Women Rising: Celebrating A Decade Of Women Leading Struggle
Join the Freedom Road Socialist Organization for the annual celebration of international women’s day!
Enjoy an evening of refreshments and discussion as we look back on 10 years and forward into the next decade, highlighting the accomplishments and leadership of women in the struggle for a better world.
Childcare for this event will be available and provided on location!
location TBD, check back soon!
Black History Month-Theory & Practice of the Black Panther Party
1001 E Keefe Avenue, Milwaukee, 6-8 P.M. / Free and open to the public
Join the Party for Socialism and Liberation Milwaukee branch as our member Christiaan Cocroft presents material on the history of the Black Panther Party. Christiaan will guide us through the specific theoretical lens that visionary Black Panther leaders, such as Huey Newton, Angela Davis, Fred Hampton and Bobby Seale developed and how they put these theories into practice in order to help serve their community and build working class unity across racial lines.
-This event is free to the public and accessible to those with disabilities.
-People of all ages are welcomed.
-Donations are requested but nobody will be turned away for lack of funds.
-Light refreshments will be served.
1001 E Keefe Avenue, Milwaukee, 5-7 P.M.
Join us for our monthly organizing meetings where we give updates from our committees, make announcements about events & such related to the coalition, special presentations, and more.
US Palestinian Community Network
USPCN Rejects “Deal of the Century”
Three war criminals – Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Israeli politician Benny Gantz – have met in DC this week, and today unveiled the announcement of Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner’s self-proclaimed “deal of the century.”
As Palestinians and Arabs living and organizing in the U.S., we join the voices of our people in besieged Gaza and all across Palestine and the Arab World in fully rejecting this sham peace process created by the apartheid, settler-colonial state of Israel and its U.S. imperialist patron – and by declaring it “dead on arrival”!
Details of the plan suggest that Trump is creating another roadmap for Israel to expand its illegal occupation and annexation of Palestinian land – a continuation of three years of anti-Palestinian policy that includes declaring unilaterally that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, cutting U.S. funding for UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which provides support and services for Palestinian refugees), claiming Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, and shutting down the only U.S. Consulate (in Jerusalem) that serves Palestinians.
The plan will allow Israel to annex all of Jerusalem, as well as 30-40 percent of Area C, which makes up 60 percent of the West Bank and is already under full Israeli military and administrative control from the days of the Oslo Accords. This territory includes the Jordan Valley, giving the Israelis permanent control of Palestine’s eastern border.
Israel will also be given the green light to annex all but 15 of the 121 settlements in the West Bank. These settlements have been built exclusively for Israelis over many decades on already-stolen Palestinian land; and even though the U.S. does not acknowledge it under Trump, are illegal under international law.
In addition, Israel will maintain uncontested military control over all the territory of historic Palestine, and the Palestinian Authority would have to disarm resistance organizations and demilitarize the Gaza Strip.
The plan asks for no concessions from Israel except for a temporary halt of new settlements.
This “deal” is an attempt at a panacea for many. It will be announced while Trump faces impeachment in Congress, while Netanyahu faces corruption charges of his own in Israel, and while the unipolar world defined by U.S. dominance is diminishing by the day – partially because of the economic strength and sustainability of socialist China, but mostly because of the U.S.’ consistent political and military failures in the Middle East and the world, costing taxpayers like us trillions of dollars.
This “deal” is also a favorite of Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries, which want to thwart the recent advances of the Axis of Resistance (Iran, Yemen, Hezbollah, and Syria) by supporting this expansionist U.S. / Zionist project.
USPCN wants to remind all of the failed Oslo Accords, which some in our national liberation movement at the time thought would lead to real peace. But it – and every “peace agreement” that followed – only led to Palestinian concessions and Israeli expansion, because it did not address our thawabet, the “constants”: our rights to Return, to self-determination, to resist occupation and colonization, and to liberation in an independent state on all of historic Palestine, with Jerusalem as its capital.
