People’s Climate Coalition 3rd Court Date
951 N James Lovell Street, Milwaukee – 8:30 A.M.
The Milwaukee Police Department has magically rediscovered all of the male sit-in participants tickets from December 6th’s climate strike. They originally “lost” the tickets in the system.
This will be the third appearance at the Milwaukee Municipal Court that PCC will have to make.
~ Art In Protest ~ “The People’s Holiday” Bonus Checkpoint
The People’s Holiday – BONUS CHECKPOINT ALERT !!!
– Art In Protest –
Pop-up sculpture & sign art park at Kadish Park from Fri 7pm – Sat 7pm of the Riverwest 24!
You can do it!!
Bring supplies! Bright paint! cardboard plywood – sign & mural making materials, templates! Bike flags!!
Covid-senstive art build packs will be available to groups for make & take signs or for the sculpture installations. Safety yes.
UV spray painted sculptures built at Kadish Park hill by Friday night will be lit with solar powered LED lights!
Prizes will be awarded to all art makers builders & volunteers ~
Sculptures, plywood murals & signs should be spread around town! Pick them up around typical race finish time Saturday 6-7pm & volunteers will be needed from 7-8pm to Leave No Trace @ Kadish Park.
Black Lives Matter.
Cycling community, please listen, activate & make change happen.
The Black is Beautiful ride was a wonderful celebration of Milwaukee cyclists. Thank you to the organizers – please coordinate more community rides!
This would also be a fantastic spot for a pop-up RW24-style dance party so any sound systems and DJs are most welcome.
Lots of amazing professional artists creating BLM posters & murals & stickers – a freeform art fair may allow us to support these artists directly?
Does anyone have a map of the RW street art installations? Maybe a fun bonus lap opportunity?
Love Milwaukee actively
Ride Bikes
Wear a mask
Don’t be a Jerk
note: the ~ Art In Protest ~ Bonus RW24-style Checkpoint has not been sanctioned or approved by the Riverwest24 organizing committee. I did not even ask them for permission. Please respect the race, keep friends healthy, and stop at stop signs.
Nationwide Kneel for 9 & Self-led Prairie Prayer/Meditation Walk
Join us and others nationwide as we Kneel for Nine minutes. Then, take a self-guided tour through our prairie. Quotes and scripture will be placed throughout the one-way walking path to guide your prayer/meditation.
Masks and social distancing required.
Schedule:
2:15p gather
2:30 Nationwide Kneel for Nine
2:40 Closing
2:45 Self-guided tours begin
Note: The building will not be open for entry so please plan accordingly and utilize the restroom prior to arriving.
If you feel sick, please join us in kneeling at 2:30p at home and join our Facebook live stream.
27th & Oklahoma
“Stand for Justice”
Let’s ALL exercise our right to support Black Lives Matter in ways both large and small. Come “Stand” with us rain or shine every Wednesday and Saturday from 12:00-1:30 p.m. on 27th & Oklahoma. Bring your own sign and chair if you like.
This small protest is perfect for folks like me who are unable to attend long protests and rallies. Remember: EVERYTHING WE DO MATTERS.
Justice for Isaiah Tucker! We Demand Police Accountability!
Join us on the anniversary of Isaiah Tucker’s murder to demand the firing of Oshkosh Police Department’s Officer Aaron Achterberg and those involved in denying Isaiah medical care after he was shot. In the early morning of July 31st, 2017 OPD was responding to a domestic complaint after an argument and Isaiah fled and backed out of the driveway with the car him and his girlfriend often shared only to be fired at 11 times, 2 of them fatally wounding Isaiah, who was found crashed at another scene close by and had succumbed to his wounds.
Isaiah’s blood soaked items were returned to his mother after Oshkosh Police Department lied in their report that Isaiah had used his car to try and run Officer Achterberg over this forcing him to “fear for his life” and fire multiple shots when this was later proven to be false by the dash cam footage. By the time the footage had been shown there was little community interest because, like the thousands of victims of police brutality, his past criminal record was used to tarnish his name and justify the blatant disregard for safety and dignity of Isaiah’s and the other innocent people in surrounding homes. This happens too often and Isaiah deserves justice!
We demand that officers be held accountable and not by their superiors! We demand that the community have a direct say in and control ofwho we allow to keep us safe, how they’re trained, if they need to be fired, and what happens when they take a life like Isaiah’s (or others who need help NOT harm) We demand that Isaiah’s case be reopened so we can hold his killers accountable! #Justice4Isaiah
Fire the police! Indict the police! Convict the police!
When he was running for Governor, then candidate-Evers made a lot of promises to #CLOSEmsdf partner organizations. He vowed to cut Wisconsin’s prison population in half. He promised to depopulate and close Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility as soon as possible.
In his first budget, Governor Evers actually proposed measures to increase the capacity of Wisconsin’s prisons. In his nearly two years as Governor, the state’s prison population has barely changed.
While some changes require a cooperative legislature, there are many changes the Governor can make with or without the State Senate or State Assembly. Twenty percent of people in Wisconsin’s prisons are there because of conviction-less sentencing or what some people refer to as crimeless revocations. This process is controlled by the Department of Corrections and the Department of Administration, who report directly to the Governor. In addition, the Governor has very broad powers to commute sentences.
Nine candidates for state senate seats in Madison will be addressing this topic as well as several other crucial issues at the MOSES/EXPO State Senate Candidate Forum on Tuesday, July 28th at 6 pm. Several directly impacted leaders will be joining this important conversation. Investing in black and brown communities and depopulating and closing prisons will be among the issues addressed at this forum.
This will be a virtual forum. Please join us for this crucial discussion.
Visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mosesexpo-state-senate-candidate-forum-tickets-110511605186 for more information and to RSVP.
BLM Elijah McClain Protest (Appleton)
This Will be a Protest/March for Elijah McClain and Others. It will be held at Houdini Plaza in Appleton, WI at 2 pm on July 26, 2020. We will be demanding justice and reform! Please wear masks. We will Stand and march in solidarity against systematic racism and police brutality so please join us!
There needs to be emergency national actions by organized labor/AFL-CIO and community supporters to defend the postal service! This is a racist, anti-women, anti-LGBTQ worker, union busting attack! No privatization! Union, Yes! Hands off the public postal service! Save rural delivery! Preserve life-saving deliveries during the Covid-19 pandemic! Union-Community-Student “Hands Off the Public Postal Service!” informational picket lines and brigades everywhere! Petitions and online educational events about the public postal service and what the workers do! (Remember when they said that kind of racist union busting austerity will never happen in Wisconsin?)
More information: U.S. Mail Not For Sale
