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Milwaukee, August 20, 2020: March on the 2020 DNC – We Can’t Breathe
March on the 2020 DNC – We Can’t Breathe
920 N Water Street, Dontre Hamilton (Red Arrow) Park – 5 P.M.
Press Conference at 4 P.M.
The Coalition to March on the DNC will host a rally and march on the Democratic National Convention on Thursday, August 20th at 5pm in Dontre Hamilton (Red Arrow) Park Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
We will march behind the slogan “WE CAN’T BREATHE” to continue to the righteous protest against police killings of Black people. We demand real police accountability and an end to police crimes and racist policies that have been enabled by both the Democratic and Republican leaders.
The Coalition to March on the DNC is a broad, national coalition of left and progressive forces, working with dozens of local Milwaukee groups and activists. We are rallying behind demands including but not limited to:
– Community Control of the Police / Stop Police Terror
– End US Wars and Interventions / Money for Human Needs, Not War
– Legalization for All / No More Deportations
– Tax the Rich
– Medicare for All
– Climate Action Now
– Fight to Expand Union and Worker Rights
– We Demand Peace, Justice, and Equality!”
“All eyes will be on Milwaukee when the people’s movements protest outside the DNC as it takes place at the Fiserv Forum the week of August 17th. The Coalition calls on all progressive, left, democratic and socialist organizations to join us in unity,” says Omar Flores, spokesperson for the Coalition.
In previous years, organizers of the Coalition led mass marches that drew tens of thousands to the 2008 RNC in St. Paul, MN, and thousands to the 2012 RNC in Tampa, FL, and the 2016 RNC in Cleveland, OH.
Our solidarity will be based on respect for a diversity of tactics, and the plans of other groups.
Contact this page for all media or organizing inquiries: Coalition to March on the DNC
Milwaukee, August 22, 2020: Restaurant Workers Unity March! Support Comet Workers!
Restaurant Workers Unity March! Support Comet Workers!
The Industrial Workers of the World and former employees of Comet Cafe are calling on all Milwaukee restaurant workers to join a demonstration demanding fair treatment of former employees of Comet Cafe and all restaurant workers! Gather at Swing Park, 1737 N Water St, at 5pm on Saturday, August 22nd. We will be marching up Brady Street to a Restaurant owned by the Mojofuco restaurant group, the group owned by Scott Johnson, Leslie Montemurro, and Kristyn Eite.
Mojofuco owners fired the staff of Comet after they organized and presented demands to fix faulty kitchen equipment and maintain safe Covid-19 Pandemic practices. We are demanding severance payment for these workers, fired for standing up for themselves and left unemployed during a global pandemic. We are calling for all Milwaukee restaurant workers and supporters to join this demonstration, network, and begin the process of standing up for dignity and safety at all restaurants in town.
Black Lives Matter Related Events in Wisconsin August 20, 2020 Onward ….
***THURSDAY, AUGUST 20th; Today’s list of BLM Protests, Vigils and other Relevant Actions is updated.***
Link for the Updated List: https://docs.google.com/…/1uLk5DYYMqlxZAbO_TAbAxxS9dS…/edit…
***Wauwatosa Mayor Dennis McBride has revealed himself as a steadfast supporter of the police state and anti-BLM as he is now working to wage war against the freedom of speech and the right to protest. Please continue to spread the word and make sure that he doesn’t get away with his crimes against the people. Tosa needs to answer for its corruption.***
As always, you can find all of the event pages listed under the “Events” section of the People’s Climate Coalition FB Page.
You can (and should!) also check out the new Impact Demand event calendar: https://events.impactdemand.org/posterboard and follow the Wisconsin Bail Out The People Movement for news and actions from around the state and Rid Racism Milwaukee for a list of additional racial justice actions / events.
