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Greek Health Workers March In General Strike Oct. 20
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Occupy Milwaukee Oct. 15 Photos
These photos were taken by Sister Sue Ruggles of the American Federation of Teachers Local 212 at the Oct. 15 Occupy Milwaukee events at Zeidler Park and the 3,000 person march on Chase, Wells Fargo and M&I banks.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/44933821@N04/sets/72157627940016882/
Occupy Milwaukee: “Drop the Charges and Release Austin Thompson!”
UPDATE, Oct. 21. Mr. Thompson is now out of jail. Further details forthcoming.
PDF Of Media Release:
https://wibailoutpeople.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/austin_thompson_media-release_10-20-11.pdf
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Oct. 20, 2011
Contact: Hannah Engber, 608-386-9972
Khalil Coleman, 414-779-4805
Occupy Milwaukee: “Drop the Charges and Release Austin Thompson!”
MILWAUKEE — Occupy Milwaukee organized a nonviolent “Teach In” to protest TARP bailout recipient M&I bank on Oct. 20, 2011 at 12:00pm at 770 N. Water St.
Participants followed a script and left the building when asked. Police targeted Austin Thompson, an African-American organizer who led the Teach In, and arrested him later outside of the bank.
It’s been reported that Mr. Thompson stated to bank tellers that this is a “hostile takeover.” At no point during this demonstration did Mr. Thompson say these words or use any language that could be construed as threatening, hostile, or that would’ve endangered anyone in the bank.
“This is an attempt to criminalize Occupy Milwaukee and all those fighting against the greed and corruption of the banks, corporations, and elected officials” commented Occupy Milwaukee organizer and protest participant Khalil Coleman.
We call on all supporters and concerned individuals to share this and contact the District Attorneys office at 414-278-4646 and demand all charges be dropped against Austin Thompson.
For more information about Occupy Milwaukee, please visit: www.occupymilwaukee.org
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Ms. Consuela Lee, A Public Memorial And Cultural Tribute, Oct. 29, Harlem, NY
Abayomi Azikiwe, PANW Editor, Interviewed on RT Satellite Television: ‘NATO Has Bombed Libya Back to Stone Age’
Greek General Strike Second Day
Million Worker March Supports Occupy Wall Street
Occupy Harlem Mobilization: ‘We stand in solidarity with Occupiers of Wall Street’
SAVE THE DATE
Friday, October 28, 2011
6:30 – 9:30 PM
St. Philip’s Church
204 West 134th Street
(Adam Clayton Powell Blvd), Harlem, NY
A call to Blacks, Latinos, and immigrants to occupy their communities against predatory investors, displacement, privatization and state repression. Let us assert our Dignity! WE MUST DEFEND OUR COMMUNITIES! THIS IS OUR STRUGGLE, THIS IS OUR MOMENT IN HISTORY. THIS IS PEOPLE’S POWER!
We stand in solidarity with all of our brothers and sisters occupying cities, towns and neighborhoods in the United States. We stand in solidarity with poor and working class people across the globe rising up against criminal predatory finance capital that has no regard for humanity, that has no regard for Mother Earth.
Wall Street, the epicenter of international finance capital, began its financial prosperity with slave profiteering firms, JP Morgan, Lehman Brothers, Wachovia Bank and Bank of America. In fact, Wall Street and most of the city’s financial district were built on the burial ground of captured Africans forced into genocidal free labor for centuries, a crime against humanity. The legacy of that crime against humanity manifested today in Jim Crow mass incarceration, a crisis of massive Black unemployment and the greatest loss of wealth for people of color from subprime lending frauds estimated between $164 billion and $213 billion.
Finance capital plutocrats have always controlled the US political system. They threaten and received a $16 trillion bank bailout, the greatest thief of taxpayers’ money in modern US history. And it’s only the tip of the iceberg because the banks have an estimated $700 trillion of worthless derivatives, the BULL in the china shop that might very well bring down Wall Street.
Let us, the 99 percenters, build a united people’s movement of the poor, the working class and the middle class to reign in the one percent. ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE!
Join us for this Occupy Harlem mobilization with guest speakers and the occupy site to be announced.
NO MORE BANK BAILOUTS! NO MORE WARS! WE WANT MONEY FOR JOBS, HOUSING, EDUCATION AND MEDICAL CARE.
Harlem Fightback Against War at Home & Abroad
Telephone: 646-812-5188
Email:harlemfightbackagainstwar@gmail.com
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Occupy Philly People of Color Anti-Curfew Subcommittee opposes Philadelphia curfew law
The Occupy Philly People of Color Anti-Curfew Subcommittee opposes the upcoming Philadelphia curfew law for a variety of reasons, including:
1. We believe that the city has failed to provide safe and healthy structures for youth to learn, play, and thrive – coupled with a poverty rate over 25% in philly, and the highest incarceration rate in the country (which means lots of kids’ parents are locked up – it’s normal that youth are frustrated and creating channels to express their discontent). It’s not the youth’s fault – it’s the city’s fault, and our nation’s fault.
2. We understand that the curfew creates a law in which a parent or child can be imprisoned for 3 months because a teenager might have stayed out too late. We do not believe that incarceration helps children or parents, but rather interferes with their education, family structure, employment, and life opportunities. We do not see imprisonment as a justifiable penalty for staying out too late.
3. We believe that the law is intentionally deceptive – statistics show that, nationally, violence by juveniles has plummeted to a record low. Research studies have shown that there is no evidence that curfews prevent crime and victimization. This is an awful policy that does nothing to solve the problem and causes of youth violence, and will not make communities safer other than the rich/middle class White Communities.
4. We believe that the youth curfew is racist and classist – it’s only implemented and enforced among poor communities of color. Like Stop and Frisk, we believe it will only lead to the detainment and incarceration of poor kids of color and their parents. We have already noted examples in which kids with jobs have been illegally fined and detained for breaking curfew, with little to no opportunity for recourse.
5. We believe that the youth of Philly are the future of Philly. They are the 99%. And they are 100% of the future. They deserve to participate responsibly with others to create democratic change. The curfew limits this possibility.
6. We denounce the state budget, which as slashed funding for education in PA by over $600 million. That money is being used to build 3 new giant prisons in PA. Instead of punishing poor youth of color who have had every obstacle set before them, and instead of funneling them into prisons at alarming rates, the city and federal government should take the money being spent on prisons and spend it on education, healthcare, and services for youth
7. As Occupiers, we believe that the Occupation movement is about the way that both local and national politics exploit the 99% (often in different ways). Racism has always been used to divide the working class in America. We need to challenge racist laws in order build unity among the 99% who are struggling to wake up from an economic nightmare – disproportionately people of color who have been economically disenfranchised since slavery and it’s continued legacy today – in order to create fundamental change and economic justice.
8. We believe that this law poses a threat to undocumented immigrants and adults of color who are escorting minors in the city — by detaining children, this puts adults in direct conflict with police officers. Also, minors can only legally be accompanied by parents/guardians after curfew is over.
9) We believe that all Philadelphian citizens should be able to move freely throughout the city – in limiting the movement of youth, we are also restricting them to the poor and less safe areas of the city. We vehemently oppose this backdoor approach to enforcing a widespread segregation and caging of Philadelphia’s youth, and believe it echo the Black codes and slave codes of America’s history.
10) We believe that the $500 fines and 3 month prison terms for violating curfew levied disproportionately on poor people of color also contribute to the rise of “debtors’ prisons” and drive up the rising costs of incarceration.
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