Our people ultimately rejected Oslo and have already rejected Trump’s ridiculous “deal of the century.” It makes no difference what Trump, Kushner, Netanyahu, Gantz, or Palestinian Authority President Abu Mazen (who continues his “security coordination” with the Israelis) say or do, because the Palestinian people will continue to resist, by any and all means necessary, U.S. / Zionist plans for the liquidation of our rights. And the international community will continue to organize BDS campaigns across the world and isolate Israel as the criminal, apartheid state that it is.
Peace and justice for Palestinians and everyone else who lives in the Arab World and Middle East cannot be achieved without defeating Zionism and upholding the full rights of the Palestinian people. We call on all forces of progress to reject Trump and his reactionary policies in the U.S., in Palestine, and across the world. ###
Sanctions are imposed by the United States and its junior partners against countries that resist their agendas. They are a weapon of Economic War, resulting in chronic shortages of basic necessities, economic dislocation, chaotic hyperinflation, artificial famines, disease, and poverty. In every country, the poorest and the weakest – infants, children, the chronically ill and the elderly – suffer the worst impact of sanctions.
US imposed sanctions, violate international law and are a tool of regime change. They impact a third of humanity in 39 countries. They are a crime against humanity used, like military intervention, to topple popular governments and movements. They provide economic and military support to pro-US right-wing forces.
The US economic dominance and its +800 military bases worldwide demands all other countries participate in acts of economic strangulation. They must end all normal trade relations, otherwise they risk having Wall Street’s guns pointed at them. The banks and financial institutions that are responsible for the devastation of our communities at home drive the plunder of countries abroad.
Many organizations have been fighting Sanctions and Economic War for some time. NOW is an opportunity to combine efforts to raise consciousness on this crucial issue.
This broad campaign will include protests and demonstrations, lobbying, petition drives and all forms of educational efforts.
As an initial step for this campaign we encourage mobilizations and educational efforts to be organized for the International Days of Action against US imposed Sanctions and Economic War on March 13-15.
Stand For Peace, Milwaukee, Wisconsin January 25, 2020 / Photo: Sue Ruggles
http://www.us-cubanormalization.org/viva-cuba/
Dear Friends,
In 2019 the Trump White House and State Department has escalated political belligerency, economic sanctions, and military threats against Cuba.
An effective, sustained, coordinated counter-campaign against all these measures is urgently needed — especially inside the United States and Canada.
Washington’s escalating attacks on Cuba have seen parallel negative developments in Canada-Cuba relations. The closing of Canada’s visa office in Havana has led to unreasonable delays and significant financial obstacles for those Cubans seeking to travel to Canada. It continues to cause significant damage to business, cultural, scientific, and sporting relations. This development represents a serious departure from the relations which Cuba and Canada have enjoyed, especially given their uninterrupted diplomatic relations since 1945. Opposition to these stances of the Trudeau-Freeland government in the Hemisphere – including the important political support given by Ottawa to Trump’s attempted military coup and intervention against Venezuela – have mounted inside Canada. Cuba solidarity and anti-intervention forces across Canada and Quebec join in this Call and united organizing effort.
Therefore, in this moment of new threats and attacks, we call on you to join with the broad national and international forces that defend Cuba’s right to self-determination and unconditionally oppose the US economic, commercial, financial, and travel sanctions – the blockade.
As the 2020 US Presidential, Congressional, State, and local elections approach, together let’s plan united actions and campaigns to end this historic injustice!
The below signatories are issuing this Call for a 2nd National Conference for the Normalization of US-Cuba relations over the weekend of
March 21-22, 2020 at
Fordham School of Law
150 West 62nd St., New York, NY
Having the International Cuba Conference in New York City, the seat of the United Nations General Assembly, will ensure the presence of a significant number of Cuban guests and authentic representatives.
VISIT THE FOLLOWING WEBSITES AT:
www.CubaSiNYNJCoalition.org
www.US-CubaNormalization.org
email: info@us-cubanormalization.org
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 1/31/20) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), along with other civil rights organizations, today held a news conference with other Muslim, civil and human rights groups to condemn the Trump administration’s expansion of the Muslim Ban.
ACTION ALERT: Those impacted by the expanded ban should contact CAIR at: civilrights@cair.com or https://www.cair.com/report …
Manitowoc, Wisconsin, May 2019
