http://takeemdownnola.org/

https://www.gofundme.com/take-em-down-nola

Ready to join the March on McDonald’s? Sign up for a seat on the bus from Milwaukee here!

I want to let you in on 4 BIG reasons why I #FightFor15 – and why on May 23, we’re taking that fight straight to McDonald’s doorstep with the March on McDonald’s.

1. Because 4 years ago, McDonald’s themselves ADMITTED that people need $15 an hour (and a magical, impossible budget) to make ends meet:

2. Because, in a private phone call, McDonald’s revealed their sick business model: push people to live off of public assistance instead of paying enough to survive:

3. Because, McDonald’s employees face rampant, disgusting, completely-unacceptable sexual harassment on the job – every single day:

4. Because, even after all of this, I still make too little to pay my rent and feed my kids.

Join the March on McDonald’s on May 23 in Chicago. We’re running a free bus to the march from Milwaukee – RSVP for to reserve your seat now >>

Thank you for speaking up and standing strong for the #FightFor15.

Devonte Yates
McDonald’s Employee
Fight for $15

https://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/13097

“During his speech at a massive Bolivarian May Day rally, Venezuelan President, Nicolas Maduro, has announced the convening of a National Constituent Assembly, which he described as a workers’ and communal assembly. The Venezuelan opposition has immediately rejected this as part of the “regime’s coup” and has called for an escalation of protests.

Maduro’s announcement comes after 30 days of almost continuous violent protest by the right-wing opposition in Venezuela (with the backing of Washington) with the aim of overthrowing the government. One of the main leaders of the most radical wing of the opposition, María Corina Machado, openly admitted this in an opinion article in the Ecuadorean paper El Comercio, saying, “there is a growing danger that we miss the essential point. The aim is not to hold elections within the framework of Maduro’s criminal regime. The aim is to put an end to the regime… The first step is to depose the regime”.

The world’s media have, once again, distorted the real situation on the ground in Venezuela. The picture they have painted is one of an authoritarian regime with no support using repression to stay in power against peaceful protesters. The reality is more complicated. First of all, opposition protests have been extremely violent, leading to over 30 people being killed. Just to give two examples: a woman died in Caracas after being hit in the head by a frozen water bottle thrown from a building during a Bolivarian march on April 19th; and two revolutionary worker activists in the regional Bolivarian governorship of Merida were shot on the neck and head a week ago by sharpshooters posted in opposition dominated buildings while they were taking part in a pro-government rally.The Venezuelan section of the IMT marching on May Day…”

https://www.gofundme.com/fund-our-mural-on-the-labor-center

https://www.facebook.com/YESstudents/

Help us paint pro public education mural on the Racine Labor Center

We’re excited to have gotten permission to paint a mural on the Racine Labor Center. It’s an important place for our movement. We really like the labor center because it gives Youth Empowered in the Struggle a place to meet, organize, and have fun. It’s time to breathe some creative energy into the place by painting a large pro public education mural on a wall facing the street. The image is a heart with a Janes Elementary on the top, a Public School on Main Street in Racine. The image is surrounded by the text ‘Public School is the Heart of Our Community.”

Youth Empowered in the Struggle is a High School and Middle School based organization dedicated to fighting for immigrant, student, and worker power in Racine, Milwaukee, and now Sheboygan. The organization blossomed in Racine with the help of dedicated Educators at Horlick High, right up the road from the Labor Center. Youth Empowered in the Struggle has organized student-led campaigns for a Student Bill of Rights and to make schools a safe zone for immigrant and refugee students.

Art is an important part of the movement. Youth Empowered in the Struggle students have recently been printing a lot of t shirts and posters as well as painting large banners for their actions. But sometimes teachers end up paying for supplies out of our own pockets, that’s why we are asking for help to fund this mural. We will use the money for tools to prep the wall, brushes, drop cloths, and high quality paint. The left over funds will be used to keep a stock of cloth for banners, paint, gesso, brushes, markers, screens, screen printing ink, and union made blank t shirts so we can keep making art for the movement. Art is an important tool for organizers to spread our ideas and creatively convey our messages. Help us inspire workers and students to action and shape the future of our public schools and communities.

