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Milwaukee, Feb. 1, 2019: Fight Back Fridays!
815 E Locust Street, Milwaukee, 4 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.
Solidarity with the struggle of the GM workers and ex-GM workers in Colombia
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Photo: Marge Schultz Sears / Michigan Coalition for Human Rights
By Autoworkers Caravan
We are outraged over General Motors’ plans for mass layoffs at its Colmotores (Bogota, Colombia) assembly plant announced on December 21, 2018 that will result in an unspecified number of workers and their families deprived of their means of existence.
GM’s method of informing the workers was especially outrageous: waiting until the last day before the Christmas holidays, and only after most workers had left the plant. In these actions, the bosses exhibit their fear of the workers whose labor has enriched GM executives and shareholders. These layoffs are part of a broad and brutal corporate “restructuring” at the expense of workers in the U.S. (Detroit, Warren, Baltimore, Lordstown), Canada (Oshawa) and other unnamed international locations.
We declare our full solidarity in the struggle against these shutdowns. The discarding of the GM Colmotores workers is consistent with that plant’s brutal treatment of the workers who’ve suffered shop floor injuries and which the company subsequently fired and robbed of their means of existence.
We declare our continued solidarity with the struggle of the injured ex-GM Colmotores workers, members of The Association of Injured Workers and Ex-Workers of General Motors Colmotores (ASOTRECOL), who have heroically maintained their protest tent encampment at the US Embassy now over 7 years. The struggle by ASOTRECOL has strengthened the struggle by recently fired injured GM Colmotores workers who the company has been forced to reinstate. The perseverance of ASOTRECOL combined with international solidarity has been instrumental in their victories.
We declare our continued solidarity with the fired injured workers who continue their fight to win their jobs back. Together with the GM workers facing layoffs and their unions Sintraime and SintraGMCol, we can form a strong united front to fight for the rights of GM workers around the world.
We will support the militant fightback by GM workers here in the USA, Canada, Colombia, Brazil and elsewhere as part of a campaign of international working class solidarity – the only means by which we can triumph against GM and the other transnational corporations.
Reflections on the 60th anniversary of the convening of the first AAPC conference in Accra
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Jan 19, 2019
After more than six decades since the gathering of the first All-African People’s Conference (AAPC) in Accra, Ghana on 8-13 December 1958, renewal of revolutionary Pan-Africanism is needed on the continent and globally.
At that time Ghana was the fountainhead of Pan-Africanism where the previous year the Convention People’s Party (CPP) and its founder Kwame Nkrumah won independence from British colonialism.
Immediately after the declaration of liberation, Nkrumah proclaimed in his inaugural speech on 6 March 1957 that the independence of Ghana “is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total independence of the African continent”. Later in mid-April 1958 the first Conference of Independent African States (CIAS) was held in Accra with eight liberated governments in attendance.
Nonetheless, the AAPC was much different in character than the CIAS. There were approximately 300 delegates in attendance representing 65 different national liberation movements, trade unions and mass organisations from 28 countries.
At the time there were nine independent African states and all of them sent representatives to the AAPC with the exception of Sudan, which had just undergone a military coup on 17 November. Leading members of the anti-racist movement in apartheid Union of South Africa were not present either since many were ensnarled in the racist legal system, which had indicted over 150 Congress movement organisers for treason in 1956.
President Maduro: Solidarity is Growing in the US and Around the World in Support of Venezuela and Against the Coup (IMAGES)
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, stressed that in the United States a great movement of solidarity with Venezuela is being waged in rejection of the coup d’état promoted by the US government against the Venezuelan nation.
This was highlighted by the national leader, Nicolas Maduro, this Saturday in reference to the concentration of the US people in front of the White House in Washington against the coup. It’s important to highlight that most of this activities in the USA were organized by Answer Coalition and the Party of Socialist Liberation, another important group of organizations and individuals join their initiative and lots of Venezuelans are very thankful for that.
He also thanked the demonstrations of solidarity expressed by the people of Spain and Turkey, in support of Venezuela, its democracy and its legitimate government and the constitution.
In the United States there were also events of solidarity in Milwaukee, Baltimore, Chicago, Los Angeles among others disregarding the subzero temperatures that are affecting these days in North America. We leave below some images and videos of the hermanos from the US, Canada, Turkey , Chile and Spain who support the Chavismo and the Bolivarian Revolution. If you have more relevant images from other cities or countries feel free to share them with us and we will post them here in further updates:
Milwaukee January 26, 2019 / Photo: WI BOPM
REPORT: In Wisconsin, Black and Native People Hardest Hit by Probation, Parole
A new report from the Columbia University Justice Lab released Tuesday (January 22) reveals that the rates of probation and parole (referred to collectively as “community corrections”) are disproportionately higher for Black and Native Americans than their White counterparts. “The Wisconsin Community Corrections Story,” commissioned by criminal justice reform advocacy group JustLeadershipUSA, focuses on Wisconsin, where the number of people under parole supervision and the length of stay exceeds the national average.
