September 19: 76^th & North

September 26: N. Lake Drive & Silver Spring- Special Stand dedicated to the Pace e Bene Campaign Nonviolence Action Week, Sept. 19-27, 2020, ​https://paceebene.org/action-week. Sept. 26 is also the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

​October 3: Hawley/Bluemound

October 10: Michigan/Lincoln Memorial

October 17: 92nd/North

October 24: King/North

October 31: 76th/Layton

November 7: Capitol/Oakland

November 14: Howell/Howard

November 21: Sherman/North

November 28: Port Washington/Silver Spring

Washington, DC | www.adc.org | September 16, 2020 — Today marks the 38th anniversary of one of the most brutal massacres in modern history. Beginning at approximately 6:00 P.M. on September 16, 1982, shortly after Israeli troops seized control of West Beirut, the right-wing Lebanese Phalange forces operating under the direction of Israeli forces massacred, wounded, and left homeless thousands of defenseless men, women, and children in the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camps. The widespread massacre was carried out methodically over the course of two days until 8:00 A.M. on September 18.

This year, the anniversary of this brutal massacre falls just a day after normalization agreements were signed between Israel, UAE, and Bahrain- agreements that did not include Palestinians in the talks, neither were they signed between countries that were in conflict. The normalization agreements whitewash the occupation of Palestine and ignore the human rights violations of the Israeli apartheid regime. Human rights violations that include the very massacre that we are remembering today. 

During the massacre, Israeli forces were in full control of the area in which the Sabra and Shatila camps are located. They allowed Phalange militants into the camps, prevented refugees from fleeing for their lives, and lit the night sky with a continuous series of flares as the killing raged on. The massacre received swift and severe UN condemnation as just a few months later the UN General Assembly voted unanimously (with 12 abstentions) to pass a Resolution that the Sabra and Shatila massacre constituted an act of genocide. Moreover, the Israeli government’s own inquiry into the affair, the Kahan Commission, found that Israeli military personnel were well aware of the ongoing massacre and stood by idly as it continued. Senior Israeli officials who were found responsible for the massacre continued to hold high governmental and political posts in Israel.

Ariel Sharon, the Israeli Defense Minister at the time and the man who orchestrated the Israeli occupation of Lebanon leading up to the massacre, was forced to resign. Israel’s own Commission concluded that he was personally responsible for the harrowing and inhumane tragedy. That being said, Sharon would eventually go on to become Israel’s Prime Minister in 2001. Additionally, General Amos Yaron, commander of the Israeli occupying forces in the Lebanese capital of Beirut during the massacre, became a Director-General of the Israeli Defense Ministry. The ability for Sharon and Yaron to hold the highest offices in Israel, even after their very own government essentially found them guilty of war crimes, is indicative of the continuing brutality of Israeli forces.

Thirty-eight years later, the Sabra and Shatila massacre remains one of the most symbolic events in the history of the Palestinian people and their plight. The massacre demonstrates the tragedy of the Palestinian refugees, who have been dispossessed from their homeland for over 70 years. This tragedy is an example of the need for a just settlement of the refugee issue based on the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 194, which affirms the right of return for Palestinian refugees. 

The atrocities of Sabra and Shatila continue to traumatize survivors, who still seek justice and mourn the victims. Decades later, the painful memories of the massacre persist and the perpetrators remain unpunished.

For more information on Sabra and Shatila:

Remembering the Sabra and Shatila Massacre

The Alliance for Global Justice deeply regrets the death of our dear comrade and friend Kevin Zeese on Sunday, September 6, 2020. Kevin’s life is an example of the revolutionary potential of solidarity and that the struggle for truth permeates every border.

Due to the pandemic, an online tribute to Kevin Zeese will be held on Saturday, September 19 at 3:00 pm ET / 12:00 pm PT. Simultaneous translation will be provided in English and Spanish. It will be live streamed on Facebook and YouTube. Register at bit.ly/KevinZeese.

Please join us to hear from some of Kevin’s friends, family and mentors, and to share your thoughts about Kevin.

Kevin Zeese, ¡Presente

Alliance for Global Justice

Milwaukee Area Service & Hospitality Workers Organization

517 E Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, WI – 12 NOON – 1 P.M.

We lost our jobs because of this pandemic. Now Ron Johnson thinks it’s okay if we go without food on our tables, too. He thinks $600 a week is more than working families deserve, but is fine with millionaires raking in money while we can’t put food on the table.

