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The National AFL-CIO will be hosting a series of online virtual events starting September 2 and continuing until Labor Day on September 7. View the schedule at LaborDayLive.org

Labor Day 2020 in Wisconsin

Green Bay: The Greater Green Bay Labor Council is hosting a food drive on September 7 from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. at the Green Bay Labor Temple, 1570 Elizabeth Street. Drop off non-perishable food items at the Labor Temple or make a cash donation to buy gift cards.

Marathon County: The Marathon County Central Labor Council has purchased a radio ad to honor and thank workers to celebrate Labor Day. Keep an ear out to hear the radio spot!

Milwaukee: The Milwaukee Area Labor Council will host a virtual Labor Day event on September 7 at 9:00 a.m. to commemorate the sacrifices and contributions of organized labor. Follow the Milwaukee Area Labor Council Facebook page for videos, pictures, and history at facebook.com/mkelabor.

Madison: Help students who are homeless in the MMSD Transition Education Program (TEP) by donating personal safety/hygiene items like hand sanitizers (wipes and pumps) and face masks in youth and adult sizes or basic school supplies like glue sticks, flash cards, non-permanent/washable markers, colored pencils, pocket folders and composition books. Contact AFL-CIO Community Services Liaison Ann McNeary for delivery/drop off/pick up of donations by email at labor@uwdc.org or 608-246-4355. In honor of Labor Day, contribute to the National Association of Letter Carriers Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive by going to nalc.org/food selecting your state and choosing a food bank in your area.

Western Wisconsin: The Western Wisconsin AFL-CIO will go live on Facebook for a short Labor Day program on September 7 at 10:00 am.

Fox Valley: This past Saturday, the Fox Valley Area Labor Council supported the St. Joseph Food Program with a food drive. Non-perishable food items were collected and will be delivered to the St. Joseph food bank to celebrate Labor Day.

Take Action:

In addition to the events above, you can take action for workers this Labor Day with the action list below:

➔PASS THE HEROES ACT:  We continue to call for the Senate to act on the HEROES Act, the coronavirus relief bill passed by the House last May. Call Senator Ron Johnson at 866-832-1560 and ask him if he supports the HEROES Act. The HEROES ACT will help fund our post office, extend enhanced unemployment insurance for our those out of work, enact an OSHA emergency standard for infectious disease, support vital public services, release funds to get workers PPE and more. It’s been over 105 days since the House passed the HEROES Act. It’s time for the Senate to act.

➔SIGN UP TO VIRTUAL PHONE BANK: Sign up to get involved with our Labor 2020 union member outreach program. Join our virtual phone banks at wisaflcio.org/mobilize to help register new union voters, help voters request and return absentee ballots, learn about early voting options, and educate on our endorsed candidates.

➔JOIN THE UNION MASK BRIGADE: Working people continue to step up and pitch in to get fellow workers virus protection. Volunteer sewers are busy making homemade masks while other brigade members are donating supplies, offering to deliver masks, sharing patterns with friends and family and more. Join today at unionmaskbrigade.org

➔REGISTER TO VOTE, REQUEST ABSENTEE BALLOT:  Labor Day comes just 57 days away from what could be the most historically important election for working people. By electing politicians who will fight for America’s working class and uplift the labor movement, we can keep making progress in the fight for a fair economy and a just society. This November, it’s crucial we get to the ballot box to elect Joe Biden as the next president of the United States. Register to vote and/or request your absentee ballot at myvote.wi.gov.

On Labor Day, we honor and recognize America’s working people and come together to say “Workers First, Vote Union.” In the face of this unprecedented pandemic, it’s important now more than ever to continue to join together as one united labor movement for a workers first recovery with safe workplaces and social, economic, and racial justice for all.

In Solidarity,

Stephanie Bloomingdale, President

Dennis Delie, Secretary-Treasurer

Kenosha, WI September 1, 2020

Photos: Wisconsin Bail Out The People Movement

Hospitality Workers Organization‎Save the $600!

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

We lost our jobs because of the pandemic, now Ron Johnson doesn’t care if we lose our homes, too. He thinks $600 a week in unemployment is more than working families deserve, but is fine with millionaires raking in money while we can’t put food on the table.

So on Thursday, September 10, we’re headed to his office to demand the support we need to survive this crisis.

ACLU of Wisconsin (414) 272-4032

Chicago: Chicago Community Bond Fund

Madison: Freedom Fighters Legal Support

Milwaukee: Milwaukee Freedom Fund

Milwaukee: Milwaukee National Lawyers Guild (414) 273-1040

National Lawyers Guild: National Lawyers Guild or https://www.nlg.org/

https://www.nlg.org/resources/

Justice for Jacob | Community Celebration

40th Street & 28th Avenue, Kenosha, WI – 11 A.M. – 4 P.M.

