Finishing the Work: Solidarity March

This Solidarity March is sponsored, planned, and organized by the local pastors of the African American Council of Churches. The purpose of this March is to bring the faith community (All others are welcomed to march as well) together to stand up and speak out against racism, injustice and declare “Black Lives Matter.”

This is not a political March but it is one that will cry out for justice. This march is not because of one singular event but for the many years of oppression African Americans have experienced in this nation.

We will start gathering at 530pm at the corner of University and Park street. Bethel Lutheran Church has agreed to allow us to use their parking lot which is located at 312 Wisconsin Ave, Madison, WI.

We will march through Library Mall, down State Street, and end at the City-County Building. We will stop every 8 minutes and 46 seconds to be reminded of how long that police officer was on the neck of Mr. George Floyd before he murdered him.

We are asking everyone to wear a mask.**** We will try our very best to practice some form of social distancing.

If you desire to drop off cases of water please bring to the starting point or the City-County Building no later than 5 pm Sunday, June 7, 2020.

If you are unable to march we understand. You can meet us at the City-County Building and park your car or find a location where you can sit apart from the crowd. We will have this event streaming on our Facebook page also. More than anything we ask for your prayers.

BLM- Wauwatosa Peaceful Protest.

Route: Meet in the parking lot of Kohl’s on 124th and North Ave.
END: Wauwatosa Police Station.

From the U.S. to Central America: Asylum, deportations & COVID

[español abajo] Join us for a panel discussion on the inhumane and illegal Asylum Cooperative Agreements (ACAs) (also known as safe third country agreements), and deportations in times of COVID-19. The webinar will be in Spanish with simultaneous English interpretation. There will also be English close captions and all registrants will receive a subtitled webinar recording. Please share!

REGISTRATION: bit.ly/webinarACAs

*Please note that there is a 500 person limit in the Zoom account. If you join and the limit has already been reached, please tune into the live stream at www.facebook.com/NISGUA.Guate. The Facebook live stream will be in Spanish without interpretation to English. After the webinar, we will send all registrants a recording with English subtitles.*

Panelists:
Bianka Gabriela Rodriguez, Executive director of COMCAVIS TRANS: Comunicando y Capacitando a Mujeres Trans, El Salvador
Cristina Sebastián, Board member of the Departmental Assembly of Peoples of Huehuetenango (ADH), Guatemala
Daniella Burgi-Palomino, Co-director, Latin America Working Group (LAWG), United States
Silvia Raquec, Director of Migration Program, Asociación Pop No’j, Guatemala
Yolanda González, lawyer, Radio Progreso/ERIC, Honduras

Panel moderated by: Felipe Navarro-Lux, Manager of Regional Initiatives, Center for Gender & Refugee Studies, UC Hastings College of the Law

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Acompáñanos en un panel sobre los inhumanos e ilegales Acuerdos de Cooperación de Asilo (ACA) (también conocidos como los acuerdos de tercer país seguro) y las deportaciones en los tiempos de COVID-19. El evento será en español con interpretación a inglés.

INSCRIPCIÓN: bit.ly/webinarACAs

*Favor de notar que la sala de Zoom tiene una capacidad de 500 personas. Si llegues después de que la sala ya se llenó, favor de sintonizarte a la grabación en vivo en www.facebook.com/NISGUA.Guate. La grabación en vivo de Facebook será en español sin la interpretación a inglés. También habrá subtítulos vivos en inglés y todos las personas inscritas recibirán una grabación subtitulada. ¡Por favor comparte!

Panelistas:
Bianka Gabriela Rodriguez, Directora ejecutiva de COMCAVIS TRANS – Comunicando y Capacitando a Mujeres Trans, El Salvador
Cristina Sebastián, Miembra de la junta directiva de Asamblea Departamental de Pueblos de Huehuetenango (ADH), Guatemala
Daniella Burgi-Palomino, Co-directora, Latin America Working Group (LAWG), Estados Unidos
Silvia Raquec, Directora del Programa de Migración, Asociación Pop No’j, Guatemala
Yolanda González, abogada, Radio Progreso/ERIC, Honduras

Panel moderado por: Felipe Navarro-Luz, Director de iniciativas regionales, Centro de Estudios de Género y Refugiados, UC Hastings

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An excerpt of Paul Robeson’s speech in support of anti-facist forces during the Spanish Civil War.

Transcript: Today, the artist cannot hold himself aloof. Through the destruction in certain countries of the greatest of human’s cultural heritage, through the propagation of false ideas of racial and national superiority – the scientist, the writer, the artist, is challenged. The challenge must be taken up. For this culture, a legacy from our predecessors, is the foundation upon which we build a higher and all-embracing culture. It belongs not only to us, not only to the present generation, it belongs to our posterity, and must be courageously defended.

The forces of reaction have made no distinction between combatants and noncombatants. The beautiful village of Guernica, nestled in the Basque hills, with its blood soaked streets, is proof enough of that. These victims must be given every possible aid. This, common humanity demands.

Shortly before her execution by the British SAS in Gibraltar in 1988 IRA volunteer Mairéad Farrell gives a rare interview with Springhill Community House about the women’s prison struggle in Armagh Gaol.

Anti-Eviction Action at the Milwaukee County Court House

EVENT WILL BE HELD AT THE MILWAUKEE COUNTY COURT HOUSE (901 N 9th St, Milwaukee, WI 53233) MAIN ENTRANCE. THIS IS AN IN PERSON EVENT SO PLEASE WEAR A MASK AND PRACTICE SAFE SOCIAL DISTANCING.

In the midst of the COVID 19 crisis and mass uprisings against police brutality agains black and brown people, Milwaukee landlords have filed eviction notices against hundreds of families, most of them from the black community. It defies any sense of morality or logic to throw people out of their homes in the middle of a public health crisis that has caused over 100,000 deaths and almost 40 million people unemployed. We must resist the predatory behavior of parasitic landlords who act as gatekeepers to affordable housing and contribute nothing of value to society.

The Milwaukee Autonomous Tenants Union will thus be asking for the help of the already mobilized masses to help people resist eviction by providing them with important information that could help them pay rent owed and assist in the formation of a tenants union in their building/area, as well as sitting in on the hearings to show landlords that the community is watching.

We have seen the power of numbers. The power that we have collectively as we take to the streets. Right now, we need to throw that collective power behind the most vulnerable members of our city who are facing imminent homelessness.

We need volunteers to assist in:

-Handing out MATU literature on emergency resources that can help tenants pay rent.

-Distributing information packets on forming a tenants union.

-Going in to the court room as observers during eviction hearings and to make brief reports about the proceedings.

-Bring signs and placards protesting evictions during this economic and public health crisis.

Please contact us if you have questions or are interested in participating. Please also feel free to show up on the day of and find an organizer for an assignment.

Anti-Eviction Action at the Milwaukee County Court House

Voces de la Frontera

Racine, WI, June 5, 2020

Full BBC documentary about the Cuban interventions in the Angolan Civil War and several other African Wars for Independence during the 60’s and 70’s.

Documentário completo em inglês a respeito das intervenções de Cuba na guerra civil Angolana e demais guerras coloniais africanas iniciando nos anos 60.