http://www.workers.org/j20/

http://www.workers.org/j20/

ARTICLE: http://bit.ly/2ixlBC7

“Rejecting white supremacy and embracing unity and solidarity, hundreds took to the streets on Jan. 14 in Lexington, Va., for the first-ever Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. community parade there.

“It looks like this is something the city has been waiting for for a long time. Words cannot adequately describe how things turned out on this historic day in Lexington. I think Dr. King would be pleased,” said the Rev. Reginald Early of the Randolph Street United Methodist Church, a historically Black church where the parade began and ended.

Lexington is a city of 7,000 people about two hours from Richmond, the state capital. Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee, Confederate leaders who fought for the continued enslavement of people of African descent and other people of color and opposed Reconstruction, are buried there. Numerous other Confederate shrines and history abound in the city…

A rainbow of multinational contingents and individuals joined in, filling numerous city blocks with banners, signs, songs and chants imbued with the spirit of Dr. King’s dream and hope to build a people’s world. These included soccer teams and individual players holding such signs as “Give Racism the Red Card”; the Southwest Virginia LGBTQ History Project; 15 Now and Fight For $15 from Roanoke, Va.; Quakers; the Coalition For Justice from Blacksburg, Va.; Black Lives Matter; Peoples Power Assemblies; Workers World Party; and numerous others. A variety of slogans, including “Living Wage, Jobs Not Racism” and “Unite Against State Violence,” were on signs and banners.

Participants resoundingly rejected the glorification of a history rooted in slavery and genocide, and they sent a clear message that the fight against hate and bigotry in Lexington and everywhere will continue.

The emphatic verdict of parade participants — both Lexington community residents and the many that traveled from a variety of cities and states — is that the parade was direly needed, especially in this period and in order to build relationships for future events, campaigns and movements, such as the Jan. 20 Counter-Inaugural protests and the Jan. 21 women’s protests in Washington, D.C., and worldwide.

“A million thanks to this community and everyone who came in solidarity from as far away as York, Pa. This is what people power looks like,” said CARE leader Robin LeBlanc…” http://bit.ly/2ixlBC7

Lexington, VA

Gather at Library Mall at 2pm and shortly after event is introduced, March to State Capitol for end rally on State St. Steps.

SPEAKERS:
Art Shegonee – Native American Community Leader, Founding member and performer with Call for Peace Drum and Dance Company

T Banks – Organizer with Freedom Inc., Poet/Spoken Word Artist, fighter for racial justice in Madison and beyond

Ophelia Bailly – One of the organizers for the Women’s March on Madison on Jan 21st, day after this event, part of national day of action

Rebecca Kemble – Madison Alder for District 18(Northside), President of US Federation of Worker Co-Operatives recently arrested serving as Legal Observer at Standing Rock/NoDAPL occupation

Allen Ruff – US Historian, Social & Political Activist; Host, Thursday’s “A Public Affair” – WORT, 89.9 FM, Madison, Wisconsin

Carl Sack – Member of UW-Madison Teaching Assistants Association Executive Board/Membership Secretary, Grad Student in Cartography

Dace Zeps – co-chair of the Wisconsin Green Party

Teddy Shibabaw – Socialist Alternative – Madison Branch Organizer, National Committee member, writer for SocialistAlternative.org,

#ResistTrump !! #OccupyInauguration !! #NotMyPresident

Donald Trump and the reactionary core of the Republican Party are coming to power in 2017 on a platform of racism, sexism, xenophobia, and pro-corporate policies. We must build a independent mass movement of the 99% that vows to use every ounce of our collective body and spirit to stand against Trump’s reactionary agenda from Day 1, in Madison and in cities across the country.

We are participating in the birth of a mass movement for social and economic justice.

Join us in the streets- again!- to demonstrate mass opposition to Trump and his agenda!

Build a movement to fight racism, sexism, and Islamophobia!

– No Border Wall! Stop the deportations of undocumented immigrants!
– Tax rich millionaires like Trump! Fund healthcare for all! Make college free!
– Black Lives Matter!
– End rape culture — #PussyGrabsBack
– Stop the Dakota Access Pipeline — Green Jobs now! — #NoDAPL

The Democratic Party has proven they are incapable of stopping Trump. It is time to build a new party for the 99% based on the united power of all exploited and oppressed people, on movements for social and economic justice, on the belief that we CAN do better than this corrupt and rotten system!

#ResistTrump !! #OccupyInauguration !!

Sponsored by Madison Socialist Alternative.
Co-sponsored by:
– Freedom Inc.
– UW-Madison Teaching Assistants Association
– Four Lakes Wisconsin Green Party
– Student Labor Action Coalition – UW-Madison
– SixoEight Anti-Fascist Action
– Industrial Workers of the World – GMB Madison
– International Socialist Organization – Madison
– Jewish Voice for Peace – Madison / WI Bail Out The People Movement

We want the largest possible list of cosponsors that we can work jointly with to build this important action. If your organization would like to endorse, please message us at contact email below.

CONTACT: madison@socialistalternative.org

The Milwaukee Coalition Against Trump (MCAT) is hosting a mass march and rally on Trump’s inauguration day, Friday, January 20th, 2017. Hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of people will join protests across the country and in Washington D.C. to protest Trump and his agenda.

