They are the nurse that holds your loved ones hand in the ICU, the UPS and USPS drivers who are delivering countless packages, the grocery store worker keeping the shelves stocked with the essentials, and the checker who rings you up. They are the social worker that inspects your child’s daycare to keep it safe and the bus drivers who takes you to work or the doctor.
Essential workers will speak out about working conditions under Trump’s pandemic and economic crisis.
We call on all workers to join a socially distanced rally and march to stop Trump and extend benefits for working people NOW.
Save the date! Please be sure to fill out the google form below and share with your friends and tell them to share it with their friends and so on. Let the ENTIRE city of Madison hear our voices on October 10th as we march 26.2 miles! PLEASE fill this out- https://forms.gle/H9RjMJ3DCwDMxJd99 ✊✊✊✊✊✊
Our communities are facing evictions and unemployment and there’s a chance the Mayor will budget nearly $80 million for the Madison Police Department. We deserve to thrive. Join us to discuss what a People’s Budget would look like.
Spoken: September, 1962 in Socialist Cuba Published: Cuba Socialista Transcription/Markup: A.N./Brian Baggins Online Version: Ernesto Che Guevara Internet Archive (marxists.org) 2002
“….In all these situations, the function of the cadre, in spite of its being on different fronts, is the same. The cadre is the major part of the ideological motor which is the United Party of the Revolution. It is something that we could call the dynamic screw of this motor; a screw that in regard to the functional part will assure its correct functioning; dynamic to the extent that the cadre is not simply an upward or downward transmitter of slogans or demands, but a creator which will aid in the development of the masses and in the information of the leaders, serving as a point of contact with them. The cadre has the important mission of seeing to it that the great spirit of the revolution is not dissipated, that it will not become dormant nor let up its rhythm. It is a sensitive position; it transmits what comes from the masses and infuses in the masses the orientation of the party.
Therefore, the development of cadres is now a task which cannot be postponed. The development of the cadres has been undertaken with great eagerness by the revolutionary government with its programs of scholarships based on selective principles; with its programs of study for workers, offering various opportunities for technological development; with the development of the special technical schools; with the development of the secondary schools and the universities, opening new careers; with the development finally of our slogans of study, work and revolutionary vigilance for our entire country, fundamentally based on the Union of Young Communists from which all types of cadres should emerge, even the leading cadres in the future of the revolution.
Intimately tied to the concept of cadre is the capacity for sacrifice, for demonstrating through personal example the truths and watchwords of the revolution. The cadres, as political leaders, should gain the respect of the workers by their actions. It is absolutely imperative that they count on the respect and affection of their companeros, whom they should guide along the vanguard paths.
The School Board meeting is officially rescheduled for Thursday, September 3 at 6 PM. 3600 52nd Street, Kenosha. There will be an opportunity for public comment. We will protest outside of the meeting ahead of time.
At this meeting the Superintendent will be presenting the Board with their plan to improve equity in our district but in reality district leadership continues to delay progress and withhold resources in order to affect meaningful change for our Black and Brown students and ensure they are safe in our schools. The Board will be also be voting on the trans student policy that has been 4 years in the making. The policy they are voting on is problematic because it only allows students who are 18 and students with parental consent to identify as trans. This means that many trans students will be named and called the wrong pronouns by policy. This is detrimental to students mental health and physical safety, as it creates the risk of being outed to abusive parents/guardians and others. The School Board must amend this policy to be truly inclusive of all trans students in KUSD.
Most of you are also aware that the School Board flip-flopped on their decision for an all virtual return to school. In the middle of a pandemic and without a solid plan the Board unanimously denied science and put KUSD in a terrible position. KUSD is the third largest district in the State and will be the only urban district in the State to have an in person option to the beginning of the school year. This is a dangerous and deadly decision.
To top it all off, the KUSD School Board will also be voting to finalize their new policy on Citizen Committees. The new policy reduces the number of times these committees can meet from 12 to 4 a year, it also removes committee members ability to vote on issues, and takes away the ability of the committee to discuss the budget and district strategic plan. This decision is being made for only one reason, the Board doesn’t value citizen input and would rather make decisions that are simply a rubber stamp for administration or a method of pandering to the loudest voices at a time. We need to save and strengthen our district committees to ensure citizens can continue to have a voice, this does the opposite.
Science is real, these decisions are deadly, and on all of these issues KUSD needs to change course immediately or our community may never recover.
It is time again for allies in the Movement for Black Lives to step up and do some of the disruptive labor. Please join us for a rally and march to tell the City of Madison and Dane County that we will not rest until we defund the police and Build the People, NOT the Jail!
Carcerality in Madison and Dane County is killing people and we’re paying for it through the teeth. The police take over 80 million taxpayer dollars per year that could be going to so many other community-building investments. The proposed jail will cost the county $150 million at minimum but likely much more. We call on the mayor and the city council to move immediately to have MPD absorb the entirety of the 5% city budget cut, and we call on the Dane County Board of supervisors to vote for the Doyle Resolution that halts jail construction.
A system that stockpiles Black and other marginalized people in cages by the millions is a system that doesn’t care about any of our well-being. Join us while we follow the voices of those most marginalized and uplift all of the efforts that Black leaders across the city have been making to let us know: people come before property and we must end the war on Black people.
March with Lawyers and friends in family in support of the ideals behind Black Lives matter. You don’t have to be a lawyer or related to a lawyer to march with us… all are welcome.
