Concert for the Climate – part of the Global Climate Strike!

Join Us for the “Concert for the Climate” – 12 Noon – State St. Corner of the Capitol Square.
This is part of the Madison Area response to the youth-led call for a Global Climate Strike!
Eric De Los Santos on Marimba and Lexus Annette on Violin will share their beautiful music.
At about 12:30 pm, we will start the “Parade to the Youth” meeting them at the corner of Main St. and Blount St. at about 1:00 pm.
Wheelchairs and rides will be available for those form whom this 0.7 mile walk would be too hard. Youth will be leading activities and asking MG&E to transition to 100% renewable energy by 2030.
At 3:00 pm we will return to the Capitol for youth led rallies and a free pizza party.
* The Madison Children’s Museum will also be leading family-friendly activities at the museum.

For more information about the Global Climate Strike, write to GlobalClimateStrikeMadison@gmail.com.

Global Climate Strike – Madison

See this page for September 20 Climate Strike information and much more related information.

Today in history: September 14, 1976 – The blanket protest begins when Irish Republican prisoner Kieran Nugent refuses to wear prison uniform, demanding that Irish revolutionary prisoners be recognized and treated as political prisoners as they had before, instead of being treated as non-political prisoners. The blanket protest was part of a five year protest by Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) and Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) prisoners held in Long Kesh prison in the north of Ireland. After the blanket protest came the ‘dirty protest’ and then the 1981 hunger strike in which 10 prisoners gave their lives. #IRA #Ireland #INLA #PrisonStrike

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BY FILIBERTO NOLASCO GOMEZ 

Tuesday union members protested outside the Amazon-owned Whole Foods in downtown Minneapolis Tuesday afternoon demanding Amazon drop contracts with Immigrant and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and data-mining corporation Palantir.

During a short program outside of the store, speakers from Immigrant Worker Solidarity shared the harm being caused by our current immigration policies, made worse by Amazon’s technology.

Immigrant Worker Solidarity (IWS), is a new group of Minnesota workers supporting immigrants inside and outside the labor movement.

“As a union that includes members from many backgrounds, we know that the current system of tearing families apart is terrible and needs to be fixed. The fact that Amazon is not only supporting this system but making profits off the misery of so many families is wrong,” said Sheigh Freeberg, Secretary-Treasurer of the MN Hospitality Workers’ union, UNITE-HERE Local 17. “It is time for Amazon to cut ties with ICE and Palantir.”

The Intercept reported in 2017 that Palantir developed an intelligence system called Investigative Case Management (ICM) for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

“ICM funding documents analyzed by The Intercept make clear that the system is far from a passive administrator of ICE’s case flow. ICM allows ICE agents to access a vast “ecosystem” of data to facilitate immigration officials in both discovering targets and then creating and administering cases against them. The system provides its users access to intelligence platforms maintained by the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and an array of other federal and private law enforcement entities. It can provide ICE agents access to information on a subject’s schooling, family relationships, employment information, phone records, immigration history, foreign exchange program status, personal connections, biometric traits, criminal records, and home and work addresses.”

Documents released earlier this year specifically mentioned that Palantir software was used to place information about the arrival of unaccompanied minors at the border into ICM.

Palantir was, founded by billionaire Peter Thiel, one of President Trump’s most vocal supporters in Silicon Valley. Palantir received backing from the venture capital arm of the Central Intelligence Agency.

In the past Immigrant rights advocacy organization Mijente has called on Amazon to stop offering hosting servers to Palantir. Amazon hosts a variety of data on their servers used in the identification, targeting, and deportation of immigrants. They’ve also sold their facial recognition software to law enforcement and the government.

“AMAZON ISN’T THE ONLY TECH COMPANY DOING THIS, BUT IT HAS THE LARGEST ROLE. THROUGH INTENSE LOBBYING OF POLICYMAKERS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS, AMAZON AND PALANTIR HAVE SECURED A ROLE AS THE BACKBONE FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT’S IMMIGRATION AND LAW ENFORCEMENT DRAGNET.”

Johnny Jose Garcia Chamorro, a painter and sculptor from Nicaragua will be visiting several cities in southeast WI from Sept 14 through Oct. 6th. His main project while here is to create a sculpture with murals on it in Stevens Point. But he will be spending a fair amount of time (Sept. 28 through Oct. 5th) in Waukesha and Milwaukee and could probably travel farther if transportation could be arranged.

If you are interested in arranging an event or an interview contact Elena De Costa edecosta@carrollu.edu or Babette Grunow babette37@sbcglobal.net and we will try to set things up for you if time allows.

Johnny Garcia Chamorro

Johnny José Garcia Chamorro, a painter and sculptor, lives in the beautiful old colonial city of Granada, Nicaragua, CA.   Johnny received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Granada School of Fine Arts in 1986.   Granada has a worldwide reputation of being the Nicaraguan center for artistic development and the community has a high regard for their artists and their work.

Johnny has worked in a wide variety of media, including drawing, painting, sculpture and printing making, but painting remains his favorite means of expression.  He recalls his first art interest was drawing, beginning at a very early age.  Art has always been a focal point in his life and he has turned this passion into a vocation.

Johnny was sponsored by Partners of the Americas, Inc. in 1992 through their Artist in Residence program, and received a travel grant to Wisconsin.  While in Waukesha, WI, he received an invitation from the Children’s Art Museum in Chicago and spent several weeks working in the museum.  At that time, he also met with art classes at UWSP and the Stevens Point public schools.

Johnny is married with two children and he and his wife live in Granada, Nicaragua.  Through the Cultural Center, he has had the opportunity to display his work at various international venues including Mexico, Canada, Spain, Germany, and France.

Boot Betsy & Her School Privatization Schemes from Milwaukee

2215 N Palmer, Milwaukee, 6:45 – 8:30 A.M., St. Marcus Lutheran School

Betsy DeVos is visiting a voucher school in Milwaukee on Monday that teaches women are inferior to men, homosexuality is a sin, and that the earth is 6,000 years old to sell her public school privatization plans. We will be there to say NO! We’ve seen first-hand the damage private voucher and charter schools have inflicted upon the children and public schools of Milwaukee. We will fight to win the public schools all Milwaukee students, families, and staff deserve, not Betsy DeVos and Donald Trump’s plan to privatize. Meet us there!

Madison, WI June 25, 2019 / Photo: WI BOPM

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos will kick off her annual back to school tour Monday, September 16, 2019 in Milwaukee — home to the nation’s oldest private school voucher program built with the assistance of the right-wing Bradley Foundation. DeVos is planning a series of visits aimed at promoting legislation to privatize public education and with the intent to attack educator unions and to enrich Wall Street especially the banks.

DeVos will tour St. Marcus Lutheran School, 2215 N. Palmer St., where almost all of the 900 students attend on the taxpayer-funded Milwaukee Parental Choice Program, according to a news release issued Friday. It said she also will deliver keynote remarks and host a round table discussion.

Photo: MTEA

12 NOON

Sept. 21: Milwaukee County Courthouse, 10th & Wells

Sept. 28: Kinnikinnic & Lincoln

Nov.11, 2019 Monday, 7 PM, Armistice Day with Milwaukee Veterans for Peace, Suizanne Gordon, author of “Wounds of War: How the VA Delivers Health, Healing and Hope”, and Gerry Condon, national board president of Veterans for Peace, Vietnam era veteran and war resister. Central United Methodist Church, 25th & Wisconsin, Milwaukee