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Milwaukee May 1, 2020: Cancel Rent! Sheet and Banner Drop

Cancel Rent! Sheet and Banner Drop The COVID-19 pandemic has closed businesses across the country and thrown millions of people out of work. Many people who were already living precariously on the edge of financial ruin before the pandemic will now have trouble coming up with rent for the month of May. Eviction freezes are […]

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April 28, 2020: VIRTUAL Workers Memorial Day

VIRTUAL Workers Memorial Day On Tuesday, April 28th at noon, join us for a statewide moment of silence to honor the workers who have been killed or injured at the workplace. Then at 5:30 pm, tune in for our Virtual Workers Memorial Day Ceremony. #MKELabor #IWMD2020 #WMD2020 #1uSafety

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Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that “access to literacy is a fundamental right” in public education in Detroit

Gary B v Whitmer Detroit Literacy Decision April 23 2020 Excerpt from decision: “The recognition of a fundamental right is no small matter. . . .Access to literacy is such a right. Its ubiquitous presence and evolution through our history has led the American people universally to expect it. And education—at least in the minimum […]

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Open letter from Freedom Inc.’s Southeast Asian Team on COVID-19 and Black Solidarity

https://bit.ly/2x2M0A5 Freedom Inc By Freedom, Inc.’s Southeast Asian Team  – Apr 14, 2020 To our loved Asian American people: As Southeast Asians of a proud organization dedicated to Black, Hmong, and Khmer women and girls, and LGBTQI people, we believe that all people have the right to live free of violence in their relationships, home, […]

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April 24, 2020: LETTER WRITING CAMPAIGN, De-Criminalize Black & Brown Youth

This Friday, April 24th, join us and the Dane County Time Bank at 5pm in an effort to decriminalize Black and Brown youth in our community through the power of letters. Register and join here.

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April 24, 2020 Online: WI BLACK & BROWN COVID 19 DEMANDS

This Friday, April 24th, join us at 2pm for a COVID-19 webinar discussing the needs of Black and Brown communities in Wisconsin, who are greatly impacted by the pandemic. Let your voice be heard as we set our demands together. Join here.

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April 23, 2020: Virtual Political Education Featuring M Adams and Markasa Tucker

Join Freedom Inc. co-director, M Adams, and Markasa Tucker in a Facebook Live webinar, discussing the documentary featuring Freedom, inc. Thursday, April 23rd, at 1pm. Join here. Freedom, Inc. engages low- to no-income communities of color in Dane County, WI. We work to end violence against people of color, women, those that non-traditionally gender identify, youth, […]