Month: August 2020

Overpass Light Brigade We held this message in front of Milwaukee City Hall tonight with Leaders Igniting Transformation and Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association in solidarity for today’s National Day of Resistance (August 3, 2020). Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett and Health Commissioner Kowalik I failed to control the pandemic in Milwaukee. Now they just approved a […]

ACAB TEACH IN: A Black August Event We’ll be meeting at the Gazebo in Fairgrounds Park, 450 Kilburn Avenue, Rockford, IL at 3 P.M. We’ll be doing another teach in with a number of different community members around policing in the spirit of Black August revolutionary learning and education. This is not a protest. We […]

https://bit.ly/3gCMgHq By Emily Dong What we need today is this new religion, one that raises a new set of high ideals for humanity that can guide, develop, and inspire people. Proclaiming the need for a new religion feels like it goes against our understanding of social progress. Social planning is more associated with the scientific […]

Caravan Protest Black Workers’ Lives Matter Flex N Gate Detroit For Immediate Release                                                                                Contact: Frank Hammer, 313-680-3202 August 3, 2020                                                                                                                   Caravan Protest Black Workers’ Lives Matter Flex N Gate Detroit 2 –3 PM—THURS—AUGUST 6 Supporters of Black Workers’ Lives Matter will be staging a car caravan protest at the Flex-N-Gate auto […]

Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association Car Caravan to Madison to Demand Health Be Placed Over Profits Car Caravan to Madison to Demand Health Be Placed Over Profits preparing to leave Kenosha for Madison. Students, teachers, parents, & communities across the country are rising up today #DemandSafeSchools! #EdEquityOrElse #PoliceFreeSchools https://mtea.weac.org/2020/07/31/labor-community-organizations-to-host-health-over-profits-car-caravan-to-madison/ August 3, 2020 / Photo: Joe Brusky

https://bit.ly/31i3aES By Amir Mohammad Esmaeili July 29, 2020 TEHRAN – Abayomi Azikiwe, an African American author, and journalist in Detroit, tells the Tehran Times that the owners of mainstream media in the U.S. have a vested interest in crushing the anti-racist movement and as a result, they “have lost credibility”. Azikiwe says the fact that […]

https://bit.ly/3grQoKr Listen to the Aug. 2, 2020 special edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. The program features a PANW report with dispatches on the recent tributes paid to Zimbabwe Minister of Agriculture Parrance Shiri; six people have been reportedly killed by an improvised […]