***#Covid19 reminder to wear a mask and gloves to all in-person events and somehow try to social distance, if possible.***
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If you can’t attend a protest, making a contribution to any of the following organizations / causes would be super helpful (you can also find more listed in the donation tab within the excel sheet):
– Legal Aid & Resources: Milwaukee Freedom Fund
– Youth Rising Up -YRU- North Division High School
– Black Leaders Organizing for Communities
– Leaders Igniting Transformation
– Love on Black Women: https://www.facebook.com/loveonblackwomen/
– The People’s Movement of Milwaukee: https://www.facebook.com/The-Peoples-Movement-of-Milwaukee-106923321057366/
– Milwaukee Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression
– Human First Project : https://gf.me/u/x79ydc
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Let me know if there are any other actions / donation pages / relevant orgs that should be added to the list. You can email me at lee.stedman.gaiacoalition@gmail.com or PM me directly on Facebook.
#BlackLivesMatter #Milwaukee #milwaukeeprotest
#solidarity #GeorgeFloyd #BreonnaTaylor
#DontreHamilton #JoelAcevedo #FreeChrystul
#SayTheirNames #Juneteenth #AlvinCole
#JayAnderson #AntonioGonzales #Justice4TheeThree
#DivestFromMPD #DefundThePolice #ElijahMcMclain
#DontreHamilton #AlvinCole #SandraBland
#JasonPero #AtatianaJefferson #KorrynGaines
#EricGarner #AlesiaThomas #RodneyKing
Hundreds Protest Trump – the Anti-Worker Racist Bigot – in Oshkosh, WI
By Wisconsin Bail Out the People Movement
OSHKOSH, WISCONSIN AUGUST 17, 2020 — A diverse crowd of people’s fighters from across Wisconsin rallied and marched here to protest the racist, anti-worker bigot and war criminal Donald Trump.
Assembling in a parking lot, protesters gathered and then marched through the neighborhood near where Trump spoke.
A participant describes the scene of the march:
“Trump supporters today threatened us with weapons, stalked us with vehicles and drove aggressively through the crowd, followed us with giant graphic photos of dead fetuses, showed up with a loudspeaker to attempt to derail our speeches by yelling “Black lives don’t matter.” They called Black marchers the n-word, harassed people for gender presentation and used degrading and explicit terms to scream about people’s genitals and LGBTQ+ status. They also followed us the entire march heckling people and making threats. Didn’t stop us. Won’t stop us,” said Mary B of the Food Not Bombs Appleton Chapter.”
The Green Bay chapter of Voces de la Frontera along with United Action Oshkosh, the African People’s Socialist Party, the Coalition to March on the DNC, Wisconsin FRSO, Our Wisconsin Revolution and Wisconsin Bail Out the People Movement helped organize the protest actions.
“Trump’s recent attacks on the essential postal office workers are obviously an attack on our communities and our people, to prevent people from voting,” said Danielle Gutierrez, DACA recipient and member of the Voces de la Frontera relational voter program Vocero por el Voto, in a news release. “This dismantling of the post office is a sign of his inability to see the reality that he is not above the law. We must hold him accountable for his actions.”
Gutierrez was one of numerous speakers to address protesters.
A wide range of people’s demands were put forth on signs, banners and from speakers at a street rally. These included: An end to police murders/terror, a moratorium on evictions, foreclosures and utility shutoffs, an end to all attacks on migrants and the undocumented, an end to attacks on women and LGBTQ people, an end to environmental destruction and money for people’s needs such as public education, housing and union jobs not jails, cops, bank bailouts and war. Information about upcoming events was shared including a August 20 Coalition to March on the DNC protest in Milwaukee, an MLK/BLM Event and Protest in Appleton August 30 and a United Black Lives 4th Annual Celebration & Education Supplies Drive Event in Green Bay August 30. (Information on these events are posted to this blog, type in the city in the search engine: https://wibailoutpeople.org/)
The Oshkosh anti-Trump protest is a part of the growing Black Lives Matter related events sweeping across Wisconsin this summer, most led by youth and students. Besides the police murders of Black, Brown, Indigenous and poor white workers in the state, in the past decade Wall Street forces (especially the bankers) and their political servants – has pummeled the poor and working people of Wisconsin with unrelenting anti-worker racist austerity. Despite this, the people are in motion in the thousands across the state fighting back against the cruelty and barbarity of the capitalist system – especially during the present COVID-19 pandemic. Hundreds of protests have taken place across the state since the police murder of George Floyd including in the Fox Valley (Fon du Lac, Oshkosh, Appleton), Waupaca and in numerous other cities in Northeastern Wisconsin and beyond.
