Hosted by Human First Project and Isaac Wallner
Community Wide Candle Light Vigil and Prayer for Jacob Blake
The tragedy the struck Kenosha is unfathomable. I would like to host a candle light vigil and prayer for Jacob Blake at Civic Park in Kenosha. We need this moment of peace to come together and show him our support as a united community. Please bring candles and please bring your peace. I will have a few hundred candles to go around.
Meet at 7:30 PM at Tenth Avenue Park to March in solidarity with the uprising in Kenosha, the family of Jacob Blake, and all those oppressed by the racist system.
Hundreds are gathered in downtown Minneapolis a day after Kenosha, Wisconsin police officers brazenly shot father of three Jacob Blake after he broke up a fight. In response, the Kenosha community had a night of uprising against police terror. Police at the scene of the shooting were attacked by the crowd who then set their sights on police and government institutions along with other buildings and a car dealership in Kenosha.
This protest in Minneapolis plans to march from the Government Center to the Minneapolis Police 1st Precinct.
11 x 17 Poster For Downloading:
Justice For Jacob Blake Poster August 24 2020
Initial listings here
For ongoing list of protests for August 24, 2020: Wisconsin Bail Out The People Movement
(Thanks to Food not Bombs – Fox Valley for assistance with compiling list)
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APPLETON
5 P.M. Houdini Plaza
EAU CLAIRE
321 Broadway Street, Randall Park, Justice for Jacob Blake Solidarity Protest
FON DU LAC
Protest of the unjust shooting of #JacobBlake. Monday August 24th. Corner of Main and Johnson in Fon du Lac- 12 NOON
GREEN BAY
Boardwalk at 4 P.M. – Justice for Elijah McClain
KENOSHA
Protest continues tomorrow at 28th Ave and 40th St. Starting at @12 noon. Come stand against police brutality. #BlackLivesMatter
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Community Unity & Accountability 900 57th Street, Kenosha, 6 P.M.
AND …. Demand Justice for Jacob Blake
MADISON
calling out campus and the city
MANITOWOC
MILWAUKEE
From Milwaukee BLM Activist Kimberleah Bledsoe: Today’s Protest for Jacob Blake is a car protest that is leaving from Milwaukee at 4pm! We are meeting at Rose Park on MLK and Chambers and driving to Kenosha together ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾
Please join us and stand in solidarity if you can!!
Justice for Jacob Blake 😡🤬🔥🔥🔥🙏🏾
BLACK LIVES MATTER
OSHKOSH
5 p.m. at Sun Dial – Justice For Jake Blake
ROCKFORD
Meet at 7:30 PM at Tenth Avenue Park to March in solidarity with the uprising in Kenosha, the family of Jacob Blake, and all those oppressed by the racist system.
#justiceforjacobblake #acab #rkfre17 #jm30
https://fighting-words.net/2020/08/21/cities-need-bailouts-not-more-usurious-bond-deals/
Detroit demolition program expropriated federal funding designed to assist residents. | Photo: WXYZ
By Abayomi Azikiwe
On August 14, the final abandoned home was demolished with the more than $265 million in Hardest Hit Homeowners Funds initially designed to preserve neighborhoods as opposed to their destruction in the majority African American city of Detroit.
Over 15,000 houses have been destroyed since 2014 yet tens of thousands more dilapidated and abandoned homes, apartments, commercial and industrial structures remain in the city.
These government funds were deliberately redirected from their intended purpose to later serve as a profitable enterprise for private companies engaging in work which environmentally has endangered hundreds of thousands of people. A corporate-imposed administration in Detroit headed by Mayor Mike Duggan has defined its mission as the exploitation of labor, resources and tax dollars for the wealthiest interests in the city and beyond. This regime was installed during an unprecedented declaration of emergency management and bankruptcy during 2013-2014.
The 2008-2009 corporate and financial institutional bailout only provided a small percentage of the overall assistance to homeowners so deeply impacted by the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Toxic mortgages and urban bond initiatives played a pivotal role in the bankruptcies and near financial ruin of many of the major cities across the United States.
Detroit and other municipalities were already suffering from the vast transferral of wealth from the working class and oppressed peoples to the capitalist ruling class which expanded exponentially after the restructuring of the world system after 1975. Industrial centers such as Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Illinois, among others, were turned into economic wastelands where unemployment remained astronomically high while workers fled the areas seeking work and other forms of social assistance.
In Detroit, a popular struggle emerged during the later months of 2019 over the introduction of yet another questionable municipal bond deal for $250 million, which would cost the people of the city a half-billion dollars including interest. The existing demolition program which has exhausted its funds was characterized by graft, patronage and the widespread poisoning of the affected communities through the dangerous levels of lead, asbestos and other harmful materials left after the demolition of the homes and apartment buildings.
An Auditor General’s report commissioned by the Detroit City Council took several years to complete due to the lack of transparency by the Duggan administration. The overcharges, missing documents and arbitrary actions taken against salvageable homes which were not even on the demolition lists, has tarnished the image of the program in the eyes of the public.
Consequently, due to public pressure, the bond deal went down in flames at the City Council table during November. In a 6-3 vote, the Council, although not known in recent years to take positions which support the interests of the majority Detroit population, felt the mass discontent and rejected the financial scheme.
Nonetheless, amid the economic distress of the people of Detroit, the City Council has passed by a 5-4 margin another revised bond initiative introduced by the administration. The plan on paper says that 8,000 homes will be “rehabilitated” while an equal number are slated for destruction….
The upcoming November elections will generate much interest and debate over the future of the U.S. However, until the workers and oppressed organize independently of the interests of Wall Street there will not be any hope for economic revival among the majority of people inside the country.
#JusticeForJay
Protest continues tomorrow at 28th Ave and 40th St. Starting at @12 noon. Come stand against police brutality. #BlackLivesMatter
PDF of Release: August 25 2020 Manitowoc WI Save Post Office Media Release
August 24, 2020
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Ron Kossik of Crusaders of Justicia: 414-704-4571
“Save The Post Office” Rally in Manitowoc, WI, August 25, 2020
As a part of the American Postal Workers Union National Day of Actions, labor and community organizations are sponsoring a “Save The Post Office” Rally at the Manitowoc Post Office, 1202 Franklin Street, Tuesday, August 25, 2020 at 3:30 P.M. Initial sponsors of the Manitowoc event are the Crusaders of Justicia and the Wisconsin Bail Out The People Movement.
The movement for our public Postal Service has three immediate demands of our elected officials and of Postmaster General DeJoy:
– Provide at least $25 billion in immediate support for the Postal Service;
– Stop the mail slowdown policies introduced by Postmaster General DeJoy and fire him;
– Ensure public confidence in voting-by-mail by providing all necessary resources for the most timely delivery of election mail possible.
Others include: No Privatization and support for unions within the USPS.
For more information:
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https://www.facebook.com/CrusadersOfJusticia/
https://www.facebook.com/wibailoutpeople.org/
Milwaukee WI August 22, 2020 “Save The Post Office” Rally
Photo: Wisconsin Bail Out The People Movement
