Have you invited friends and family? Let’s make this the biggest MTEA contingent yet!
#unionstrong — at Ziedler-Union Square.
Milwaukee Teachers’ Education AssociationCelebrate Labor Day with MTEA!
Milwaukee Area Labor CouncilLabor Fest 2018
Celebrate with your union brothers and sisters and community members around the state as we honor all who labor. On Labor Day, we remember the achievements of the union movement and pledge to keep up the fight for safe workplaces, livable wages and a fair economy that works for all of us.
List of events here: http://wisaflcio.typepad.com/
Hosted by Milwaukee Area Labor Council
Young Workers Committee Happy Hour
2461 S St. Clair Street, Milwaukee, 7-11 P.M.
Join the Young Workers Committee of the Milwaukee Area Labor Council for a night of solidarity and socializing for under-40 workers.
Enjoy free food and drinks while you find out ways to get active in the labor movement!
Listen to the Sat. Aug. 25, 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 passing of Egyptian marxist scholar and consultant Samir Amin; there have been more reported cases of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC); the Constitutional Court in Zimbabwe has upheld the victory of incumbent President Emmerson Mnangagwa paving the way for his inauguration for a full term as head-of-state; and the Ugandan government has charged Member of Parliament Bobbi Wine with treason. In the second hour we commemorate Black August with a rare archived interview with political prisoner George Jackson from 1971. Finally we continue our tribute to Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin on the eve of memorial services which will be held this coming week in Detroit.
Hosted by Milwaukee County Progressives No Palestine Exception
Black August Film: Visions of Abolition
1001 E Keefe Avenue, Milwaukee, 6:30 P.M.
Black August Friday Freedom Flick
*** Visions of Abolition: From Critical Resistance To A New Way Of Life ***
++ Discussion afterwards
++ Free and open to all interested. Dedicated to strengthening movements for peace, freedom & liberation.
++ Wheelchair Accessibility: via portable temporary ramp into first floor where movies will be shown.
https://www.visionsofabolition.org
Visions of Abolition is a new feature length documentary about the prison industrial complex and the prison abolition movement.
Part I “Breaking down the Prison Industrial Complex” weaves together the voices of women caught in the criminal justice system, and leading scholars of prison abolition, examining the racial and gendered violence of the prison system. Our film features the work of Susan Burton, a formerly incarcerated mother who established A New Way of Life, a group of transition homes for women coming home from prison in South Los Angeles (39 mins).
Part II “Abolition: Past Present and Future,” documents the recent history of the prison abolition movement through the organizing efforts of Critical Resistance and explores the meaning of abolitionist politics. By focusing on the collaboration between Critical Resistance and A New Way of Life, (known as the L.E.A.D. Project) the second half of the film unfolds a vision of abolition in practice (48 mins).
The following statement was released by the Palestinian prisoners of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, jailed by Zionist colonialism for their role in struggling for the freedom of their people. They are among nearly 6,000 Palestinians imprisoned by the Israeli occupation today. Their solidarity comes to extend fists of resistance and hands of unity through prison bars to support the U.S. National Prison Strike, beginning August 21.
….As you enter your strike, we salute all of you and your struggle, and we urge all who are not already committed to join in the strike. We extend a special revolutionary salute to the imprisoned strugglers of the Black Liberation Movement and other liberation movements, including Mumia Abu-Jamal, whose consistent internationalism and principled struggle is known and resonates around the world. We demand the freedom of these freedom fighters in U.S. jails, from Leonard Peltier to Mutulu Shakur.
We know from our experience that it is through struggle and confrontation that true freedom can be realized. Your strike is being launched within the heart of U.S. imperialism, the greatest danger faced by our Palestinian people and the people of the world. We know that your victory will also be a victory for Palestine – just as our victories in Palestine will be a victory for all of the struggles against imperialism, racism and oppression in the United States and globally.
With revolutionary greetings,
The Palestinian prisoners of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine inside Israeli jails
The Palestinian liberated prisoners of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
20 August 2018
Graphic by Melanie Cervantes for the National Prison Strike
WHO: United Teachers Los Angeles represents more than 33,000 LAUSD educators, including teachers, librarians, counselors, nurses, psychologists, psychiatric social workers, therapists, substitutes, early childhood and adult teachers. They have been working without a contract for over one year. This strike authorization vote will allow the UTLA Board of Directors to call for a strike if one becomes necessary. Voting results are expected Aug. 31.
WHAT: After 17 months of fruitless bargaining, the California Public Employment Relations Board has declared we are at impasse with LAUSD. As UTLA demands that LAUSD stop stalling and get to mediation immediately, tens of thousands of LAUSD educators begin a strike authorization vote tomorrow that lasts through Aug. 30. UTLA has made it clear to LAUSD that we are ready and willing to meet for mediation on August 22, 23, 24, 27, 28, 29, 30, & 31. However, Supt. Austin Beutner and the district have basically ignored their legal and moral obligation to participate and refused to meet until September 27. Despite a $1.7 billion projected reserve, LAUSD refuses to make progress on key issues, including:
· Smaller class sizes
· Fair pay raise
· More nurses, counselors, psychologists, and librarians
· Less testing and more teaching
· Charter and co-location regulation
· Real support for school safety
· Community schools and support for families
· Greater stakeholder input to help magnet school conversions
· Expanded support for bilingual education
· Improved working conditions for early education and adult education teachers
Event Details: Teachers at Thomas Starr King Magnet Middle School will be casting their strike authorization votes after school. They will be available to give interviews in English and Spanish. The district has been giving out false information that UTLA opposes magnetization. UTLA does not oppose magnets. In fact, King MS is a successful school that, with the approval and input of educators, went all-magnet in 2013 and includes three on campus: Gifted Arts & Tech, Environmental STEAM and Film and Media magnets. These educators will be joined by parents who are supporting their fight for a fair contract. Visuals include: Educators, parents, exterior of school, handmade signs and ballots being cast.
Cwa MilwaukeeCWA 4603 Petition Drive for goodjobsatt
Hosted by Cwa Milwaukee
1111 Vel R Phillips Avenue, Milwaukee 11 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
The Milwaukee Bucks will be hosting a block party outside of the new Fiserv Forum this Sunday. We are in need of mobilizers to join us between 11:30am-1:30pm outside of the new arena to engage the public in our fight for a fair contract and gather signatures on the goodjobsatt petitions. There will be a ribbon cutting ceremony beginning at noon with plenty of media coverage. It would be awesome to have a large group of CWA members present!
We are fighting to keep good jobs in the USA! AT&T has promised 7000 jobs for every billion in tax breaks, but continues to lay off employees. If you are unable to attend, please sign the petition at www.goodjobsatt.org . Local 4603 members should call the office ASAP at 414 258-4010 with your shirt size if you plan on attending so we can bring your free hi vis t-shirt to the site.
