Friday September 27, 2019
No Bank Rally on Friday September 20th
12:00 – 1:30 pm
Chase & Wells Fargo Banks
12:00 – 12:45pm
Wisconsin Ave. at Water St.
Chase & Wells Fargo are the 1st & 2nd LARGEST
funders of Fossil Fuel companies in the WORLD!
We’ll have signs and banners, but feel free to bring your own
At 12:45 we march to City Hall to:
Support “Fridays for Future”
(YCAT Student Climate Protest)
12:45 – 1:30pm
Milwaukee City Hall
https://www.struggle-la-lucha.org/2019/09/12/hong-kong-make-colonialism-great-again/https://www.struggle-la-lucha.org/2019/09/12/hong-kong-make-colonialism-great-again/
Sept. 10 — It is a thoroughly reactionary development when demonstrators carrying U.S. flags march through a city asking the most hated imperialist figure, Donald Trump, to come to their aid. But that is what is happening in Hong Kong.
Despite all the claims in the capitalist press about the demonstrators being advocates of “democracy” and “freedom,” they have embraced a political figure who has locked immigrant children in cages after separating them from their families.
They have called for aid from a president who has called for Muslims to be banned from the U.S. They have embraced a vile racist who has called African nations and Haiti “shithole” countries. Trump has called Mexicans rapists and criminals. What can be the political mentality of demonstrators who would ask for help from a racist bigot in the name of “democracy”?
It is the mentality of capitalist greed.
Donald Trump is trying to low-key the demonstrations because he wants to de-escalate a trade war with the People’s Republic of China (PRC). He is afraid that the trade war will trigger an economic downturn in the U.S. And an economic downturn will hurt his chances of re-election in 2020.
But Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, the China hawks in Trump’s administration and the CIA, did not get the memo. And if they did, Trump is playing soft cop in this scenario.
Washington and the mainstream media outlets are going all out to foment a full-scale pro-imperialist rebellion, basically demanding independence for Hong Kong. They hope to prolong the demonstrations in order to embarrass the PRC on the 70th anniversary of the Chinese Revolution on Oct. 1. But the strategic goal of the Trump administration is to back the PRC into a corner and provoke it to intervene in Hong Kong.
Washington and the Pentagon would like to create a small-scale version of the Tiananmen Square incident of 1989.
Washington hopes that this will give the entire worldwide propaganda apparatus of the imperialists a green light to open up a major anti-Chinese campaign and set the stage for hostilities or even war. Given the divisions in the imperialist camp and the growing weight of China as an economic power, however, it remains to be seen whether these plans can materialize. …
Hong Kong, Sept. 8, 2019
32BJ SEIU janitors, who maintain nearly all of the region’s commercial office buildings, began negotiations yesterday for a new union contract with the Washington Service Contractors Association. The current contract expires on October 15. Notably, hundreds of janitors in Loudoun County, VA will bargain their first-ever union contract with 32BJ SEIU. Nearly 134,000 commercial janitors nationwide are bargaining for their livelihoods as part of what will be the nation’s large private sector contract bargaining of the year. “The economic development around the commercial real estate boom means there is more than enough wealth to ensure these workers are provided their fair share of the profits they help create,” said 32BJ SEIU Vice President Jaime Contreras. “This contract will prove whether the region’s prosperity will ever trickle down to move low-wage workers into the middle class.” Cleaners — most of whom work part-time, forcing them to take multiple jobs and still often not getting employer-paid health care — will be looking to expand full time jobs with benefits during this bargaining. photo: SEIU32BJ janitors in Miami
Global Climate Strike: Wisconsin
This September, millions of us will walk out of our workplaces, schools, and homes to join you climate strikers on the streets and demand an end to the age of fossil fuels.
Our house is one fire — let’s act like it. It’s now time to rebel.
Both adults and young people alike need to take to the streets on September 20 to demand climate justice.
Can’t strike? Protest in solidarity by disrupting the status quo and striking for 11 minutes on September 20 to symbolize our looming deadline.
Flagship Strikes:
Madison: https://www.facebook.com/events/444295093093779/
Milwaukee: https://www.facebook.com/events/693776687701388/
La Crosse: https://www.facebook.com/events/361147151227652/
Appleton: https://www.facebook.com/events/473243190128356/
Ashland: https://www.facebook.com/events/400269883939953/
See ycatwi.org/sep20 for other strikes & more info on 11 minute strikes!
