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Milwaukee, April 6, 2019: Junta comunitaria: El 1ro de mayo y licencias para todxs / Planning Meeting for MAY DAY
Junta comunitaria: El 1ro de mayo y licencias para todxs
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Junta comunitaria: El 1ro de mayo y licencias para todxs
Sábado 6 de abril, 1:30pm
South Division High School (1515 W Lapham Blvd)
Información: 414-643-1620
Abierta al público
Para restaurar las licencias de conducir para todxs en Wisconsin, tenemos que mostrar el poder económico de la gente inmigrante. Acompáñanos para planear el Día sin Latinx e Inmigrantes para el 1ro de mayo en el Capitolio en Madison para las licencias de conducir. Tendremos foros así a través del estado. Si vive afuera de Milwaukee, manténgase alerta para ver cuando será el foro en su área.
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Community Meeting: May 1st and Driver Licenses for All
Saturday, April 6, 1:30pm
Preparatoria South Division (1515 W Lapham Blvd)
Info: 414-643-1620
Open to the public
To restore driver’s licenses for all in Wisconsin, we need to show our collective economic power. Join us to plan the May 1st Day without Latinx and Immigrants for driver licenses, which will be at the Capitol in Madison.
We will hold forums like this throughout the state. If you live outside of Milwaukee, stay alert to see when the community meeting in your area will be.
Milwaukee, April 12, 13, 14, 2019: Making Banners and Art for MAY DAY
Youth Empowered in the Struggle (YES)
Making Banners and Art for May 1st
Making Banners and Art for May 1st
INOVA Gallery, Kenilworth Building
2155 N Prospect Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53202
Friday, April 12th, 4pm-10pm
Saturday, April 13th, 10am-10pm
Sunday, April 14th, 10am-10pm
Join us to make art for the struggle for student, worker, and immigrant rights! We’ll make banners, picket signs, parachute banners, posters, and more. All are welcome, no expertise or experience required.
¡Acompáñanos para hacer obras de arte para la lucha por los derechos de los estudiantes, trabajadores e inmigrantes! Haremos pancartas, letreros, pancartas con paracaídas, carteles y más. Todxs son bienvenidxs, no se requiere ninguna experiencia.
Milwaukee, April 29, 2019: Union organizing in the Philippines – International Workers Day
Union organizing in the Philippines – International Workers Day
633 S Hawley Rd., Milwaukee Area Labor Council
The Young Workers Committee of the Milwaukee Area Labor Council Presents: International Workers’ Day 2019
Save the date for a special presentation from The Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) or “May First Movement”
April 29th – 30th, Milwaukee Area Labor Council’s Yatchak Hall
The KMU, a major trade union federation in the Philippines, will visit Milwaukee as part of a national speaking tour that is currently being organized.
Visiting speaker, Ed Cubelo, is Chairman of the Metro Manila Chapter of the KMU, the largest and most militant labor center in the Philippines, and president of Toyota Motor Philippines Corporation Workers Association since the 1990s. Ed will speak about the KMU campaigns to raise the national minimum wage and oppose legal attacks on workers, as well as the efforts of unionists to work against the fascist repression of President Rodrigo Duterte, fighting the regime’s illegal arrest and jailing of trade unionists, violent crackdown on strikes and pickets, imposition of oppressive taxes, and hikes in the prices of basic commodities.
Joining Mr. Cubelo will be Raymond “Mong” Palatino. Palatino is a journalist, educator, activist, and former two-term congressman. He is a founder of the Kabataan Partylist, which represents youth in the Philippine Congress. He is currently the chairperson of the Metro Manila chapter of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan-BAYAN, a progressive alliance of people’s organizations.
Please follow this event for further event details, and join us
in welcoming our guests for International Workers’ Day!
Free and open to the public
Wheelchair accessible
July 2020 Milwaukee, WI: Coalition to March on the DNC!
All eyes will be on Milwaukee as the DNC takes place at the Fiserv Forum from July 13-16, 2020. We call on all progressive, left, democratic, unions and socialist organizations to join in unity to form the “Coalition to March on the DNC.”
‘Venezuela, Again’ by Mumia Abu-Jamal
Milwaukee, April 5, 2019: Fight Back Friday!
815 E Locust Street, Milwaukee, 4-6 P.M.
We love working in Milwaukee Public Schools, but know our days are also challenging and stressful. That’s why Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association (MTEA) welcomes all MPS educators and education workers to the Riverwest Public House Cooperative for “Fight Back Friday.” This event will be held on the first Friday of every month from 4pm to 6pm, and will offer local educators and education workers a space to connect, rejuvenate, and advocate for our students and profession.
Every month we will feature a different activity or speaker to keep the event fresh. Come and join others fighting to make our public schools the best possible place for our students.
We will be discussing a submission process to create a new logo for the event at our first event so come and enjoy a beverage (Public House will offer a drink special), catch up on union and public education advocacy, and meet other awesome MPS folks! This event is free and open to the public.
Detroit, April 20, 2019: Freedom for the Unjustly Incarcerated, Free Mumia!
4605 Cass Avenue, (Cass Commons) 12 NOON – 3 P.M., Detroit
Free and open to the public
This forum will focus on the cases of Mumia Abu-Jamal, a political prisoner, and the Juveniles Lifers Without Parole in Michigan who are in prison, in violation of several U.S. Supreme Court rulings stating that such sentences are unconstitutional.
Guest speakers include:
Pam Africa, representing the International Concerned Friends and Family of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Rev. Ed Pinkney, former political prisoner in Michigan
Who is Mumia Abu-Jamal?
