Defend Durham

200 E Main Street, Durham, North Carolina, 6 P.M. 

On February 19, Takiyah Thompson + 7 other anti-racist freedom fighters are going to trial to face charges connected to the toppling of a confederate monument in Durham. We’ll be packing the court all day in support of our folks — Pack the Courts to Defend Durham!

We invite the community to come out and join us in the evening for a solidarity march and rally to greet the defendants as they leave trial (it’ll be a long day!).

Local activists and community members will speak out against the real crimes of this society: gentrification and displacement, police killings and brutality, jail deaths and incarceration, deportations, and all of the countless attacks on people of color, LGBTQ people, women, and all working class people.

Join us in demanding that all charges against Takiyah Thompson and the 7 anti-racist defendants be DROPPED!

FIGHTING WHITE SUPREMACY IS NOT A CRIME!
DROP THE CHARGES!

Co-sponsors of February 19 #DefendDurham actions include:
Durham Solidarity Center
Youth Organizing Institute
Durham Beyond Policing
People’s Alliance
RedneckRevolt
Resource Generation – North Carolina Chapter
Workers World Party
…with more pending!

Get in touch if your organization would like to sign on as a co-sponsor!

Photo: WI BOPM

WI BOPM Healthcare Not Warfare Half Sheet February 2018

Wisconsin Bail Out The People Movement

Democrats must resist Trump’s attempts to use the DACA crisis he created to return the immigration system to the Jim Crow era

http://vdlf.org/

MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN – The Senate is debating protections for 1.8 million immigrant young people left vulnerable to deportation by President Trump’s cruel decision to end DACA. Republicans have proposed various bills that aim to use the crisis created by Trump to advance an anti-immigrant, white nationalist agenda that would severely restrict legal immigration, restrict family reunification, and privilege white European immigrants. Voces de la Frontera issued the following statement on the debate so far:

“Trump and Stephen Miller are holding immigrant youth hostage, and they’re hoping to force Democrats to roll the immigration system back to the Jim Crow era in exchange for protections for immigrant youth,” said Christine Neumann-Ortiz, Executive Director of Voces de la Frontera. “And Democrats must not give in. We urge Senator Baldwin to urge Chuck Schumer and the Democratic Senators to not trade protections for immigrant youth, which are supported by over 80% of voters, in exchange for a bigoted, unpopular wall, or for cruel cuts to legal immigration that would stop families from reuniting. If Democrats cannot get a bill that only protects immigrant youth, and doesn’t harm millions of other people, it is better to have no bill at all, and to pass a clean Dream Act after the 2018 elections.”

“Safety for immigrant young people like me must not come at the expense of millions of immigrant families,” said Alejandra Gonzalez, a college student and DACA recipient from Milwaukee. “A vote for these Trump bills is a vote to separate families. Senator Baldwin and Senator Schumer must stand up for our values and not settle for a white nationalist bill that would separate millions of families.”

Tuesday, February 13, 2018 http://vdlf.org/the-gop-has-taken-immigrant-youth-hostage/

Hosted by Youth Empowered in the Struggle (YES)

Black History Month Rally #BlackLivesMatter (YES)

2119 Rapids Dr, Racine, William Horlick High School (Flagpole), 3-4 P.M.

As we wrap up our celebration of Black History Month, YES is inviting all sudents and the community to our rally at Horlick High School. We acknowledge that students of color continue to face racial injustice and discrimination in school and it is only in the spirits of the greatest civil rights icons that we bring these issues to the forefront. Black students of Horlick have come together and identified issues within the school and will be presenting the demands to the Racine Unified School District. Black History Month Rally #BlackLivesMatter (YES)

We stand firmly against police brutality in all of its forms and stand in solidarity with the Shannon family in the recent murder of Donte Shannon. We must not let Donte die in vain; we cannot allow for anymore Trayvon Martins, Mike Browns, Sandra Blands, Tamir Rices, Freddie Grays, Eric Garners, Donte Shannons and any other victims of police brutality.#BlackLivesMatter

Black History Month Rally #BlackLivesMatter (YES)

Clean Dream Act & TPS Resolution LETTERHEAD – Adopted by SF Labor Council 02-12-18ResSptCleanDREAMAct2

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Resolution adopted unanimously by the San Francisco Labor Council (AFL-CIO) on February 12, 2018

For a Clean Dream Act Now and a Path to Citizenship for all Undocumented Youth! Not One More Deportation! No Funding for the Wall of Shame, No More Funding for Immigration Enforcement!  Stop the I-9 Audits! No Workplace Raids! Defend Our Sanctuary Cities!  Maintain TPS!

Whereas, on Feb. 9, 2018, both houses of the U.S. Congress adopted a budget for the upcoming fiscal year that does not include any protections for the close to 800,000 undocumented youth (Dreamers) brought to this country when they were children;

Whereas, United We Dream and thousands of undocumented youth organized actions and lobbied Congress in support of a Clean Dream Act — that is, continued protections and a path to citizenship for the 800,000 undocumented youth, WITHOUT any funding for the Wall of Shame and WITHOUT any further funding for ICE immigration enforcement;

Whereas, March 5, 2018, has been set as the deadline by the Trump administration for the adoption of any legislation that would extend DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals);

Whereas, House Speaker Paul Ryan — taking his lead from the Trump administration — has stated that any protection for undocumented youth, would require, in exchange, millions of dollars more to build the Wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and millions of dollars more for immigration enforcement;

Whereas, Sanctuary Cities — particularly in California — are under increased attack by the Trump administration;

Whereas, on Nov. 20, 2017, Trump’s Secretary of Homeland Security Elaine Duke cut off Temporary Protective Status (TPS) for 60,000 Haitians and for more than 240,000 other immigrants from 10 nations (mainly from Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua);

Whereas, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that 77 I-9 audits took place in Northern California at the end of January 2018 — audits that are expected to increase and become workplace raids and deportations if and when a deal is struck on protections for undocumented youth in exchange for increased immigration enforcement and funding for the Wall; and

Whereas, undocumented youth — just like all 11 million undocumented immigrants, and just like all hundreds of thousands of TPS recipients — are part of the U.S. working class and deserve protections and a path to citizenship through a just immigration reform; in particular, they deserve the labor movement’s protection and support.

