January 21, 2025
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: 608-512-0510 / wibailoutpeople@gmail.com
MADISON: ‘BLACK FREEDOM STRUGGLE & PALESTINE!’ FORUM FEB. 22, 2025 TO FEATURE INTERNATIONAL SPEAKERS
MADISON, WISCONSIN – An educational forum discussing the historical relationships between the Black Freedom Struggle, Palestine and other people’s liberation struggles internationally, will take place at 2222 S Park Street, Madison, WI from 2-4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025. The event is free and open to the public.
This event will also highlight various people’s struggles including the fight against ICE raids and deportations, student campaigns, union campaigns, community demands for safe and affordable housing, demands for justice for Rashad Nelson, Aaron Willis, Aajayh Ray, Kevin Price and others killed by police and support for the LGBTQIA community and women’s liberation.
Speakers Include:
Karissa Red Bear is a member of the Lakota Sioux Tribe of Pine Ridge, SD and a member of Wisconsin Bail Out The People Movement. Her Lakota heritage influenced her pursuit of justice early on. She attended her first political action in middle school during the Act 10 protests. In high school, she and her peers led a struggle against a transphobic book ban in their school district’s curriculum. Since then she has supported the Black liberation movement, reproductive justice efforts, antifascist demonstrations, among other movements.
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Heba Mohammad is an experienced community & political organizer based in Milwaukee, WI. Her campaign experience includes running for office in 2016 and working on both partisan & non-partisan campaigns at the local and national levels. Heba now organizes with Milwaukee4Palestine, a grassroots organization dedicated to fighting for, & uplifting the voices of Palestinians and oppressed peoples across the world until total liberation for all. Instagram – To contact: milwaukee4palestine@gmail.com.
Kai Rasmussen is a Wisconsin Bail Out The People Movement member and grassroots organizer in Madison, Wisconsin. He first became political in high school after Act 10 and has been active ever since. Kai has been out in the Wisconsin streets for protests for Black Lives Matter, public education, reproductive justice, Palestine, anti-fascism and many more. He most recently served as communications director for the Democratic Socialists of America – Madison from 2022-2023 and served on the executive committee of the Wisconsin Coalition for Justice in Palestine from 2023-2024. As a Japanese-American, Kai wants an end to U.S. imperialism. Get rid of all U.S. military bases in Japan! To contact: wibailoutpeople@gmail.com – @wibopm – wibailoutpeople.org – linktr.ee/wibopm
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Abayomi Azikiwe is a Detroit-based people’s leader, scholar and organizer. Mr. Azikiwe is a frequent correspondent for many international publications including News Ghana.
Mr. Azikiwe has appeared on numerous television and radio networks including Press TV, RT, Al Jazeera, China Global Television Network, BBC, NPR, Radio Netherlands, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, South Africa Radio 786, Belgian Pirate Radio, TVC Nigeria and others.
Mr. Azikiwe has worked as a broadcast journalist for decades and has hosted and co-hosted programs on several radio stations including, WHPR in Highland Park, MI, WDTR in Detroit, WCHB in Detroit, CKLN in Toronto and WDTW in Detroit.
The Detroit-based Moratorium NOW! Coalition was formed in 2007 and does a variety of labor and community work including fighting evictions and foreclosures, supports unions, protests police brutality, opposes the attacks on public education, supports political prisoners, immigrants, women and the LGBTQ community and much more. Mr. Azikiwe, a Co-Founder, is involved in all of the organization’s activities as leader and organizer.
Mr. Azikiwe the Editor of the Pan-African News Wire and is also a past President and Chairperson of the MCHR Michigan Coalition for Human Rights.
Mr. Azikiwe’s Full Biography: https://bit.ly/3EN6VpP
To contact: panafnewswire@gmail.com.
Mr. Azikiwe’s Full Biography: https://bit.ly/3EN6VpP
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Ric Urrutia
Ric Urrutia, Co-Host of We Rise Fighting – Labor Podcast, was born in El Salvador, is a union and community researcher, organizer and artist. He obtained his Master’s of Science Degree in Labor Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and has been doing presentations on how to research information for social struggles since 2000. The main point of his research has been to ‘find the jugulars’ in corporations. The weak underbellies, the soft spots so workers can disrupt business/profits as usual. We Rise Fighting – Labor Podcast prominently features issues and topics related to the Black Freedom Struggle and Palestine. His topic for Feb. 22: “Labor and Palestine.” werisefighting@gmail.com
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