Racine Pride Day

12 NOON – 2 P.M.

Come join us for a Prideful Event with Pride Day Speakers at City Hall with Olympia Brown and Sacred Journeys.

Report Back from Venezuela and the Bolivarian Revolution

UW-Parkside, Molinaro Room 107, 6-7 P.M.

Hear a direct report from the developments in Venezuela over the last month from a contingent who were present during the attempted illegal coup of the democractically elected and popularly supported government.

Sheboygan’s Inaugural Pride Picnic

Fountain Park, 4-10 P.M.

Come to Fountain Park on June 22nd to celebrate Sheboygan’s first ever Pride event! There will be live music from 4-8 with food trucks and two guest speakers, Lex Cade-White and the Courage House, as well as drag queens and two DJs: DJ Rydek and DJ Shane. From 8-10, there will be a movie night at Paradigm and from 10 onwards, an after party at Blue Lite! The picnic is completely family friendly and everyone is invited to attend. Happy pride!

Artwork done by Robert Dumville :))

Interfaith Rally in Solidarity with Immigrant Communities

310 E Knapp Street, Milwaukee, 1:30 – 2:30 P.M.

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Interfaith Rally in Solidarity with Immigrant Communities
Monday, June 24, 1:30pm
Milwaukee ICE Office
310 E Knapp St, Milwaukee
Info: 414-643-1620

Join us to show solidarity with immigrant communities in the face of Trump’s latest threats to carry out mass deportation, his policies of separating and imprisoning families at the border, and his administration’s deportation of hundreds of thousands beloved community members including student Pastor Betty Rendon of Emaus Lutheran Church in Racine. We will rally at 1:30pm on Monday, June 24th at the Milwaukee ICE office.

Prior to the rally, members of the United Church of Christ in Milwaukee for their General Synod will march from their synod at the Wisconsin Convention Center at the corner of Wisconsin Ave and Vel Phillips Ave. The march begins at 1:15.

This event is being organized by the UCC National Collaborative on Immigration, UCC Justice and Witness Ministries, UCC Latinx Ministries, Racine Interfaith Coalition, New Sanctuary Movement of Milwaukee, and Voces de la Frontera. This rally is part of the worldwide week of actions for refugee rights surrounding June 20th, which is World Refugee Day.

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Manifestación Interreligiosa en Solidaridad con las Comunidades Inmigrantes
Lunes 24 de junio, 1:30 pm
Oficina de ICE en Milwaukee
310 E Knapp St, Milwaukee
Información: 414-643-1620

Únase a nosotros para mostrar solidaridad con las comunidades inmigrantes contra las amenazas de Trump para llevar a cabo la deportación masiva, sus políticas de separación y encarcelamiento de familias en la frontera y la deportación por su administración de miles de queridos miembros de la comunidad, como la pastora estudiantil Betty Rendón de la iglesia luterana Emaus en Racine. Nos reuniremos a la 1:30 pm el lunes 24 de junio en la oficina de Milwaukee ICE.

Antes de la manifestación, los miembros de la Iglesia de Cristo Unida en Milwaukee para su Sínodo General marcharán desde el sínodo en el Centro de Convenciones de Wisconsin en la esquina de la avenida Wisconsin y la avenida Vel Phillips. La marcha comienza a las 1:15.

Este evento es organizado por la Colaboración Nacional de Inmigración de la UCC, lel Ministerio de Justicia y Testigo de la UCC, el Ministerio Latinx de la UCC, la Coalición Interreligiosa de Racine, el Nuevo Movimiento Santuario de Milwaukee y Voces de la Frontera. Esta manifestación es parte de la semana mundial de acciones por los derechos de los refugiados que se celebra el 20 de junio, que es el Día Mundial de los Refugiados.

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Listen to the Sun. June 16, 2019 edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. The program features our regular PANW report with dispatches on the ongoing political and security crisis in the Republic of Sudan where pressure is on the Transitional Military Council (TMC) to begin the process of relinquishing power to a civilian government; Zimbabwe leaders are attempting to implement economic reforms aimed at fostering development in the Southern African state; the Ethiopian government is under fire for closing down the internet for a period of time across this Horn of Africa state; the newly-elected President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has visited his counterpart in neighboring Burundi. During the course of this program we continue our monthlong commemoration of Black Music Month with special tributes to artists Dr. Nico Kassanda, Dinah Washington and Sarah Vaughn.

Green Party leaders responded to yesterday’s ruling in the case of United States vs. Honkala with strong words of condemnation for government officials involved and strong support for Honkala. On June 10, 2019, a federal court in Washington, D.C., issued a guilty verdict in the case, finding former Green Party Vice Presidential candidate Cheri Honkala guilty of charges of trespassing. Honkala is an internationally-known activist and founder of the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign (PPEHRC).

Green Party of the United States
https://www.gp.org
@GreenPartyUS

For Immediate Release:
Tuesday, June 11, 019

Contact:
Kristin Combs, Chair of the Green Party of Philadelphia, kristin.r.combs@gmail.com
Holly Hart, Co-chair, Media Committee, media@gp.org 202-804-2758
Craig Seeman, Co-chair, Media Committee, media@gp.org 202-804-2758

In March, 2018, Honkala led a delegation of 100 activists to Washington, D. C., as part of the “March for Our Lives.” She asked to speak with Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson about a range of issues, including the lack of affordable housing in the US. and the brutal destruction Puerto Rican housing caused by Hurricane Maria.

