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About wibailoutpeople

We are a part of the national Bail Out The People movement which formed in 2008 to fight against the bailouts to the banks. Since then we have been in numerous fights against poverty, racism and war. We demand that the people be bailed out not the banks, a moratorium on all foreclosures, a federal jobs program now and other demands. We have been participating in the Wisconsin people's uprising, Bloombergville in NYC and numerous other people's actions.

United American Indians of New England Reporting on Standing Rock #NoDAPL Resistance

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#NoDAPL By now, you will have heard that North Dakota’s governor has activated the National Guard, in addition to all the other repression aimed at the peaceful encampment of thousands. A federal court decision is expected tomorrow. Here is everything you need to know to help fight the Dakota Access Pipeline, updated 9/8 and collected into one place. First, call Gov Dalrymple and Pres Obama. Then do more things on the list. Dont stop. The Water Protectors at Standing Rock need every one of us.

CALL Governor of North Dakota, Jack Dalrymple. Tell him THE WORLD IS WATCHING and is outraged by his calling in the National Guard. Tell him that the job of State Police is to protect the Water Protectors, not to disappear when the people are assaulted with attack dogs and pepper spray. Phone: 701.328.2200 (or fax 701.328.2205).

CALL the White House, tell President Obama to honor his commitment to the people of Standing Rock and stop the Dakota Access Pipeline now: (202) 456-1111.

SIGN THE PETITION to the White House to stop DAPL: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/stop-construction-dakota-access-pipeline-which-endangers-water-supply-native-american-reservations

CALL OR EMAIL executives of Energy Transfer Partners, which is building the pipeline:
Vicki Granado, Media Relations, 214-599-8785, Vicki.Granado@energytransfer.com
Lee Hanse, Executive Vice President, (210) 403-6455 Lee.Hanse@energytransfer.com
Glenn Emery, Vice President, (210) 403-6762 Glenn.Emery@energytransfer.com
Michael (Cliff) Waters, Lead Analyst, (713) 989-2404 Michael.Waters@energytransfer.com

DONATE IN KIND: donate items which Sacred Stone Camp have specifically requested: http://sacredstonecamp.org/supply-list/
Donate items which Red Warrior Camp have specifically requested:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/ref=sr_1_1_acs_wl_1?cid=A1ZID74L1YUB15&ie=UTF8&qid=1472512327&sr=8-1-acs

DONATE $$:
Sacred Stone Camp Legal Defense Fund: https://fundrazr.com/d19fAf
Red Warrior Camp Legal Defense Fund:
https://www.generosity.com/fundraising/red-warrior-camp-legal-fund-nodapl
Sacred Stone Camp gofundme account: https://www.gofundme.com/sacredstonecamp
Red Warrior Camp gofundme account: http://oweakuinternational.org/
Directly to Standing Rock Sioux Tribe: http://standingrock.org/news/standing-rock-sioux-tribe–dakota-access-pipeline-donation-fund/

Check for more information and local actions: nodaplsolidarity.org
#HonorTheTreaties #NoBakken #SacredStoneCamp
#STOPDAPL #MniWiconi #SacredWater #NoDAPL #RezpectOurWater #StandWithStandingRock

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Peoples Power Assemblies Posters for September 9 & Related Prison Strike Events

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Peoples Power Assemblies poster for September 9 prison strike:

SHORT: http://wp.me/a2T59r-1tK
LONG: http://peoplespowerassemblies.org/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2016/09/PPA_Attica.pdf

POSTER & LINK  TO IT ON: http://peoplespowerassemblies.org/

SEPARATE SEPT 9 Page:
SHORT: http://wp.me/p2T59r-1tf
LONG: http://peoplespowerassemblies.org/sept-9-2016-nationwide-prisoner-action/

Also post local action on: https://supportprisonerresistance.noblogs.org/

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Madison, September 9: Leaflet in support of September 9 Strike!

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We’ll be passing out leaflets that inform people about the national Prison Strike which kicks off on Friday! Show solidarity with incarcerated people who are resisting nationally and here in Wisconsin.

Like to join us? Sign up for a shift by texting Glen @ 603-391-2153.

Or email MadisonNineNine@gmail.com by Thursday night to let us know when you can show up!

Want more info about the prison strike, its origins and its demands? Check out supportprisonerresistance.net

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Milwaukee, September 9 and 10: Prison Strike Solidarity Events

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Events sponsored by the Milwaukee IWW, https://www.facebook.com/milwaukeeiww/

September 9: PrisonStrike Solidarity Picnic and Poets Milwaukee

Supporters of the Sept. 9 prison strike and the Dying to Live hunger strike will gather to celebrate and mobilize support for a large solidarity march to occur on Sep 10. See that here: https://www.facebook.com/events/296248610736328/

There will be a cookout in the park, poetry readings, speeches and opportunities to gather with like minded folks and get updates about historic prisoner action occurring across the country.

