NATIONAL DAY OF RESISTANCE FOR IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES – ENGLISH BELOW

INAUGURACION DE LA RESISTENCIA: DÍA NACIONAL DE ACCIÓN PARA LOS INMIGRANTES Y REFUGIADOS

sábado, 14 de enero, 11am
Marcha de Voces de la Frontera
1027 sur de la calle 5

Autobuses de Racine: 9:30am, Centro Laboral (2100 Layard Ave)
Autobuses de Madison: 9am, Centro Hispano (810 W Badger Rd)
Después de la marcha, los autobuses habrán regresado a sus ciudades antes de las 2pm.

El l 14 de enero, el movimiento pro-inmigrante nacional declará el principio de su resistencia en contra de las amenazas racistas de la nueva administración de Trump. Lea la lista nacional de eventos en weareheretostay.org. Organizaciones llevarán a cabo marchas y acciones a través del país para exigir:

Alto a las deportaciones masivas
Familias Unidas
Defendamos DACA
Refugiados bienvenidos
No registro musulmán

Luchamos en frente popular con todos los trabajadores, musulmanes, afroamericanxs, mujeres, judixs y la comunidad LGBTQ.

Más información: 414-643-1620, www.vdlf.org
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INAUGURATION OF THE RESISTANCE: NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS

Saturday, January 14, 11am
March from Voces de la Frontera
1027 S. 5th St. in Milwaukee
More information: 414-643-1620, www.vdlf.org

Buses from Racine: 9:30am, Labor Center (2100 Layard Ave)
Buses from Madison: 9am, Centro Hispano (810 W Badger Rd)
The buses will have returned to their cities by 2pm following the march.

On January 14th, immigrant rights groups across the country will declare the beginning of our resistance to the racist threats of the new administration. Find a list of nationwide events at weareheretostay.org. Communities will take to the streets in marches and actions nationwide to demand:

Keep Families Together
Stop Mass Deportations
Defend DACA
Refugees Welcome
No Muslim Registry

United Front with all workers, Muslims, African-Americans, women, Jews and the LGBTQ community

More information: 414-643-1620, www.vdlf.org

Confronting anti-immigrant racists in Milwaukee July 19. [Photo: Occupy Riverwest]

http://informacionaldesnudo.com/protest-trump-protesta-trump/

“…Workers and oppressed people are powerful! Our movement was growing even before the election. The number of strikes went up after years of decline; Verizon workers, Minnesota nurses and the Harvard dining hall workers were victorious. Prisoners struck on the anniversary of the Attica Rebellion. Rebellions have broken out in Ferguson, Baltimore, Milwaukee and Charlotte. The Black Lives Matter Movement is showing the world what a fightback looks like. The DREAMers, Fight for 15, and Standing Rock are other inspiring examples. Mass youth-led protests erupted as soon as the presidential election results were known.

All of the working class must unite. Organized labor, the first line of defense for the workers and oppressed, must see itself as part of the broader working class movement. Low wage and precarious workers are a part of this movement. Unemployed and underemployed workers are a part. Prisoners are a part. Workers around the globe — super-exploited and often by the same bosses we work for – are a part. Migrant workers, risking their lives to escape war or austerity, are a part. All of us, together, are unstoppable!

We must show Trump, all the politicians and the one-percenters they serve that we refuse to be divided! Build a united front and make January 20 a sea of working class unity! To sign on to this #J20 Labor Call, contact CLUPJS@GMAIL.COM **Se habla español** For info on counter-inaugural protests in Washington, D.C. see J20resist.org Labor Donated 12/2016”

Thousands protest in Baltimore November 10, 2016.

http://sflaborcouncil.org/

Adopted by the San Francisco Labor Council on January 9, 2017

WHEREAS, the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States has sparked fear and anger in our community, especially among those most marginalized, including immigrants, Muslims, people of color, women, the disabled, and LGBTQ populations; and

WHEREAS, the President Elect has publicly supported and endorsed anti-union policy including federal Right to Work laws and is considering appointing to his cabinet people with a track record of promoting such policies; and

WHEREAS, newly appointed Supreme Court Justices will swing the court to be more consistently anti-union; and

WHEREAS, the privatization of Social Security and Medicare is likely to be pushed early in the Trump administration; and

WHEREAS, the diverse membership of the working class and of our unions includes populations that candidate Trump threatened with bigoted policies and hateful rhetoric; and

WHEREAS, that hateful rhetoric has already been seen in the form of an increase of hate crimes and violence against marginalized communities which overlap with our membership; and

WHEREAS, it is the obligation of organized labor to defend our members from attacks and promote an elevated and equal quality of life for all workers; and

WHEREAS, spontaneous demonstrations have erupted across the country immediately following the election of Donald Trump.  Many organizations of students, labor, women, and various communities are continuing to plan massive protests including on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and culminating in action on the day of the inauguration of Donald Trump, January 20, 2017; and

WHEREAS, the day on which we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr who fought against racism and bigotry and championed the issues of the working class is just four days before the inauguration of Donald Trump; and

WHEREAS, the power of organized labor is not reliant upon the occupant of any government office up to and including the office of President of the United States.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the S.F. Labor Council endorses and encourages all members to participate in the nationwide actions beginning with those honoring and continuing the struggle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr on his day, Monday, January 16 and culminating in a national day of action and a reassertion of the power of organized labor on Friday, January 20, the day of the Inauguration of President Donald Trump; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the SFLC encourages each of its affiliates to use the day of action on Friday, January 20 to display our power, unity and solidarity by planning an action around an existing labor dispute and inviting all of its members to participate; and

BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED, that we urge all affiliates to pass similar resolutions.

http://sflaborcouncil.org/

http://www.russia2017.com/en/

http://www.prisonradio.org/media/audio/mumia/hepatitis-c-gets-knock-out-punch-141-mumia-abu-jamal

Fight for $15

It’s time to FIGHT.

