From LA4Palestine:

Emergency Women’s Rally to #FreeAhedTamimi and All Palestinian Child Prisoners!

WHEN: NOON – 2PM on Saturday, Jan 6th
WHERE: Consulate General of Israel, 11766 Wilshire Blvd, West Los Angeles, CA 90025 (near Wilshire and Barrington)

On December 6th Donald Trump announced his reckless decision to declare Jerusalem, a city with great significance to Muslims, Christians and Jews, as the capital of the occupying power, the state of Israel.

Since then 14 Palestinians have been killed to date, by the Israeli military, thousands have been injured and detained, including hundreds of children, for protesting.

One of these children is 16-year-old girl named Ahed Tamimi. Ahed was filmed slapping an Israeli soldier after they had invaded her home and shot her 15-year-old cousin, Mohammad Tamimi, in the face. Ahed, her mother and another cousin have been detained without any charges.

Please join LA4Palestine, Al-Awda: Coalition for Palestinian Right of Return, Jews for Palestinian Right of Return, Me Too March International, Idle No More So-Cal, ANSWER Coalition, March and Rally LA, California for Progress, CODEPINK: Women for Peace, Martin Luther King Coalition of Greater Los Angeles, Labor for Palestine, International Action Center, BDS LA for Justice in Palestine and others TBA.

Hosted by Women’s March WI

10 A.M. – 3 P.M., 901 N 9th Street, Milwaukee County Courthouse

From the Women’s March to the Women’s Convention, we’ve seen how powerful we are when we gather together, share space and lift each other up. While the National Women’s March anniversary event will take place in Nevada, Women’s March Chapters are organizing exciting state-specific anniversary events throughout the anniversary weekend (1/20-1/21), from marches to legislative actions to community events to voter registration drives. In Wisconsin, events are taking place in Milwaukee, Green Bay, and Eau Claire.

Women’s March WI will focus on uplifting the accomplishments of women of color and investing in the transformational work they have accomplished over the last year. In addition to a rally, there will be an opportunity to show support through donations.

Please continue to follow this page for additional details regarding the day of the event.

http://doitlikedurham.org/

1 P.M. 1927 N 4th Street, Milwaukee

Join with the MLK Jr. Justice Coalition, for its 17th annual birthday salute to the life & movement of Dr. King! This family friendly event will include speakers, music, songs, and a dramatic reading from the last day of King’s life. The event concludes with a march to the King Statue (4 blks) at 2:30pm for an open mic! PEACE-JOBS-JUSTICE-EQUALITY-UNITY & SOLIDARITY FOREVER!

Detroit Martin Luther King Day demonstration through Downtown Detroit on January 15, 2007. The march draws upon the legacy of Dr. King’s peace and social justice work. (Photo: Robert Akrawi)., a photo by Pan-African News Wire File Photos on Flickr.

http://www.tehrantimes.com/news/419857/Iran-denounces-U-S-support-for-protests-as-duplicitous-worthless

Iran denounces U.S. support for protests as ‘duplicitous’, ‘worthless’

“The great Iranian nation regards the opportunist and duplicitous support of the American officials for certain gatherings over the recent days in some Iranian cities as nothing but [part of] the deceit and hypocrisy of the U.S. administration,” ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi said on Saturday.

He condemned the “cheap, worthless and invalid” remarks by U.S. officials and said, “The Iranian people attach no value to the opportunistic remarks by American officials and [President Donald] Trump himself.”

Qassemi emphasized that the Iranian people are the main pillar of the country’s security and progress.

In a tweet on Friday, Trump made meddlesome remarks about the recent gatherings in protest against economic conditions in Iran and said the Iranian government should “respect their people’s rights, including right to express themselves. The world is watching!”

The U.S. reaction was made after groups of Iranian protesters held rallies in several cities this week to voice their anger over rising prices and unemployment.

Qassemi further said the noble Iranian nation is closely monitoring Trump’s active role in human rights violations in Palestine, Yemen and Bahrain.

The nation also remembers Trump’s “spiteful” bids to bar Iranians from entry to the United States and “the arrest of many Iranians residing in that country under baseless pretexts,” he added.

“The Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran has envisaged democratic structures to legally protect people’s civil demands, and it is completely possible to follow up on these demands within the framework of law,” the Foreign Ministry official explained.

The spokesperson pointed to nearly 70 years of interference of different U.S. administrations in the Islamic Republic’s internal affairs and said, “American officials are not in a position to sympathize with the great and wise Iranian nation.”

(Source: Press TV)

Hosted by Workers World Party Wisconsin

Location TBA, 2 P.M. 

