Voces de la Frontera

1515 W Lapham, South Division High School, Milwaukee

ENGLISH BELOW

Esta es nuestra reunión de estrategia más importante del año. Planificaremos los próximos pasos en la campaña para restaurar las licencias de conducir y la matrícula estatal para los inmigrantes de Wisconsin y haremos planes para aumentar nuestra resistencia a Trump y luchar por las familias en 2019. También tendremos elecciones para nuestro Comité Coordinador Estatal.

La Asamblea Anual es el sábado, 19 de enero, en South Division High School (1515 W Lapham Blvd, Milwaukee, WI 53204), y comienza a las 9 am.

AGENDA PRELIMINAR:
9:00 am – 9:30 am Registración, café y repostería.
9:30 am – 10:00 am Bienvenida / Agenda
10:00 am – 10:15 am 2018 Informes y logros
10:15 am – 10:30 am 501c4 Reporte de Voces de la Frontera Acción de
10:30 am – 12:00 pm Plenaria: La restauración del acceso a licencias de conducir y las luchas locales, estatales y federales
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Almuerzo trabajando para grupos pequeños (almuerzo incluído)
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Reportes de grupos pequeños
2:00 pm – 2:30 pm Elecciones para el Comité Coordinador Estatal
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm Cierre y evaluaciones

La reunión está abierta al público pero solamente los miembros pueden votar. Debe haber sido miembro por un año o más para votar en las elecciones del Comité Coordinador. Habrá cuidado de niños, almuerzo y bocadillos. Visite vdlf.org/es/asambleaanual2019 para confirmar su presencia y comparta el evento en Facebook.

Si su membresía se ha vencido, ¡ayúdenos a continuar la lucha por los derechos de los trabajadores, inmigrantes y estudiantes por renovar su membresía! Visita https://voces.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=5 para renovar. Si su membresía está vigente, ¡gracias por su apoyo! ¿No está seguro sobre el estado de su membresía? Llámenos al (414) 643-1620.

¡Nos vemos en la junta de membresía anual el 19 de enero!

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Please join us at our Annual Membership Meeting on Saturday, January 19, 2018 at South Division High School, 1515 W Lapham Blvd, Milwaukee, WI 53204.

This is a critical meeting where we hold elections for the Statewide Coordinating Committee and chart a course for 2019 through dialogue and strategic planning. We’ll plan strategy for our campaign to restore driver licenses and in-state tuition for immigrant Wisconsinites, and we’ll make plans to escalate our resistance to Trump and our fight for immigrant families in 2019.

PRELIMINARY AGENDA:
9:00 am – 9:30 am Registration, coffee and pastries
9:30 am – 10:00 am Welcome/Agenda
10:00 am – 10:15am 2018 Reports & Accomplishments
10:15 am – 10:30 am 501c4 Voces de la Frontera Action Report
10:30 am – 12:00 pm Plenary: Restoring Access to Driver Licenses and Current Local, State, and Federal Fights
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Working Lunch for Break-Out Groups (lunch provided)
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Small Group Report Out
2:00 pm – 2:30 pm Board Elections
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm Closing & Evaluations

The meeting is open to the public but only members can vote. You must have been a member for a year or more to vote in Steering Committee elections. Childcare, lunch, and snacks will be provided. Please visit vdlf.org/annualassembly2019 to RSVP and share the event on Facebook.

If your membership is expired, help us continue the fight for worker, immigrant and student rights by renewing your membership! Visit https://voces.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=5 to renew. If you are current, thank you for your support! Not sure about your membership status? Call us at (414) 643-1620.

See you at the Annual Assembly on January 19th!

Rally&March – Socialist Feminist Contingent at WI Women’s March

Join the Socialist Feminist Contingent as we march from Library Mall to the Capitol steps following a pre-rally to the Women’s March. Join us in demanding:

1. Defend Roe v Wade from Kavanaugh and the GOP! Fight for full abortion rights!

2. Medicare for All / Badger Care for All including universal, free access to high-quality reproductive healthcare, full LGTBQ-specific care (gender affirming surgery, hormones, mental wellness, etc), childcare and eldercare.

