Month: January 2022

Sign the petition City of Detroit General Fund Retirees have been severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Retirees are among the most vulnerable population due to declining health and income. The death rate of Detroit General Fund Retirees during the pandemic has exceeded expectations by 151%. Inflation for 2021 was at a forty year high […]

January 31 – February 4Black Lives Matter at School is a national coalition organizing for racial justice in education that encourages all educators, students, parents, unions, and community organizations to join our annual week of action during the first week of February each year. Learn more at: https://www.blacklivesmatteratschool.com/ https://weac.org/region/mtea/https://www.facebook.com/MTEAunion/ Families for Justice of Dane County  Contact: […]

It is time to March Forth to Earth Day…..from March 4th to April 22, 2022! Be one of the first to sign on to our massive sign-on letter endorsing the March Forth to Earth Day project. Click here to sign on. Eight consecutive weeks of outdoor-in-person & virtual climate actions across Wisconsin – A call for bold […]

On Jan. 6 the ACOE announced that they would require a “standard individual permit review” and that the public can participate through submitting comments!  But we have to work fast: the public comment period ends on March 7, and we need to get hundreds of comments submitted. Luckily for you, we’ve made it very easy […]

Washington, D.C.: Emergency rally – NO war with Russia, Jan. 27 We are on the brink of a massive war between the US and Russia—two nuclear-armed states. The time to speak out is now!  President Biden has just ordered 8,500 US troops to be on heightened alert for possible deployment to Eastern Europe, as the […]

“…If the public sector is destroyed, or the concept is so diminished that it’s meaningless, then there will be no public education to defend. That’s not to say we should ignore the specific importance of defending public education, but rather to emphasize that the attack is occurring in the context of an attack on the […]

by Linda Ford – January 19, 2022 The media coverage of the hostage-taking at a synagogue in Texas has been predictably hysterical, Islamophobic and inaccurate about Aafia Siddiqui, the apparent political cause of the hostage-taker Malik Faisad Akram.  According to his family in England he has “mental health issues.”  He was “said to have” weapons and explosives.  He was “said […]