Coalition for Peace in Colombia
Colombian President Iván Duque, with his mentors, Álvaro Uribe and U.S. President Trump must Fulfill their obligations to the Peace Accord & End the genocide against the social movements and rural, indigenous, and Afro-Colombian communities.
901 N 9th Street, 11:30 A.M. – 1:30 P.M. (Milwaukee County Courthouse)
Why do we picket?
1. To educate people on the inhumane conditions at MSDF.
2. To memorialize the 18 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 costs us $100.84 vs $40 to treat that person in the community where their job, housing & support systems stay secure.
4. To hold Governor Tony Evers to his campaign promises. He told the Journal Sentinel he thinks MSDF should close “as soon as possible”. It is possible right now, and he can do it himself, with a few just and necessary policy changes.
Film Screening and Conversation
What: Film / Panel / Opportunities for Activism
Date: Tuesday, September 24, 2019
Location: La Verna Commons, Alverno College
Time: 3-7 pm. Film Screening will be at 4 pm.
Cost: FREE (plus provided snacks!)
Voces is proud to host this special film screening and community dialogue surrounding issues pertaining to students, DACA, and progressive actions that Voces is taking in the state of Wisconsin. There will also be a panel of local experts to discuss the unique challenges DACAmented students face attending college.
Description of the film The Unafraid below:
“The Unafraid is a feature-length documentary that follows the personal lives of three DACAmented students in Georgia, a state that has banned undocumented and students receiving Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) from attending their top five public universities and disqualifies them from receiving in-state tuition at any other public college.
Shot over a period of four years, this film takes an intimate look at the lives of Alejandro, Silvia and Aldo and the obstacles they face in their home state when trying to go to college. This is also a story about family and community and the systemic challenges faced by the working poor and undocumented in the Deep South.”
Ice out of MKE Organizing Meeting
1027 S 5th Street, Milwaukee, 4-5 P.M.
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Join us Saturday, September 21st for a quick meeting to discuss action steps and progress in our campaign before the important Thursday, September 26th vote, and the October 3 final vote.
We’ll need your support to make sure that our local resources are not used to separate families and embolden ICE. Have your name be a part of making history and proudly declaring #ICEOUTOFMKE
Please sign and share our petition: https://vdlf.org/iceoutofmke/
For more information, contact: Tommy Molina 262-696-9415 or call the Voces main office: (414) 643-1620
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Únase con nosotros sábado el 21 de septiembre, para una breve reunión para discutir medidas y los progresos en nuestra campaña contra la colaboración entre ICE y el departamento de policía antes del voto importante el 26 de septiembre, y el voto final el 3 de octubre.
Necesitamos su ayuda para asegurarnos de que nuestros recursos locales no sean usados para separar familias y empoderar a ICE. Apunta su nombre para ser parte del movimento que declara #ICEOUTOFMKE
Por favor firma y comparta nuestra peticion: https://vdlf.org/iceoutofmke/
Para mas informacion, contacta Tommy Molina 262-9415 o llama la oficina de Voces: (414) 643-1620
Fight for the Future of Transit!
1942 N 17th Street, Milwaukee, 12 NOON – 1:30 P.M.
There is a transit emergency!
Join Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 998 as we rally to restore vital bus routes, make our buses safer, and win a fair contract for transit workers to move Milwaukee forward!
The Cuban Union of Journalists denounced the mass blocking of accounts by the US social network Twitter as another aggression against the island-nation.
UPEC statement: Twitter massively censors journalists and media in Cuba
On Wednesday afternoon, dozens of Twitter accounts of Cuban journalists and media were blocked by the platform, a few minutes before the television appearance of President Miguel Diaz Canel and other top Cuban government officials began. For an hour and a half, they exhaustively presented exceptional economic measures in response to the intensification of U.S. economic warfare against our country.
As soon as the live broadcast of the program Roundtable began at 6:30 p.m. (local time) and was expected by millions of Cubans, dozens of professionals denounced through Facebook, Whatsapp and other social channels that their Twitter accounts had been suspended. They could access their timeline, but had the options ” like”, “retweet” and comment were blocked.
Among the media blocked “for violating Twitter rules” are @Cubadebate with almost 300,000 followers and @Granma_Digital with about 167,000 followers, in addition to @MesaRedondaCuba, @RadioRebeldeCu, @DominioCuba, @Cubaperiodistas, @CanalCaribe, among other users, which include active journalists.
Several professionals also warned on Facebook the closure of their channels on Twitter. They suspended, for example, all the accounts of Cubadebate’s journalists and directors, without exception, as well as those of Leticia Martínez (@leticiadecuba ) and Angélica Paredes (@aparedesrebelde), of the President’s press team; that of the First Vice President of the Union of Cuban Journalists, Rosa Miriam Elizalde (@elizalderosa), and of Granma’s journalist, Enrique Moreno Gimeranez (@GimeranezEm), among others.
“It seems to be a concerted operation of false denunciations for abusive use and violation of platform policies. It surprises the political bias, the selectivity of the affected users and the opportunism: when President Díaz Canel speaks,” Elizalde wrote.
In addition, the institutional account of the Ministry of Communications (@MINCOMCuba) and that of government officials, such as Yaira Jiménez Roig (@yairajr), director of Communication and Image of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, were also blocked. Also, the director of the National Center for Sexual Education, Mariela Castro Espín (@CastroEspinM).
This is not the first time that Cuban Twitter users report problems logging into their accounts and receive messages that their accounts have been blocked and they should follow the procedure to recover them. What is new is the massiveness of this obviously planned act of cyber warfare, which seeks to limit the freedom of expression of Cuban institutions and citizens, and to silence the leaders of the Revolution.
The State Department’s Internet Task Force for Cuba last June issued its recommendations to use the network as a subversion highway in Cuba. It has proposed giving more funds to open digital sites, generate “attractive content” on the net, provide scholarships and finance a cybermilitance trained in harassment, lies and political assassination, which is not usually affected by this type of Twitter actions.
The Cuban Union of Journalists strongly denounces the disappearance of these spaces for the expression of ideas, in an act of massive censorship of journalists, editors and media. We demand the immediate re-establishment of the blocked accounts that, in no case, have violated Twitter policies, while the platform flagrantly tramples on the rights of communicators, prevents them from carrying out their work and tries to muzzle a first-rate news event in our country.
National Presidency of the Union of Journalists of Cuba.
