We Are All Ramona Africa

Join with us to help raise funds for Ramona Africa’s healthcare!

Ramona Africa, MOVE’s Minister of Communication, a Philadelphia-based organizer, with the International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal, and the only living survivor of the May 13, 1985 firebombing of a MOVE home in Philadelphia, has been hospitalized as a result of health complications from PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder).

Her serious condition is a direct result of the on-going government war waged on the MOVE family.

Once again, Ramona Africa is battling to survive. She is being denied urgently needed healthcare coverage!

CLOSEmsdf Picket

901 N 9th Street, Milwaukee, 11:30 A.M. – 1:30 P.M.

Why do we picket?
1. To educate people on the inhumane conditions at MSDF
2. To memorialize the 17 people who have died in MSDF since it opened.
3. To let WI taxpayers know that each day someone spends in MSDF for a crimeless rule violation it costs us $100.84 vs $40 to treat that person in the community where their job, housing & support systems stay secure.
4. Former Governor Tommy Thompson has said building MSDF was a mistake. Its time the state corrects that error.

Please join us during the lunch hour on Oct 20 on the 10th Street side of the courthouse. Respond to this post with your shirt size & we’ll bring you a #CLOSEmsdf shirt.

If you haven’t signed the petition yet yourself, please do here: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/its-time-to-close-milwaukee-secure-detention-facility-msdf

Parking is metered or nearby public lots. If you don’t mind walking a couple blocks, its often easier to find free parking on the other side of the freeway.

We’ve been holding down this monthly picket since the spring of 2017. A coalition of Milwaukee organizations have joined up to shut down MSDF. This facility is a building within a building, where captives have no access to fresh air or sunlight. They are triple bunked in lockdown cells for over 20 hours a day. There is no outdoor rec. The facility was built and is run using funds that should be used for diversionary programs to keep people out of jail, instead it’s being used to keep them on supervision under arbitrary and vindictive probation and parole officers.

We are organizing this protest on every 23rd (unless that lands on a weekend, when there’s less foot traffic). The National Religious Campaign Against Torture has called for actions on the 23rd of every month (to bring attention to 23 hour a day lockdowns). http://www.nrcat.org/about-us/take-action-current-legislation/563-together-to-end-solitary

Hosted by Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association and Riverwest Public House Cooperative

Fight Back Friday!

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.

Walkout Against Sexual Assault #CancelKavanaugh

MADISON

UW Madison Library Mall, 4 P.M. 

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MILWAUKEE

Emergency Rally: Stop Kavanaugh! Believe Women!

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Stand With Survivors! Emergency Rally

OSHKOSH 

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Reject Kavanaugh! National Day of Action

UW Parkside, Kenosha, Student Center outside, 12 p.m. – 2 p.m. 

https://tinyurl.com/y9uqq84k

Miguel Diaz-Canal Bermudez addressed over 2,000 people at Riverside Church

Making his first visit to the United States as head-of-state, Republic of Cuba President Miguel Diaz-Canal Bermudez delivered an impassioned speech before the 73^rd Ordinary Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on September 26.

Defending the sovereignty of Cuba and other states throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, Diaz-Canal emphasized that the nations within the region had a right to adopt the political and economic system of their choice. 

The address appeared to be a refutation on the character of the speech given by U.S. President Donald Trump one day earlier. Trump launched a tirade against Venezuela and Cuba stating that socialism was a failed system. 

Nonetheless, the newly-elected Cuban leader recounted the advances of socialism and the specific exploitative character of capitalism. He noted the increasing gap between the rich and poor along with the human deprivation so widespread in the contemporary world where resources are horded by a small group of billionaires squandering precious material wealth on weapons of war and conquest.

Although relations between Cuba and the U.S. were restored on July 20, 2015 after the severing of ties at the aegis of Washington in 1961, the economic blockade against Havana remains intact. Although former U.S. President Barack Obama led the initiative to re-establish diplomatic ties, his predecessor Donald J. Trump has escalated hostile rhetoric towards Cuba.

This diplomatic break in 1961 took place amid numerous attempts by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to overthrow the revolutionary government then led by Prime Minister and later President Fidel Castro Ruz (1926-2016). Fidel handed over power to his younger brother Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Raul Castro in 2006. He had maintained control of the council of state and ministers until April 19 of this year. Raul remains First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC)).

Emergency Rally: Stop Kavanaugh! Believe Women!

Young People’s Resistance Committee‎

Federal Court Building, 517 E Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, 6 P.M.

https://tinyurl.com/y77b9y2m

Note: The following paper was delivered in part at the Workers World conference on the Chinese Revolution held on August 29, 2009 in Detroit. We are republishing this document in 2018 in recognition of the 69^th anniversary of the Chinese Revolution of October 1949.

We should note that in recent years the role of the People’s Republic of China largely characterized by Beijing’s Belt and Road initiative has changed dramatically in relation to what is reviewed and analyzed in this article. 

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Since the Chinese Revolution and the ascendancy of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in October of 1949, the role of this nation in the struggle of colonized, semi-colonized and neo-colonized countries has been tremendous. One of the significant contributions of the revolution of 1949 is that it took place in a nation that had been subjected to the domination of both British and Japanese imperialism during the 19th and 20th centuries.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/

UAO & UWO SDS Presents: Oshkosh Police Accountability Workshop

Reeve Union 212B, 748 Algoma Blvd., UW Oshkosh, 6 p.m.