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http://www.facebook.com/events/131093293674113/

Jan. 21 Flyer (these are 1/2 sheet flyers so when printing out just cut in half):

https://wibailoutpeople.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/l_dowell_jan-_21_milwaukee_flyer.pdf

Ms. LeiLani Dowell

Ms. LeiLani Dowell, a leader of Workers World Party and Managing Editor of Workers World newspaper, will be speaking on the subject of “The Global Capitalist Economic Crisis: What It Will Take To Fight It.” Topics discussed will include the 2011 people’s uprising in the Middle East and Wisconsin, the Occupy Wall Street movement, the immigrant rights & LGBTQ people’s struggles, the need to oppose poverty, racism and war & the international fight to build socialism.

Saturday, Jan. 21, 10:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Center Street Library, Milwaukee

2727 W. Fondulac Avenue, Milwaukee WI 53210

MS. DOWELL’S BIOGRAPHY:

www.workers.org
www.workersworld.net
milwaukee@workers.org

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From Marty Beil, president of the Wisconsin State Employees Union-AFSCME:

Late this morning (01/05) Ron McAllister, president of Local 6(Lincoln Hills School) and Council Executive Board member was escorted out of the institution because he refused to take off his AFSCME shirt. The superintendant ordered that he go home w/o pay. All of this occurred after the Administration of LHS ordered that the Union Bulletin Boards be removed and management went through his office taking AFSCME signs and copies of the local agreement. Juvenile Corrections has no dress or uniform code except that shirts can not have drug, alcohol or sexual messages.

It would appear that DOC wants to try and intimidate employees who don’t cave to their anti worker/anti union antics. Well I believe they picked the wrong person and the wrong place. All of us need to stand up and outwardly send a message that we aren’t going to put up with this kind of treatment. On Monday, January 9 there will be an picket line set up at the entrance to Lincoln Hills School, W4380 Copper Lake Road, Irma, Wisconsin, at twelve o clock ,noon. We would encourage all of you and others to join us Monday at Lincoln Hills and stand behind Brother McAllister.

Some of you may want to send a message of concern to the Superintendant there. His name is Paul Westerhaus and his e-mail is paul.westerhaus@wisconsin.gov  . It’s interesting that all of these managers want to become little Scott Walkers. I guess that’s what merit pay is all about. That is unacceptable and we need to stand up. Any questions please contact me or Troy Bauch tbauch@wseu-24.org .

Monday, January 9

Lincoln Hills School

W4380 Copper Lake Road

Irma, Wisconsin

Noon!

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https://wibailoutpeople.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/flier-l10-support-l21-final.pdf

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http://www.occupyappleton.org/

http://www.facebook.com/OccupyAppleton

Teach-in about foreclosure defense

Monday, Jan. 16 7-8:30 p.m.

Appleton, WI Public Library

225 N. Oneida Street, Appleton, WI

Lower level conference room

NOTE: A representative from WI BOPM will be speaking a this event.

FLYER: https://wibailoutpeople.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/occupy_appleton_foreclosure_mtg_1-16-2011.png

Occupy Appleton protest at Chase Bank, Appleton, WI October 2011.

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On Monday, January 9 at 3 pm, the Occupy Coalition, which includes Occupy the Hood, Occupy Milwaukee, Occupy Riverwest, and several other groups will be joining forces in effort to demand an end to the foreclosure crisis and joblessness, and to improve the surrounding communities. The coalition will be gathering to clean up trash on 20th street, which has been neglected of basic public services for a long time. Following, they will gather outside of foreclosed properties for a press conference at the intersection of 20th and Meinecke, where they have identified over 25 foreclosed and abandoned properties in the immediate area.

With 25 million people unemployed or underemployed nationwide and resulting foreclosures continuing at unprecedented rates, organizers state that they need to take action to demand an end to the crisis.

