March 30, 2023 Women In Struggle – Mujeres En Lucha

Proposal to the movement from Women in Struggle – Mujeres en Lucha:

NATIONAL MARCH TO PROTECT TRANS YOUTH
Florida, Autumn 2023

& SPEAKOUT FOR TRANS RIGHTS
Build a People’s Tribunal to put anti-trans bigots on trial

Transgender, nonbinary, gender-nonconforming, and intersex people are under siege. So far this year, more than 400 anti-trans bills have been introduced at the state and national levels. Fourteen states have banned or severely restricted life-saving gender-affirming care for trans youth. Attacks, both legislative and violent, are growing by the day, while national elected officials who claim to support LGBTQ+ community remain silent and do nothing.

We can’t wait for the next election in hopes that things might improve. Measures are being enacted NOW that will do irreparable harm to trans youth and all trans people. The thousands of youth around the country walking out of schools and rallying at state capitols have shown us the way. Now we need to take the movement national. 

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who wants to be president, is one of the most vicious abusers of trans youth and the rights of all people. Behind politicians like DeSantis are rich bosses who profit from divide-and-rule tactics.

Join us to build a broad national coalition in partnership with organizations and communities on the ground in Florida and with allies in the Black Lives and immigrant rights struggles, the women’s movement, educators, labor, the unemployed, and antiwar movements. 

GET READY for the first planning meeting on Zoom in April.
SPREAD THE WORD. Think about what you can do!
ADD YOUR NAME & ORGANIZATION to the list of initiators and endorsers.
REACH OUT to info@womeninstruggle.org for updates and to get involved.

Bigots say get back – we say fight back!

WomeninStruggle.org
Facebook.com/womenmujeresinstruggle

Please watch Sleydo’s video from today, as Gidimt’en Checkpoint is currently being raided by C-IRG. Here is the video: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CqYgvPfKUkH/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

There have been 5 people arrested so far and taken off the territory. 

Please continue to stay tuned to Gidimt’en Checkpoint’s social media as to how to amplify and support. All of their info is posted below.

https://www.facebook.com/wetsuwetenstrong/

https://www.instagram.com/yintah_access/

https://www.yintahaccess.com

3/29/23 – URGENT MEDIA ADVISORY: RCMP C-IRG Raid Wet’suwet’en Village Site, Make 5 Arrests

Videos available at yintahaccess.com

WET’SUWET’EN TERRITORY (Smithers, BC) – This morning, a large force of RCMP C-IRG raided a Gidimt’en village site and arrested five land and water defenders, mostly Indigenous women, including Gidimt’en Chief Woos’ daughter. The raid accompanied a search warrant for theft under $5000 with no clear relation to the Gidimt’en village site.

This large-scale action by the RCMP’s Community Industry Response Group (C-IRG) involved more than a dozen police vehicles and officers drawn from throughout British Columbia. The arrests come just weeks after the Civilian Review and Complaints Commission (CRCC) announced they have “initiated a systemic investigation into the activities and operations of the RCMP “E” Division Community-Industry Response Group (C-IRG).”

In the days leading to this police action, RCMP C-IRG have been found patrolling Wet’suwet’en traplines and cultural use areas, harassing and intimidating Wet’suwet’en members and disrupting constitutionally protected Wet’suwet’en cultural activities. Members of a private security firm hired by Coastal Gaslink pipeline, Forsythe, have also escalated harassment and surveillance efforts against Wet’suwet’en members in recent days.

Both the RCMP’s C-IRG unit and Forsythe are named as defendants in an ongoing lawsuit launched by Wet’suwet’en members, which alleges that police and private security have launched a coordinated campaign of harassment and intimidation in an effort to force Wet’suwet’en people to abandon their unceded territories.

Sleydo’, spokesperson for Gidimt’en Checkpoint, said:

“This harassment and intimidation is exactly the kind of violence designed to drive us from our homelands. The constant threat of violence and criminalization for merely existing on our own lands must have been what our ancestors felt when Indian agents and RCMP were burning us out of our homes as late as the 50s in our area. The colonial project continues at the hands of industry’s private mercenaries–C-IRG”

The arrests come days before Indigenous delegates are set to arrive at Royal Bank of Canada’s Annual General Meeting to oppose expansion of fossil fuels without consent on their territories, including Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs who oppose RBC’s funding of the Coastal Gaslink pipeline.

Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chief Na’Moks offered the following:

“This is harassment, and exactly what Royal Bank of Canada is funding. Ahead of its shareholder meeting next week, RBC continues to fund corporate colonialism, and displace Indigenous peoples from our lands at gunpoint – all for a fracked gas pipeline we cannot afford now or in the future. In the context of the theft of our ancestral land, alleging stolen saws and clothing is outrageous.”

At the time of this media advisory, RCMP remained on site at the Gidimt’en Checkpoint and Tsel Kiy Kwa village site citing a separate warrant.

We are asking all our allies to take actions for their immediate release and the abolishment of C-IRG!

#AbolishCIRG

#AllOutForWedzinKwa

200 E Wells Street, City Hall in Milwaukee, WI – 5 P.M.

As our 24/48 campaign begins to wrap up the FPC will develop and vote on a final policy by the end of April. Now more than ever we need to the Milwaukee community to show out and demand they craft policy for the safety of Milwaukee. We will be holding a press conference at 5:00 pm before regrouping and getting people ready for public comment at 5:30 pm.

RELEASE THE NAMES! RELEASE THE TAPES!

Event: https://fb.me/e/3trFZDHL

Rebel Diaz

Building Unity

Young leaders around the state are uniting to build a youth movement that will show the world what is possible when we unite for peace, justice, a sustainable world and a real democracy.

We are uniting to build power for life-saving change. We are fighting for a livable world where all people can thrive and heal the damage that has been caused by the oppressions of capitalism, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and all forms of oppression that have led to our seeing ourselves as separate.

Join us on the 2nd and 4th Monday’s of the month via zoom.

https://zoom.us/j/99245031795
Meeting ID: 992 4503 1795
Any Phone: +13126266799,,99245031795# US (Chicago)

From: Wisdom Wisconsin

On April 27, 2023 we will hold our WISDOM Madison Action Day. The day itself will be exciting.  Hundreds of us will gather to hear from faith leaders, from members of our organizations, and from people who are impacted by the justice issues we work on.  We’ll walk together to the State Capitol where we will have a rally on the steps.  Then, we will go to speak with the people who represent us in the state legislature, to let them hear our priorities. We need everyone to register for Madison Action Day as soon as possible.

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Souls to the Polls

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“In the face of urgent issues such as poverty, housing, health care, education, police brutality, and hate crimes against the marginalized communities, the fact that the trans/non-binary communities and the war concerning gender identity are being singled out as ‘the number one problem’ by right-wing politicians demonstrates to us that we are being used to distract people from the most important issues at hand. 

“That is why we are calling for Trans Day of Vengeance. Vengeance means fighting back with vehemence. It is our battle cry to declare to the world that we the transgender/non-binary communities will neither be silenced nor eradicated. And we are calling to our allies, members of other marginalized communities to make themselves known and to fight with us.”

March 31, 2023 Lallan Schoenstein

Report from: https://www.struggle-la-lucha.org/

International Transport Workers Union General Secretary Stephen Cotton wrote a letter of support for “the release of Mumia Abu-Jamal” to Judge Lucretia Clemons of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County on March 27 in London.

Cotton’s letter read: “I am writing in support of Mumia Abu-Jamal’s petition for a new trial based on the discovery of previously undisclosed material relating to his trial in 1982. Alongside our affiliates National Mine Workers Union of South Africa (NUMSA) and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), the ITWU wishes to add its voice to the call for Abu-Jamal’s case to receive the fair hearing and true justice that has so far eluded him.

“The evidence found in 2018 indicates, at the very least, misconduct by the prosecution, and this discovery is on top of a damning assessment of the original trial by Amnesty International in 2000, whose report determined that “numerous aspects of this case clearly failed to meet minimum international standards safeguarding the fairness of legal proceedings. Amnesty International, therefore, believes that the interests of justice would best be served by the granting of a new trial to Mumia Abu-Jamal.”

“It is our collective and strongly held belief that the 2018 discovery shows the prosecution withheld significant material evidence and suggests it allowed racial bias to influence the jury selection. It is, therefore, crucial for the integrity of the Philadelphia County Court System that Mumia Abu-Jamal be granted a new trial, and we trust in your Honour’s own integrity and sense of justice that this historic wrong will be rectified.”

Widespread vigilance on Mumia’s case is being observed around the globe, while Judge Clemons’s decision stalls in indecision. Mumia was on death row until international outrage brought about a change in the sentence. 

U.S. political prisoner Abu-Jamal has suffered 42 years of racist imprisonment. In all that time, the courageous journalist known as “the voice of the voiceless” has never been silent. New letters of support from around the world flood the Philadelphia court – voices calling for Mumia’s freedom.