Hosted by Workers World Party Wisconsin

EVENT: http://tinyurl.com/mzbglx7

FLIER: WWP Joe Randi Illinois Wisconsin Tour May 2017 FLIER

953 Jenifer Street, Madison, 2-4 P.M., Saturday, May 20

Join us at a public forum to discuss the origins and significance of the bloody wars raging in Syria and Yemen. Speakers will include Joe Mshahwar, a young Syrian activist with the Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice, and Randi Nord, a journalist who covers the Middle East for Geopolitics Alert.

Our panel will dig behind the headlines to address why the U.S. government is spending billions of our tax dollars to seek the violent overthrow of Syria’s democratically elected president, Bashar al-Assad, and the defeat of Yemen’s Popular Resistance Coalition. What was the real reason for Trump’s cruise missile attack on Syria’s Shayrat airbase? Why is the U.S. supporting Syrian offshoots of the very terrorist groups that Trump claims to oppose? Why is the U.S. arming Saudi Arabia with planes and bombs used to massacre tens of thousands in Yemen, one of the world’s poorest countries?

Our speakers will answer these questions as they expose the role of the western oil companies, big banks, and arms makers in promoting the continued bloodshed in Syria and Yemen. We also will discuss how we in the Midwest can build a movement to demand money for human needs, not for racism & war.

Co-Sponsored by Wisconsin Bail Out The People Movement

Joe Mshahwar on The Grass Is Greener on Riverwest Radio: http://www.riverwestradio.com/episode/the-grass-is-greener-0406-joe-mchahwar-on-us-aggression-in-syria/

Hosted by UBLAC Milwaukee

510 E. Burleigh, Holton Youth & Family Center, Milwaukee 5-7 P.M. 

We are looking forward to breaking bread with people at our next mass meeting. If you are interested in sharing a dish/or item to share please click on this link and sign up.

http://www.perfectpotluck.com/meals.php?t=PSCC3618

Last meeting we introduced people to who UBLAC is, our values, mission, and vision. Together we brainstormed some really great ideas around the work we can do in 2017 and beyond!

Come join us Sunday, May 7th at 5 p.m. to connect and build folks in our space to our mission and work towards our vision.

Mission: Uplifting Black Liberation and Black Communities (U.B.L.A.C) 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.

http://www.4thmedia.org/2017/05/may-day-2017-in-detroit-focuses-on-the-economic-crises-and-racial-oppression/

Read this article by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire, on the 2017 Detroit May Day Rally & March. The demonstration focused on a myriad of issues affecting workers and oppressed peoples locally, nationally and internationally. Participants gathered for speeches at Grand Circus Park downtown and then marched in the streets to the federal building, the federal courthouse, through the financial district, Campus Martius and then back to the original starting point. The report was published by The 4th Media based in Beijing, People’s Republic of China. According to an entry on its website: “The 4th Media is an independent media organization based in Beijing, China. The company combines a series of communication services to comprehensively build a network of new media platforms with contents that satisfy the needs of a wide and diversified audience. The website focuses particularly on young people and carries across the vision of the youth and Chinese identity while engaging in issues of global concerns, thereby intends to build a network for the youth to connect and also to be connected with the world and freely share their views with the people around the globe. The website is also a media platform to meet and encourage healthy, constructive and progressive minds for empowerment with a humble vision for a better future of the whole humanity.”

Hosted by Workers World Party

EVENT: http://tinyurl.com/mc5xvm3

You’re invited to a Workers World Party forum
AFTER MAY DAY: WHAT’S NEXT FOR THE REVOLUTIONARY RESISTANCE?

– What’s next in our battle to defend migrants and refugees against the Trump regime and ICE (“La Migra”) agents?

– How can the next phase of our movement be truly anti-imperialist and anti-war?

– How does Black Lives Matter connect with struggles to protect worker and immigrant rights?

– Defense committees as a new organizing strategy

– How can you get involved?

Dinner available after meeting for small donation.

Info: 212.627.2994
http://workers.org/