Month: April 2022

https://fb.me/e/1Jb7preV5 Event by The Wisconsin Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call For Moral Revival Join us as we recognize Workers’ Memorial Day with a presentation from local PPC member Sonia Kurhajetz on the history and importance of this day, and the need to continue the fight for workers’ rights and strong safety and health protections […]

https://fb.me/e/2y81pJxaj Event by SEIU Healthcare Wisconsin NOTE: This event is for UW Health employees only WHEN: Wednesday, May 4 at 5 pm and 8 pm WHERE: Madison Labor Temple1602 S Park St. Room 201 Let’s all gather together to plan the actions it will take to get UW Health to recognize our union NOW. With […]

April 17, 2022Delcy Rodriguez, NATO, Russia, Venezuela Vice President of Venezuela Delcy Rodríguez gave a speech on “Multilateralism for Peace and Stability” at the Antalya Diplomacy Forum in Turkey last month. The Vice President spoke on NATO’s role in world conflict and made an appeal for dialogue between the warring sides: the United States, Europe, […]

On Monday, 1,600 warehouse workers in Staten Island will vote on whether or not to form the second-ever Amazon union in the United States. In response, the company is using every dirty trick in the book to intimidate workers and undermine the vote. James Dennis Hoff April 24, 2022 https://bit.ly/3vdPivO The Amazon Labor Union (ALU) […]

In 2008, Melissa Lucio was sentenced to death in Texas for the murder of her 2-year old daughter Mariah, who died two days after a tragic fall down a flight of stairs. In shock and grieving the loss of her baby — the youngest of her 12 children at the time — Ms. Lucio was taken […]

About the Wisconsin Juneteenth Weekend Project: Juneteenth is celebrated on June 19th and commemorates the liberation of the last slaves in Texas, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation had abolished slavery in the Confederate States in 1863. Though celebrated around the U.S. for many years, it finally obtained federal holiday status in 2021. A few […]