Poets include the following:
Anja Notanja Sieger
Ben Turk
Ceas the Man
Ed Werstein
Franklin KR Cline
Freesia McKee
Heidi Erickson
Indigo Jade Kastel
Margaret Rozga
Maria Elena Scott
Nina Szarka

#PrisonStrike, #EndPrisonSlavery, #SupportPrisonerResistance, #DyingToLiveWI

September 10: Rally Against Prison Slavery

“The walls of Jericho WILL FALL”

Prisoners have called for a national workstoppage and protest to begin on the 45th anniversary of the Attica Uprising.

In Wisconsin, prisoners started a protest against solitary confinement called Dying to Live in June, which has continued until this day.

We will protest the use of solitary confinement, protest prison slavery, and protest white supremacy in solidarity with both the Dying to Live hunger strikers, and prison rebels everywhere.

More details TBA soon!

More information also at: http://sfbayview.com/2016/08/sept-9-strike-against-prison-slavery-strike-against-white-supremacy/

And: http://peoplespowerassemblies.org/sept-9-2016-nationwide-prisoner-action/

Milwaukee, September 8: Community Call to Action: Public Safety Committee Meeting

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Community Call to Action: Public Safety Committee Meeting

UBLAC Milwaukee

This Thursday at 9 a.m. is the Common Council’s Public Safety Committee Meeting at City Hall.

Last week Thursday our presence was not taken lightly and we were GIVEN the floor to share our concerns being a group of MANY voices. but not ALL the voices in our city. With that being said there are two things we need to listen to details and conversations around particularly that listed on the agenda tomorrow:

Communication from the Milwaukee Police Department Office of Community Outreach & Education relative to the department’s outreach programs to engage and build trust in the community as well as the department’s ability to host Community Listening Circles to improve community police relations.

Communication from the Frank Zeidler Center for Public Discussion relating to the outcome and results of previously-hosted police/community listening circles.

Come with pens and paper and your listening ears as we listen to what these “communications” will reveal. Let’s ALSO be ready to respond! We’ll bring our signs as well! UBLAC Milwaukee

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#noDAPL: Stop Dakota Pipeline Defend Standing Rock!​

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The following statement was released by Workers World Party 2016 Presidential Candidate Monica Moorehead and Vice Presidential Candidate Lamont Lilly on Sept. 3.

Representatives of some 300 Indigenous nations and their supporters have since Aug. 18 blocked the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, meant to be built under the Missouri, Mississippi and Big Sioux rivers in violation of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s federally protected rights. Despite violent police-orchestrated terror, including the use of dogs, the heroic resistance led by Indigenous people has only grown stronger, sparking national and international support.

A series of solidarity events under the banner of “#NoDAPL Global Weeks of Action” began on Sept. 3 and will continue through Sept. 17. See nodaplsolidarity.org.

We are in full solidarity with the magnificent struggle of thousands of Indigenous and non-Native people who are at Standing Rock, in what is now known as North Dakota, protecting the land and water against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. They are protecting the Missouri River and the drinking water of millions against the brazen efforts of corporations and corrupt politicians to push through an unnecessary pipeline on the Standing Rock Sioux Nation’s treaty land and despite Standing Rock’s lack of consent.

Indigenous Nations throughout the Americas have been on the frontlines of environmental devastation for decades. It is long past time for everyone to respect Indigenous leadership, listen to Indigenous voices and stand with Indigenous peoples in their many struggles.

We respect and honor the sovereignty and right to self-determination of Standing Rock and all Native Nations. We fully recognize the necessity of their right to refuse consent for any development or exploitation of land and water in their territories, from Oak Flat to Mauna Kea. We are painfully conscious of the ongoing poverty and genocide experienced by Indigenous people both on and off reservations.

Protecting the water and insisting that water is a human right are issues key to our future. While many people now know about the drinking water crisis in Flint, Mich., we also note that more than a tenth of Native homes in the the U.S. do not have clean drinking water. In addition to the water crisis in some colonies like Puerto Rico, we are aware that it also exists in Black and farming communities, while thousands of poor people live in cities that are aggressively shutting off water due to exorbitant fees.

We acknowledge that all people in the U.S. today are living on Indigenous land. #NoDAPL and hundreds of other ongoing Indigenous struggles are as close to our hearts as the monumental struggles of Black people to defend their lives. Our solidarity with Native struggles is not newly born. Members of Workers World Party have supported freedom for Leonard Peltier, Wounded Knee in 1973, The Longest Walk, Big Mountain, the 1990 Mohawk blockade, the 1975 Menominee takeover, Indigenous Peoples’ Day struggles in many cities and much more. Our members also have a long and proud history of supporting anti-pipeline and anti-fracking struggles.

As Black people whose Elders were attacked by dogs during the times of slavery and the Civil Rights struggles, we condemn the despicable actions of private security companies hired by the corporations behind the Dakota Access Pipeline that unleashed dogs and pepper spray on peaceful Water Protectors, including children. We share outrage at the injustice of peaceful Water Protectors having their road access blockaded by police and cell phone service cut off, while being subject to police surveillance and arrest.

Finally, we call on all people who oppose corporate greed and destruction to take immediate action — locally and nationally — in support of the #NoDAPL Water Protectors and to follow Indigenous leadership to stop fracking and pipelines wherever they live. The rapacious corporate greed of capitalism can only be overturned by millions of people united in revolutionary struggle.

