YCAT Meeting

The Fox Valley youth climate activists will be having a meeting on March 25th from 6-8pm at Brewed Awakenings. The focus of the meeting will be to plan Earth Day actions, look at different ways we can reach out to our schools, and how our demands fit in with different political candidates and their policies.

We’re concentrating on youth activism for this event, anyone around the ages 12-25 is welcome. If you’re outside that age range there are still plenty of other opportunities, like our weekly climate strikes, to get involved.

Thank you!

Lessons from the Chicago Teachers Strike

Chicago Teachers Union activists Sarah Chambers and Paula Baraja will share their experiences as leaders in the Chicago Teachers Union organizing drives and strikes that helped inspire a national public sector strike wave to defend public education and revive labor militancy.

Saturday, March 14th, 2020 @ 12 pm
MATC downtown campus Rm S120

Presented by The Young Workers Committee of the Milwaukee Area Labor Council-AFL-CIO, and the American Federation of Teachers Local 212.

Poems Behind the Walls

The Superior Public Library will be hosting “Poems Behind Walls” poetry reading. The reading will be hosted by Procurement Editor of Poetry Behind the Walls, Lucas Alan Dietsche. He and others will read poems written by incarcerated and system-involved youth. Poetry Behind Walls is a project of Save the Kids and is an ongoing book series that provides a medium for system-involved youth to express and encourage themselves through poetry. One Book Northland is teaming up with Clayton-Jackson-McGhie Memorial to provide book readings, movie showings, and events to encourage discussion on the 100th anniversary of three Black men being lynched in Duluth, Minnesota. http://poetrybehindthewalls.org/about-pbw/ and https://savethekidsgroup.org/

A free movie: Dark Waters.

Safe Skies Clean Water and Sierra Club offer a free screening of Dark Waters (https://www.focusfeatures.com/dark-waters) on Thursday, March 12 at Warner Park Community Center. It will be 6-9pm. It will include a light meal and have a panel discussion following the movie. The panel discussion with connect the PFAS discussion to Truax and F35s. Registration is necessary.

2020 Wisconsin LGBTQ Summit

The Wisconsin LGBTQ Summit is focused on building a more skilled and connected network of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ), and allied individuals who are empowered to achieve and protect LGBTQ equality in their local communities across the state of Wisconsin.

At the Summit, you can:

– Deepen your understanding of issues facing the LGBTQ community

– Network with others in our community from across the state

– Learn what organizations and individuals are doing to advance health, safety, fairness, and inclusion in the LGBTQ community in Wisconsin

– Join efforts to ensure LGBTQ protections in Wisconsin.

– Join established and emerging leaders, activists, advocates, community members, and allies from throughout Wisconsin for a day of learning and networking!

REGISTER AT: https://www.wilgbtqsummit.org/

General Conference Registration
$75

Student & Limited-Income Registration
$25

Water Walk Milwaukee 2020

Midwest Two-Spirit History: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, & Land

Located in Bolton Hall B 52 at UW-Milwaukee, WI
FOOD PROVIDED from Milwaukee Pride
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200 Years of Two-Spirit History in the Midwest: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Land

In this presentation you will find: An Ojibwe woman warrior from the 1830s, a Potawatomi servant who transitioned as a woman in the 1880s, and an African American/Potawatomi resident of Milwaukee who caused a scandal for crossdressing and bigamy in 1914. You will also hear about: An organization for gay Indians founded in 1975, a dream received by a Native lesbian in 1990, and a 2016 Two-Spirit camp of land defenders. All of these histories tell us something important about gender, sexuality, and the theft of Indigenous land in the 200 years of American colonization in the Midwest. This presentation focuses on both recent and distant LGBTQ/Two-Spirit Native American history to reveal how central Two-Spirit people have always been to their communities and to the past and present of the Midwest.

Kai Minosh Pyle is a Métis and Sault Ste. Marie Nishnaabe Two-Spirit writer originally from Green Bay, Wisconsin. They have lived in the Midwest their entire life and currently reside on Dakota land in Bde Ota Othunwe (Minneapolis, Minnesota). As a PhD student at the University of Minnesota, they are researching Anishinaabe Two-Spirit memory-making and kinship through the lenses of history, language, and literature.

March 6, 2020: 

Women Rising: Celebrating A Decade Of Women Leading Struggle

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March 8, 2020:

International Women’s Day 2020 in Milwaukee