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Know their Names: Eight Activists Assassinated for Fighting Climate Change
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Environmental activists are being murdered with increasing frequency, particularly in semi-colonial countries. Below are the stories of eight people who took on powerful companies and imperialist interests and paid with their lives.
Four people are killed every week over climate and land disputes at the hands of state forces and hired assassins who defend the interests of big corporations, large landowners, and the government. According to the 2019 Global Witness Report, which tracks such harassment, enforced disappearances and murders of activists across the world, 164 environmental activists were murdered in 2018. Although this is a drop from the previous year’s count of 207 deaths, the report details how violence and coercion has spiked as coalitions of private security forces, contract killers, and state forces have looked to systematically silence those who are on the frontlines of the climate crisis and dare to take on bourgeois governments and capitalists.
The stories of environmental fighters are often ignored, forgotten, and silenced by the mainstream media. After all, these people are often fighting against U.S. corporations. As we contemplate how to solve the climate crisis, it is important to remember that the places hit by environmental disasters have been and will be semi-colonial countries first, and that there are people in those countries who are fighting and dying in the struggle against climate catastrophe.
Here, we take a moment to recognize seven of the inexhaustible list of environmental activists who’ve lost their lives in the fight against climate change during the past decade:
Berta Cáceres, 2016, Honduras ….
Image by Friends of the Earth Europe
Young People’s Resistance Committee Statement: Partial Victory for Grae, People’s Struggle Against Hate Continues
Young People’s Resistance Committee
Hello all!
Good news and bad news. The bad news is that the rally tomorrow is now cancelled. The good news is that we are cancelling the rally because the charges have been dropped! We couldn’t have done this without people showing up for direct actions, the vast media coverage, the generous contributions to Grae’s GoFundMe, and dedication from a variety of local organizations. Even though the charges have been dropped, Grae has agreed to 10 hours of community service. This is still unreasonable, as her community service was served through taking down hate at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, but preferential to the greater sentence she was facing.
Even though this is a great victory against hate, it should not take a public movement to have gotten the charges dropped. Grae should not have faced these charges in the first place. Why isn’t the Nazi, who advocated for violence, who threatened violence against UWM students, being charged? The UW System “free speech” policy only protects Nazis and does nothing to protect historically marginalized voices. A look at US history will show that leftists at universities are most likely to be victims of US government repression. The fight to protect historically marginalized voices on campus continues!
The “free speech” policy, as it currently stands, deters free speech rather than promoting it. This is to be expected, given that the former President of the UW-System Regents who enacted the policy, John Behling, is a defense attorney for private prisons that house undocumented immigrants. We must fight for a policy that protects women, people of color, Jewish people, LGBTQ+ people, and undocumented people on campus! Come out to Young People’s Resistance Committee meetings and join us in this fight! They are held at the IEC in the UWM Student Union, every Monday at 7. Feel free to reach out.
UW-Milwaukee, October 10, 2019: Latinx Diversity Festival
UWM Roberto Hernández CenterLatinx Diversity Festival
Come by the Union Ballroom for the annual Latinx Diversity Festival 2019 October 10th 11am-2pm where there will be food, music and an opportunity to learn about 11 different countries represented!
Don’t forget to sign-up for volunteering also! Volunteers are still needed for the day of the festival. Sign-up using this link: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050E44A5AD2CA2FE3-latinx
Milwaukee, October 14, 2019: Indigenous Peoples Park Dedication
Indian Community SchoolIndigenous Peoples Park Dedication
Join Indian Community School students, teachers, Board of Directors, elected officials, tribal leaders and color guards as we celebrate the unveiling of Indigenous Peoples Park (formerly Columbus Park)!
The Queen, Ms. Aretha Franklin, ‘Respect’
Milwaukee, September 27, 2019: Fight For a Livable Climate, Make the Banks Pay!
Stand for a Livable Climate
Friday September 27, 2019
12:00 – 1:30 pm
Chase & Wells Fargo Banks
12:00 – 12:45pm
Wisconsin Ave. at Water St.
Chase & Wells Fargo are the 1st & 2nd LARGEST
funders of Fossil Fuel companies in the WORLD!
We’ll have signs and banners, but feel free to bring your own
At 12:45 we march to City Hall to:
Support “Fridays for Future”
(YCAT Student Climate Protest)
12:45 – 1:30pm
Milwaukee City Hall
September 28, 2019: Recaudador de fondos /Fundraiser for Jose “Alex” De la Cruz
Recaudador de fondos /Fundraiser for Jose “Alex” De la Cruz
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Que: Hay un recaudador de fondos para José “Alex” De la Cruz-Espinosa, un residente de Milwaukee, que estaba con su esposa y sus 3 hijas menores cuando agentes de ICE lo arrancaron de su familia.
Habra venta de comida y rifa de botella para los participantes, y
lavado de autos!
Cuando: Este Sabado 9/28 a las 11am-4pm
Mas Info: 414-766-4273
Gracias por apoyar a la familia.
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What: Fundraiser for Jose “Alex” De la Cruz-Espinosa, a Milwaukee man, who was with his wife and 3 young children when ICE ripped him from his family.
There will be food, raffle and a car wash!!
When: This Saturday 9/26 from 11am-4pm
More info: 414-766-4273
Thank you for supporting the family.
September 28, 2019: Wade Fernandez and Bill Miller at Door Community Auditorium
Wade Fernandez and Bill Miller at Door Community Auditorium
Tickets: $28 / $48 / $58
Date: Saturday, September 28, 2019 | Time: 7 p.m.
Accomplished musicians, Wisconsin originals, and longtime friends Wade Fernandez and Bill Miller will share the stage for this remarkable double-bill evening at DCA. Wade Fernandez began his career opening for the likes of Jackson Browne and Indigo Girls. Since then, he has toured internationally more than fifty times, winning awards for his trademark brand of contemporary Native Americana. Bill Miller is a Grammy Award-winning Native American performer, songwriter, activist, painter, and world-class native flute player. Miller has long been one of the most admired figures in Native American arts and activism—a voice for the voiceless, a link between two great and clashing civilizations. In addition to Fernandez and Miller’s public performance, Fernandez will also conduct a workshop and performance for Door County students, as well as a flute workshop for adults.
Wade Fernandez: ”An artistic and spiritual force that has just begun to gather steam.” – The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
Bill Miller: ”Depth, beauty, and honesty.” – The Los Angeles Times
Pipeline Opponents Fight AB 426 at State Capitol In Madison, No to the Criminalization of Protesting Wall Street Greed!
A public hearing was held September 26, 2019 in Madison, Wisconsin on a proposed bill that would further criminalize climate and environmental demonstrations. The ones destroying our planet for profit are the ones who should be prosecuted and made to pay!