The family of Jacob Blake and organizers of Saturday’s Justice for Jacob Rally will host a community gathering at the site of Jacob’s shooting. The event aims to support and celebrate the Kenosha community and all of our amazing work to support one another this week. It will include a community clean-up, healing circle, voter registration booth as well as food, music, free haircuts and other services provided by local businesses.

Following Donald Trump’s announcement that he will appear in Kenosha on Tuesday, the family of Jacob Blake encourages supporters to come together to celebrate, support and strengthen the Kenosha community. This community celebration will highlight the contrast between President Trump’s divisive and inflammatory statements and the nonviolent demonstrations held by the Blake family. The event will be a follow-up to Saturday’s #JusticeForJacob march and rally, where thousands of people convened to demand an end to police violence and systemic racism.

The official program will be from 11am-1pm with a press conference at 12pm. However, the activities of the day will continue until 4pm.

#BlackLivesMatter #NoJusticeNoPeace #JusticeforJacob

No Justice No Peace!!! Anti-Trump/ BLM March and Rally

Civic Park, Kenosha, WI – 3:30 – 6:15 P.M.

This is a anti-Trump/BLM protest. Stand with us as we stand for justice for Jacob Blake.

They Ain’t Peaceful Rich Bradley WI BOPM Leaflet 6 20 2020

Michael Grebe

In a 2011 interview, Grebe emphasized the Bradley Foundation’s continued funding of right-wing think tanks and advocacy groups.

“In many respects, being stewards has caused us to continue funding what some of us refer to as the conservative intellectual infrastructure in this country through think tanks, academics and publications,” Grebe said. “We continue to do that. I don’t think as a matter of philosophical orientation, (the foundation) has changed much in that area. We still look for conservatives who are developing ideas in public policy.”

— Michael Grebe, former President and CEO of the Bradley Foundation and Board Member, Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (sourcewatch.org)

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Note: Bradley money helped to fund the eugenics based book “The Bell Curve….” whose authors state Black people are “genetically inferior”

Bradley’s 990 Forms:

Listings of Those who’ve received “grants:”

https://www.bradleyfdn.org/grants/archived-grants

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Bradley Foundation

1400 N Water Street, Suite 300

Milwaukee, WI 53202

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Wisconsin Institute for

Law & Liberty

330 E. Kilbourn Ave, Suite 725

Milwaukee, WI 53202

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Bradley’s program in short is a capitalism with the gloves off approach: Reducing or shredding social safety nets and regulations and attacking unions at every turn all of which has led to what we’re now facing during this COVID-19 pandemic. And of course supporting the repressive forces such as the cops and as necessary for them extra-legal forces. / [https://projects.jsonline.com/news/2017/5/5/hacked-records-show-bradley-foundation-taking-wisconsin-model-national.html

A short list of the right-wing/Wall Street/Pentagon violent full court press austerity in Wisconsin since 2011 (that is now law or instituted in some form ‘legally’)

• Act 10;
• Right-To-Work (for less);
• Elimination of residency rules;
• Increasing funding for the prison-industrial complex;
• The gutting of environmental regulations;
• Attacks on women’s reproductive freedom;
• Bigoted attacks on the LGBTQ community;
• Reduction of Civil Service and Tenure protections;
• Attacked migrants/the undocumented by removing opportunities to obtain drivers licenses, to access worker protections and more;
• Supporting the Pentagon budget and bank bailouts and giving more debt service to finance capital;
• Numerous attacks on Unemployment Insurance, Medicare, Medicaid;
• Wage cuts for public sector workers whereby workers have to pay more of their take home pay for pensions and healthcare;
• Relaxed or eviscerated hundreds of regulatory laws, statutes and codes for corporations and banks in Wisconsin;
• Eviscerated environmental resource protections and  reduced the Department of Natural Resources (also placed science denier functionaries in this state department and others)
• De-funding Planned Parenthood and other health care services for women and LGBTQ people;
• Eliminating or de-funding social safety net programs;
• De-funding and attacking the world renowned University of Wisconsin System and the Wisconsin Technical System;
• Eliminating numerous supports including resource centers for K-12 and higher education students within public education;
• Increasing funding for the police and not for living wage jobs and other direly needed services;
• Massive wage cuts (BILLIONS since 2011) for public sector workers annually as per Act 10 even if a union is “re-certified” that union can only bargain over wages up to the rate of inflation;
• Deepening austerity by de-funding public education and other public services;
• Destroying regulations in the health care industry and elsewhere;
• Billions more to the banks in “debt service” and other austerity mechanisms;
• And much more ….
• Now these right-wingers – in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic no less – claim they care about us the workers and our communities and our small businesses. We know the racist rich only care about one thing: profit! Through these “re-open” recruitment rallies and with people’s rebellions such as those going on in Kenosha, the Wall Street vultures – with the open assistance of the Trump administration – are attempting to consolidate an even deeper right-wing white supremacist base by activating their networks, alliances and politicians such as Scott Walker – and to try and divide white workers from their real class allies. We in the people’s struggle will not let this happen! Venceremos! All power to the people!