The Senate is about to hold hearings on Donald Trump’s pick for Secretary of Labor – one of the WORST fast-food CEO’s, Andy Puzder of Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr.

I work at Hardee’s under Puzder. I know first-hand – we MUST fight his nomination.

I’m paid far too little to live – just $7.35 per hour – and see health and safety violations all over the place at my restaurant.

Now Trump wants to put Puzder in charge of enforcing these very laws that he broke as CEO. We won’t, we can’t, back down.

Tell your Senators: NO WAY!

Sign our petition calling on the Senate to vote “NO” on Andy Puzder’s confirmation. We need a Labor Secretary who can speak for US – not for mega-rich CEOs.

On Thursday, we’re taking this fight straight to Puzder’s door – with protests at Carl’s Jr, Hardee’s and other restaurants he runs from coast-to-coast.

By picking Puzder, Donald Trump made it pretty clear – he’s not taking on the rigged economy. Instead, he wants to rig it up even more.

Well, we’re going to make sure he knows that if he wants to put a guy who makes more in a day than many of his employees make in a YEAR in charge of protecting workers, he’s on the wrong side of history.

Sign the petition. Tell the Senate to oppose Andy Puzder for Labor Secretary.

We need $15 an hour and union rights – not a fast-food CEO who doesn’t believe in the minimum wage.

And we won’t back down.

Thanks for standing strong.

Kymiesha Jones
Hardee’s Worker
Richmond, VA
Fight for $15

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Veterans for Peace Courage To Resist Iraq Veterans Against the War Veterans for Standing Rock are all mentioned in this new book.

TURN the GUNS AROUND
Mutinies, Soldier Revolts and Revolutions

$19.95 New York: World View Forum 2017
324 pages. 29 photos, 4 maps.

Draftees and enlistees — eighteen-year-olds from the South Bronx, factory workers from Buffalo, miners’ sons from Kentucky, unemployed youth from Watts — hate the military and the Vietnam War. They throw a wrench into the Pentagon’s war machine, becoming leaders of the anti-war movement and organizing a union in the con-script military to battle war, racism and their officers.
In three other wars — the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871 that sparked the Paris Commune; World War I, which sowed revolutions in Germany and Russia; African liberation wars of the 1960s that incited a captains’ revolt in Portugal — ordinary soldiers turn their guns around to make revolution.

Weaving together letters from servicemen and servicewomen, inter-views with GI war resisters and first-hand narratives, memoir and historical research, author John Catalinotto — as participant and historian — highlights the relation between rank-and-file soldier resistance and the struggle for state power.

From the first napalm bomb dropped, Catalinotto hated the U.S. war against Vietnam. By 1967 he was organizing rank-and-file servicemen to resist the war. For the last 50 years he pondered that experience and its lessons for humanity. Now he wants to share this history with all who want to fight injustice.

Comments follow, then Table of Contents

⇒PVT LARRY HOLMES
If schools in the United States really wanted to impart historical truth, Catalinotto’s Turn The Guns Around would be required reading. He tells the true story of this epoch. Few participants know more about the massive GI rebellion against the Vietnam War, the anti-war veterans’ movement or the history of soldier revolts from the Paris Commune to the Portuguese coup.
GI resister and organizer for the American Serviceman’s Union 1972-74

⇒PVT TERRY KLUG
Turn The Guns Around really brings it all back: the struggle, the solidarity, the cruelty of the stockade Brass. I’m extremely proud to have played a small role during that period. I regret nothing.’
U.S. Army, September 1966 to September 1970, with 20 months in the Fort Dix Stockade and Leavenworth Prison

⇒SP4 RICHARD WHEATON
‘Every once in a while a book comes along that lifts us high by reminding us that people struggling together can accomplish momentous things. I consider myself fortunate to have been part of the GI anti-war movement, and a founding member of the ASU; we are all fortunate to have this book.’
U.S. Army, Sept. 7, 1965 to Sept. 6, 1968

⇒ SARA FLOUNDERS
‘The radical shift in consciousness fifty years ago within the U.S. military has invaluable lessons as a new period of resistance unfolds. In Turn the Guns Around, rank-and-file GIs, who suddenly emerged as leaders of a movement, describe their determination to risk all, refuse orders and sabotage the military machine. By rooting them in past resistance, this “How to” manual arms the people’s movements of today to combat new wars.’
Co-Director of International Action Center, Author of War Without Victory

⇒SP4 GREG LAXER
‘Catalinotto’s book digs up historical precedents for troop revolts contributing to the ending of imperialist wars. That was certainly our aim through the actions of the American Serviceman’s Union. The best people I met in the army were my fellow stockade inmates!’
U.S. Army, prisoner of conscience, Forts Devins, Dix and Riley, 1968-70

⇒FRED GOLDSTEIN
‘In the present period of reaction it is difficult to imagine the undoing of the powerful capitalist state. Catalinotto reaches back in history to vividly demonstrate how social and economic crises can and will lead to the disintegration of the capitalist military. He shows that the forces of social revolution lie embedded in the very structure of imperialism and it’s insatiable drive for conquest.’
Author of Low-Wage Capitalism and Capitalism At A Dead End

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