Can we count on you to contact your alderperson? Sample script here: bit.ly/Defund12mke. One last ask, can we also count on you to join us for a phonebank to ask other residents to contact their alders?#share#LiberateMKE#DefendBlackLives
Harvard College Palestine Solidarity Committee
Join us for an introduction to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict with Asma Jaber co-hosted by Harvard PSC and SJP Marquette. We will cover some history and current issues and answer any questions you have.Event happening here: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/95244397214Co-sponsors:
Progressive Asian American Advocacy at Harvard College (TAPAS)
Society of Arab Students
Harvard Islamic Society
South Asian Association
Act on a Dream
Latinas Unidas
Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine
Jewish Coalition for Peace
Phillips Brooks House Association
Loyola Chicago SJP
“You show me a capitalist, and I’ll show you a bloodsucker.” — Malcolm X
List of some of the top right-wing think tanks, capitalist business associations, companies and individual capitalists in Wisconsin:
Americans For Prosperity (Koch Funded): https://americansforprosperity.org/
American Legislative Exchange Council: https://www.alec.org/
Badger Institute: https://www.badgerinstitute.org/BI.htm
Bradley Foundation: https://www.bradleyfdn.org/people
Ginseng Board of Wisconsin: http://www.ginsengboard.com/
Greater Milwaukee Foundation: https://www.greatermilwaukeefoundation.org/
John Menard (Menard’s)
Liz and Richard “Dick” Uihlein (ULINE COMPANY): https://nyti.ms/3iRoZSx
Manpower: https://www.manpower.com/ManpowerUSA/home
Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce: https://www.mmac.org/
Tavern League of Wisconsin: https://www.tlw.org/
Waukesha City Chamber of Commerce: https://www.waukeshaworks.com/
Waukesha County Business Alliance: https://www.waukesha.org/
Wisconsin Bankers Association: https://www.wisbank.com/
Wisconsin Builders Association: https://www.wisbuild.org/
Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association: https://www.wischeesemakersassn.org/
Wisconsin Correctional Association: http://www.wcatoday.com/
Wisconsin Dairy Business Association: https://www.dairyforward.com/
Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty: https://www.will-law.org/
Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce (WMC) representing over 3,800 member companies, spanning all sectors of the capitalist economy: https://www.wmc.org/
Wisconsin Newspaper Association: https://wnanews.com/
Wisconsin Paper Council: https://www.wipaper.org/
Wisconsin State Cranberry’s Association: http://www.wiscran.org/
Wisconsin Transportation Builders Association: https://www.wtba.org/
March for Reparations for African People.
Oct. 17. Actions will take place in several cities.
For information: https://uhurusolidarity.org/march/
South Seattle Emerald, October 12, 2020- While the rate of infections and deaths due to COVID-19 continue to grow in the United States, with even the President and his wife now becoming infected, the small country of Cuba is making remarkable strides in combating the virus at home as well as throughout the world. For those reasons, the Washington State Labor Council (WSLC) and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Labor Council (MLK Labor) passed resolutions calling for US-Cuba collaboration in the fight against COVID-19.
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Prensa Latina, October 9, 2020- The Norwegian Nobel Institute accepted to include from Chile the nomination of Cuba’s Henry Reeve Medical Contingent for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize.
The proposal was presented to the Norwegian entity by prominent Chilean academic Haroldo Quinteros, Professor Emeritus of Social Sciences, representing the Coordinating Committee of Solidarity with Cuba and the Celia Sanchez Group, from Iquique city, organizations belonging to the Chilean Movement of Solidarity with Cuba.
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https://www.struggle-la-lucha.org/2020/01/24/mike-pences-kkk-version-of-history/
January 24, 2020 Stephen Millies
Vice President Mike Pence penned a poisonous piece on impeachment in the Jan. 17 Wall Street Journal. His article revives white supremacist myths about the Reconstruction period following the U.S. Civil War.
The pseudo-historical op-ed seeks to defend Trump by whitewashing the super racist president, Andrew Johnson, who was impeached in 1868. It uses “Profiles in Courage,” written by Democrat John F. Kennedy, to do so.
Republican Sen. Edmund Ross is eulogized in Kennedy’s book for casting the deciding vote that kept Johnson in the White House. Pence quotes from it to urge Democratic senators not to convict Trump.
Trump’s sidekick describes Johnson, who succeeded the assassinated Abraham Lincoln, as having “quickly run afoul of the Republicans in Congress who wished to impose a far harsher penalty on the former Confederacy.”
What’s the real story? Andrew Johnson wanted to keep African Americans from voting. He did nothing as thousands of Black people were killed by Ku Klux Klan terror.
Johnson declared that “this is a country for white men, and by God, as long as I am President, it shall be a government for white men.” What a role model for Trump!
Frederick Douglass knew what Johnson was about. Douglass said to a friend at Lincoln’s second inauguration, “Whatever Andrew Johnson may be, he is no friend of our race.”
Pence is retelling the Klan version of history that vilified both Black and white fighters for human rights. These lies were taught in U.S. classrooms for a century until the Black liberation struggle flushed them out of most public schools.
The truth can be found in the monumental classic by W.E.B. DuBois, “Black Reconstruction in America…”
Learn about current issues including: *the difficulties of everyday life in terms of food and basic necessities in Cuba *the impact of the blockade on Cuba *the role of Cuban medical personnel around the world *the need for solidarity of churches in Cuba and the United States
Translation will be provided from Spanish to English and English to Spanish.
Words of Welcome:Antonio Santana, President, Cuban Council of Churches and James Winkler, President of the National Council of Churches USA.
Participants include:Speakers from the United States introduced by Jim Winkler, National Council of Churches *Rep. Jim McGovern of Massachusetts *Geoff Thale of the Washington Office on Latin America
Speakers from the Cuban Council of Churches introduced by Rev. Joel Dopico, Exec Secretary of the Cuban Council of Churches *Rev. Dora Arce Velentin, Moderator, Presbyterian Reformed Church in Cuba *Marilyn Pena Perez, Team Coordinator of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center *Rev. Izett Sama Hernandez, Presbyterian Pastor
