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The Educators Revolt: From West Virginia to Milwaukee

5130 W Vliet Street, Milwaukee, 5:30 – 7 P.M.

The Educators Revolt: From West Virginia to Milwaukee
Eric Blanc’s “Red State Revolt” Book Tour Comes to MTEA

Educators across the country are rising up against low pay, privatization, and austerity. Join us at the MTEA office on Tuesday, July 16 at 5:30pm for a discussion of the strike wave — from West Virginia, to Washington, to Los Angeles — and its lessons for today’s struggles to defend our schools and public services for all.

Former high school teacher Eric Blanc has been on the ground reporting on this historic upsurge for The Nation, Jacobin, and The Guardian. His new book “Red State Revolt” describes the inspiring story of the teachers’ strike wave and analyzes why it points the way forward for all working people.

RSVP here: http://bit.ly/2LqR8mq

February 2018 at State Capitol in Charleston, West Virginia 

Drag Queen Story Hour MKE Branch‎DQSH: My Body, My Choice

815 E Locust Street, Milwaukee, 12 NOON – 1 P.M.

Please join us for an all ages, family event that will include stories and songs that promote service-learning, diversity, education, and creativity. We will be reading books which focus on teaching consent to small children; whether just saying no to a hug from someone, there are a lot of ways children should be taught to have agency over their bodies and daily choices.
Book Samples:
C is for Consent (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40029331-c-is-for-consent)
Who are You?: The kid’s guide to gender identity. (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/30746490)

This DQSH is part of the counter action https://www.garbagefyrefest.com/
as Queer Rights are Repro Rights.
Drag Story Hour is based off of Michelle Tea (http://www.michelletea.com) & RADAR Productions (http://www.radarproductions.org/drag-queen-story-hour/) Drag Queen Story Hour.

Waukesha Forum: Defending Families, Restoring Driver Licenses

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#OrganizetheSouth      #Medicare4All

Southern Workers Assembly

More resources available online at http://southernworker.org/medicare4all/

Over the weekend of June 15-16, over 40 Southern workers from several unions including the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE), National Nurses United, International Longshoremen’s Association Local 1422 met for a Workers School and to launch a Southern Workers Medicare for All campaign. ILA local 1422 hosted the meeting in their impressive union hall.

In the lead up to the 2020 elections, the Southern Workers Assembly is encouraging all workers organizations to raise up a workers program demanding #UnionsforAll,  wages of $15 per hour for all workers, end Right-to-Work (for less) laws, and the demand for affordable healthcare, specifically for the passage of the bills in US Congress for expanded and improved Medicare for All (HR1384/S1129).  Many of presidential candidates are split, or have different plans for fixing the broken US healthcare system. By having a clearly-defined, unifying demand, we can advance our struggles during this electoral period, regardless of who wins the election.  The SWA believes that by building a workers-led, Southern movement for Medicare for All it can help to draw non-union workers into our movement, and build union-workplace organization across the South.

A major part of this campaign is building workplace-based committees, because inside the workplace is where we have the most power to impact society. These committees can lead the education of workers, including doing outreach to non-union workplaces with informational leaflets about the campaign, given that most all workers still primarily receive health insurance through their employer.  Improved Medicare for All would reduce the reliance of workers on their employers, by providing every access to quality healthcare whether you are employed or not employed. It would also take bargaining for health care off the table, which most unions spend lots of time and clout bargaining over. Instead, this energy could be spent on bargaining members better wage increases, paid time off, safety protocols and other much needed improvements.

As part of this campaign, the SWA hopes to organize city-wide committees, lead by workplace organizations to do broader workplace and community outreach, eventually hosting public Town Hall meetings with the plan to pass resolutions in city and county councils across the South. Already at least three southern cities including St. Petersburg, FL,  Durham, NC and Carrboro, NC have already passed such resolutions.

The campaign plans to have bi-weekly conference calls every other Sunday night at 6pm. If you would be interested in coordinating for your area, or joining these calls, please contact us at info@southernworker.org or 919-539-2051.

Southern Workers Assembly

National Day of Action to Close the Concentration Camps!

Milwaukee City Hall @ 8 – 9:30 P.M. July 12, 2019 

July 12th is being called for as a national day of action to close the migrant and refugee camps that have been created along the US-Mexico border and inside the interior, and to let all the migrants and refugees into the country with protected status. Actions are being organized by a coalition of migrant and refugee rights groups in different cities across the country. We are calling on all who are opposed to the repression of migrants and refugees and the existence of concentration camps to organize or join an action. Please contact us to endorse or to list the action in your city on this page: National Day of Action to Close the Concentration Camps!

“Close the Concentration Camps” protest in Milwaukee, Wisconsin July 12, 2019

Photos: WI BOPM