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Coworker.org: Build A Better Workplace
Coworker.org allows you to start, run, and win campaigns to change your workplace. Have an idea for improving your workplace? Start by creating a Coworker.org petition and talking to your coworkers about your campaign. Every day, people are launching and joining campaigns around issues large and small — from improving an office breakroom to providing paid sick leave to employees. Anything is possible when coworkers join together.
Chicago, December 1, 2018: People’s Thanksgiving Dinner
Universal Healthcare in Africa Is a Necessity for Genuine Development
https://bit.ly/2qxCBcX
Conference in South Africa raises issues on whether the approach should be private or state-driven
Global Research, November 07, 2018
Public sector versus private sector approaches
By providing this glimpse into the healthcare crisis in AU member-states, it points in the direction of the desperate need for a UHC system across the continent. Even though there has been substantial growth in various nations and regions of Africa over the previous two decades, these levels of economic expansion can in no way be considered sustainable based upon the continuing dependency of the region on the trade in energy resources, strategic minerals and agricultural products.
In fact the reemergence of the African debt quagmire in recent years is directly linked to the decline in commodity prices on the global market which is still dominated by the western imperialist countries. Moreover, the fragility of neo-colonial dominated states is reflected in the often precarious social positions of healthcare professionals.
Leading African states such as South Africa, Zimbabwe, Kenya and Nigeria have experienced low salaries for nurses, physicians and medical researchers. Many of these healthcare workers have engaged in strikes demanding the regular payment of salaries, higher wages and improved conditions of employment. Other professionals operating in the medical fields have been recruited to work in the capitalist countries of Europe and North America, further hampering the ability of AU member-states to address the monumental healthcare problems on the continent.
As discussed at the beginning of this report, South Africa provides a clear example of the burden facing the public sector in regard to providing medical services for the working class and impoverished. Other governments in Africa are facing similar situations which necessitate the strengthening of state structures. Private for profit healthcare schemes can and do have a role to play. Nevertheless, as is illustrated in the U.S., millions will go without any medical insurance coverage if profit-making is allowed to determine how healthcare systems are administered.
The healthcare crisis in Africa is inextricably connected to the struggle against the legacy of colonialism and neo-colonialism. Any genuine development strategy cannot be successful without the maintenance of a healthy and productive youth population, workforce and senior sectors of the population.
Abayomi Azikiwe is the editor of Pan-African News Wire. He is a frequent contributor to Global Research.
https://panafricannews.blogspot.com/
Milwaukee, November 15, 2018: Young Worker Committee Monthly Meeting
Young Worker Committee Monthly Meeting
The Young Workers Committee meets the Third Thursday of the month at 7:00pm. Join us for our next meeting!
Milwaukee Area Labor Council- Yatchak Hall
633 S. Hawley Rd. Milwaukee
The Young Workers Committee is a group for under-40 workers to meet other union activists and leaders, build leadership and organization, and sharpen knowledge and skills to revive unionism for today’s working class. We organize trainings, discussions, socials, and support workplace actions such as strikes and pickets in order to help rebuild union culture and build working class power among young workers.
Non-union represented workers who are interested in the benefits of a union or who want to learn how to organize their workplace are welcome to attend!
UW-Milwaukee, November 14, 2018: Venezuela Under Siege: Challenges from Within and Without
Venezuela Under Siege: Challenges from Within and Without
2200 E Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, UW Student Union Rm. 191, 6:30 P.M.
Free and open to the public
Milwaukee, November 18: Transgender Day of Remembrance
People’s Movement Defeats Anti-Worker Racist Scott Walker, the Class Struggle Continues…
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Milwaukee, November 8, 2018: Public Testimony for National BLM Week of Action in Schools
Public Testimony for National BLM Week of Action in Schools
Hosted by MICAH-Milwaukee
5225 W Vliet, Milwaukee, 6:30 – 8:30 P.M.
A resolution supporting National BLM Week of Action in Schools is scheduled to be heard at SASI committee meeting. Public testimony will be allowed. Please join MICAH as we support the MTEA Black Caucus and come out to testify about the importance of supporting this week district-wide. Please plan to attend. Wear a BLM t-shirt or MICAH t-shirt. Consider testimony.
Justice for Kionte Spencer, dead at cops’ hands
https://fighting-words.net/2018/11/01/justice-for-kionte-spencer-dead-at-cops-hands/
The lessons we learned are unfortunately not new for any oppressed or marginalized persons in the so-called U.S.
Pursuing justice through the “appropriate” channels (petitioning and pleading to RCPD, Roanoke County Board of Supervisors, Virginia Governor McAuliffe, and U.S. Attorney/DOJ) for a young Black student killed by cops brought zero accountability, transparency or justice.
It did, however, expose the system and their sham process to us.
White supremacy is in embedded in the police institutions (including the RCPD) regardless of specific cops and their personal tendencies. This was glaringly illustrated in April 2017, when a white guy twice Spencer’s size and age (Kyle Waldron) was pulled over for a DUI on the same street Kionte was killed (Electric Road), pointed a loaded REAL gun at cops, even fired a shot, and the RCPD managed not to kill him.
We cannot depend on the state to keep us safe or be held accountable for their violence against us, as the system protects itself and those who occupy those positions.
Roanoke County Police withheld the names of the officers who were responsible and involved, withheld the multiple dashcam videos from the public and Spencer’s living family (only playing a compilation of edited footage for his brother when faced with legal pressure from the ACLU) and faced no official consequences. The killers are back on the streets, quite possibly trying to build false trust with kids in schools, and no doubt emboldened to do the same thing to anyone else at the cops’ own discretion.
Kionte Spencer’s life mattered. His death is a tragedy in Roanoke. The injustice of his murder is one of the reasons #WhyTheyKneel, and one of the reasons we organize.
Jason Lambert is an organizer with the Roanoke Peoples’ Power Network. This article, slightly edited here, originally appeared on the group’s website at tinyurl.com/yalazuhh.
