12 NOON, 500-574 Monument Square, (Downtown) Racine, WI
Youth of Wisconsin, it’s time that your voice is amplified. It’s time we tell our truths. It’s time we lead the charge to create changes- changes that affects all of our futures.
So a couple of teens- the future of this nation and state, are organizing this March. We March towards the future and a better present. We March towards change. Together.
We cannot stop fighting these injustices. We can’t forget that the moment we stop… the moment we give up is the moment that we allow more injustices to occur. We won’t stop. We can’t. This is everyone’s fight. Not just people of color. We will win together. No more complacency. Together we March For Change!!
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COVID-19 social distancing/proactive Guidelines will be followed during this March. Masks and gloves along with water will be available throughout the protest.
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Looking for youth organizers: if your interested please send us a message!
Building on the momentum from the June 5 march in Grafton, Break the Silence in the Burbs is hosting a march in Mequon this Friday, June 19, which is also Juneteenth or Freedom Day in the African American community.
Details on kickoff point and route coming soon.
6-6:45 PM Opening statement and guest speakers, including 8 minutes and 46 seconds of silence
7-8 PM March
8:15-8:30 PM Call to action
Bring your mask, water, sign, and voice. Let’s make some noise.
This is a protest in Oconto County . We will be starting at Freedom Park , and marching down Main St, then we will take a left on Millidge and from there march to the courthouse. There will be water provided , and PLEASE wear a mask!
The cost of police misconduct is increasingly sending cities around the country into debt, generating a burden for taxpayers but profits for investors, according to one advocacy group.
The Action Center on Race & the Economy (ACRE) released a report on Tuesday alleging that “police brutality bonds” – bonds taken out by cities to cover police related settlements and judgment costs – create a transfer of wealth from communities to Wall Street. The use of such bonds, ACRE claims, can nearly double the original costs of a settlement.
ACRE’s report examines 12 cities and counties, and includes case studies in Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, and Lake County, Indiana.
The group estimated that those five cities bonded $837.8 million between 2008 and 2017 and paid $1.03 billion in interest during that time, creating a cost of $1.87 billion for taxpayers. Chicago accounted for the vast majority of each figure, bonding an estimated $709.3 million and paying $1 billion in interest to investors.
The companies loaning to cities included Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, and Bank of America, in addition to other firms and smaller regional banks.
ACRE claims police brutality bonds shield officers and their departments from any financial consequences for misconduct, and that the settlements they fund often function as hush money, preventing any real accountability. The group offers three recommendations to end what it terms “the financialization of police violence.”
First, banks and investors should not profit from cities’ borrowing to pay for settlements. Banks should be required to provide no-fee, interest-free loans when lending a city money to cover police-related settlements or judgment costs, and only banks willing to meet this stipulation should be permitted to do business with the city.
Second, cities should oblige police officers to take out individual liability insurance policies to cover the costs of settlements and judgments resulting from misconduct. This policy will create a financial incentive to curb abusive behavior, and will protect taxpayers from footing the bill for violations.
Finally, the report calls for data collection and full transparency regarding officer misconduct: which individuals are causing the settlements and judgments, how they are being held accountable, who is paying for their misconduct, and who profits from these payments.
Activists will hold a press conference at Chicago City Hall on Wednesday, June 27, alongside Alderman Carlos Ramirez-Rosa to address the city’s response to these recommendations.
This summary was prepared by TCR news intern Elena Schwartz. Readers’ comments welcome.
The Dr. Martin Luther King County Labor Council – our labor movement – will meet Wednesday to vote on whether the Seattle Police Officers Guild can remain in our labor movement.
Join us – delegates of the Labor Council, and the rank-and-file members of our unions -in this historic action outside the Labor Temple, to call on our labor council to disaffiliate the Seattle Police Officers Guild (SPOG) from the ranks of our federation!
In doing so, we are joining with the Highline Education Association, Seattle Education Association and UAW 4121, whose members overwhelmingly voted to kick SPOG out, and with the nearly 500 rank and file who signed our petition: tinyurl.com/spogout
The horrific and senseless death of George Floyd has left us all reeling and during an already uncertain time.
As a labor movement, we have always fought for equality, justice, and for civil rights. We must continue to stand united against the hatred that divides us, and instead stand together in peace.
Let’s use this moment of unimaginable pain to bring us all together.
On this podcast you will hear from the President of the New York State AFL-CIO, Mario Cilento and our Secretary-Treasurer Terry Melvin who is also the President of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionist as they address racial injustice in America and what the Labor Movement can do to change it.
In Milwaukee, our community still hurts from the murder of Dontre Hamilton on April 30, 2014. 14 bullets from a police officer’s gun were 14 too many for our Dontre. 8 minutes were 8 minutes too long for George Floyd.
In 2020, 155 years later, and in the face of police brutality, the prison industrial complex, and continuing racial injustice, this Juneteenth comes with an even more impactful message.
Join us this Juneteenth, a day historically meant to celebrate freedom, even though we’re still fighting for it. This protest is to be held in Black love, light and solidarity✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
All are welcome 🔊
We are organizing games for the kids, speakers, performances and programming. Families are encouraged to bring their own grills, food and snacks.