3. Labor Rights are Women’s Rights – Restore, Defend and Improve Union Rights! Repeal Act 10 and overturn Right-to-Work Nationwide! Survivors of Sexual Harassment are in a stronger position to come forward and seek justice and restitution when protected by a labor union. Unions can play a powerful role organizing and educating the public against rape culture, not just in the workplace but throughout society. This also means fighting for strong unions controlled democratically by their rank and file members.

4. Build a movement in every workplace and school to fight sexual harassment like McDonald’s and Google workers! Corporate HR departments exist to defend the bosses! Defend Title IX!

We are expecting a huge turnout for the January 19th Women’s March fueled by a tumultuous year of #MeToo, the appointment and confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, courageous teacher’s strikes across 6 states, and employee walkouts at both McDonalds and Google to protest sexual harassment along with continued attacks on LGBTQ people, immigrants and people of color. Feminism, women’s healthcare, and women in the workplace are at the forefront of public consciousness, and the popularity of socialist ideas is growing right alongside them. We have an opportunity right now to organize around demands to improve the lives of working class women, people of color and LGBTQ people in Wisconsin and throughout the country.

Below is a list of demands we have begun petitioning on in the Madison community. It is our goal to create a contingent within the Women’s March to represent these demands, gain awareness for them, and help build a movement capable of winning transformative change. If we gain enough signatures, we would like to present our petition to Governor Evers to make clear that working and oppressed people in Wisconsin are prepared to fight back against the GOP and corporate politics on behalf of our own interests..

Endorsing Organizations
Madison Socialist Alternative
YDSA – UW Madison
IWW Madison GMB
Madison IWW GDC
International Socialist Organization – Madison
Peregrine Forum
Party for Socialism and Liberation – Madison

Please help us expand this list! Ask your organizations to endorse the Socialist Feminist Contingent and help us build to demand justice for working class women, people of color and LGBTQ folks!

Women’s March WI

Women’s March in Wisconsin (Official Chapter)

Madison, WI State Capitol, 10 A.M. – 12 NOON

We are outraged. We are organized. They forgot that millions of women and allies lit the world on fire two years ago and again this past January. This past midterm women won in record numbers.

On January 19, 2019, we will be back on the steps of the Capitol – with a legislative agenda – to remind our legislators we have had ENOUGH of sexist, racist, xenophobic, anti-Semitic, ableist, homophobic and transphobic policies and actions! We will continue to resist and put an end to oppression and white supremacy in all its forms.

#WOMENSWAVE

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Listen to the Sun. Jan. 13, 2019 special 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 call by the Southern African Development Community (SADC) for the formation of a government of national unity in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC); demonstrations are continuing in the Republic of Sudan over economic issues gripping the oil-rich nation; Hamas has said that it will respond to any further Israeli attacks on its territory; and Syria claims it is not intimidated at all by recent airstrikes by the Israeli Air Force. In the second and third hours we continue our focus on the upcoming 90th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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January 12, 2019 Edition: https://bit.ly/2W0hU8e

https://bit.ly/2QQl1vn

This same analytical review by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire, examining some aspects of events taking place in several African Union member-states during 2018, was also reprinted by allafrica.com. Azikiwe looks back at the impact of imperialist militarism and the legacy of colonialism and neo-colonialism and its impact on efforts aimed at genuine and sustainable economic reconstruction. According to its website: “AllAfrica is a voice of, by and about Africa – aggregating, producing and distributing 600 news and information items daily from over 140 African news organizations and our own reporters to an African and global public. We operate from Cape Town, Dakar, Abuja, Monrovia, Nairobi and Washington DC.”

https://bit.ly/2Fw0fQq

https://www.presstv.com/

Marzieh Hashemi, a journalist and anchor working for Iran’s English-language Press TV television news network, has been detained and imprisoned in the United States for unspecified reasons.

American-born Hashemi, most famous for anchoring news programs and presenting shows for Press TV, was detained upon arrival at St. Louis Lambert International Airport in St. Louis, Missouri, on Sunday, her family and friends said.

Press TV has learned that she was transferred by the FBI to a detention facility in Washington, DC. The US officials have so far refused to provide any reasons for her apprehension either to her or her family.

