Foro de Fond du Lac / Fon du Lac Forum

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Foro de Fond du Lac: Defendiendo Familias, Restaurando Licencias de Conducir
Lunes, 30 de Septiembre, 6:00pm
Biblioteca pública de Fond du Lac
32 Sheboygan St | Fond du Lac, WI 54935

Voces de la Frontera está organizando una gira estatal se llama “Defendiendo Familias, Restaurando Licencias de Conducir para Inmigrantes” para fortalecer el apoyo a través de Wisconsin para la restauración de las licencias de conducir para la gente inmigrante. Favor de venir para aprender más sobre la necesidad de restaurar las licencias y aprender como usted puede apoyar la lucha.

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Fond du Lac Forum: Defending Families, Restoring Driver’s Licenses
Monday, September 30, 6:00 pm
Fond du Lac Public Library
32 Sheboygan St | Fond du Lac, WI 54935

Voces de la Frontera is organizing a statewide tour called “Defending Families, Restoring Driver’s Licenses for Immigrants” to strengthen support through Wisconsin for the restoration of access to driver’s licenses for immigrants. Join us to learn more about the need to restore licenses and to learn how you can support the fight.

September 26, 2019 Greg Butterfield

https://bit.ly/2miRWzu

The austerity preacher

In December 2015, Biden spoke in the Rada, the Ukrainian parliament, lecturing his subjects on the need to “end cronyism.” He praised those who carried out the coup two years earlier and those conducting war crimes against the civilian population of Donbass.

He also warned the assembled politicians not to lose their nerve in carrying out austerity measures on the backs of the workers if they wanted to continue getting money from the U.S. and the International Monetary Fund.

“The big part of moving forward with your IMF program — it requires difficult reforms. … to vote to raise the pension age is to write your political obituary in many places. … It requires sacrifices that might not be politically expedient or popular. … I urge you to stay the course as hard as it is.”

Any worker, looking at the facts here, might ask not only about the evident corruption, but about how it is “normal” and “legal” for a U.S. politician to dictate the political and economic policies, including war and peace, poverty and austerity, of another country.

Both Biden and Trump, congressional Democrats and Republicans, are playing out their struggle for power and privilege atop a mountain of bodies of children, civilians and anti-fascists killed in Donbass, and the ongoing repression of political oppositionists, journalists and ordinary workers in Ukraine.

That is the real scandal and the real story that must be exposed.

Home destroyed by Ukrainian bombs on the outskirts of Donetsk. SLL photo: Greg Butterfield

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Dear Sisters and Brothers,

Thank you for your participation in last Sunday’s Solidarity Sunday; due to the overwhelming response from our members we will continue to hold “Solidarity Sunday” every Sunday until we ratify the contract at the UAW General Motors and Aramark picket lines across the nation and I again encourage your participation. We will continue to invite people of faith and others to join the picket lines in support of the ongoing strike until a strong agreement is reached. Additionally at noon on Sunday, your local union chaplain will be available on the picket lines for words of support.

As you know, strikes can be physically, emotionally, and spiritually exhausting on our membership and their families. We sincerely hope that these services provide everyone with a peaceful opportunity to come together to show support for those on the picket lines and those who have been wrongfully stripped from their quality healthcare by General Motors.

In solidarity,

Gary Jones
President, UAW

https://fighting-words.net/2019/09/27/international-solidarity-will-help-beat-gm/

By Jerry Goldberg

A recent bourgeois commentary on Market Watch, predicted that the UAW strike against General Motors could not win. Why? Because “Today GM carries large stockpiles of inventory, and its suppliers and assembly plants are located all over the world. Just 28% of its workforce is in the U.S.”

There is one element of truth to this self-serving corporate statement. GM is a multinational corporation, and the fight of the workers in the US is inextricably linked to their co-workers among the globe. One of the mistaken concepts that helped usher in the concessions of the past few decades, was when the union leadership pushed a chauvinist “Buy American” strategy, rather than recognizing that corporations like GM have no loyalty to any nation or country, but only to the almighty dollar. They failed to recognize that our future as workers depends on international solidarity in a common struggle against capitalism.

Workers around the world are appreciating this reality and have been expressing their solidarity with the UAW strike against General Motors. Here are a few examples, taken from the Autoworker Caravan facebook page.

Letter from Mexican GM Workers:

To the striking U.S. General Motors workers: 

On behalf of the General Motors workers at the Silao complex in Mexico, we express our solidarity in struggle. We are currently fighting for union democracy and for the reinstallation of several fired comrades. We want to express OUR SOLIDARITY with your struggle because it is also ours. We must fight against the abuses of the bosses and for our rights on both sides of the border.

We stand in solidarity with you because, like you, we believe that our conflicts with our bosses and our struggles are the same; they are international.

