One year ago Berta Cáceres – renowned Honduran Indigenous and social movement leader – was assassinated. The hydroelectric company DESA, members of the Honduran military (trained by the US), and the Honduran government are implicated in her assassination.

On March 2, 2017 Representative Hank Johnson (D-GA) along with 24 other Congress members re-introduced the Berta Cáceres Human Rights in Honduras Act (H.R. 1299). Please ask your representative to co-sponsor this important piece of legislation!

Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to your representative’s office. Once connected, ask to speak with or leave a message with your representative’s Latin America policy aide.

Script Example:

“My name is _____. I am a constituent from (your city and state). I am calling to ask Representative _____ to co-sponsor H.R. 1299, The Berta Cáceres Human Rights in Honduras Act, calling for suspension of US security aid to Honduras until human rights violations committed by the Honduran security forces cease. The Honduran security forces have been implicated in repression against activists, and even though a US-trained military intelligence official has been charged in Berta’s murder, those who ordered her murder remain free, and environmental and indigenous leaders continue to be threatened, attacked, and criminalized. Can I count on Representative _____ to sign on? Please call me this week at (your phone number) to let me know if Representative _____ will sign.”

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Free off-street parking north of the church
Wheelchair accessible. Free & open to the public

A Read-In to mark the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s historic speech on April 4, 1967 – “Beyond Vietnam” – when he offered his most radical critique of racism, militarism and extreme materialism in the U.S. Dr. King was assassinated exactly one year later (April 4, 1968) on the eve of the launch of the Poor People’s Campaign which would declare poverty a human rights violation.

After the speech is presented, there will be a discussion on its meaning then and for today, including George Martin and Rev. Joseph Ellwanger, longtime activists in the civil rights movement & who worked with Dr. King. This is part of a national movement of popular education by the Movement for Black Lives, United for Peace & Justice, and Veterans for Peace. Local sponsors include: the Martin Luther King Justice Coalition, United Methodist Women, End the Wars Committee of Peace Action – WI, Vets for Peace, National Lawyers Guild, Progressive Moms of Milwaukee and UBLAC (Uplifting Black Liberation and Community).

Jan. 16, 2012 Dr. King day Milwaukee, WI.

Protesters demanding an end to right-to-work-for-less legislation and other austerity in Madison Feb. 28, 2015 [Photo: Joe Brusky]

Hosted by Young People’s Resistance Committee – UWM

Please join YPRC (formally known as YES) for our second annual Congress! We will be featuring some amazing speakers and workshops to help advance and educate organizers and activists of all experience levels.

This two-day Congress will focus on topics like campaign-building, self-care, leadership techniques, radical artmaking for the movement, and much more. The second day will include a Know Your Rights training for undocumented immigrants and the activists that fight for them.

Breakfast and lunch will be provided! We’ll be hosting a fundraiser and social on Saturday night. The link to that event can be found here: ______ A $10 donation is recommended but not required. All those who donate will receive a special edition YPRC Congress t-shirt.

A full schedule will be released shortly. Invite your friends!

Last week, after nine years on the job, I joined my 2,500 sisters and brothers of IBEW Local 3 in standing up and striking against Charter/Spectrum Cable over their continued disrespect of workers and the customers we serve. This decision was not made lightly.

For years, my coworkers and I have been targeted for punishment because we advocate for our customers. *Customers who deserve the services they were promised. We take great union pride in the work we do, but Charter/Spectrum is refusing to provide us the tools, resources and support we need to do our jobs properly.

In addition, the company has proposed drastic health care cuts for unionized workers and their families and wants to eliminate our pensions and job security. We decided we simply can no longer stay silent.

We can win. With your help we can show a Multi-Billion dollar company like Charter/Spectrum that labor and the community stand together! Here are three actions you can take now to support the fight:

1).  Sign the petition to CEO Thomas Rutledge. Tell him it’s time to show respect to workers and customers.

2).  Join a picket line near you at Charter/Spectrum pay centers.

3).  Join a mass rally in NYC on Wednesday, April 5 at the company headquarters.
In Solidarity,

Joseph Mossa
IBEW Local 3 Technician on Strike at Charter/Spectrum Communications

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Fill the courtroom and the streets!

Mumia is innocent and was framed! 35 in prison is 35 years too long!

On April 24, Mumia Abu-Jamal’s birthday, there will be a court hearing on his PCRA (Post-Conviction Relief Act) petition in Pennsylvania courts. This is an action to overturn all of the PA Supreme Court decisions from 1995-2008 that denied him freedom despite the evidence that the police and prosecution manufactured the “proof” of his guilt and suppressed evidence of his innocence.

This latest legal challenge is based on the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Williams case, which ruled that an appellate judge cannot participate in a case in which he formerly had a personal role in a significant prosecutorial decision. Ronald Castille was the District Attorney responsible for opposing Mumia’s 1989 appeal of his trial conviction and death sentence. Then, after being elected to PA Supreme Court in 1994, Castille ruled against Mumia in every appeal brought before him critical of the actions of his former DA’s office. Castille ran for election to the PA Supreme Court bragging that 45 men (including Abu-Jamal) were sentenced to death by his DA’s office and that he was financed by and had been honored by the FOP as “Man of the Year.”

We call for Mumia’s immediate release from prison!

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Mumia Abu-Jamal’s audio tribute to “Sister Warriors” — Pam Africa, Ramona Africa & Monica Moorehead featuring video footage from People’s Video Network and additional editing from Taryn Fivek.

Sue Davis, a member of the National Writers Union, who initiated the NWU petition in 2015 wrote this letter today April 2, 2017.

Dear NEC and NEB,

I wanted to share the news that our petition, passed at the 2015 Delegate Assembly, along with five other union petitions, thousands of thousands of phone calls, many street actions and strong international solidarity calling for hep C treatment for Mumia Abu, contributed to winning lifesaving treatment for Mumia Abu-Jamal. At the same time “The doctor shared the results of [Mumia’s] recent lab test, which showed clear signs of cirrhosis, an irreversible scarring of the liver caused by his untreated Hep C.” That means Mumia could develop liver cancer or his liver could fail and he would need a transplant.

This is an important victory in Mumia’s case, which has repercussions for all prisoners in the U.S. who have hep C and for all people in the U.S. and around the world with it. I’m so proud that the NWU was part of this important struggle for one of our members, honorary now and part of the Philly Chapter when the chapter was able to pay for him. Let’s celebrate with “a virtual group hug,” knowing at the same time that the struggle continues to free Mumia. On April 24, which is Mumia’s birthday, he will be in court to “take advantage of the recent Supreme Court ruling in Williams v. Commonwealth to show how judicial and prosecutorial bias in all of Mumia’s state appeals have kept him behind bars.” Even though it’s impossible for many of us to be in court supporting Mumia that day, we can send him birthday cards and wish him success on this timely development in his case. Know that “success” means Mumia could finally be set free after 35 years in jail (after a trial riddled with racism from biased jury selection to glaring oversight of critical evidence and testimony and appeals) with nearly 30 years on death row. Free Mumia, the voice of the voiceless!

Solidarity forever,

Susan Davis

Mumia Abu-Jamal

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