Therefore be it resolved, that the San Francisco Labor Council reaffirms its stance in support of the following demands: “For a Clean Dream Act and a Path to Citizenship for all Undocumented Youth! Not one More Deportation, No Funding for the Wall of Shame, No More Funding for Immigration Enforcement! Stop the I-9 Audits! No Workplace Raids! Defend Our Sanctuary Cities! Maintain TPS!”

Be it further resolved, that the San Francisco Labor Council will work closely with our community partners to call on our elected representatives to take a firm and unwavering stand for a Clean Dream Act Now; and

Be it finally resolved, that the San Francisco Labor Council calls on the California Federation of Labor and the national AFL-CIO to issue statements in support of a Clean Dream Act Now and to call for mobilizations, where possible, in alliance with our immigrant sisters and brothers and their organizations, to promote the above-stated demands.

Respectfully submitted by:

Olga Miranda, SEIU Local 87; member SF Labor Council Executive Committee;  Rudy Gonzalez,   IBT 856, member SF Labor Council Executive Committee;  Susan Solomon, UESF, member SF Labor Council Executive Committee;  Alan Benjamin, OPEIU Local 29, and unanimously adopted by the San Francisco Labor Council on  February 12, 2018.

http://sflaborcouncil.org/

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Poor Peoples Campaign LETTERHEAD -sf labor resolution02-12-18Resto-Endorse-the-Effort-to-Revie-Martin-Luther-King

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San Francisco Labor Council Resolution adopted Feb. 12, 2018 by unanimous vote

RESOLUTION TO ENDORSE THE EFFORT TO REVIVE MARTIN LUTHER KING’S POOR PEOPLE’S CAMPAIGN

Whereas, a group of religious leaders, including Dr. William Barber II who spearheaded the Moral Monday campaign in North Carolina, are organizing a campaign to revive Dr. Martin Luther King’s Poor People’s Campaign of 50 years ago, and

Whereas, this campaign will focus on such issues as wages, health care, immigrant rights, gay and transgender rights, criminal justice reform, and clean water and air; and

Whereas, these religious leaders are not only reaching out to churches but also unions; and

Whereas, these leaders want to mount large demonstrations in at least 25 state capitals and other locations and will converge in Washington in June;

Whereas, this is a non-partisan effort, and

Whereas, this campaign has the potential to create a significant fight-back to the assaults of the rich, which have included tax reform that favors the rich while hurting everyone else, attacks on immigrants, transgender people in the military, Native American rights, health care rights, the environment, student loans, net neutrality, and DACA students, not to mention threatening nuclear war with North Korea, and so on;

Therefore, Be It Resolved that the San Francisco Labor Council endorse this effort and allocate significant resources to building large demonstrations if this campaign targets either the Bay Area or Sacramento; and

Be It Finally Resolved that this resolution shall be sent to Dr. William Barber of the Poor People’s Campaign.

http://sflaborcouncil.org/

Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival

Hosted by UBLAC Milwaukee

2717 E Hampshire, Plymouth Church, Milwaukee, 5-7 P.M. 

We welcome you to attend, invite, and support our next Potluck and Mass Meeting. This will be a space to continue to develop and foster relationships, connections, ideas, movement and resources. We are excited to share our work and provide a space for committees that we’ve developed based on the work going in in the city that we are a part of , leading, and supporting including:

-Department of Justice Draft Report/Community Engagement
-Intentional Student Engagement
-Civics/Democracy 101 Education Sessions
-Healing Circles
-Black Queens Beauty Shop Tours
-2018 Elections/Community Engagement

We will send out a list of items needed for the potluck. Our last pot luck was DOPE! We are excited and ready to continuing building with each of you!

Our mission:
Uplifting Black Liberation and Black Community will equip, connect, and educate Black communities with resources and opportunities that will help provide a sustainable environment free from oppressive systems. This begins by using education about potential impact on the community, and how to heal from post-traumatic slave syndrome.

Vision:
Through outreach and collaboration, UBLAC will help individuals foster understanding about liberation through knowledge and application in order to generate independent living and thinking.

Core Values:
Black Community, Sustainability, Inclusion, Justice, Dedication, Accountability, Integrity, Collaboration, Self Empowerment, Love Education, Trust.

Hosted by The Blood is at the Doorstep

1326 W Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, 7-10 P.M.

PLEASE RSVP USING THE EVENTBRITE LINK
The Blood is at the Doorstep
A feature length documentary (SXSW 2017) chronicling a family’s fight for justice after Dontre Hamilton was shot 14 times and killed by a Milwaukee Police Officer in 2014. Offering a painful, yet hopeful glimpse inside a movement born out of tragedy

A talkback session will follow the screening with Marquette Faculty members, Director: Erik Ljung and members of the Hamilton Family.

The goal of this screening is to inspire both students and community members to act upon racial injustices.

Free and open to the public

Check out the trailer: https://vimeo.com/205828363