On Facebook Banning Pages that Support CrimethInc.com
Facebook has taken down multiple Facebook pages they believe to be connected with crimethinc.com and itsgoingdown.org, among other anarchist and anti-fascist publishing projects,1 officially on the pretext that they “support violence.” This has nothing to do with stopping violence and everything to do with suppressing social movements and the publishers that cover them.
For months, Donald Trump has demanded this crackdown in a series of social media posts explicitly blaming anarchists and anti-fascists for the countrywide wave of protests precipitated by persistent police violence in the United States. A decade ago, Facebook representatives proudly touted their role in the Egyptian uprising. Today, their decision to ban publishers who discuss social movement activity shows that they are eager to play a role in ensuring that the only forms of activism that can emerge are the ones that are beneficial to the current authorities.
The defining of violence is not neutral. The way Facebook currently defines violence, it is legitimate for police to kill a thousand people per year while evicting, kidnapping, and imprisoning millions—it is legitimate to drop bombs on civilians, so long as the aggressor represents an official government—but it is “violence” to prevent a white supremacist from assaulting a crowd or return a smoking tear gas canister to the police who shot it. Suppressing the voices of those who seek to protect their communities from institutional and white supremacist violence is an intentional decision to normalize violence as long as the ones employing it hold institutional power.
Lumping anarchists and anti-fascists together with far-right militias who explicitly support the current administration is a strategic move to muddy the issue. This is the same operation that William Barr performed in creating a Department of Justice task force focused on “anti-government extremists” that targets self-proclaimed fascists and anti-fascists alike. In the case of the Department of Justice, this enables them to point to far-right and militia attacks in order to demand resources with which to crack down on those who are on the front lines of defending communities against such attacks. Barr and other members of Trump’s administration are attempting to do the same thing to Black Lives Matter activists, associating them with neo-Nazis and white nationalists as “racially motivated extremists.”
After a self-described fascist murdered Heather Heyer during the “Unite the Right” mobilization in Charlottesville, tremendous grassroots pressure arose to remove fascists and white supremacists from social media platforms. This time, the push is coming from the very top of the hierarchy, at a time when protest movements have been essential to creating a nationwide dialogue about state violence and oppression. This is a counterattack from those in power against websites that published perspectives from those who mobilized against the fascists in Charlottesville. It is not a coincidence that it occurs on the heels of Trump mobilizing federal forces to Portland, Oregon, precipitating weeks of street conflict, and just a matter of days after spokespersons for the extreme right referred specifically to crimethinc.com and itsgoingdown.org in prepared testimony to the Senate.
While far-right groups continue to organize on Facebook and spread dangerous misinformation about COVID-19, Facebook is prioritizing taking cues from the Trump administration to suppress dissent. Make no mistake, if this goes unchallenged, it will not stop here. The more it becomes normalized for governments to crack down on publishers that report on social movements, the further such censorship will penetrate into every sector of society, and the more it will shape what it is possible to think, what it is possible to imagine….
Milwaukee, August 22, 2020: Save the Post Office & VA!
345 W Saint Paul Avenue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin – 11 A.M. – 12 NOON
Various labor and community organizations are joining a national day of action August 22, 2020 to save the U.S. Postal Service. There are already actions such as this informational Peoples’ Solidarity Picket in Milwaukee and also in Racine at 11 A.M. at 6th and Main. We’ll also be supporting the members of AFGE at VA facilities who are also under attack by the Trump administration.
Trump is undermining the world-class efficiency and productivity of the USPS and its workers as part of his undemocratic campaign to suppress the vote and steal the election. For example, they plan on removing 671 sorting machines across the country and have already removed dozens of blue mailboxes throughout the states. Veterans, seniors and many others are not getting their medications on time – during a pandemic!
The forced slowdown has caused mail to be lost. We must also demand that the Senate pass the $25 billion emergency Covid-19 stimulus package for the U.S. Postal Service, as well as the rest of the HEROES Act. The Postal Reorganization Act of 1970 requires prompt and efficient service and access to the Post Office for all communities.