In Milwaukee, the January 20th protest will officially kick off our “100 Days of Resistance” to put up opposition to Trump’s plans for his first 100 days in office. MCAT is organizing a wide variety of events and actions throughout the first 100 days designed to educate, organize, and resist the Trump agenda. To learn more or get involved in the coalition please follow Milwaukee Coalition Against Trump or MKECAT.com for events and announcements.

Legalization for All
Healthcare for All
Working Class Unite & Fight
Fight for Women’s Liberation
Black Lives Matter
Indict & Convict Sheriff Clarke
Indigenous Sovereignty Now
Free Palestine
LGBTQ Liberation Now

#MKEResistTrump

http://www.workers.org/j20/

Media reports say that as many as a million people may converge in Washington, D.C., to protest the inauguration of Donald Trump. Gather at Columbus Circle starting at 6 am and march on the White House at 10 am. Other participating organizations include: BAYAN Philippine Coalition, Committee to Stop FBI Repression, DisruptJ20, the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC), Freedom Road Socialist Organization, International Action Center, Michigan Emergency Coalition Against War & Injustice, Moratorium Now, Defenders for Freedom, Justice & Equality, Pakistan USA Freedom Forum, Peoples Power Assembly, Philly Real Justice, Samidoun Palestine Prisoners Network, Solidarity
Center, Solidarity Iran, Students for a Democratic Society, Team Solidarity, United American Indians of New England, USW Local 8751 Boston School Bus Drivers Union, Why Accountability, Women’s Fightback Network and Workers World Party. Facebook:
“J20 Resist! Protest Trump’s Inauguration in Washington DC”

http://www.workers.org/j20/

For Immediate Release
Media Advisory

Date of Event: Monday January 16, 2017
Gathering: Rally begins at Noon at Central United Methodist Church 33
E. Adams at Woodward
March: The demonstration leaves the church at 1:30pm
Community Meal: Located at St. John’s Episcopal Church Woodward at
I-75 at 2:30pm
Cultural Program: Also at St. John’s Episcopal Church from 3:30-5:30pm
Contact: Detroit MLK Committee
5920 Second Ave.
Detroit, MI 48202
(313) 405-2185
URL: www.mlkdetroit.org
E-mail: panafnewswire@yahoo.com

Detroit MLK Day to Commemorate 50th Anniversary of Anti-War Movement
and Urban Rebellion

This year’s 14th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Rally & March
comes at a time of rising hatred, bigotry and military conflict both
inside the United States and around the world.

On Monday January 16, 2017, the Detroit MLK Day Rally & March will
commemorate the 50th anniversary of the historic Riverside Church
address in New York City entitled “Beyond Vietnam: Breaking the
Silence”, where Dr. King came out firmly against military intervention
in southeast Asia.

The speech was delivered on April 4, 1967, just one year prior to the
Civil Rights and peace activist’s assassination in Memphis, Tennessee.
Dr. King had been under pressure by the Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee (SNCC) which had taken a firm position against
the war in early January 1966. During 1967, Dr. King participated in
large antiwar demonstrations in Chicago, New York City and other
cities.

In addition, 2017 represents the 50th anniversary of the July 23-27
Detroit Rebellion. These days of civil unrest marked the largest of
such outbreaks in the history of the U.S. up until that time period.

Dr. King, who remained a proponent of nonviolent resistance to racism
and oppression until his death, did not condemn the rebellions which
struck over 160 cities during 1967. He stated that “riots were the
voices of the unheard.” He emphasized that the federal government
needed to heed the calls of African Americans and other oppressed
peoples for social justice in order to avoid a much more profound
social calamity. Today, some five decades later, the problems of
institutional racism, police brutality, poverty and the exorbitant
Pentagon budget remain impediments to the country becoming a genuinely
democratic society.

Speakers at the rally and march will represent the various movements
operating in Detroit related to water shut-offs, property tax
foreclosures, joblessness, poverty, and governmental indifference to
the suffering of the people. The message of Dr. King and the Civil
Rights Movement is still as relevant if not more so than it was in the
1960s.

This event is sponsored and endorsed by over 40 city and statewide
organizations including: The Moratorium NOW! Coalition, the Michigan
Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice (MECAWI), Detroit Active
Retired and Employees Association (DAREA), Autoworker Caravan, Prof.
Gloria Aneb House, Workers World Party, Green Party of Detroit and
Michigan, Linda Szysko, UAW Local 140 Civil Rights Committee, UAW
Local 160, A. Phillip Randolph Institute, Vanessa Fluker ACLU of
Michigan, and many others.

The community meal at St. John’s Episcopal Church beginning at 2:30 is
provided by the Wobbly Kitchen and Food Not Bombs. A cultural program
is being coordinated by Detroit Educator and Poet Aurora Harris. This
portion of the program will feature internationally recognized Detroit
spoken word artist and musician Jessica Care Moore along with a host
of other presenters.

For more information on this event please contact us as soon as possible.

In Solidarity,
Abayomi Azikiwe,
Detroit MLK Day Media Coordinator
(313) 671-3715
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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.