Initially informed that someone from HUD would meet with Honkala, when she arrived at the Housing and Urban Development office to request to speak with the Secretary, she was denied access and subsequently arrested by the Department of Homeland Security.

After a 3-day jury trial, Judge Juliet J McKenna of the D.C. Superior Court ruled that Honkala was guilty of misdemeanor criminal trespassing on government property in the first degree and sentenced her to time served.

“They want to silence me for standing up for poor people, for affordable housing and questioning the business speculation,” Honkala said in a recent press statement. “…Not only are we being gentrified out of existence, our ability to speak out is also being taken away.”

“It is outrageous that any citizen would be charged for trying to speak with a government official about a legitimate issue,” said Jody Grage, secretary of the Green Party of the U.S. “Cheri Honkala has been a long-time leader in advocacy for our most vulnerable citizens. To imagine that she would be turned away from voicing her concerns, let alone charged and sentenced, is unconscionable. This is a rallying cry for all of us to step forward and express grave concern about our right to petition the government for redress of grievances and to speak out about the ongoing economic injustices that have been plaguing US citizens for decades.”

“This decision places a chilling effect on every citizen’s ability to air their grievances to our government officials, a right clearly protected in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution,” said Justin Beth, co-chair of the Green Party of the U.S. “It is unbelievable that Secretary Carson has called for 100,000 people to be dropped from public housing programs. Arresting and charging Cheri Honkala for trying to give another side to the story is simply appalling. Green Party members everywhere support Cheri Honkala. Her activism and determination to stand up for impoverished people in our country is amazing and an example for everyone to follow. We stand behind her, one hundred percent.”

Honkala plans to appeal the case. PPEHRC will meet to plan how to respond on Wednesday, June 13, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. at 1505 W. Allegheny Avenue in Philadelphia. All are welcome.

For more information:
www.economichumanrights.org

Federal Court Finds Cheri Honkala Guilty

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Mumia’s vision has rapidly deteriorated. It has been confirmed that Mumia currently suffers conditions that seriously threaten his eyesight. These include glaucoma, a vitreous detachment and cataracts in both eyes. This threat seriously jeopardizes his life and well-being, as well as his journalistic profession.

An outside eye doctor is recommending surgical procedures to remove the cataracts on both eyes, but SCI-Mahanoy Doctor Courtney Rodgers is delaying scheduling the needed examinations and surgeries with Mumia’s outside ophthalmologist. Rodgers works for Correct Care Solutions, a notorious for-profit prison and immigration detention medical company that, according to the Project on Government Oversight, has been sued at least 1,395 times with complaints alleging a range of charges, including wrongful death, malpractice and inadequate healthcare.

Meanwhile Mumia faces increasing nerve damage to his eyes. He is unable to read or do other things requiring normal vision. This delay echoes the years of delays Mumia experienced getting treatment for hepatitis C. By the time the DOC was finally forced by Federal Court to treat Mumia with the Hep C cure, it was too late to prevent cirrhosis of the liver.

African Americans are 1.5 times more likely to develop cataracts than the general population and five times more likely to develop related blindness.

Not only is his overall health deteriorating as he is threatened by permanent blindness, his failure now to receive the immediate attention he requires is cruel and unusual punishment, especially as an innocent man who has been unjustly incarcerated for almost four decades.

Furthermore, considering his multiple ailments and the threat of blindness, we demand that Pennsylvania officials allow a real and humane “compassionate release” now, not the “fake compassionate release” of transfers from prison to care facilities that Pennsylvania will only grant when a prisoner is within a year of dying. Mumia’s family, friends and supporters are ready now to provide the healthcare Mumia requires if he were home.

Mumia is not alone in enduring these cruel and unusual assaults on the health of those ageing and ill behind prison walls. According to Bureau of Justice statistics, over 130,000 of U.S. prisoners are elderly, a 400% increase between 1993 and 2013. Mumia himself has noted the significant number of those confined at his own prison who suffer similar life-threatening illnesses that require immediate attention. Across the nation elderly prisoners experience a torturous journey toward the end of their lives without any “compassionate release.” Once again, as we fight for Mumia’s right to treatment and for his release, we fight for the freedom of all the imprisoned from mass incarceration’s cruel and unusual conditions.

Mumia Abu-Jamal should receive cataract surgery immediately!

Mumia should be released now not only because he can receive better healthcare outside of prison but also because he is an innocent man!

TAKE ACTION

1. Sign the petition: https://bit.ly/2MVPpaY

2. Call: Dr Courtney P Rodgers – 570-773-2150 and SCI Mahanoy Superintendent Theresa A. Delbalso – (570) 773-2158

Tell them to approve Mumia’s cataract surgery immediately.

3. Call: PA Gov. Tom Wolf – 717-787-2500; PA DOC Secretary John Wetzel – 717.728.2573; Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner – 215-686-8000

Tell them to release Mumia Abu-Jamal NOW because he can receive better healthcare outside of prisonand also because he is an innocent man!