Rochester & Genesee Valley Area Labor Federation

At the September 10th meeting of the Rochester Labor Council, Delegates voted to release this statement on the killing of Daniel Prude. In addition to this statement, the Council agreed to a material donation of medical supplies to those volunteers who have been acting as medics at recent protests.
The continuous cycle of police brutality and the killing of Black and Brown men and women has got to stop. Too often their lives are forfeited because men and women who have taken an oath to serve and protect decide that the oath does not apply to the lives of Black and Brown sisters and brothers. The Rochester Labor Council is appalled that these actions have continued unchecked.

On March 23, 2020 Rochester police officers committed an act of police brutality against an unarmed Black man, Daniel Prude, who was experiencing a mental health crisis, and he died days later. Despite body camera footage that captured the action, it was not made public until September 2, 2020. The officers who committed the crime remained on active duty and the Mayor of Rochester and the chief of police failed to come forward until five months after the incident occurred. This is egregious and unacceptable.

After Eric Garner was strangled by police in New York City; Michael Brown was shot by police in Ferguson, Missouri; Ahmaud Arbery was chased and shot by armed white men in Georgia; George Floyd was suffocated by police in Minneapolis, Minnesota; Breonna Taylor was shot while sleeping in her home in Louisville, Kentucky; and Jacob Blake was shot by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the Rochester Chapter of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU) took action and called on the labor community to stand up and fight back against police brutality and the violence too frequently perpetrated against our Black and Brown brothers and sisters. The Rochester Labor Council is now calling on all affiliate unions to take a stand against racism and police brutality by supporting and lobbying for the passage of Daniel’s Law; reallocate resources and demilitarize the police; and support the Black Lives Matter movement.

In response to these atrocities and in recognition that we need to be the change we wish to see, the Rochester Labor Council Racial Justice committee has been established. This committee has been empowered to challenge the status quo and initiate actions that will help increase diversity in the Rochester Labor Council’s structure, leadership, internal organization and external programming. This includes establishing community partnerships and coalitions with organizations to fight the racism and injustice that plagues our city. It is imperative to remember that social justice, racial justice and human rights are forever intertwined with the fight for labor rights, and to do anything less than uphold them all is unconscionable and hypocritical.

Silence and inaction are unacceptable. To be silent is to be complicit. It is time to make noise, time to get in trouble…good trouble.

Rochester & Genesee Valley Area Labor Federation

UIC workers rallying and continuing the fight for respect, safe working conditions and fair pay. #StrikeForOurLives #UICFairContractNow #ProtectAllWorkers

SEIU Local 73

Illinois Nurses Association

Graduate Employees’ Organization 3550

GEO members, our strike is surging in momentum — and that means events are moving fast. We’re committed to keeping you as informed as possible about rapidly changing schedules; appreciate your patience and flexibility!

Two important upcoming virtual member events:

1) NEXT EMERGENCY STRIKE GMM, DATE/TIME TBD: We will likely need to confirm the date and time of this event on very short notice. Please RSVP (once!) now to make sure you receive information when it is finalized: http://bit.ly/GMMTBD

2) MEMBER STRIKE UPDATE ZOOM Q&A: 5:30pm today. Bring any questions and concerns. RSVP: http://bit.ly/QASept15

Please check the steps at bit.ly/GEOFilter if you don’t see these announcements in your inbox.Also, tonight’s planned Labor Organizing 101 event has been cancelled – we will keep you posted on rescheduling plans!

And on September 16, 2020 – “Anti-Policing Rally on the Diag:” https://bit.ly/35GE1b0

Ways to Help:

Here’s letter of support folks at any academic institution can sign: http://tiny.cc/ScholarsSupportGEOStrike

Donate to the strike fund: https://www.geo3550.org/join-us/contribute/

Sign this petition for alums: https://t.co/gs2mO5FU2G?amp=1

Thank you to Graduate Employee Organization (GEO-UAW) for their statement of solidarity!https://www.geouaw.org/solidarity-with-geo-3550-umich-campus-workers/

UMass Amherst graduate employees of GEO-UAW2322 stand in firm solidarity with GEO-3550, the graduate employees of the University of Michigan, who are currently striking in opposition to UM’s unsafe and unjust operations in the collective emergency of the global pandemic. You have inspired solidarity from many organizations across your campus—including residential staff, dining and construction workers—and your actions have reverberated across the country.