*A worldwide movement stopped Mumia Abu-Jamal from being executed, getting him off death row. Mumia is ill but PA officials, in denying him adequate medical care, could cause his death unless we win his freedom soon. Why was Mumia framed? Check out the facts:
*As a 15 year-old spokesman for the Black Panther Party in Philadelphia, Mumia Abu-Jamal was targeted by the FBI’s COINTELPRO program for “surveillance” and “neutralization”, or assassination. A few years later Mumia was an award-winning radio journalist, the “voice of the voiceless” and outspoken defender of the MOVE organization.
*Frank Rizzo, the Police Commissioner and then Mayor who told his racist supporters to “vote white,” threatened Mumia for his reports challenging the police. The Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), and Democratic and Republican politicians clamoured for Mumia’s death and continue to try to silence him to this day.
*On December 9, 1981, Mumia was driving a cab to supplement his income and had a licensed gun for self defence. Dropping off a fare in the red-light district, Mumia heard gunshots and saw his brother staggering in the street. Mumia was shot by a uniformed police officer as he ran toward his brother. Witnesses state Faulkner was already shot and down before Mumia arrived on the scene.
*Mumia was beaten by a dozen police, rammed into a light pole, then thrown into a police wagon and beat again by Inspector Alphonso Giordano. It took over 30 minutes to get Mumia to the hospital just two blocks away. Mumia was beaten again when he arrived at the hospital. Critically wounded, the bullet went into Mumia’s chest, through his lung and lodged near his liver.
*The police and prosecution manufactured the evidence of Mumia’s guilt. The first photographs taken by a free-lance photographer after the shootings show Officer James Forbes holding two guns in his bare hands, making fingerprint testing impossible. The prosecution said Mumia stood over and shot directly down at Faulkner’s face, three bullets missed and struck the side walk. This would have torn into the concrete, leaving divots on the side walk. But the photographs show the side walk was totally smooth.
**Other proof the ballistics evidence was false: The medical examiner report says Faulkner was killed by a .44 caliber bullet. Mumia’s gun was a .38 calliber. The bullet from Faulkner’s head wound was never tested. The police testimony that a bullet from Mumia’s gun was “consistent” with the bullet found in Faulkner was true of “multiple millions” of guns. There was no on scene “smell test” for gunpowder that Mumia’s gun was fired. Mumia’s hands were not tested for gunpowder residue.
One of the two key prosecution witnesses, Robert Chobert, testified he was parked directly behind Faulkner’s cop car, yet the photographs show that space was empty. Chobert later admitted he testified against Mumia after being given a deal by the prosecution.
*The main prosecution witness, Cynthia White, was a prostitute who no other witness saw on the scene. Others later testified White admitted she lied because she was threatened by the police. Six witnesses, including Chobert, made statements the shooter ran from the scene. Two of these witnesses later testified they were threatened by police to lie.
*The prosecution suppressed evidence that at least one other person was on the scene that night. The courts have ruled to prevent the confession of a man who swore that he, not Mumia, shot Faulkner be heard in court.
*Philadelphia is over 40% African-American, yet only two of the jurors in Mumia’s trial were Black. Mumia was denied every right to due process that a criminal defendant is supposed to get.
*The trial judge, Albert Sabo, sentenced more people to death than any other judge in the U.S. In 2002 a court reporter disclosed that at the start of the 1982 trial, she overheard Judge Sabo say he was going “to help them fry the ‘n—r’.”
Pam Africa from Philly will be speaking at the April 20. 2019 Detroit forum.
North Carolina Union Educators and Friends to March on the State Capitol on May Day 2019
Milwaukee, April 4, 2019: Press Conference for March on the DNC 2020
March on the 2020 DNC in Milwaukee, WI
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
What: Press Conference for March on the DNC 2020
When: April 4, 6:30 pm
Where: Milwaukee City Hall
Who: Coalition to March on the DNC
March on the Democratic National Convention 2020
Milwaukee, WI–The Coalition to March on the DNC is excited to announce a rally and march on the opening day of the Democratic National Convention, Monday, July 13, 2020.
“All eyes will be on Milwaukee when the people’s movements protest outside the DNC as it takes place at the Fiserv Forum, July 13 thru July 16th, 2020. The Coalition calls on all progressive, left, democratic and socialist organizations to join us in unity,” says Omar Flores, spokesperson for the Coalition.
“In forming the Coalition, we already applied for a permit to rally at Red Arrow Park and to march within sight and sound of the Fiserv Forum. We will be holding our first organizing meeting in Milwaukee in the coming weeks,” continued Flores.
In previous years, organizers of the Coalition led mass marches that drew tens of thousands to the 2008 RNC in St. Paul, MN, and thousands to the 2012 RNC in Tampa, FL, and the 2016 RNC in Cleveland, OH.
The Coalition to March on the DNC is a broad, national coalition of left and progressive forces, working with dozens of local Milwaukee groups and activists. We are rallying behind demands including but not limited to:
– End US Wars and Interventions / Money for Human Needs, Not War
– Community Control of the Police / Stop Police Terror
– Legalization for All / No More Deportations
– Tax the Rich
– Medicare for All
– Climate Action Now
– Fight to Expand Union and Worker Rights
– We Demand Peace, Justice, and Equality!”
Our solidarity will be based on respect for a diversity of tactics, and the plans of other groups.
The press conference is Thursday, April 4th, 6:30 PM at Milwaukee City Hall.
Coalition to March on the DNC
