Milwaukee, July 13, 2020: Justice For Joel

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Justice For Joel

WHAT: A rally at the Milwaukee County Court House (901 N. 9th St., Milwaukee) followed by a 2-mile march (ETA 50 mins) to the Joel Acevedo mural at S. 6th St. and W. Greenfield Ave.

WHEN: Meet at the Courthouse by 4PM.

WHY: Michael Mattioli, the Milwaukee police officer who killed Joel Acevedo by applying a 10-minute chokehold, will have another court appearance that afternoon. The videos from the first officers on the murder scene have still not been released. Nor has the tape of the 911 call. Justice for Joel Acevedo requires the release of these items and the dismissal of Mattioli from the Milwaukee Police Department.

WHO: Speakers will include members of the Acevedo family along, Attorney Benjamin Crump, Attorney B’Ivory LaMarr, Christine Neumann-Ortiz from Voces de la Frontera, and Liz Brown from Justice Wisconsin.

Crump is the nationally-known attorney representing the family of George Floyd and other victims of police violence who has recently joined the Acevedo case.

Kenosha, August 30, 2020: Protect The Sacred Protest For MMIW and Sex Trafficking

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Protect The Sacred Protest For MMIW and Sex Trafficing

Simmons Island Park, 5001 4th Avenue, Kenosha – 3-5 P.M.

Come join us and help us be heard by the people who run this country. For many years now indigenous women have have been kidnapped and sold in the sex trade or murdered. The 2014 report “Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women: A National Operational Overview” found that more than 1,000 Indigenous women were murdered over a span of thirty years. While homicides for non-Indigenous women declined between 1980 and 2015, the number of Indigenous women who were victims of homicide increased from 9% of all female homicide victims in 1980 to 24% in 2015. Now the number has increased to 39% as of 2019. Please help us put an end to this.

Milwaukee, July 24, 2020: ~ Art In Protest ~ “The People’s Holiday” Bonus Checkpoint

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~ Art In Protest ~ “The People’s Holiday” Bonus Checkpoint

The People’s Holiday – BONUS CHECKPOINT ALERT !!!

– Art In Protest –

Pop-up sculpture & sign art park at Kadish Park from Fri 7pm – Sat 7pm of the Riverwest 24!

You can do it!!

Bring supplies! Bright paint! cardboard plywood – sign & mural making materials, templates! Bike flags!!

Covid-senstive art build packs will be available to groups for make & take signs or for the sculpture installations. Safety yes.

UV spray painted sculptures built at Kadish Park hill by Friday night will be lit with solar powered LED lights!

Prizes will be awarded to all art makers builders & volunteers ~

Sculptures, plywood murals & signs should be spread around town! Pick them up around typical race finish time Saturday 6-7pm & volunteers will be needed from 7-8pm to Leave No Trace @ Kadish Park.

Black Lives Matter.

Cycling community, please listen, activate & make change happen.

The Black is Beautiful ride was a wonderful celebration of Milwaukee cyclists. Thank you to the organizers – please coordinate more community rides!

This would also be a fantastic spot for a pop-up RW24-style dance party so any sound systems and DJs are most welcome.

Lots of amazing professional artists creating BLM posters & murals & stickers – a freeform art fair may allow us to support these artists directly?

Does anyone have a map of the RW street art installations? Maybe a fun bonus lap opportunity?

Love Milwaukee actively

Ride Bikes

Wear a mask

Don’t be a Jerk

note: the ~ Art In Protest ~ Bonus RW24-style Checkpoint has not been sanctioned or approved by the Riverwest24 organizing committee. I did not even ask them for permission. Please respect the race, keep friends healthy, and stop at stop signs.

Milwaukee, July 25, 2020: Together We Stand

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1st Annual Together We Stand Celebration

2020 is definitely a year for the history books. We live in a different world now and it’s in our hands to decide what the future holds.

The city of Milwaukee is one of the most segregated cities in the United States and it has been that way for a very long time. There are many different movements and calls for action happening locally and all around the globe, and this event is our attempt to be a part of the solution. This is your opportunity to show your support and begin the change.

The 1st Annual Together We Stand Celebration will be a positive event in which many people of all different backgrounds will come together and stand together. This will be an opportunity for everyone to share their stories to others who have not heard them.

