NOTE: Oneida Casino that the short term parking at the airport will be opened up for protesters.
1-3 P.M., Austin Straubel Airport, Green Bay, WI
Please war masks and social distance. Donations of water and snacks would be appreciated.
ALSO STARTING AT 11 A.M.: Stop The Hate Protest-Trump in GB
Anti-Trump protest in Green Bay, WI April 2019 / Photo: WI BOPM
We READY We COMIN For Police Free Schools.
You ready? Cause we ready! You comin? Cause we comin!
Join us on Thursday, Jun 25 at 4 PM at the Capital – State Street side for a #PoliceFreeSchools rally!
Ayyyee. We did this. Y’all did this. The young people who spent hundreds of hours working on this campaign did this.
Thank you to all of you who emailed, called, sent letters and post cards, and supported our young people in so many other ways. Thank you for believing that they deserve safe, equitable, and police feee schools!
Our work isn’t done. We still have to make sure the board actually votes to end the contact with police on Monday. Please show up to our action tomorrow at 4pm at the Capitol (State St. side) and continue to support our young people.
All power to the people!
A virtual space for Queer people of color to hangout! It’s very chill, come meet other lgbtqi folxs. Event happens every week on Wednesday from 6pm-7pm.
Here is the zoom link for tonight
is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: QTI Virtual Hangout
Time: Jun 24, 2020 06:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/3596396614
An 18-year-old Black woman says she was attacked with lighter fluid and flame early Wednesday morning by white men yelling racial slurs. She sustained second- and third-degree burns.
Althea Bernstein works as an EMT while studying to be a paramedic and firefighter. She says she was on her way to her brother’s house at around 1 am Wednesday when she reached a stoplight on Gorham Street near State Street in downtown Madison. She doesn’t remember for sure which intersection it was.
“I was listening to some music at a stoplight and then all of a sudden I heard someone yell the N-word really loud,” she said in an interview Wednesday. “I turned my head to look and somebody’s throwing lighter fluid on me. And then they threw a lighter at me, and my neck caught on fire and I tried to put it out, but I brushed it up onto my face. I got it out and then I just blasted through the red light … I just felt like I needed to get away. So I drove through the red light and just kept driving until I got to my brother and Middleton.”
She said she’s reasonably certain it was four white men who “looked like classic Wisconsin frat boys … Two of them were wearing all black, and then the other two were wearing jeans and a floral shirt,” she said. She said the way they walked made her think they were intoxicated.
She said she was aware that protests had been happening, but wasn’t participating. Protests following the arrest of Yeshua Musa were just winding down at around 1 am Wednesday.
In recent weeks, far-right counter-protesters have attended and disrupted Black Lives Matter protests wearing Hawaiian-style floral shirts.
Bernstein said she was able to drive to her brother’s and back home without significant pain because she was in shock — something she sees in other people regularly.
“I’ve had patients in shock and I know what shock is based on the textbook,” she said. “It’s so incapacitating, you don’t even realize what’s going on. My brain still got me home and my brain still got me to call my mom. I just remember my face was bleeding.”
Bernstein said her mother told her to call their health care provider, and the nurses on the line there told her she should call an ambulance.
“They were just like, ‘Wait a minute. Will you say that again? What’s happening?’ I was like, yeah, I got a little toasted,” she said.
She opted to drive herself to the UW Hospital emergency department rather than call for an ambulance as the nurses had suggested.
“I feel like fire (and) EMS workers make the worst patients,” she said.
Once there, she had to go through a decontamination routine to get the lighter fluid off her skin, as it was continuing to burn her.
“There was this guy and he washed my hair and scrubbed my back. And I was like, ‘Okay, this is not that bad. I’m going to have to come here more often for a shower,’” she said.
Then the painful part began.
“They had to pretty much scrub the skin off, which was extremely painful,” she said. “Burn pain is something I can’t even really describe. I don’t know how to describe it. It was horrible.”
And it’s not over yet — she will have appointments every few days to repeat the procedure, and will eventually need plastic surgery to repair the damage….
Althea Bernstein. Photo supplied.
“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.
Black Lives Matter Across 8 Mile
1-5 P.M., Eight Mile and Dequindre
The purpose of this event is to build unity across Detroit and the suburbs around 8 mile to oppose racism and police brutality.
Join the Black Lives Matter Across 8 Mile Rally, March and Cultural Event
We will be marching from 8 mile and Dequindre to 8 mile and Woodward.
We will not be silent. We will be loud and they will hear us!!
We demand that all police departments change their policies to hold racist cops accountable. We demand the police stop profiling Black people up and down 8 mile.
The incidents of racial profiling must end now in the cities of Warren, Centerline, Ferndale, Hazel Park and Harper Woods. Our goal is to have thousands in the streets making change. Also we are starting a petition for new laws to be put in place.
We will also be with Mother Demand Justice for a successful event.
Mothers Demand Justice!
All mothers were summoned when George Floyd said “Momma. Momma, I’m through,” before he passed.
In response, mothers and families from metro Detroit have called for a March for Justice along 8 Mile Rd. and urge all concerned people to join. 8 Mile Road has been known historically as a line separating the majority Black people of Detroit from the historically white suburbs to the north. Numerous instances of police violence and terror directed towards Black and Brown people have occurred in the Detroit suburbs.
This Tuesday, June 23, the destroyer USS Nitze (DDG 94), belonging to the United States, sailed 12 nautical miles from the Venezuelan sea, a ship that owns Harpoon missiles with a 280 kilometers reach.
According to the US Navy, the ship was doing a “freedom of navigation operation” contesting “an excessive maritime claim” by Venezuela. Without providing any details about such an allegation and in a clear and blatant act of military harassment as part of the US failed regime change operation designed to oust President Nicolas Maduro.
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“The U.S. Navy routinely conducts freedom of navigation operations around the world to preserve the maritime navigation and access rights guaranteed to all nations and vital to the global mobility of U.S. forces,” said Admiral Craig Faller, commander of the Southern Command of the United States.
According to international law the territorial waters of a country extent for 12 miles from the baseline (usually the mean low-water mark) of a coastal state, plus the “contiguous zone” representing 12 additional miles from the same baseline. Additionally, international conventions recognize the concept of “exclusive economic zone” extending from the same baseline up to 200 miles.
Venezuela is a country signatory of the Geneva Convention on Territorial Sea and Contiguous Zone of 1958 but Venezuela rejected the 1982 signing of the Montego Bay Convention or United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea due to territorial disputes with Colombia. In this sense Southcom’s comments can not be understood as a mere manipulation but also as a psyop to heat the already heated tension between Venezuela and the United States.
Featured image: Official U.S. Navy file photo of the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Nitze departs Safaga, Egypt after a port visit in this July 2019 photo. On June 23, 2020, while peacefully operating in the Caribbean Sea, USS Nitze conducted a freedom of navigation operation off the coast of Venezuela. Photo by Will Hardy/U.S. Navy
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Venezuelan official map. You can see clearly here the extension of Venezuelan territorial waters including the exclusive economic zone. Legal to a level that it served to negotiate with the US, due to their occupation of Puerto Rico, a border agreement signed in 1978.