During an unprecedented event, you have stood as a bulwark against the dangerous and ill-advised actions of your university, making you are a model for GEO unions everywhere. At the outset of your strike, your administration published a letter intended to deny, deflect and divert from your issues—with the ultimate goal of deceiving and dividing your membership. Central to their argument was the reminder that yours is a “Right to Work” state, making your strike an illegal act. Nevertheless, you persisted for the sake of both your union and the university at large.

Last night, you voted to extend your historic strike with 80% of your membership in the affirmative; this comes less than a week after rejecting an offer that did not include an option for GSIs to work remotely or flexible subsidies for caregivers. Crucially, it also did not address the militarization of UM police.Here at UMass, our administration is saddling us with similar challenges: the university is currently threatening its workers with 300 layoff notices if our Professional Staff Union and University Staff Association do not agree to the university’s most recent offer intended to “bridge the gap” on a revenue shortfall caused by COVID-19. Just as with your administration, ours is attempting to deny, deflect and divert from the issues important to workers.

This is unsurprising, but it does not distract from the facts: that in an unprecedented moment of uncertainty, the most vulnerable among us need support from our institutions, and, if our institutions are unwilling to give us the support we need, our workers will do their job for them. At a time when universities need to rise to the challenge of protecting their students and supporting their employees, you are stepping up to fulfill their duty—a duty they have neither the courage nor conviction to realize.

Your efforts do not just protect your workers, they also protect the larger student body from both the pandemic and from the militarized police presence used to carry out the punishment from an otherwise feckless university. Your demands are both righteous and just: this is a fight worth fighting, which means it is a fight worth winning.

Yours in solidarity,GEO-UAW 2322 at the University of Massachusetts Amherst 9/10/20

122 E Olin Avenue, Madison – 3 P.M. at GSAFE

Hello Everyone My Name is SunShine Raynebow i just moved to Madison im a Poet Artist Activist And Drag Queen i m put this March Together because i wanted to Bring All the things that are apart of me together and SPREAD MY LOVE AND KINDNESS TO OTHERS AROUND ME

THIS EVENT IS ALL AGES FAMILY FRIENDLY AND WE WILL HAVE A BLAST WE ARE GOING TO MARCH FROM GSAFE HERE IN MADISON AND TO THE CAPITOL AND HAVE A DANCE PARTY AND DRAG SHOW I WILL BE PERFORMING AS WELL AS SOME DOPE ASS BLACK ARTIST HERE IN MADISON

YOU ARE GONNA BE MIND BLOWN WE ARE GONNA WAKE AMERICA THE HELL UP AND LET THEM KNOW THAT ALL BLACK LIVES MATTER AND THAT BEING BLACK IS NOT A CRIME BRING TIPS BRING YOURSELF HAVE FUN RESPECT OTHERS LOVE YOURSELF LOVE OTHERS SHINE BRIGHT LIKE THE STAR YOU ARE AND NEVER LET ANYONE OR ANYTHING DEM YOUR BRIGHT LIGHT

United Action Oshkosh

Join United Action Oshkosh as we demand justice for Isaiah Tucker, and all the other victims of police terror. We are rallying to force public attention on to the particular officers who are getting away with murder, and to the issue of systemic police crime.
We are demanding that the officers who murdered Isaiah Tucker be held accountable for their actions, and that they be fired and arrested. We are calling for a Civilian Police Accountability Council to be established in Oshkosh, that will be a transparent body of democratically elected civilians, which have the power to discipline police officers that are out-of-control.
We will be participating in a national day of protest called by the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression.https://naarpr.org/updates/september-19-day-protest/?fbclid=IwAR0n6JfCoQXi6pSqqn7pzvOsJwhnCiKVD5ShLEIUTIESLFnZc8g3CfzRdAg

We will be meeting at Menominee Park in Oshkosh at 1pm. The plan is to meet in the big parking lot right next to the baseball diamonds( not by the zoo), rally on the corner of Hazel st and Irving ave, then march through the park back to the rally point. Family-friendly event.

Justice for Jonathon Tubby

“Be apart of the movement, be apart of the change”
It is important for the all people to see our communities come together and recognize what is happening within our Indigenous communities. We want to bring awareness to the continuous injustices that continue to happen to Indigenous people. for those who are unaware, to be aware. Come and stand in solidarity with us as we continue to fight for justice! Please watch for updates on the Justice for Jonathon Tubby facebook page. Any questions or inquiries can be made to the facebook page or JusticeforJonathonTubby@gmail.com
We are looking for speakers, volunteers and donations!