Dominique Heaggan-Brown, the former Milwaukee police officer who fatally shot Sylville Smith during an August 2016 foot chase, was found not guilty of first-degree reckless homicide on Wednesday, June 21.
A community gathering with the family will take place at 6 p.m. June 21 at Sherman Park in Milwaukee.
Today we STRIKE! Today we #PortStrike!!!
Today we stand as the League of Working Class Heroes on picket lines spread across Southern California and at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to break the chains of debt and indentured servitude our bosses have bound us with.
Make a call to the Mayors right now.
We are vital to the American supply chain. We carry the shoes, clothes, and all the other goods you need. But greedy corporations have rigged the rules of our economy and are making all the profits while the trucking bosses make us work past exhaustion to only go in debt.
The Mayors of LA and Long Beach have heard directly from us. USA Today just released a year-long investigation of this scam at the ports and how the system is rigged. This is why we are standing up to protest unfair labor practices committed by our bosses and standing together to stop this scandal. Others have called us Working Class Heroes but we believe we are just doing what is right; #RealSuperHeroesWearVests.
Tell LA Mayor Eric Garcetti and Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia to take action and protect the public interest at the ports from the labor unrest caused by this horrible misclassification scam. It will accelerate economic revitalization throughout Southern California.
Together we will win and make the American economy work for all of us!
Bruce, Seko, Tracy & Jose
Port drivers and warehouse worker
League of Working Class Heroes
We at WI BOPM are sharing this post in solidarity with the Smith Family and all those killed and brutalized by the Milwaukee police:
Message from VM:
No matter what the verdict is tomorrow, PLEASE MEET WITH US AND THE FAMILY IN SHERMAN PARK (possibly at the tree site or the greenspace) TO OFFER SUPPORT AND FOR A POSSIBLE PRESS CONFERENCE. Any changes of location will be per the familys request once I can meet with them. Its time to go after policy and law now. Lets remember that they have NEVER convicted a cop in a death of a black man in Milwaukee. Nojustice was rendered for Jermaine Claybrooks as of yet. No justice was rendered for Jay Anderson Jr. No justice was rendered for Dontre Hamilton. No justice was rendered for Corey Stingley. The rules are set for this to happen. Its time we change the rules. Be safe and keep up with what happens next. We got charges, now we demand change.
#VilleGang #Justice4SylvilleSmith
Hosted by Milwaukee IWW
2727 W Fond du Lac Avenue, Milwaukee Public Library / 5:30 – 6:30 P.M.
Please join us to hear more about Wisconsin Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee, and help us write to prisoners. This will be an information session on the need to abolish prisons, and the current collective struggles of Wisconsin prisoner. We will also do a mass mailing to incarcerated workers to build connections between people and strengthen organizing networks. Resources for people who want to start a penpal exchange will also be offered. We will be in the large meeting room of the Center Street Library on Tuesday, June 27, 5:30-6:30 PM. Food and drinks are provided, childcare is available upon request.
Following the prisoner writing sessions, people interested in longterm involvement are welcome to also attend our biweekly IWOC meeting.
To get more involved, you can respond to this survey form, to identify activity you are able and interested in doing, we will connect you to specific tasks that can help the work along:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1jIToClitl8JErcqDRPNdOB_FY2jwgXlNncV8nVI_81E/edit
Hosted by Honduras Solidarity Network and Alliance For Global Justice
“…Britain along with other western capitalist states will continue to experience political instability in light of the growing class and sectional differences among the populations. As long as the wealthy elites enhance their status with disregard for the majority of the people within society, the mounting social contradictions will undoubtedly prompt further economic turbulence and protracted ideological conflict.”
Hosted by Milwaukee Coalition Against Trump
12 NOON, 517 E Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee / U.S. Federal Courthouse
On June 16, President Trump announced a step back to Cold War-style relations with Cuba, bringing to an end to years of openness between our two countries.
This comes at the same time that Trump and the Republicans continue to support the most violent, far-right groups in Venezuela that are fighting to end 18 years of progressive government. The U.S. military has begun to play war games off the Venezuelan coast, risking a war that could spread across the whole region.
Trump wants to bring an end to popular governments in the Americas that refuse to work in the interests of the 1%. We stand against Trump’s agenda. The peoples of Cuba and Venezuela do, too. Let’s stand with them in these struggles ahead.
Co-hosted by MCAT, the Latin American Solidarity Committee, Workers World Party and Freedom Road Socialist Organization.
Hosted by UBLAC Milwaukee
Let’s support the Smith family and show up for the trial taking place as of now from June 12-June 23rd at 9am until at the Safety Building, 821 W. State, Room 502.