We hope that your efforts are successful and that we will soon follow your example.

Silao, Guanajuato, Mexico
September 2019
General Motors

Here is a statement by Brazilian workers in solidarity with strike:

We express our support and solidarity to all the GM workers in the US, who are on strike for fair wages, affordable health insurance, profit sharing, job security and other important claims.

The restructuring imposed by the company has caused huge losses in the working class. The Brazilian trade union centrals express their full support for this strike and the UAW (United Auto Workers) that are taking the lead of the pickets and the resistance struggle of workers’ rights. We will do everything possible in active solidarity with this movement to make it victorious.

Sao Paulo, September 16. 2019.

Signed by all the Brazilian National Trade Union Central
CGTB, CSB, CTB, CSP-Conlutas, Forca Syndical, Intersyndical, NCST-Nova Central, UGT.

And just as the UAW was preparing to strike General Motors, South Korean auto workers were preparing their own strike against GM’s plant closings there.

There are no Borders in the Workers’ Struggle!

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ALSO at https://fighting-words.net/https://fighting-words.net/:

‘Corruption Charges Used to Undermine Workers’

‘UW Robs Both Workers And Communities’

National Trade Union Central of Brazil supports GM workers

Chicago Teachers Union-SEIU Local 73 Community Art Build

1901 W Caroll Avenue, Chicago Teachers Union

The CTU and SEIU 73 are holding a Community Art Build for public education! We are calling on teachers, students, allies in public education and beyond to create images to be used in the struggle to defend and promote public schools. All the images people create will be displayed and some used on banners, drop banners, parachute banners, screen printed posters, and screen-printed picket signs.

The Art Build is modeled after the recent public education/Red for Ed art builds in Los Angeles (UTLA) and Oakland (OEA). See examples of past art builds at http://artbuildworkers.com/past-builds/.

For more information visit our website at https://www.ctulocal1.org/posts/artbuild/.

Urgente Junta / Urgent Meeting in Waukesha!

(English below)

Que: Urgente junta mensual de Voces

287 g acaba de ser renovado por el Sheriff Severson en Waukesha; Trump logro llegar a la corte Suprema para quitar DACA de los Dreamers; las deportaciones siguen aumentando por falta de licenias.

La unidad a sido nuestra salvacion y la unidad es la fuerza

Cuando: Este viernes el 27 de septiembre a las 6pm

Donde: La oficina de Voces en Waukesha

*Habra pizza y soda

Mas info: 414-828-2692
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What: Urgent Waukesha membership meeting

287g was just renewed by Sheriff Severson in Waukesha; Trump just went to the Supreme Court to cut DACA from the young Dreamers; deportations are rising because of the lack of drivers licences.

Unity is our salvation and our strength.

Where: This Friday, Sept. 27 at 6 pm

Where: Voces office in Waukesha, 305 E Main Street

*There will be pizza and soda

More info: 414-828-2692

Milwaukee City Hall September 26, 2019

Photo: Joe Brusky, Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association

Photo: Joe Brusky, MTEA

Voces de la Frontera

More photos: Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association

Voces de la Frontera

Join us Thursday, September 26 at Milwaukee City Hall from 4-6 P.M. as the Fire and Police Commission’s Policy Committee will consider policy changes to include non-collaboration between the police department and ICE. We’ll have a brief press conference before attending the hearing.

Mass presence will show the Committee that Milwaukee stands with immigrant families. Plan ahead and come with a friend or family member!

This is important to all community members because we propose that the Milwaukee Police Department (MPD):
* Will not assist in ICE raids.
* Will not use any resources for immigration enforcement.
*Will not report people, share info with, or collaborate with ICE.
* Officers won’t investigate immigration status at any point.
*MPD officers will not comply with warrantless requests from ICE to detain someone or transfer someone to custody

Contact the Voces office if you need transportation or have questions: 414-643-1620

Find policy FAQ’s at: http://bit.ly/2kd4OGz
Sign the continued petition at: https://vdlf.org/iceoutofmke/

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Únase a nosotros el 26 de Septiembre a las 4 de la tarde mientras el Comité de Políticas de la Comisión de Bomberos y Policía considera las politicas sobre la colaboración entre el departamento de policía e ICE.Tendremos una breve conferencia de prensa antes de que todos lleguemos a la audiencia.

Una presencia enorme en este evento para mostraria que Milwaukee apoya a las familias inmigrantes.

Considere asistir a nuestro evento y trae a un amigo o a un familiar. Tendremos una breve conferencia de prensa antes de que todos lleguemos a la audiencia.

Llama la oficina de Voces para planear transporte o con preguntas a: 414-643-1620

Firma la petición a: https://vdlf.org/iceoutofmke/