The organizers and volunteers are working hard to provide food, music, performances, speakers, games and a solid infrastructure for the event to happen. Social distancing and masks will be highly recommended. More details will be provided soon.

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There are a few ways you can help solidify the 1st Annual Together We Stand Celebration:

DONATIONS: The more donations we get, the more we’ll be able to provide. We’ll have an open cash flow report with all the ins and outs. Please donate to $TogetherWeStandMKE (Cash App) or @HugoCao (Venmo).

VOLUNTEERING: If you’re interested in volunteering, please fill up the form in the link below and wait for further instructions

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfuMgN14kttx-FOgv6UVU26yPv3BPmb9bUHrlEwWjiq5uifQw/viewform?usp=sf_link

BUYING EVENT T-SHIRTS: (A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Milwaukee Urban League)

https://bsg.chipply.com/togetherwestand/store.aspx

CONTACT: togetherwestandmke@gmail.com

Greendale, August 1, 2020: Solidarity Through Art

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Solidarity through Art

Join us on Saturday, Aug 1st at 11:30am for a guided painting with KitschëCoo Unique Gifts & Classes to support and raise awareness for BLM and equality for all!
Guest speaker and Greendale graduate, Chanese Knox will begin the event with a speech and explain the importance of, and the message of Black Lives Matter.
Attendees will receive an 8×10 canvas, with the fist of solidarity pre-sketched on the canvas, ready for you to add the colors of your choice. KitscheCoo will be on site providing painting tips and assisting where needed. All ages welcome and family friendly!
All supplies are included, just bring yourself and your paint clothes! A suggested donation of, $10 is appreciated and will go towards, Chanese4Justice towards future events!

Please confirm/reserve your spot by emailing kitschecoo@gmail.com, so we know you are coming and we can properly prepare 🙂
*Masks are HIGHLY recommended and 6ft social distancing will be observed,

Madison, August 1, 2020: Voices of the Youth’s Ride & Grub

Voices of the Youth’s Ride & Grub

The Voices of the Youth’s Ride & Grub is more than a bike ride. It’s an experience grounded in solidarity and marked by passion, inspiration, determination and pure enjoyment by the black youth between the age 10-17. It will be an experience you’ll never forget, shared with new friends and old. Please wear masks and if peoples don’t have them, we can provide them along with hand sanitizer. “Sign-up form for people who need bikes and/or helmets coming soon!” Snacks will also be available!

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Urban Triage Co-Conspirator Training

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Urban Triage Co-Conspirator Training

3-month training starting 7/29/2020 thru 10/30/2020 for $1,375

The convergence of recent tragic events — a pandemic disproportionately killing black people, the failure of the state to protect Black people, and the preying on Black people by the police— is not new in our history. After World War II, city-dwelling African-Americans saw the contradictions in a society that put a man on the moon, while allowing rats to maul Black children in their cribs at night. The federal government underwrote the substandard housing that Black people were consigned to because of residential segregation. Everywhere Black people looked and look, the state is not only impervious to OUR suffering but an accessory to the crime.

The recent killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahumad Abery, Elijah McClain and countless others, have confirmed what most of us already know: if we and those standing with us do not promote, plan, strategize, organize and mobilize in our own defense, then no official entity ever will. Young Black people must endure the contusions caused by rubber bullets or the acrid burn of tear gas because the government has abandoned us. Black Lives Matter only because we will make it so. White people must be willing to use their privilege, resources, and their bodies in defense of Black lives in order for us to make it so.

The time is NOW for a new paradigm!

Urban Triage Inc. is launching our Co-Conspirator Training which is designed to bring about positive, permanent shifts in how we define and understand the depth and breadth of White Supremacist Patriarchal Capitalism. Shifts that will be the direct cause for a new kind of freedom and POWER—the freedom to acknowledge our history and the power to do something about it. Impacting the confidence with which you live your life as a social justice co-conspirator, your personal productivity for Black Lives, and the difference you make in the world.

Urban Triage, Inc. training is grounded in a model of transformative learning–a way of learning that gives people an awareness of the basic structures in which they know, think and act. From knowing and awareness comes a fundamental shift that will leave people permanently changed and in alignment with the movement for Black Lives.

To register for the training, please click on the link below
https://forms.gle/KtnBP5dwJWkUay9Y9