Muhammad Mahdi, who is running for Supervisor in the 5th district states, “Unemployment leads to foreclosure/abandoned and dilapitated houses, which invites crime and trash. Jobs are a necessity and housing is a human right!”

Organizers also point out the seriousness of the crisis in Milwaukee.

Khalil Coleman explains, “In the City of Milwaukee for the past 5 years or so, we have been listed in the top ten poorest cities in the Nation and we have seen some of the highest unemployment rates in the country, especially within the African-American and Latino communities. African-American unemployment in Milwaukee is nearly 70 percent. In 2009, poverty rose 27 percent according to the 2010 census, placing Milwaukee as fourth poorest city in the nation, with 4 in 10 children living in poverty. This is unacceptable.”

The coalition has a series of actions planned to tackle the issues that Milwaukee residents are facing and they state that they are willing to do what it takes to put an end to this crisis for the 99% and the attack on the most disenfranchised people.

“Take The Hood Back” Kick Off Campaign

Muhammad Mahdi for County Supervisor 5th District

Jan. 7, 2012 at Washington Park Library, 2121 N. Sherman Blvd. (and Lisbon)

Milwaukee, WI

2 p.m.

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Occupy / “Take The Hood Back” Housing Initiative

Community Press Conference

Monday, Jan. 9, 2012 on the corner of 20th and Meinecke, Milwaukee, WI

3 p.m.

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For more information: mkeoccupythehood@gmail.com / 414-779-4805

http://www.facebook.com/events/203655116385033/

http://www.facebook.com/pages/OccupytheHoodMKE/268550996522816

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Occupy-Milwaukee/145292382232714

http://www.facebook.com/OccupyRiverwest

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FACEBOOK EVENT: http://www.facebook.com/events/107023426085123/

FEB. 25 FLYER: https://wibailoutpeople.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/j_goldberg_wi_bopm_feb-_25-2012.pdf

Saturday, Feb. 25, 12:30-3:30 p.m.

Center Street Library, 2727 W. Fondulac Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53210

Wisconsin is suffering our worst housing crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Everyone in Wisconsin is being affected by the foreclosure crisis. Thousands are facing eviction and entire communities are being decimated by abandoned and often vandalized homes which drive down property values. The worst effects of the foreclosure epidemic are in the Black and Latino/a communities and especially women and children.

Jerry Goldberg, a Detroit People’s Attorney and leader of the Moratorium Now Coalition, will speak at this meeting about how the banks-in complicity with the federal government-are responsible for the foreclosure epidemic. He will also speak on the immediate demand for a federal moratorium on foreclosures. A moratorium would allow a homeowner facing foreclosure to go to court for an automatic stay to delay the sheriff’s sale. The court would set a reasonable repayment plan based in part on the borrower’s income and ability to pay. The moratorium law would be in effect for a period determined by the people, meaning that anyone in foreclosure at the time the law is enacted, or is placed in foreclosure during that period, could take advantage of the moratorium. Goldberg will also speak on the demand for a moratorium on ‘debt service’ to the banks.

The jobs crisis (unemployment in Milwaukee’s Black community is over 50 percent) will also be addressed with the demand of a federal jobs program based on the model of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the 1930’s.

There will be other speakers from the Occupy Wall Street movement in Wisconsin and other progressive organizations including organized labor.

Bail Out The People Not The Banks!
Moratorium on Foreclosures & Evictions Now!
Federal Jobs Program Now!
Make The Banks Pay!

For more information: www.wibailoutpeople.org / wibailoutpeople@gmail.com

Moratorium Now: www.moratorium-mi.org

Jerry Goldberg (with microphone) speaking at a protest at Chase Bank in Detroit during the United States Social Forum June 2010.

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http://www.thecuban5.org/wordpress/2012/01/04/the-5th-of-january-for-the-cuban-5/

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http://couragetoresist.org/

Hundreds march on Fort Meade in solidarity with Bradley Manning Dec. 17, 2011.

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