Know Your Rights: Demonstrator’s Rights Training
This training event will focus on the Democratic National Convention and specific rules for protesting an demonstrating during the event. Register in advance for this webinar:
https://aclu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hnA6_u9LSv6R-WBl-zjT-A
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
Get Up, Stand Up Yard Sign Pick-Up | Riverwest Gardeners Market
Get Up, Stand Up, Don’t Give Up The Fight
Look for the 88Nine table from 10am – Noon on Sunday, August 2nd!
At Radio Milwaukee, we believe in the power of music – especially these poignant Bob Marley lyrics – to transcend boundaries and communicate to people of all backgrounds.
Join us in helping to support and sustain the global movement against racism by placing one of these free signs in your yard.
The URL on the bottom of the sign directs people to a continuously updated resource page on our website with tools to help inform and broaden your perspective: https://radiomilwaukee.org/tools
Picking up a sign is simple and safe, just visit the pick up site during the hours listed in the event. The tent will be staffed by an employee wearing a face mask and gloves.
Wee Chalk Your Walk: Fernwood Neighborhood
Join the Black Educators Caucus for #weechalkyourwalk Fernwood Neighborhood. This time we are taking our chalk and demands back to neighborhood of John Chisholm to hold him accountable to the promises he made during our first chalk. Join us as we chalk solidarity messages with the Black Lives Matter, Justice for Corey Stingley, and demands for our community. Bring some chalk and come helps us chalk their sidewalks followed by a short march to the DA”s home. This is a family friendly space! Please wear your mask and this activity provides for plenty of social distancing. We will meet and start chalking at Morgan Park.
Four Demands of the National Black Lives Matter at School Movement
*Recruit and retain Black educators
*Fully Resourced Restorative Practices
*Black History and Ethnic Studies in all schools
*Fund Counselors, Not cops
We will continue to apply pressure by walking around the campus gathering support and signatures for our petition to fire betsy as we protest once again and allow uwm to hear the voice of the people as we scream for justice we seek to end rape culture and supporters of rape culture from 3-4 P.M. We will gather at the chancellor’s office chalk and hang signs chant Express our sentiment and grievances pertaining to this situation from 5-6 on we will march around the campus chanting justicia para vanessa please bring water and snack (mask required)
Black & Pink Milwaukee x Diverse & Resilient Virtual Session
Join Black & Pink Milwaukee and Diverse & Resilient for a discussion on anti-violence practices and resources. As part of our session we will be writing birthday cards and pen pal letters to our incarcerated comrades! Fostering connections with incarcerated people can be a harm reduction practice, as it breaks isolation and signals support and care to guards and others in prisons.
If you want to participate in the card writing session you’ll need: envelopes, stamps, paper (plain, construction, etc.), pens/markers. Incarcerated people in Wisconsin cannot receive items with scented markers or glue.
Zoom link will be provided closer to the event date
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August 1, 2020
Voces de la Frontera Essential Workers Rights Network
(Milwaukee, Wisconsin) — Going live on Saturday, August 1st at 11 am on our Facebook live: Justice for Strauss Workers! Justicia para los trabajadores de Strauss!
Happening in just a few hours! At 11 am CST we will be going live on our Facebook page to announce our “Justice for Strauss Workers” action, sponsored by the Voces de la Frontera Essential Workers Rights Network. Tune in to learn how you can help get justice for Strauss workers!
On July 23rd, 2020, Strauss Brands, Inc, a meat processing plant in Franklin, Wisconsin, fired 28 workers because they were organizing for adequate COVID-19 protections. Strauss claims to have fired these workers because of a Social Security No Match letter from the Social Security Administration (SSA), but SSA No Match Letters do not legally indicate anything about a workers’ immigration status and cannot be a basis for retaliation, firing or re-verification of work authorization. Strauss’s HR department is bringing hatred and prejudice into the workplace and all in the midst of an uncontrolled pandemic, and we have had enough.
On Monday we demanded for the immediate firing of HR Director Cheryl Wisman, for the reinstatement of these workers, and for adequate COVID-19 protections for all workers at Strauss. So far our demands have not been met, so it is time to double down. On Friday, August 7th at 11 am, we invite you to come protest outside of Strauss Brands with us in Franklin, about 20 minutes south of Milwaukee. Our goal is to have at least 1,000 people show up. Tune in tomorrow morning at 11 am CST to hear testimonials from some of these Strauss workers about what happened to them and to hear how you can join the fight in getting Justice for Strauss workers. This live event will be bilingual. Adelante, la lucha sigue!
You can read our letter with full demands to Strauss here: https://vdlf.org/re-retaliation-prejudice-wrongful-termination-for-social-security-no-match-letters-for-strauss-workers/
For more information, contact Communications Director Jacquelyn Kovarik: jacquelyn@vdlf.org and 414-614-3179.
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