About wibailoutpeople

We are a part of the national Bail Out The People movement which formed in 2008 to fight against the bailouts to the banks. Since then we have been in numerous fights against poverty, racism and war. We demand that the people be bailed out not the banks, a moratorium on all foreclosures, a federal jobs program now and other demands. We have been participating in the Wisconsin people's uprising, Bloombergville in NYC and numerous other people's actions.

Student/ Farmworker Alliance leaders from across the country come together to turn up the pressure on Wendy’s!

Student/ Farmworker Alliance leaders from across the country come together to turn up the pressure on Wendy’s! http://ow.ly/enWk50y3614

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Coalition of Immokalee Workers

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ANNOUNCED: Farmworkers to take on Wall Street power players behind Wendy’s with 3-day “Follow the Money” March in New York City from March 10-12! Make your plans TODAY to join CIW for the grand finale on Thursday, March 12: http://ow.ly/qnps50xYZby

The Struggle to End Imperialist Militarism in the 21st Century

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Dawn of a new decade requires greater vigilance in the movement against permanent war

Note: This address was prepared and delivered at a Communist Workers League (CWL) class on United States Imperialism and the War against Iran which was held on Saturday January 25, 2020 in Detroit. The event featured Randi Nord, the editor of Geo-politics Alert website which covers events related to international affairs with a special focus on West Asia, Latin America, U.S. foreign policy and developments in Europe. Also addressing the class was Yusuf Mshahwar, an observer of West Asian affairs and a student at Wayne State University. Abayomi Azikiwe, PANW Editor and writer for various publications, discussed the relationship between imperialist interventions in North Africa and related occurrences in West Asia and other geo-political regions within the international community….

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Coalition to March on the DNC Fights for Permits, Holds Press Conference at City Hall in Milwaukee

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MILWAUKEE — Last night, January 27, 2020, we held a press conference at City Hall announcing our intent to file a lawsuit against Mayor Tom Barrett and the City of Milwaukee in order to win our permit to rally and march. We had planned to do it inside, with a podium and actual sound equipment. However, when we got there, the doors were locked. Luckily employees leaving the building let us in, only for us to find that the space didn’t appear prepared for an event. We learned that the clerk we worked with to reserve the space allegedly mixed up the dates.

Now, we’d be willing to accept this as an honest mistake if we didn’t have to jump through all kinds of hoops to even get a reservation in the first place. After being told we wouldn’t be able to reserve the space because we aren’t a non-profit (despite the fact that we reserved the space in October 2019 for a similar purpose) we had representatives go in-person to set our reservation up. We have a paper trail that shows the correct date on our form.

The reality is that the city did not want us to use this space because they want our demonstration to disappear. Mayor Barrett and his administration want a certain image presented of Milwaukee when the DNC comes to town in July. They don’t want protests, they don’t want demonstrations. They want to pretend that Milwaukee is a city without problems.

This most recent attempt to silence us will not go unchallenged. It only further strengthens our case against the city. If you haven’t done so yet, join us at our next

Organizing Meeting:

5 pm on Feb, 7 at 1001 E. Keefe Avenue Milwaukee

Milwaukee, Feb. 17, 2020: Black Male Suffrage in Wisconsin at Central Library

Monday, February 17, 2020 – 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM

814 W Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee

Categories: History/Genealogy

University of Wisconsin Department of Afro-American Studies Professor Christy Clark-Pujara presents the history of African-American voting rights in Wisconsin. On October 31, 1865 Ezekiel Gillespie, a black Milwaukee resident, went to “the place of registration on the flats in the Seventh ward” and asked that his name be added to the list of eligible voters, he was refused. The next day he went to the polls to vote. He was turned away. Gillespie went on to successfully sue the state for the right to vote. Historians have noted Wisconsinites’ defiance of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law and highlighted the Republican Party’s commitment to black suffrage. Yet, the efforts of antislavery and abolitionist Wisconsinites failed to alter the political marginality that black Wisconsinites faced in the founding decades of the state.

Location: Richard E. and Lucile Krug Rare Books Room

Feb. 29, 2020: The Spirit of Milwaukee Bronzeville with Dr. Sandra Jones at Central Library

Saturday, February 29, 2020 – 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM

814 W Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee

Categories: History/Genealogy

Learn about Milwaukee’s Bronzeville from the people who live there.  As part of her research, Dr. Sandra Jones, from the UW-Milwaukee Department of African and African Diaspora Studies, has interviewed African Americans born in Milwaukee between 1920 and 1940 to learn what life was like in the city’s oldest Black neighborhood.  Dr. Jones will share information on Milwaukee’s earliest African American residents and how neighborhood boundaries were established.

Location: Richard E. and Lucile Krug Rare Books Room