Clinica Legal

Atención: Continuamos ofreciendo nuestro servicio de consultas legales los sábados, dirigido por abogados comunitarios, cada Sábado 9am-11am.

**El servicio se realizará por teléfono hasta que abran las oficinas de Voces.

Las consultas son para los derechos de los trabajadores y las familias, y sobre inmigración.

Llame a Angel al 414-643-1620 para obtener más información y hacer una cita.
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Attention: Voces will continue to offer Saturday legal clinic services, thanks to our community attorneys, every Saturday from 9am-11am.

**Services will be via phone until the Voces’ offices re-open.

Consultations range from workers and family rights to immigration.

Call Angel and 414-643-1620 for more info and to make an appointment.

Milwaukee Car Protest: Cancel the Rent! Decarcerate Now!

On April 25th, people in over 100 cities and towns are planning care protests to demand the cancellation of rent and mortgage payments, the release of inmates from prisons and migrants from detention camps, and healthcare for all!

This car protest will practice SAFE social distancing measures as everybody will remain inside their cars for the duration of the demonstration and people will not share vehicles with others that they have not been in isolation with. It is of the utmost importance to be extremely cautious, but it is also crucial that the working class of Milwaukee turns out to demonstrate the necessity of these measures in order to slow the spread of COVID 19 and safeguard people’s lives.

We will be beginning the protest at the Alliance for Peace Center, 1001 E Keefe Ave and driving for about an hour down to Walker’s Point and back up to the North Side, concluding at the Milwaukee Women’s Correctional Center at 615 W Keefe Ave. A full map will be attached in the comments below.

Please bring signs, banners, flags and decorate your cars to make sure the message is seen and heard! Extra signs will be available at the meeting point.

Questions can be directed to the Party for Socialism and Liberation Milwaukee.

Allow Emergency Medical Aid from Cuba

Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus pandemic and our community’s response. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to keep up.

‘Lenin’ by Mr. Langston Hughes

Lenin walks around the world.

Frontiers cannot bar him.

Neither barracks nor barricades impede.

Nor does barbed wire scar him.

Lenin walks around the world.

Black, brown, and white receive him.

Language is no barrier.

The strangest tongues believe him.

Lenin walks around the world.

The sun sets like a scar.

Between the darkness and the dawn

There rises a red star.

Also: Mayakovsky’s longer poem written on Lenin’s death (1924) and the one by Bertold Brecht.

Statement from the: PRSP Pan-African Revolutionary Socialist Party

Pan-African Revolutionary Socialist Party (PRSP): ‘Corona is the Virus; Capitalism is the Pandemic!’

“Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics, nor the will to solve [society’s] problems.” Fidel Castro

There has been one clear affirmation to come from the recent Covid-19 reality; Corona may be the virus but capitalism is the true pandemic! Essentially, capitalism is an economic system or mode of production in which the means of production (e.g. the factories, tools, equipment, machines, mineral resources, etc.) are owned and controlled by a few, the capitalist class, who live off of the labor (exploitation) of the workers for maximization of capitalist profit.

Covid-19 has highlighted these inequalities as we see the rise in unemployment as the masses struggle day to day to survive. The often paraphrased saying “when the world catches a cold, African people catch the flu” is even more evident today. As the Coronavirus continues to wreak havoc and spread throughout the world, it is African people the world over who are being hit the hardest by it. The simple fact is that African people do not have adequate healthcare; and coupled with pre-existing conditions that result from years of being exploited and oppressed, they are dying faster from the virus than any other group. In Africa, the estimations are dire because the masses lack facilities, the protective equipment, and the proper care to adequately slow Covid-19 down. In the united states’ major cities, the results are the same: Africans and poor people of color are dying at a faster rate because capitalism lacks the moral compass and human morality to provide quality healthcare for all citizens.

The solution is clear– capitalism must be destroyed and replaced by socialism. Socialism is an economic system that implies common ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange. Production will be for use, and not for profit. In a socialist society, the welfare of human beings will be at the forefront of every decision, which will include but not be limited to free quality health care FOR ALL.

However, for African people, the ultimate, because it is the quickest, solution is Pan-Africanism. Pan-Africanism is the total liberation and unification of Africa under an ALL- African Socialist Government. Pan-Africanism must be the primary objective of revolutionaries throughout the world because, when achieved, it will bring about the fulfilment of the aspirations of Africans throughout the world. Let us all join in this fight to kill the pandemic– capitalism!

“Capitalism does not permit an even flow of resources. With this system, a privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That’s the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system.” — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

“There [is] no better unifying symbol for Africans and peoples of African descent everywhere, than the African Revolution – the goal of which is a united Africa under a socialist All-African Union Government and the emancipation of the entire black world. Until Africa is free and politically united, we are without power or status, and can only reach very limited objectives either in Africa or in the USA.” — Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah

PRSP Pan-African Revolutionary Socialist Party

With the Covid pandemic and the resulting economic slow down, thousands of people in our community are now in need of services for the first time. Many people that already relied on some of these critical services, now have higher needs.

The Labor Community is stepping up! We’re going to help package food, deliver meals, make wellness check-ins, and whatever else our community needs!

Sign-up here to join the Labor Volunteer Committee and we’ll work together to find out what best we can do to help our community.

Listen to the podcast in full here!

Members of the Transport Workers Union are dying at an alarming rate. TWU members deemed essential throughout this pandemic are transporting nurses, doctors and others needed on the front lines. Members continue working on and around airplanes and on Amtrak and are at risk of getting the coronavirus daily. In this podcast, we hear from a flight attendant, an Amtrak service worker, a local leader of the subway division in New York City – and John Samuelsen, the international president of the Transport Workers Union representing more than 150,000 members.

Please share this podcast with your friends. With so many people at home now, looking for media to consume, let’s get the voice of working people out there!