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Rainbow of Speakers from Across North America Scheduled to Speak at Manitowoc MLK Freedom School ‘All Labor Has Dignity!’ Event September 23, 2021

From: MLK Day Manitowoc We’re happy to announce we have quite the lineup for our All Labor Has Dignity! (Si Se Puede!, Union, Yes!, No Borders in the Workers’ Struggle!) September 23, 2021 program: Pastor Matthew Sauer (Manitowoc, First Presbyterian Church), Sister Amirah Franzen (MLK Day Manitowoc), Brother Andre Walton (Executive Director, Our Wisconsin Revolution, […]

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Unnatural Disasters: Hurricane Ida, Western Wildfires and Carnegie’s Johnstown Flood

By Chris Fry 1889 was a long time ago, 132 years to be precise, spanning many generations. Yet the terrible Johnstown Pennsylvania flood of that year and the climate-change spawned firestorms in the West and the deadly hurricanes this year, particularly Hurricane Ida, link these disasters to a common source. All of these can be […]

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Manitowoc, September 23, 2021: MLK Freedom School, ALL LABOR HAS DIGNITY! (SI SE PUEDE!, UNION, YES!, NO BORDERS IN THE WORKERS’ STRUGGLE!)

Livestreamed at 6 P.M. Central 9/23/21 from: https://www.facebook.com/MLKDayManitowoc

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Milwaukee, September 20, 2021: Voces de la Frontera Press Conference, Response to Parliamentarian Ruling

Immigrants and Allies Demand Democrats Deliver on Citizenship After Parliamentarian Ruling Over 100 Wisconsin Immigrant Essential Workers, Dreamers, Allies Hold Rally in Milwaukee Before Departing to D.C. for National Mobilization (MILWAUKEE, WI) – On Sunday evening the Senate Parliamentarian issued an opinion excluding a pathway to citizenship for essential workers, farmworkers, Dreamers and TPS recipients […]

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#TeachTheTruthWisconsin – a Week of Action for Racial Equity October 10-16, 2021

Have you picked a site of significance to uplift stories of racial justice in WI? First Unitarian Society of Madison; Interfaith Peace Working Group; Lutheran Office for Public Policy in Wisconsin; Wisconsin Council of Churches; Wisconsin Faith Voices for Justice, WISDOM; MICAH; MOSES; and Wisconsin Network for Peace, Justice, and Sustainability are encouraging Wisconsinites to select a site in your town or city that symbolizes […]

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More Economic Hardship as Biden and Congress Abandon Post-COVID Unemployed and Renters

Thirty-five million workers lost their COVID-19 unemployment benefits on Labor Day, September 6, and neither Congress nor the Biden administration seem prepared to do anything about it. As Common Dreams writes: “Despite the ongoing threat posed by the highly transmissible Delta variant, the White House and Democratic lawmakers have provided no indication that they plan […]

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Since 9/11 US Has Spent 21 Trillion on Militarism at Home and Abroad

Common Dreams reports: “According to State of Insecurity: The Cost of Militarization Since 9/11, a report released Wednesday by the National Priorities Project, the U.S. government’s so-called “War on Terror” has “remade the U.S. into a more militarized actor both around the world and at home” by pouring vast resources into the Pentagon, federal law enforcement, […]