March for Police Reform

March Against the Hate in Waukesha

515 W Moreland, Waukesha, WI – 2 P.M.

This Sunday, join Waukesha in another protest against racism within the criminal justice system.

It’s supposed to be toasty, so wear something light, and bring water and a face mask, as always 🙂

Juneteenth Bash of 2020

We B.L.A. Of Appleton Wisconsin ask all of you in the community to come and join us this Juneteenth to celebrate a day of freedom and remembrance of our ancestors.

On June 19th 1865 is when enslaved Africans in America were told they were free men and women.
155 years later and now here we are descendants of strong wise black queens and kings. 🤴🏿👸🏿

We have come a long way but we the B.L.A. here in Appleton and all around the world strive to go even further. We ask all of you to come peacefully support our movement and let’s have fun and enjoy a day that commemorates us the African people who live here in America today.

We will have games and activities organized from all ages. Bouncy house, basketball contest, obstacle course, Black owned vendors will be coming out in support of this event so we must show them love as well, Cozy corner will be serving food as well. Varieties of music selections will be provided by Dj Haze from jazz to Hip hop.

We encourage everyone to bring the following:

– face masks
– gloves
– hand sanitizers
– cleaning wipes

As well as stay 6 feet apart we want to ensure everyones safety and health is intact.

Link below for our B.L.A. Gofundme: 👸🏿🤴🏿✅
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https://gf.me/u/x9mh3r

Sunday March On Main

1069 W Main Street, Whitewater, WI – 6 P.M. 

Come out and show up for Southern Wisconsin! We care about racial justice and standing with the national movement fighting for change across the nation!!

Meeting in the McDonald’s parking lot, we will march up and down Main St.

Extra posters, masks, sunscreen, hand sanitizer, and water available

Juneteenth, Reparations, Capitalism & Fighting Police Terror

They Ain’t Peaceful Rich Bradley WI BOPM Leaflet 6 20 2020

In a 2011 interview, Grebe emphasized the Bradley Foundation’s continued funding of right-wing think tanks and advocacy groups.

“In many respects, being stewards has caused us to continue funding what some of us refer to as the conservative intellectual infrastructure in this country through think tanks, academics and publications,” Grebe said. “We continue to do that. I don’t think as a matter of philosophical orientation, (the foundation) has changed much in that area. We still look for conservatives who are developing ideas in public policy.”

— Michael Grebe, former President and CEO of the Bradley Foundation and Board Member, Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (sourcewatch.org)

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Note: Bradley money helped to fund the eugenics based book “The Bell Curve….” whose authors state Black people are “genetically inferior”

Bradley’s 990 Forms:

Listings of Those who’ve received “grants:”

https://www.bradleyfdn.org/grants/archived-grants

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Bradley Foundation

1400 N Water Street, Suite 300

Milwaukee, WI 53202

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Wisconsin Institute for

Law & Liberty

330 E. Kilbourn Ave, Suite 725

Milwaukee, WI 53202

“To speak of the people in general terms, without cutting through the propaganda to reveal the relations of exploiter to exploited, of oppressor to oppressed, is to participate in covering up the reality.” — Sam Marcy, “A Marxist Defense of the L.A. Rebellion” https://www.workers.org/wp-content/uploads/Defense-of-LA-Rebellion-Marcy-1992.pdf

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Some of the rich (and their servants) that the police protect in Wisconsin:

https://www.wmc.org/about/wmc-foundation/wmc-foundation-sponsors/

https://www.wisbank.com/

https://bit.ly/30ZodO6

Frances Madeson, TRUTHOUT

June 18, 2020

It was Tuesday, May 26, the same day the video of George Floyd’s murder by four Minneapolis policemen surfaced. James Curbeam was walking to his car outside a Lowe’s store not far from where he lives in Nashville, Tennessee, when a white woman approached him demanding to know, “Why are you following me?” Curbeam, who is chairman of the Teamsters National Black Caucus, told Truthout his immediate sinking thought was: How can I defend myself to the police when they come?

Fortunately, he de-escalated the mistaken encounter, but he remains shaken by how vulnerable he was, and is, by dint of being a Black man in the U.S. “I didn’t say anything to my wife about what happened until that Thursday,” he said.

Organized labor has a fraught role in relation to policing, to say the least. Since the inception of police departments, police have played a role in repressing worker uprisings. Yet the strength of police unions — including those within the Teamsters and other large unions like the AFL-CIO — is a major barrier to any kind of fundamental change…. https://bit.ly/30ZodO6

Milwaukee June 18, 2020 / Photo: Joe Brusky