Mni Wiconi. Water Is Life.

Monica Moorehead (writing from Lenape Territory) and

Lamont Lilly (writing from Occoneechi Territory)

September 3, 2016, https://www.facebook.com/mooreheadlilly2016

In Wisconsin Voters Have a Choice to Vote for Socialist Presidential Candidate

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WWP members and friends in Milwaukee, July 2016.

By Workers World Staff

Poor and working people in Wisconsin will have a choice in November to vote for socialist Presidential candidate Monica Moorehead and her Vice Presidential running mate Lamont Lilly of Workers World Party. The candidates were certified to be on the ballot by the Wisconsin Elections Commission as of Aug. 25.

Neither Donald Trump nor Hillary Clinton represent the people — both candidates and their parties are pro-war, anti-immigrant, anti-Black, anti-lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender-queer, anti-woman and anti-worker.

What a refreshing and much-needed contrast to have Moorehead as a choice, the only Black revolutionary socialist woman running for president. The candidate will be visiting the Midwest in September, making stops in Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin.

Moorehead and Lilly’s campaign is in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement; defends the Milwaukee Rebellion against cops murdering Black and Brown people; supports unions, other workers’ organizations, the LGBTQ community and women’s liberation; and fights for a socialist system that puts people before profits and nurtures the environment.

There is a climate in Wisconsin of unrelenting racist austerity created by Wall Street forces and their political servants, such as Gov. Scott Walker and Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett. Many gains that working-class and oppressed peoples won over the past 100 years have been eviscerated.

It was in this climate that members and friends of Workers World Party conducted a signature-gathering blitz from June 30 to July 10 in Milwaukee, Madison and other areas of the state.

Activists gathered over 3,700 signatures in working-class and oppressed communities, where they received warm responses to the Moorehead-Lilly 10-point program. Two thousand valid signatures are required to obtain ballot status for presidential candidates in Wisconsin. During the blitz, WWP members and others from organizations such as the Wisconsin Bail Out the People Movement, also supported a community conversation event where Lilly spoke; a protest at the right-wing Bradley Foundation; and a Red, Black and Queer slideshow at the LGBTQ community center.

The WWP candidates are also on the ballot in Utah and New Jersey.

WWP members and friends are now organizing for a Midwest tour by Moorehead that will include stops in Detroit and other Michigan cities, Sept. 8-13; Chicago, Sept. 15; Milwaukee. Sept. 16; and Madison, Sept. 17. All events are free and open to the public.

DETROIT: Saturday, Sept. 10, 5-8 p.m., candidate’s forum at 5920 Second Ave. http://bit.ly/2bR4dWH

CHICAGO: Visit facebook.com/ChicagoWWP.

MILWAUKEE: Friday, Sept. 16, 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the African American Women’s Center (formerly Carpenters’ union hall), 3020 W. Vliet St. http://bit.ly/2bWjUqs

MADISON: Saturday, Sept. 17, 1-3 p.m. at the Villager Mall, Room A, 2312 S. Park St. http://bit.ly/2c7LioO

For more information: facebook.com/mooreheadlilly2016, workersworlddetroit.org, www.vote4socialism.org.

Administration at Long Island University Locks Out Faculty on Labor Day Weekend, Workers Need Support

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The administration of Long Island University is marking Labor Day with an unprecedented lockout of full- and part-time faculty at its Brooklyn campus who have been engaged in a hard fight for a fair contract since spring.

LIU’s administration has told the hundreds of members of the Long Island University Faculty Federation (NYSUT/AFT) that they are barred from the university’s campus as of 12:01 a.m. this morning. Their pay is being stopped. And yesterday afternoon, they received notice that their health insurance will also be cut off this morning—with less than a day’s notice.

Tell LIU’s administration to end the lockout and bargain with our members now.

In labor history, lockouts are also known as “employer strikes.” LIU has chosen the weekend when Americans reflect on the importance of the labor movement to strike against LIU’s faculty—and against the 8,170 students on LIU’s Brooklyn campus. LIU plans to redeploy administrators and hired strikebreakers to teach these students when classes begin this week.

Tell LIU’s administration to let its faculty return to work, restore their pay and benefits, and settle a fair contract now.

In unity,
Jessica Rosenberg
LIUFF President

Action Alert: March with Voces On Labor Day!

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Join us as we participate in Milwaukee’s proud tradition of marching on Labor Day! We’ll meet on Everett Street between 3rd and 4th Streets.

We’ll be marching with the Wisconsin Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals, whose members at St. Francis Hospital are currently negotiating a contract to keep good, family supporting jobs at the hospital and protect in-person translation. Solidarity!

Join us to say that immigrant rights are workers rights! See you on Labor Day!

What: Join Voces’ contingent in Milwaukee’s Labor Day March

When: Monday, September 5th, 10:30am assemble, 11am march

Where: Zeidler Union Square, Everett St. between 3rd and 4th Streets in Milwaukee (look for our banners)

More information: 414-469-9206

Confronting anti-immigrant racists in Milwaukee July 19. [Photo: Occupy Riverwest]
Voces marching on Labor Day 2011 in Milwaukee