Per the study, Wisconsin has the second-highest level of racial disparity in prison incarceration nationwide, with Black people imprisoned at 11.5 times the rate of their White counterparts. For many people of color there, encounters with the criminal justice system largely stem from traffic violations and the monetary fines that follow, which “can be the beginning of a snowball effect creating structural disadvantages that make adhering to the requirements of community corrections more difficult for people of color.”
From the study:
An astonishing one in eight Black men between the ages of 18 and 64 were under community corrections supervision at the end of 2017, over five times the rate for White men. Among Native American men of the same ages, one in 11 were under community corrections supervision in 2017, a rate four times that of White men. Black women in Wisconsin are supervised at over three times the rate of White women, and Native American women are supervised at over six times the rate of White women. Wisconsin’s disparities are substantially higher than national disparities in supervision rates.
[…] at the end of 2017, Black people made up 42 percent of all people incarcerated for revocations in Wisconsin (43 percent of whom were for technical violations) even though Black people made up only 25 percent of people supervised by the Division of Community Corrections statewide. Black people were incarcerated for technical violations of supervision at a rate more than two times greater than that for White people. Revocation rates were similarly high for Native Americans, who had their supervision revoked at a rate 1.7 times higher than the rate among White people under community corrections supervision….
“U.S.: Hands Off Venezuela” Stand For Peace protest at Dr. MLK and North Avenue, January 26, 2019 Milwaukee, WI (Photo: WI BOPM)
Appleton, Feb. 5, 2019: Pathways to Recovery: Like an Animal in a Cage Voices from Solitary Confinement
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Hear the words of men and women locked in solitary confinement. Meet and talk with survivors of solitary confinement. Learn what is needed to put an end to the overuse of solitary confinement in our jails and prison.
Wisconsin holds hundreds of men and women in solitary confinement for weeks and often for months.
In 2011 the United Nations report indicated “It is clear that short-term solitary confinement can amount to torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment…prolonged solitary confinement, in excess of 15 days should be subject to an absolute prohibition.” In 2016, the UN updated the report and indicated: …that 7 of the 35 jurisdictions analyzed allow for solitary confinement to be used only for disciplinary purposes. It further found that solitary confinement is often imposed in response to remarkably minor offenses. …especially when considering duration of solitary confinement when used as a disciplinary mechanism, the U.S. imposes among the most punitive regimes of solitary confinement in the world.
Washington D.C., March 30, 2019: Mass Mobilization to Oppose NATO, War & Racism
Protest NATO, Washington, DC, Lafayette Park (across from the White House)
1 PM Saturday, March 30, 2019. Additional actions will take place on Thursday April 4 at the opening of the NATO meeting.
April 4, 2019, will mark the 51st anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., the internationally revered leader in struggles against racism, poverty and war.
And yet, in a grotesque desecration of Rev. King’s lifelong dedication to peace, this is the date that the military leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization have chosen to celebrate NATO’s 70th anniversary by holding its annual summit meeting in Washington, D.C. This is a deliberate insult to Rev. King and a clear message that Black lives and the lives of non-European humanity really do not matter.
A mass demonstration has been called to protest NATO coming to DC on March 30, 2019 at 1 PM in Lafayette Park, across from the White House. Please join us. Other events have also been called during that week, For more information and to endorse the action: http://no2nato2019.org.
Please make a donation: http://no2nato2019.org/campaigns/support-no2nato2019-mobilization-in-washington-dc/
Join and share the Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/487410295119547/
Tweet about the event with hashtag: #no2nato.
To download the flyer for the rally: click here
A Call for International Actions on the 5th Memorial Day of the Attack on the House of Trade Unions in Odessa, Ukraine. International Protests have been called
May 2, 2019, will mark five years since a right-wing mob attack on the House of Trade Unions in Odessa, Ukraine, a tragedy that resulted in the deaths of at least 42 people and more than 100 injured. Today there still is no justice in sight for the mourners of the victims. [read more]
Dozens Participate in Stand For Peace in Milwaukee January 26 to Demand that the U.S. Stay Out of Venezuela!
More photos: https://www.facebook.com/wibailoutpeople.org/
By WI BOPM
In bitter cold below zero weather, dozens of peace, anti-war, union members, students, teachers and other community members participated in the weekly Stand For Peace event in Milwaukee to demand: U.S.: Hands Off Venezuela!
Participants at the January 26 Stand For Peace, held in the heart of Milwaukee’s Black community at Dr. MLK and North Avenues, hoisted banners and placards, distributed leaflets and held a speak-out.
Members of a rainbow of organizations attended including the Communist Workers League, the End The Wars Committee, Latin American Solidarity Committee-Milwaukee, the Milwaukee Coalition Against Trump, the Milwaukee Anti-War Committee, the Party For Socialism and Liberation, Peace Action Wisconsin, Wisconsin Bail Out The People Movement, Wisconsin FRSO, the Young Peoples Resistance Committee and union members from the AFT and AFSCME.
More photos: https://www.facebook.com/wibailoutpeople.org/
Event Page: Stand for Peace: Hands off Venezuela
