For other statewide Labor Fest info: https://wisaflcio.typepad.com/
Zeidler Park to Summerfest grounds
Come show your support for UFCW Local 1473 at this year’s Laborfest! Registration for the march begins at 9:00am. Upon registration you will receive a ticket to march in the parade, food and drink tickets!
After the march enjoy live music, raffles, adult BINGO, car show, Camp Union Graduation, wrestling, Food, Drinks and MORE at the Summerfest Grounds!
30 W Mifflin Street, #702, Madison, 7-9 P.M.
School strikers are calling on everyone: young people, parents, workers, and all concerned citizens to join massive climate strikes and a week of actions starting on September 20.
People all over the world will use their power to stop “business as usual” in the face of the climate emergency. We will join young people in the streets to demand an end to the age of fossil fuels and emergency action to avoid climate breakdown.
We in the Madison area are planning for this exciting and historic week long turning point in the struggle for our future. Meet us in Room 702 of 30 W. Mifflin St. For more information write to: GlobalClimateStrikeMadison@gmail.com
814 W Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee Public Library, 5-6:30 P.M.
Two IWW members will be at Milwaukee Central Library, 814 W. Wisconsin, meeting room 2A, on Monday, August 19, 5:00-6:30 PM. They will be working on some of the activity they regularly do for the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee, supporting the campaign against arbitrary regulations at Columbia Correctional, support for hunger strikers, coalition efforts to shutdown the Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility, and connecting different networks inside prison walls. Our work includes research, writing letters, data entry, and developing ideas for disrupting the horror that is the Wisconsin prison system. Come by if you want to see what’s involved with this organizing, ask questions, and maybe get involved in this. Free coffee and snacks are provided. Let us know if you need a ride to be able to attend. This gathering will be followed by our strategy meeting at 6:30, visitors are welcome to attend this as well.
If you are interested in this event and can’t make this time or location, please post in this event, message us or send an email at iwoc.milwaukee@gmail.com We will schedule the next event to work for your schedule, or followup one-on-one. Also contact us if you would need childcare, translation or other accommodations to be able to attend this event. You can also fill out this online survey to volunteer for specific tasks: https://bit.ly/2vyZam9 You can get more information on Wisconsin prison conditions and resistance to them at our website: https://wisconsinprisonvoices.org/
Come Join us Tuesday, August 13: Wis. Cuba Coalition Meeting features special guest appearance by visiting WI Medical student just back from Cuba. 639 N 25th Street, Milwaukee, 7-10 P.M.
Tuesday, August 13, 7pm: 1) See a short video on Cuba’s partnership with students in over 80 nations, including 100 U.S. students, studying to become doctors debt free, in return for their promise to return home and work in an underserved community. 2) Meet & join an informal discussion with Olive, one of two WI women currently enrolled as students in Cuba’s acclaimed Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM).
Everyone interested is welcome to join us at this & all our monthly Wisconsin Cuba Coalition meetings, at Central United Methodist Church, 639 N. 25th St., at Wisconsin Ave., MKE 53233. We meet monthly, on the second Tuesday.
Wisconsin Coalition to Normalize Relations with Cuba, https://wicuba.wordpress.com/,
like us on FB: https://www.facebook.com/WICNRC/, (414) 273-1040, ext. 12.
A coalition of organizations representing Black People in the state of Mississippi respond to the ICE Raids Conducted in our state on August 7, 2019
We, as descendants of enslaved African people, stand here today in solidarity, in determination, and in righteous outrage at the unwarranted and heavy-handed actions of the federal government. On August 7th, 2019, hundreds of ICE agents descended upon four cities in our state, where they arrested nearly 700 workers because they believed that they might be undocumented. These men and women were hauled away, bus load after bus load, with none of the workers able to see to their families and their children — children who would return from the first day of school to find their parents ripped from their lives.
The federal raids in Mississippi are immoral, cruel, inhumane and inherently undemocratic. The words on the Statue of Liberty eloquently state “Give me your tired, your poor/ Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free/ The wretched refuse of your teeming shore./ Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,/ I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
The people that were swarmed upon and herded away from their jobs like cattle did not experience this America. Under this administration, the “poor huddled masses yearning to breathe free” are treated with contempt. They are called criminals. They are separated like slaves and caged like animals. Because these immigrants are Brown, the President and some of our own elected officials have decided that these people are not worthy of compassion, inclusion, or basic human decency.
The Brown people that are being targeted are indigenous peoples to this land called America. They were here before Christopher Columbus. Yet, they do not feel the welcome that Polish, Italian, German, and other European immigrants were and are granted. Lady Liberty’s “golden door” is slammed in their faces, as the policies of the President reinforced the fact that America’s immigration policy is a ‘Whites Only’ welcome.
This is a nation-state that emerged through despicable native genocide, native containment on reservations and heinous exploitation of enslaved Africans as labor, and over time, the economy of this nation has been strengthened by the exploitation of waves of immigrants that continues to this day”.
The anti-immigrant, anti-Latinx, anti-Black, anti-human rights policies created by this administration shocks the conscience of all reasonable people. We call on the United States government to rescind these policies and reverse all prior decisions that deny affected people their basic human rights.
We in Mississippi demand better.
Signed:
the People’s Advocacy Institute
the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
Jaribu Hill/the Mississippi Workers Center for Human Rights
the NAACP
One Voice of Mississippi
the Children’s Defense Fund of Mississippi
Black Voters Matter of Mississippi
FWD.us, Mississippi Office
Black With No Chaser
Higher Ground Strategies
Mississippi Votes
927 54th Street, Kenosha, 10 A.M.
Mérida, August 7, 2019 (venezuelanalysis.com) – The Venezuelan government has announced the expansion of Chinese investment in the country’s oil industry, with the aim of increasing production by 120,000 barrels per day.
The investment, which authorities say is worth US $3 billion, financed the construction of a new oil blending plant inaugurated last Thursday as the first part of the two-stage plan.
The “Jose” plant, which is located in Barcelona, Anzoátegui State, is to be run by the Sinovensa joint venture, which is 49 percent owned by China’s National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) and 51 percent by Venezuela’s PDVSA state-run oil company. The facility will blend extra-heavy grades from Venezuela’s Orinoco Oil Belt into the exportable Merey crude, which is popular in Asian markets….
