt foreign journalists could – and some did – cover the Tea Party as a ‘pro-democracy’ movement based on their slogans and rhetoric, but only without asking, “Democracy for who? Freedom for who?” These words are meaningless divorced from context since they mean different things to different classes. Anytime we see protests like […]

https://blackagendareport.com/mass-shootings-militarism-and-policing-are-chapters-same-manifesto Derecka Purnell 14 Aug 2019 White supremacist killers in the U.S. are simply implementing on a local level what their government does across the globe. “White people attack Brown and Black Muslims in the United States precisely because of the country’s wars abroad.” After two mass shooters killed and injured dozens of people in […]

https://bit.ly/2Zb667u No Class is an op-ed column by writer and radical organizer Kim Kelly that connects worker struggles and the current state of the American labor movement with its storied — and sometimes bloodied — past. This week she goes deep on Appalachia’s rich labor history. By Kim Kelly August 15, 2019 Getty Images

4420 W Vliet, Milwaukee Park Senior Center, 6-8 P.M.  Milwaukee’s public transit system is being starved on purpose! County Executive Chris Abele is holding budget forums to hear what Milwaukee County residents think about the budget. Let’s make sure he gets this message: – RESTORE THE ROUTES! The county should EXPAND routes to increase transit […]

https://bit.ly/2TDZfxS Ben Norton, https://thegrayzone.com/amp/

https://bit.ly/2N9TkQfhttps://bit.ly/2N9TkQf Steve Hochstadt 14 Aug 2019 The US government gave hundreds of millions of acres of land to whites, but failed to give freed slaves 40 acres and a mule or protect Black farmers from massive theft. “There were nearly 1 million black farms in 1920, about one-seventh of all American farms, mostly in the […]