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Get fliers, transportation information and more:

http://vdlf.org/articles/index.php?article_id=212

Bail Out The People contingent in Milwaukee's May Day 2011 march.

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Sign the petition:

http://act.presente.org/sign/anastasio/?rd=1&t=4&referring_akid=578.296558._PXwNY

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Department of Justice Main Switchboard – 202-514-2000
Office of the Attorney General Public Comment Line – 202-353-1555

Please call the Department of Justice to ask Eric Holder use his influence to free Bradley Manning, put an end to the brutal practice of solitary confinement, and to protect whistle-blowers.

E-mails to the Department of Justice, including the Attorney General, may be sent to AskDOJ@usdoj.gov.

Bradley Manning spent almost a year in solitary confinement, and it has almost been two years that he is in prison. The trial has yet to begin. This is not justice.

http://www.bradleymanning.org/

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http://www.facebook.com/pages/Justice-for-Rekia-Boyd/262327820523865

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Sign the petition:

http://www.change.org/petitions/rekia-boyd

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Occupy the Hood Chicago Demands Justice for Rekia Boyd!

http://www.occupythehoodchicago.org/2012/04/occupy-hood-chicago-demands-justice-for.html

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Contact: The Office of the Mayor   

On Twitter-Tweet:         @ChicagosMayor 

http://www.facebook.com/events/286803558068622/

April 21-28 in the UWM Union, 2200 E Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI. All films free and begin at 7 pm. See below for film listing and room locations.

See the movie trailers at www.wicuba.org!

4/21–Fireside Lounge: The Sixth Sun: Mayan Uprising in Chiapas, & We Don’t Play Golf Here: The Zapatista movement against neoliberalism, & globalization’s impact on a Mexican community.

4/22: NO FILM – Peace Action’s 35th anniversary dinner. Please join Peace Action to celebrate PA’s 35 years of activism! With special guest Saul Landau. Call 414-964-5158 or visit www.peaceactionwi.org for more info.

4/23–Union Theatre: Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up? Emmy award-winning director Saul Landau presents his latest film, chronicling 50 years of U.S.-Cuba relations through the story of the Cuban 5.

4/24–Union Ballroom: The Shock Doctrine: Based on Naomi Klein’s book, a look at the impact of neoliberal and free market policies first imposed on Latin America during times of “crisis,” then in Russia, occupied Iraq, and now at home.

4/25–Bolton 150: Impunity: In Colombia, the biggest trial against paramilitary armies is abruptly halted when political & economic interests in the paramilitary war are uncovered.

4/26–Bolton B46: Our Brand is Crisis: An inside look at a Bolivian presidential candidate’s campaign, advised by James Carville & associates in 2002 and based on the illusion of “crisis,” which defeated current Bolivian president Evo Morales.

4/27–Bolton 150: Machuca: The relationship among young friends in Chile (one poor, one upper-class) is changed forever when Salvador Allende’s government is overthrown and Pinochet’s terror begins.

4/28–Bolton 150: Ecuador: Rainforest vs. Globalization: President Correa’s “new socialism” fights to balance development and the protection of peoples and the environment against “free-trade.”

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From the United National AntiWar Coalition:

Sunday, May 20, Chicago. SAY NO to the WAR and POVERTY AGENDA. Noon rally at Petrillo Bandshell (corner of Jackson and Columbus), then march to McCormick Place. (people’s Summit on May 12 & 13)

click here to donate to UNAC

Click here for the Facebook UNAC group.

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MEDIA ALERT

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:

Lauren Love, Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, 248-514-2922

Eric Ruder, Coalition Against NATO/G8, 773-398-3020

CHICAGO—The Rev. Jesse Jackson and other community and labor leaders will gather on Thursday, April 19, at 11:15 am on the 2nd floor of City Hall to announce their plans to march in opposition to NATO. The march will take place on Sunday, May 20, which is the first day of the NATO summit, and is being organized by the Coalition Against NATO/G8 War and Poverty Agenda (CANG8).