The Associated Press (AP) said a call to the FBI rang unanswered early on Wednesday morning. The bureau did not immediately respond to a written request for comment, it added.

Hashemi, born Melanie Franklin, had arrived in the US to visit her ill brother and other family members.

Her relatives were unable to contact her, and she was allowed to contact her daughter only two days after her arrest.

Mistreatment in US jail

Hashemi, who has been living in Iran for years and is a Muslim convert, has told her daughter that she was handcuffed and shackled and was being treated like a criminal.

The journalist also said that she had her hijab forcibly removed, and was photographed without her headscarf upon arrival at the prison.

Hashemi has only been allowed to wear a T-shirt, and is currently using another one to cover her head.

Furthermore, she has been offered only pork as meal – which is forbidden under Islamic law – and even denied bread and any other halal food after refusing to consume the meat.

Hashemi told her daughter that the only food she has had over the past two days has been a packet of crackers.

Hashemi’s family members and media activists have launched a social media campaign with the hashtags #FreeMarziehHashemi and #Pray4MarziehHashemi in support of the detained journalist.

Activists unite in support of Marzieh

Meanwhile, activists have launched a campaign to urge the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention to request their immediate intervention in the detained journalist’s case.

The Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) said it had already has written to the UN Rapporteur on Arbitrary Detention with regard to Ms. Hashemi’s imprisonment.

https://www.presstv.com/

UTLA

Across Los Angeles students are joining picket lines with their teachers. Here at Hamilton high school you can see the picketline full of students who are supporting this strike for the schools LA students deserve.#UTLAStrong #LAUSDStrong

#WeAreLA #redFored #StopStarvingOurPublicSchool #allin4respect #StopTheBillionairePrivatizers #kidsfirst #wearepublicschools #ArmMeWith #schoolslastudentsdeserve #LAUSD #HandsOffOurSchools #TeacherStrike
#StudentsDeserve #StudentsnotSuspects #union #Teacher

Look who joined us this morning on the picketline, Steven Van Zandt. Fighting for the heart of public education, fighting for our students, fighting for the schools our students deserve. #LAUSDStrike #UTLAStrong

Day 2 of Strike, January 15, 2019, Tens of Thousands of Educators, Students and Supporters Take To The Streets Of Los Angeles During UTLA Strike

MTEA Call to Action: SPB Committee Meeting

5225 W Vliet, Milwaukee, 6:30 – 9:30 P.M.

This Thursday, January 17, let’s pack the MPS Central Office auditorium as the School Board’s Strategic Planning & Budget (SPB) Committee takes up budget parameters, including raises and benefit changes.

WEAR GREEN and come show your support for a fair budget that respects students and educators.

https://bit.ly/2FxiRzM

https://fighting-words.net/

Over 200 protestors from multiple labor and community organizations gathered outside the Wisconsin state capitol in Madison on January 12 to confront about 30 members of the fascist militia grouping The Three Percent United Patriots and the right-wing propaganda entity The Free Men Report. Members from multiple socialist tendencies, including the Communist Workers League, confronted the racist scum.

Earlier this month, the International Socialist Organization – Madison called the counterprotest in response to the fascists’ plans for their recruitment and consolidation rally and in swift order organizations such as the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), the Chicago Solidarity Center, In Defense Of Our Lives, the Latin American Solidarity Committee-Milwaukee, the Detroit-based Moratorium Now Coalition and MECAWI, Thee Fond du Lac Underclass and the Wisconsin Bail Out the People Movement endorsed the counterprotest.

With only days to organize the counterprotest, members of the peoples’ organizations met for two well-attended organizing meetings, distributed and posted thousands of leaflets, created and shared social media posts and engaged in other outreach that made clear the workers and oppressed of Wisconsin need jobs, education and other needs fulfilled, not racist hate.

The evening before the counterprotest, dozens of peoples’ organizers met at the Labor Temple in Madison for work and orientation sessions. The Labor Temple houses numerous union and community organizations, contains fabulous murals of workers struggles and is generally imbued with the class struggle history of working and oppressed peoples….

Jobs and education, not racist hate!

https://fighting-words.net/