Month: November 2019

CLOSEmsdf Coalition Meeting Join us on Tuesday, November 12th at 5:30 pm at 1220 W Atkinson, Milwaukee, to get involved with the efforts to decarcerate Milwaukee, #CLOSEmsdf, and #buildCOMMUNITIES. The #CLOSEmsdf Campaign is now over 50 organizations strong. Visit https://closemsdf.org/ for information. Sign the #CLOSEmsdf petition at https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/its-time-to-close-milwaukee-secure-detention-facility-msdf. Like us on facebook at CLOSEmsdf. Follow […]

Community Conversation about Public Education

https://bit.ly/33crRT2 After eleven days on strike, more than 30,000 teachers and support staff in Chicago returned to school after reaching a tentative agreement with Chicago Public Schools and Mayor Lori Lightfoot on October 30. They also agreed to make up five of the school days missed during the strike. “It’s a definitive shift in the […]

https://bit.ly/2JFLmvm The event seeks to strengthen international solidarity with Cuba in the face of the U.S. blockade. Over a thousand delegates from 80 countries began on Friday the “Anti-Imperialist Solidarity Meeting for Democracy and Against Neoliberalism” at the Convention Center in Havana. During this three-day event, social activists, workers, peasants, women, indigenous peoples leaders, intellectuals and politicians will analyze the current offensive […]

From: Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee – Oakland iwoc.oakland@gmail.com Press contact: Yolanda Huang yhuang.law@gmail.com A hunger strike and work stoppage which began on Wednesday, October 30 inside Santa Rita Jail has continued through Friday, November 1. Since Wednesday, the number of individuals refusing to report to work assignments, meals, and jail programs has grown to over […]

In this era of “reconciliation”, Indigneous land is still being taken at gunpoint. INVASION is a new film about the Unist’ot’en Camp, Gidimt’en checkpoint, and the larger Wet’suwet’en Nation standing up to the Canadian government and corporations who continue colonial violence against indigenous people. The 18 minute film is powerful and covers many of the […]