Global Climate Strike Planning Meeting
30 W Mifflin, #702, Madison, 7-9 P.M.
School strikers are calling on everyone: young people, parents, workers, and all concerned citizens to join massive climate strikes and a week of actions starting on September 20.
People all over the world will use their power to stop “business as usual” in the face of the climate emergency. We will join young people in the streets to demand an end to the age of fossil fuels and emergency action to avoid climate breakdown.
With less than 12 hours to the strike launch, meet us in Room 702 of 30 W. Mifflin St. to finish last details for the morning. For more information write to: GlobalClimateStrikeMadison@gmail.com
CTU will be leafleting this Saturday, Sept 14, at Clemente High School, 1147 N. Western Avenue. The City of Chicago has scheduled a City Budget Town Hall from 9 am – 11 am at Clemente.
Please join CTU members starting at 8:30 a.m. as we leaflet outside and testify inside the Budget Town Hall. We plan to call attention to the Lincoln Yards TIF scandal, as a recent Chicago Tribune article exposed why Mayor Rahm Emanuel rushed through the Lincoln Yards TIF district, which is worth $1.3 billion in taxpayer payouts to developers. The reason is, that if they had waited another 6 weeks, the rising property tax assessments in “blighted” Lincoln Park would have disqualified Lincoln Yards from TIF approval.
We plan to show our strong condemnation of the choice to give away $1.3 billion in taxpayer money to developers in Lincoln Park, at the same time that Chicago Public Schools are refusing to choose to invest in school nurses, librarians, social workers, counselors, and paraprofessionals for Chicago students.
Sign up at ctulocal1.org/budget click on west side, and scroll down to sign up!
Fight for Music for ALL in MPS!
LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD! MUSIC MATTERS!
We need as many teachers, students, parents and community advocates to come out to this LRP school board committee meeting and speak for two minutes on the importance of music education equity for all students in MPS! We want to hear from diverse voices, including those who attend or teach at schools that do not currently offer music.
More info at:
http://tinyurl.com/musicinmps
Currently, there are only 68 music teachers in the entire district, one for every 1,120 students in MPS. There are tens of thousands of students who have little or no access to music education delivered by certified educators. Site-based budgeting creates serious equity issues between schools, which has led to unfilled positions, especially in the poorest areas of our city. We want to see that change and we need the arts
community of Milwaukee to join us in insisting on quality music education for all students in the district.
The Milwaukee Music Educators Association has proposed to the school board an official Policy and Procedure for Music Education in MPS that provides accountability to the district to ensure equitable access to comprehensive music education for all students taught by certified music educators!
MTEA Members Will Fight for Climate Justice!
MTEA elected leaders passed a resolution calling on Milwaukee education workers to take steps to address the growing climate crisis and to support the ongoing organizing by our students around the issue. The resolution encourages us all to take steps to educate, advocate and activate ourselves and others in the fight for climate justice:
“Whereas we the members of the agree with the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that we have just eleven years to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions by 50% before the damage is irreversible
And whereas we support Greta Thunberg’s and other youth climate activists across the globe including Rufus King student and Youth Climate Action Team Executive Director Ayanna Lee, for a climate strike on September 20th to call attention to this global crisis.
We support the call to action for all educators to participate in and support the following actions:
• The Art Build 4 Climate Strike on September 15th at Kenilworth Studios (1915 E. Kenilworth Pl.) from 10 to 6 p.m. to make signs and banners for the strike. Art Build 4 Climate Strike
• MTEA members organizing a “climate assembly” in their individual schools in conjunction with the Global Climate strike as an opportunity to call attention to the issue inside and outside of our school buildings. Schools will receive a statement that can be read at the assembly as well as other resources to allow students to begin learning about climate change and what they can do about it.
• The Milwaukee Climate Strike!! organized by Youth Climate Action Team to take place beginning at City Hall, marching to Water Tower Park at 11:00 followed by a rally, speeches, letter writing, food, music and celebration at North Point Park.
• The march and rally organized by 350.org to take place on Saturday, September 21st. 12:00 – 1:00 Meet at Milwaukee County Court House 1:00 – 3:00 | March and Rally
* March from the County Court House down Wells St., past the State office Building, to Milwaukee City Hall.
• Any future actions to support the work of environmental activists who are working to stop climate change as it will disproportionately affect the most vulnerable in our society.”