In honor of Black Liberation Month, Workers World Party Wisconsin is hosting freedom fighter Takiyah Thompson for a community discussion about fighting all forms of capitalist white supremacy from Confederate statues to union busting and other Jim Crow austerity. Takiyah was the first of eight activists arrested in 2017 by Durham, N.C. police after organizing with the community to remove a racist confederate statue. Join us to hear from Takiyah along with local Madison/Wisconsin activists about how they are continuing to fight white supremacy, both symbolically and practically. Come share your community’s struggles and discuss how we can work toward people’s liberation together. / Event is free and open to the public

Hosted by Youth Empowered in the Struggle (YES)and Voces de la Frontera

1236 S Layton, Ascension Lutheran Church, Milwaukee, 9 A.M. – 3 P.M. 

ENGLISH BELOW

Nuestra reunión anual será sábado, el 27 de enero de 2018, de las 9am a 3pm en la Iglesia Luterana de la Ascensión (1236 S Layton Blvd en Milwaukee).

Decidiremos nuestras metas para el próximo año y elegiremos el liderazgo para Voces de la Frontera y Voces de la Frontera Action. Almuerzo y cuidado de niños otorgados.

Platicaremos de nuestra lucha por el Dream Act, las campañas para detener AB190 y 287g y las elecciones de 2018.

El tiempo de hacer nominaciones para la Mesas Directivas de Voces de la Frontera y Voces de la Frontera Acción es ampliado hasta el 2 de enero. Debe haber sido miembro por más de un año y estar actualizado en su cuota anual para nominar o ser nominado. Para nominarse a si mismo u otro miembro a las mesas directivas, manda un correo electrónico a Nancy Flores a nancy@vdlf.org, o llame al 608-358-0565.

¿Necesita renovar su membresía? Haga clic aquí para renovar: https://voces.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=5

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Our Annual Meeting will be on January 27th, 2018, from 9am to 3pm at Ascension Lutheran Church (1236 S Layton Blvd in Milwaukee).

We’ll decide on our goals for the coming year and elect leadership for Voces de la Frontera and Voces de la Frontera Action. Lunch and childcare provided.

We’ll discuss our fight for the Dream Act, the campaigns to stop AB190 and 287g, and the 2018 elections.

The nominations period for the 2018 Voces de la Frontera and Voces de la Frontera Action Boards of Directors has been extended to January 2nd. You must have been a member for more than a year and be current in your dues to nominate or be nominated. To nominate yourself or another member to the Voces or the Voces Action Boards, please email Nancy Flores at nancy@vdlf.org, or call 608-358-0565.

Need to renew your membership? Click here to renew: https://voces.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=5

Hosted by Milwaukee IWW

2200 E Kenwood Avenue, UW Milwaukee Student Union 

The Milwaukee IWW will hold an Organizer Training 101 on Saturday and Sunday, January 13-14, 2018, from 9:00-5:00 both days. The training is a two day, intensive introduction to IWW-style workplace organizing and can give you the tools you need to start an organizing campaign at your job or help your friends and comrades with organizing at their jobs. This training teaches the basic organizing skills that we want all IWW members to have so that they can push the work of the organization forward.

Location is at UW-Milwaukee, student union, 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd, room 191. Space for childcare is nearby, room 181.

This training is free. Advance registration is required, please register here:
http://bit.ly/2zPW7Hp

We are excited to present the training to all interested workers. There will be a light breakfast and lunch offered both days. Dinner will not be provided. Childcare is available if we are contacted in advance, please register for childcare needs here: http://bit.ly/2hBJatQ

https://www.newsghana.com.gh/racial-matters-after-mississippi-and-alabama-debacles-trump-sinks-deeper-into-political-abyss/

By Abayomi Azikiwe
Editor, Pan-African News Wire, http://panafricannews.blogspot.com/

“Two recent major decisions by United States President Donald Trump and his advisors have rendered the 45th head-of-state much weaker in the opinion of the majority of the American people. The visit to Jackson, Mississippi for the inauguration of a museum honoring African American leaders and the president’s endorsement of Judge Roy Moore in his senate bid, have both been disastrous.

Moore, an ultra-conservative was facing allegations of sexual misconduct with minors while he was in his 30s. So confident that he would prevail in the hotly-contested race against Democrat Doug Jones, upon losing Moore refused to concede defeat.

Trump’s visit to the opening of a Civil Rights Museum in Jackson, Mississippi on December 9 was met with broad rejection by the African American people of the state and the throughout the country. Many viewed the effort as a cynical and hypocritical attempt to shed the stain of racism which has permeated his electoral campaign and administrative policies. Several African American elected officials refused to attend the event including Congressman John Lewis of Georgia, the former Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in mid-1960s…

At any rate, Trump is being revealed as a failed president. Even the conservative USA Today newspaper in an editorial published on December 14 said that he is unfit for office.

Moreover, as it relates to the overall status of the African American people, bloc voting, direct action and mass mobilizations as tactics have been used effectively since the middle 20th century to achieve short term goals both on a symbolic and substantive level. However, the strategic objectives aimed at total freedom require a far deeper institution building methodology. The necessity for fundamental transformation of the economy and political superstructure can only be achieved through independent revolutionary organization designed to create a new social order based on the acquisition of a genuinely egalitarian society.”