Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association
It’s School Social Worker Week! Social workers are vital resources for parents, students, and school staff. They identify needs that impact learning. Wisconsin must fund ratios at the nationally recommended ratios!
#SSWWeek2020 #publicschools #publicEd
White supremacist vigilante groups have put a call out for people to use violence against blockades throughout the country today. If there is an ongoing blockade or action in your area numbers are needed to keep people safe.
Two Sons of Oden members approached the BC legislature yesterday evening and then surrounded it with trucks honking their horns. Bomb threats have also been made against the Unist’ot’en and Tyendinaga Mohawks.
The Indigenous youth occupying the BC legislature have put a call out for people to stand with them throughout the day today.
While this is incredibly upsetting people are not standing down and new actions are happening every day. It is imperative that people show up and stand in solidarity with the indigenous people on the front lines making sacrifices and standing in harms way for what is right.
Three incredible videos were released yesterday that illustrate the amazing power of this movement:
If you can, take 15 minutes to pause your day and watch them all in full. This moment is historic, and has only just begun.
ACTIONS AND FUNDRAISERS HAPPENING
Find or Post Actions Here
International Women’s Day 2020 in Milwaukee
Guest Speaker Madonna Thunder Hawk from the Cheyenne River Reservation will Skype in. She will talk about the Lakota Child Rescue Project. Native American children are still being forcibly removed from their homes and tribes by social services agencies in South Dakota.
“Let us put our minds together and see what life we can have for our children”-Sitting Bull, Lakota
Pat Gowans of Mothers and Grandmothers of Disappeared Children will inform us of family separation in Milwaukee by a huge foster care/adoption industry.
Happy Black History Month!
This Black History Month (and every day!) we honor the rich legacy of dignity and power Black people build to make liberation a reality. We also honor the many Black folks like Trayvon Martin who have become ancestors at the hands of state sanctioned violence.
At the National Network of Abortion Funds, we approach our work through a Reproductive Justice framework, with clear commitments to intersectionality and racial justice. Reproductive justice is a framework and approach started and led by women of color, specifically Black women from SisterSong. It is an invitation and a call to action beyond the gender equality, abortion rights, or pro-choice framework that often does not account for the many ways institutions, cultural norms, and systems of oppression exert control over people’s bodies and decisions, especially for people of color and people affected by economic injustice.
When we imagine freedom, we look beyond how the more privileged among us navigate systems safely. We understand liberation and humanity, particularly for those who are marginalized, are impacted by white supremacy and anti-Black racism. Our work must move us all towards action to build a world without the harmful systems that hold us down, and towards lifting up and centering the most marginalized among us.
Carry the conversation forward after this month by having Black and Bold Heart-to-Hearts on the intersections of Black liberation and Reproductive Justice. Invite your friends, family, and acquaintances into meaningful conversations about Reproductive Justice, issues that relate to abortion, and why you support abortion funds. We believe dialogue, storytelling, and intentional conversations are powerful tools to organizing and strengthening our movement. We hope these conversations will serve as a catalyst to deepen connections and make abortion access a reality.
Thank you for all the love and labor you extend towards shaping a world where Black lives and all of our lives can thrive.
In solidarity,
National Network of Abortion Funds
By Abayomi Azikiwe
There was a second weekly demonstration in downtown Detroit on Jefferson avenue near the tunnel at the United States-Canada border on Mon. Feb. 24, 2020 during rush hour.
The action was again in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en First Nation people in British Columbia in Western Canada.
This protest was called by the Moratorium NOW! Coalition and the Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice (MECAWI) along with other organizations which endorsed and participated.
The First Nation people are attempting to halt a gas pipeline being constructed by corporations on their lands. A leaflet circulated by activists at the scene of the manifestation in downtown Detroit said of the situation that: “For over 7 years, TC Energy (formerly TransCanada Corp), has tried to push a $6.6 billion, 670-kilometer
Coastal GasLink (CGL) fracked gas pipeline through Wet’suwet’en territory. The pipeline would carry fracked gas from Dawson Creek, B.C. to the coastal town of Kitimat, where LNG Canada’s processing plant would be located. The CGL pipeline is part of a $40 billion
fracked gas plan by LNG Canada to build and operate a terminal for the liquefaction, storage, and loading of liquefied natural gas. LNG Canada is the single largest private investment in Canadian history.”
(Photos by Abayomi Azikiwe, Pan-African News Wire).
Good morning!
Happy 4th day of #WeLoveOurPublicSchools Week.
The portrait above is part of a student art gallery put on by the Wisconsin Art Education Association that is currently set up in the Capitol Rotunda. It features work from students of all ages from every corner of State! Visit Wisconsin Art Education Association Facebook page or the Capitol Rotunda to see more!
MINI DAILY ACTION: Make a Facebook status or tweet that reads “I love my public school because [fill in your amazing personal story here].” Tag your local elected officials or write the reason on their wall so they can see why Public Schools are the heart of our communities! Don’t forget to use the hashtags #PublicSchoolProud and #WeLoveOurPublicSchools.
It is not too late to make this week count!
If you are looking for some more joy, check out all the cool things we have been sharing on our Facebook page, the art gallery is ONE OF MANY!
Thank you so much for all that has already been done to make this week successful,
Amelia
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Due to the tragic events at the brewery today (Feb. 26, 2020), the brewery will be closed through the weekend per Brad Long and Brewery Leadership.
24 hour notice will be given for when they plan to start back up.
Be safe. Hug your loved ones a little tighter. Keep our Milwaukee Brewery family in your thoughts and prayers.
Confidential EAP support for MolsonCoors employees is also available 24 hours a day, seven days a week at 877-468-1009.
Join the celebration! It has already been one year since the New York State AFL-CIO launched the Union Strong podcast. President Mario Cilento stops in the studio to help us mark our one-year anniversary.
But first; employees at the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter are making history. They are the first employees at a major technology company in the U.S. to unionize. A Kickstarter employee and spokesperson for the newly unionized Kickstarter United explains why and how it happened and what’s next.
The Wisconsin Legislature has passed a package of so-called “tougher on crime” legislation. But let’s be clear: these measures would weaken public safety by destabilizing families, weakening communities, and diverting resources away from priorities like mental health and addiction treatment.
Our legislature should be working to support communities and families, not needlessly putting more people behind bars.
Tell Governor Evers to stand with communities and veto these measures now!