The Trump administration is also trying to bust the diverse workers unions within the USPS. We in Wisconsin know the disastrous effects of public sector union busting and won’t stand for it on the federal level. We also are in solidarity with workers at the V.A. who are facing similar attacks of union busting and privatization from the Trump administration. We are joining together because we know in unity we win!
For more information about events in Wisconsin: www.wibailoutpeople.org or facebook.com/wibailoutpeople.org. For more information on how to help save the USPS: apwu.org. The postal worker unions are also sponsoring a Nationwide Day of Action August 25: #SavethePostOffice. / For more info on the fight to oppose privatization at the V.A. and to support the union workers there: afge.org or facebook.com/afgeunion.
Leaflet and Organizing Time For This Action Union Labor Donated
Milwaukee, September 1, 2020: Joe Berrada: Stop the Evictions Now!
Joe Berrada: Stop the Evictions Now!
Joe Berrada is the biggest slumlord in Milwaukee. He has evicted over 300 people since the pandemic began, putting hundreds of people out on the street, endangering their health and that of the public. But his oppressive and unethical practices did not begin with the pandemic. His buildings had 1,300 code violations from 2010 to 2018 and he was responsible for 12% of all evictions in the city in 2017. He is known for evicting tenants for the smallest and most trivial reasons.
We demand that Berrada Properties
– cease all evictions for the duration of the pandemic.
– keep units clean and updated and provide timely and competent repairs when requested by tenants
– enter into a neutral mediation process with tenants if there is financial hardship prior to seeking an eviction order
– work with tenants to get evictions off their records
– commit to not retaliating against tenants who bring forward complaints
Waukesha, WI, August 22, 2020: Racial Justice Rally & March!
Waukesha Racial Equity Rally and March
*** Please wear masks and socially distance***
Nearly three months have passed since George Floyd was murdered… let’s march to demand justice.
12pm: Sign Making and chalk the walk
– bring the self, friends, family down and be in community
2pm: Speakers: Maria Hamilton, Bernie Gonzalez, and Raymond Roberts
2:30pm: March – we will start and end at Cutler Park. Folx are welcome to stay at the park or on nearby corners to protest in place.
Join us as we hear from Maria A. Hamilton!
Maria Hamilton founded Mothers For Justice United and co-organized the Million Moms March that took place in Washington DC. She has become a leading justice advocate for putting an end to race-based policies of police and vigilante violence that harm communities of color.
Check out the website: https://mothersunitedvoices.org/maria-hamilton/
Support the work being done.
Milwaukee, August 20, 2020: March on the DNC – We Can’t Breathe!
March on the 2020 DNC – We Can’t Breathe
920 N Water Street, Dontre Hamilton (Red Arrow) Park – 5 P.M.
The Coalition to March on the DNC will host a rally and march on the Democratic National Convention on Thursday, August 20th at 5pm in Dontre Hamilton (Red Arrow) Park Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
We will march behind the slogan “WE CAN’T BREATHE” to continue to the righteous protest against police killings of Black people. We demand real police accountability and an end to police crimes and racist policies that have been enabled by both the Democratic and Republican leaders.
The Coalition to March on the DNC is a broad, national coalition of left and progressive forces, working with dozens of local Milwaukee groups and activists. We are rallying behind demands including but not limited to:
– Community Control of the Police / Stop Police Terror
– End US Wars and Interventions / Money for Human Needs, Not War
– Legalization for All / No More Deportations
– Tax the Rich
– Medicare for All
– Climate Action Now
– Fight to Expand Union and Worker Rights
– We Demand Peace, Justice, and Equality!”
“All eyes will be on Milwaukee when the people’s movements protest outside the DNC as it takes place at the Fiserv Forum the week of August 17th. The Coalition calls on all progressive, left, democratic and socialist organizations to join us in unity,” says Omar Flores, spokesperson for the Coalition.
In previous years, organizers of the Coalition led mass marches that drew tens of thousands to the 2008 RNC in St. Paul, MN, and thousands to the 2012 RNC in Tampa, FL, and the 2016 RNC in Cleveland, OH.
Our solidarity will be based on respect for a diversity of tactics, and the plans of other groups.
Contact this page for all media or organizing inquiries: Coalition to March on the DNC
