The Tempest

2400 E Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, 2 – 5 P.M. 

On Sunday November 18th, Riverwest Radio is banding together with The UWM Peck School Of The Arts on a matinée performance of “The Tempest” by William Shakespeare. With your help, Riverwest Radio’s first annual Fall fundraiser will be a great success. This is a catered event with food, refreshments, a silent auction and an opportunity to meet cast and crew. Proceeds from this event go to keeping Riverwest Radio on air. The tickets are $38 each, and payment can be made in cash, check or Paypal through riverwestradio.com online or at 824 E. Center St.

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https://incarceratedworkers.org/openaid-home

Seven people incarcerated in Toledo Correctional Institution went on strike Saturday, November 2nd). They refused to be moved into the yard for recreation time until a SWAT or SRT team moved them, and are going on hunger strike and refusing food. SWAT and SRT teams have used rubber bullets against protesters in Toledo before. They are protesting renovations to add more solitary confinement wings. In the past 2 months, the state has been trying to turn the entirety of Toledo into a lockdown institution. As a result, people have been sent to solitary because other units didn’t have room, and for minor infractions that wouldn’t have been reason to send someone to solitary confinement otherwise.

Many people in the “4B Overflow” unit in D4 North were sent there because the (lower security/not solitary confinement) 4B unit did not have enough room. People in solitary (including overflow solitary) can’t receive books, and guards in the 4B Overflow unit have been abusive, spit in food, refused to give inmates food trays or given them empty trays, and harassed Black inmates. Attempts to go through the grievance procedure have been ignored. According to a comrade on the inside, “once they finish the solitary confinement blocks, you sneeze the wrong way you’re going to the hole. Everyone in the whole institution is getting sick and tired of cops trying to lock the whole place down.”

Four of the people on strike are David Easley, Richard Harris, Elijah Bowen, and James Ward. Three others are striking, but asked to be anonymous. They’re demanding that people on the 4B Overflow unit be moved out of solitary confinement (and have asked to be moved to the A1 East unit).

Call to protest the expansion of solitary confinement, racist harassment, and the denial of food at the whims of abusive officers. They expect to be met with riot cops (SWAT and SRT), maced, and shot at with rubber bullets for doing this, and have asked that supporters on the outside phone zap in solidarity.

Mass calls this Monday, 11/5! but you can start now as well.

SAMPLE SCRIPT:

“I am calling on behalf of David Easley, Richard Harris, Elijah Bowen, and James Ward, and all others on hunger strike. We know they have been severely punished with mace and rubber bullets, and I am asking of you to ensure they are not subjected to any further abuse for their actions. I stand behind their demands against adding more solitary confinement wings, and ask that their concerns are addressed promptly. Solitary confinement is extreme and inhumane, and not a solution to overcrowding… no one should be held in solitary because your facilities are inadequate to house them otherwise. There are also reports of harassment and abuse in the 4B overflow units, and I ask that you immediately take steps to guarantee that guards are not tampering with food or denying prisoners proper meals, and lift any restrictions that would prohibit prisoners from receiving books.”

ODRC Interim Director Stuart Hudson: 614-387-0588

Ohio Correctional Institution Inspection Committee: 614-466-6649

Office of the Inspector General: 614-644-9110

Toledo Correctional Institution: 419-726-7977

Hosted by Voces de la Frontera

Waukesha Membership Meeting / Junta de membresía de Waukesha

305 E Main Street, Waukesha, 6 – 7:30 P.M. 

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Wisconsin State AFL-CIO

Join Wisconsin union members in the final days before the November 6, 2018 election as we knock on doors and make phone calls to talk to other union members about the importance of voting for candidates who will support the rights of working people. Stop into one of our union family Labor 2018 volunteer locations below!

Click here for a flyer link for schedule.

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https://www.mintpressnews.com/

By Randi Nord

Saudi Arabia has inked a deal worth $250 million in advanced espionage technologies with Israel after a series of backroom meetings, according to a recent report from Emirati outlet Al-Khaleej.

This revelation highlights the Kingdom’s increasingly aggressive spy apparatus under Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) — used to heighten attacks on journalists and dissidents living abroad, as evidenced by the recent killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

The exclusive report, obtained by the Jerusalem Post, claims that Saudi and Israeli officials held a series of secret meetings in Washington and London with the assistance of a European mediator…

The Grass is Greener-2018-11-03 Amanda Zehren: Art for Armistice Day

Amanda is a professional artist who does competitive sidewalk murals. We talk about her planned recreation of the iconic “Flower Power” photo outside Milwaukee City Hall, which she will be installing the afternoon before. Then we talk about the upcoming elections, rabbits eating carrots, and upcoming events.

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Listen to the Sat. Nov. 3, 2018 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 upcoming midterm United States elections and its implications for the future; there are major security risks for journalists on the African continent which have been highlighted over the last week; Nigerian opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has hired a former Trump consultant to assist in the upcoming national elections for 2019; Tunisia has held discussions with Italy over the plight of migrants. In the second hour we look at the three-and-a-half years long U.S.-engineered war against Yemen throughout a rebroadcast of a program from 2015 produced by Global Research News Hour. Finally we look back at the 39th anniversary of the liberation of former Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army (BLA) member Assata Shakur.

End Prison Slavery

814 W Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, 5 – 6:30 P.M. 

Two IWW members will be at Milwaukee Central Library, 814 W. Wisconsin, meeting room 2A, on Monday, November 19, 5:00-6:30 PM. They will be working on some of the activity they regularly do for the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee, supporting the campaign against arbitrary regulations at Columbia Correctional, coalition efforts to shutdown the Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility, and connecting different networks inside prison walls. Our work includes research, writing letters, data entry, and developing ideas for disrupting the horror that is the Wisconsin prison system. Come by if you want to see what’s involved with this organizing, ask questions, and maybe get involved in this. Free coffee and snacks are provided. Let us know if you need a ride to be able to attend. This gathering will be followed by our strategy meeting at 6:30, visitors are welcome to attend this as well.

If you are interested in this event and can’t make this time or location, please post in this event, message us or send an email at iwoc.milwaukee@gmail.com We will schedule the next event to work for your schedule, or followup one-on-one. Also contact us if you would need childcare, translation or other accommodations to be able to attend this event. You can also fill out this online survey to volunteer for specific tasks: https://bit.ly/2vyZam9 You can get more information on Wisconsin prison conditions and resistance to them at our website: https://wisconsinprisonvoices.org/

The Electronic Intifada:
https://electronicintifada.net/tags/lobby-usa