Rev. Jackson will also announce his plans to speak at CANG8’s People’s Summit at Occupy Chicago’s headquarters on May 12-13, the weekend before the NATO summit.

Standing with Rev. Jackson to announce their support for the march and People’s Summit will be Occupy Chicago; the Chicago Teachers Union; the National Nurses United; and members of the Service Employees International Union.

“Our world has become jilted by war and weapons,” said Rev. Jackson. “There is simply too much violence, too much concentrated wealth and too much poverty. I hope on May 20 there will be a large demonstration with global participation. It’s time we go in a different direction. I am urging us to shift our priorities. This demonstration is designed to appeal to the leaders of the world to choose to depend less on military intervention and more on negotiations to try to heal these societies ravished by poverty and internal strife.”

CANG8 organizers are pleased to be joined in their efforts by many other community and labor leaders in addition to Rev. Jackson. “This march will take place at a crucial moment in NATO’s war on Afghanistan as a majority of Americans have now turned against further U.S. involvement there,” said Joe Iosbaker, a CANG8 organizer. “This is a historic convergence of the antiwar and civil rights movements to demand that the incredible sums of money being spent to wage war abroad be redirected to address pressing social needs at home.”

Many other allies are also gearing up to mobilize their constituents for the May 12-13 People’s Summit (peoplessummitchicago.org) and the May 20 mass march (cang8.org) from Grant Park’s Petrillo Music Shell to McCormick Place where NATO and the heads of state of some 50 countries will be meeting.

“Occupy Chicago is proud to support the May 20 march being organized by the Coalition Against NATO/G8,” said Rachael Perrotta, a member of Occupy Chicago’s press team. “We expect Occupiers to stream in from across the country to join us in stopping the NATO war machine.” Occupy Chicago is also hosting the People’s Summit (peoplessummitchicago.org) on May 12-13 at its offices at 500 W Cermak Rd. one week prior to the NATO summit.

Many nurses from the Chicago area and beyond have been active in the Occupy movement and in challenging budgets that prioritize war spending over public health. “As an ER nurse, I see the suffering of the 99 percent firsthand,” said Dennis Kosuth, a registered nurse at Stroger Cook County Hospital. “The global 1 percent and the G8 are calling for austerity cuts to vital social services while draining trillions of our tax dollars into the NATO war machine. Our tax dollars should be going into our public schools, healthcare services, libraries, public transportation—back to the people of Main Street. Registered Nurses of the National Nurses United will be marching alongside CANG8 this May to protest NATO and to call for a Robin Hood Tax on the G8 global 1 percent.”

Christine Boardman is the president of Service Employees International Union Local 73, which represents 25,000 public employees in Illinois and Indiana, and she is urging union members and working people to attend the protest in large numbers. “G8 policies have supported so-called ‘free trade agreements,’ which have caused the loss of millions of jobs,” said Boardman. “Instead of funding for war and supporting ‘free trade’ for corporations, which means ‘slave trade’ for workers, it must become our national priority to keep good jobs here and to fund services for our communities.”

In addition to SEIU Local 73, several other unions have also endorsed the May 20 protest, including the Chicago Teachers Union, National Nurses United, SEIU Healthcare Illinois and Indiana, United Electrical Western Region and University of Illinois-Chicago Graduate Employees Organization.

Other noted speakers at the May 20 march and the People’s Summit include Malalai Joya, former Afghan member of Parliament and internationally renowned opponent of NATO’s occupation of Afghanistan; Reiner Braun, International Coordinating Committee of the European No to NATO network; Kathy Kelly, Voices for Creative Nonviolence; Malik Mujahid, Muslim Peace Coalition; Medea Benjamin, Code Pink; and Col. Ann Wright (ret.), antiwar activist.

Rev. Jackson marching with postal workers in Detroit August 2010.

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