Chicago: Chicago Community Bond Fund
Madison: Freedom Fighters Legal Support
Milwaukee: Milwaukee Freedom Fund
Milwaukee: Milwaukee National Lawyers Guild
National Lawyers Guild: National Lawyers Guild or https://www.nlg.org/
We the people!!!
Always good to hit these streets.
Praying for Jacob, his family, Kenosha activists, medics, allies, supporters and orgs from all over the state and country assisting in these fights! ❤🖤💚✊🏾
Djuan Wash, BLAK, & People’s Action ya’ll did that!
#JusticeForJacob
#Kenosha
#Madison
#Chicago
#Evanston
#MKE
#BlackLivesMatterStateOfMind
***SATURDAY, AUGUST 29TH — Today’s list of actions, vigils and other relevant events is updated. Please, if you find any additional events that aren’t on the list yet, let us know so we can get them added. Also, here’s the official GoFundMe for Jacob Blake: https://gf.me/u/ytqyyz #JusticeForJacobBlake
Link for the Updated List: https://docs.google.com/…/1uLk5DYYMqlxZAbO_TAbAxxS9dS…/edit…
As always, you can find all of the event pages listed under the “Events” section of the People’s Climate Coalition FB Page.
You can (and should!) also check out the new Impact Demand event calendar: https://events.impactdemand.org/posterboard and follow the Wisconsin Bail Out The People Movement for news and actions from around the state and Rid Racism Milwaukee for a list of additional racial justice actions / events.
***#Covid19 reminder to wear a mask and gloves to all in-person events and somehow try to social distance, if possible.***
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If you can’t attend a protest, making a contribution to any of the following organizations / causes would be super helpful (you can also find more listed in the donation tab within the excel sheet):
– Legal Aid & Resources: Milwaukee Freedom Fund
– Youth Rising Up -YRU- North Division High School
– Black Leaders Organizing for Communities
– Leaders Igniting Transformation
– Love on Black Women: https://www.facebook.com/loveonblackwomen/
– The People’s Movement of Milwaukee: https://www.facebook.com/The-Peoples-Movement-of-Milwaukee-106923321057366/
– Milwaukee Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression
– Human First Project : https://gf.me/u/x79ydc
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Let me know if there are any other actions / donation pages / relevant orgs that should be added to the list. You can email me at lee.stedman.gaiacoalition@gmail.com or PM me directly on Facebook.
#BlackLivesMatter #Milwaukee #milwaukeeprotest
#JusticeForJacobBlake #GeorgeFloyd #BreonnaTaylor
#DontreHamilton #JoelAcevedo #FreeChrystul
#SayTheirNames #Juneteenth #AlvinCole
#JayAnderson #AntonioGonzales #Justice4TheeThree
#DivestFromMPD #DefundThePolice #ElijahMcMclain
#DontreHamilton #AlvinCole #SandraBland
#JasonPero #AtatianaJefferson #KorrynGaines
#JonathonTubby #AlesiaThomas #RodneyKing
#KevanRuffin #VanessaGuillen
Abolitionist John Brown delivered his last speech in a courtroom in Charles Town, West Virginia on November 2, 1859. The speech, given one month before his execution, defended his role in the action at Harper’s Ferry.
He said: “…I believe that to have interfered as I have done — as I have always freely admitted I have done — in behalf of His despised poor, was not wrong, but right. Now if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments. — I submit; so let it be done!…”
The film clip below is of Josh Brolin reading the speech on October 5, 2005, at the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center George and Sakaye Aratani Japan America Theatre, Los Angeles, Calif. The excerpt is from Voices from the People’s History of the United States edited by Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove.
Many more video clips can be found at the Voices of a People’s History website and in the film The People Speak.
“Glory, Glory” is a ballad in tribute to John Brown written by Joe DeFilippo and performed by the R.J. Phillips Band, a group of Baltimore musicians. Listen here.
“Now I’ve been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.”
— The General Harriet Tubman
Friday, 28 August 2020 4:07 PM
The claim that the American officials make about the United States not being a racist country is nothing but a “lie” because America was in fact “built on racism and genocide,” an African American journalist in Detroit says.
Abayomi Azikiwe, editor at the Pan-African News Wire, made the remark during a phone interview with Press TV on Friday while commenting on athletes that have been boycotting historic sport events in protest at the police shooting of African American Jacob Blake in Wisconsin.
The US basketball team, Milwaukee Bucks, became the first to announce it was calling off games in response to the police violence.
US Police on Sunday shot African American Jacob Blake in the back multiple times in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in front of three of his children.
The shooting of the unarmed 29-year-old, which is said to have left him paralyzed from the waist down, has since triggered protests in Kenosha as well as other cities across the country, with protesters setting buildings and cars on fire.
“This week the Republican National Convention (RNC) is taking place and all we’re hearing from the RNC is that America is not a racist country. They’re saying that it’s a lie to say that America is a racist country when in fact America was built on racism and genocide,” Azikiwe told Press TV.
“They’re saying that the economy is improving which is not the fact for millions upon millions of people in the United States,” he added. “And they are also saying that COVID-19 is not a major problem when in fact, COVID-19 has killed more people in the United States that any other nation in the world.”
Calling for voters’ vigilance and discernment ahead of the US election on November 3, Azikiwe said, “It’s important that African Americans and all conscious people be aware of what’s going on. The outcome of the elections, it is my opinion, is going to be heavily influenced by the unrest and the lockdown here in the United States.”
The United States remains the worst-hit country by the pandemic, with over six million infections and more than 185,000 deaths.
US President Donald Trump and his administration have been under fire for an untimely relaxing of lockdown measures as well as a blatant disregard for personal protection equipment since the flu-like pathogen erupted in the US early in January.
Moreover, police violence and racial injustice protests that followed the brutal murder of unarmed African American George Floyd in police custody have dealt a heavy blow to the president’s approval rating.
The 46-year-old died after a white officer knelt on his neck and pinned him to the ground for nine minutes in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 25.
His death unleashed protests against police brutality and for racial justice in the US and many world countries, rejuvenating the Black Lives Matter movement.
Press TV’s website can also be accessed at the following alternate addresses:
Manitowoc, WI August 24, 2020
