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Peoples Power Assemblies: Stop Racist Police Terror, Shut It Down!
Yes, ALL Cops: Supporting the Oppressed against the Police
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The Appalachian Workers Alliance stands uncompromisingly with the current movements of the people against the systemic police brutality and murder of Black and Brown men and women. These modern lynching are not acts of isolated “bad apples,” but are instead the institutionalized practice. The police are the foot soldiers of national and racial oppression in the United States. The origins of the police are as slave catchers and strike breakers. Their function is to protect the status quo, no matter how unjust it is, and the status quo is anti-working class and white supremacist.[1] The severe sentences handed out to Black and Brown workers in this country every day for minor crimes (if these “crimes” weren’t frame-ups, as they often are) stand in stark contrast to the inconsequential slaps on the wrist officers receive for their state-sanctioned murders of oppressed people – if they are even condemned and punished at all. We will show no solidarity with the police or their so-called “unions.” The Fraternal Order of Police and the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association are not labor unions because police are not workers. Police are armed enforcers of a state and economic system that exploits workers and oppresses people of color. Real unions pledge to not cross picket lines while police, in fact, bust unions and break up picket lines. The PBA was founded with support from the Ku Klux Klan and the far-right John Birch Society.
The Appalachian Workers Alliance is committed to real change and real justice for all workers. As a part of these goals, the Appalachian Workers Alliance also upholds the right, individual and collective, of oppressed people to self-defense. The popular cliché that violence only begets violence is just a smokescreen used to disarm and endanger workers, especially workers of color. When racist police aim their guns at the people, the people must be able to defend themselves and each other.
Milwaukee, July 11: Coalition For Justice Solidarity Rally and Protest Surrounding Lost Lives
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The Coalition for Justice, many of you and whoever else wants to stand up with us meet us at Red Arrow Park Monday at 4 p.m. Silence no more. We cried, been at a lost for words BUT now we’re ready to move into action at Red Arrow Park Monday, July 11th at 4 p.m.
Baltimore, July 8: Justice for Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, and All Victims of Police Terror- Black Lives Matter!
Justice for Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, and All Victims of Police Terror- Black Lives Matter!
Come out to demand justice for Alton Sterling and for all victims of police terror from Baton Rogue to Baltimore. We want to express our solidarity with the Black community in Baton Rouge over the senseless killing of another Black person by the hands of the police. In Baltimore we are all too familiar with police terror and killings from Anthony Anderson Jr., Tyrone West, and Freddie Gray just to name a few. We want to hold a vigil and rally and to remind the powers to be that Black Lives Do Matter!
Milwaukee, July 7: Stop The Bradley Foundation!
The Milwaukee-based Bradley Foundation is one of the largest right-wing anti-worker, racist think tanks in the world. The Foundation is an integral part of Wall Street’s right-wing foundation network that has as its goal to wipe out all legal, social and other barriers to making profits by capitalists. This includes: promoting deregulation and privatization including charter/voucher schools; busting or weakening unions; promoting funding for the Pentagon instead of funding for cities such as Flint, Mich.; attacking Planned Parenthood, LGBTQ organizations and communities, immigrants/migrants the Black Lives Matter Movement, First Nations people and environmental organizations; and advocating for the destruction of social safety nets such as Aid to Families with Dependent Children, Social Security, Unemployment Insurance and WIC (Women, Infants and Children).
Bradley funded the writing of the notoriously racist book, “The Bell Curve,” by Charles Murray and the late Richard Hernstein to the tune of well over $1 million. The book was co-funded by the Pioneer Society, a holdover from the white-supremacist eugenics movement of the 1920s and 30s. The book argued in part that people of African descent are genetically inferior to rich people of European descent. The book has been completely debunked by numerous scholars (including Stephen Hawking) worldwide. Murray’s and Hernstein’s racist eugenics is still being used by Wall Street politicians and policy makers to justify attacks and austerity inflicted by Wall Street interests and their political servants on poor and working people and in particular people of color.
In Wisconsin, Bradley for decades has been responsible for funding in whole or in part some of the worst austerity attacks on workers and our communities and this has increased rapidly over the past five years. Bradley’s Board of Directors is full of banking and corporate executives as well as Pentagon affiliated individuals. They all have ties to an assortment of other right-wing organizations including the Koch-brothers funded Americans For Prosperity, the Heritage Foundation, the MacIver Institue and the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute. Michael Grebe, Bradley’s current President, was the Chair of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s electoral campaigns. Bradley supports many more politicans in Wisconsin that are destroying worker’s quality of life and communities. Bradley played a fundamental role to create and push the union-busting legislation known as Act 10 and right-to-work (for less) and many more laws that took decades for poor and working people to win.
The July 7 protest at the Bradley Foundation in Milwaukee will be an educational event to expose how the foundation is an enemy of all poor and working people. We will also continue our conversations of how we are fighting to build a people’s united front for a world of real freedom, justice, dignity and equality for all workers and our communities. And how to win a world without Wall Street and its tools like the Bradley Foundation.
Leading up to July 7, this page will be posting articles and other educational information about Bradley and its related right wing organizations.
More information on logistical information for July 7 will be posted as the date draws nearer.
Stop the Bradley Foundation!
Milwaukee, July 7: Building People’s Power, Lamont Lilly Leads Community Conversation
Building People’s Power, Lamont Lilly Leads Community Conversation
Lamont Lilly, Vice Presidential candidate for Workers World Party (WWP) will be leading a community conversation about BUILDING PEOPLE’S POWER at this event.
Lamont Lilly is a leading member of the Durham, North Carolina., branch of WWP and a member of WWP’s National Committee. As a people’s journalist, as an activist, an organizer, and a speaker, Lilly has traveled widely to stand in solidarity with struggles against racism and imperialist war, for people’s justice and for socialism.
Lilly was born in 1979 in Fayetteville, NC. A military veteran, he graduated from North Carolina Central University, and then worked for several years as an educator and nonprofit program coordinator, focusing on African American youth leadership and academic development. His focus on youth continued as he became an activist.
In 2010, he traveled to Colombia in South America as a human rights delegate with Witness for Peace, advocating for displaced Indigenous and AfroColombian people. In 2015, Lilly went to Syria and Lebanon in a delegation led by Ramsey Clark and Cynthia McKinney. In Beirut, he spoke as a Black Lives Matter representative at the International Forum for Palestinian Solidarity. In Damascus, where millions are displaced by war, he met with Syrians defending their sovereignty and opposed to the U.S. instigated destruction of Syria. He also met comrades of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
Inside the U.S., he has gone wherever the struggle called, including Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Oakland, Los Angeles, and New York. From the Baltimore rebellion after the
police killing of Freddie Gray to the Days of Grace actions in Charleston, S.C. in the wake of the racist massacre at Mother Emmanuel AME Church, Lamont Lilly is always there on the
ground—as a journalist providing consistent revolutionary inside perspective on the Black Lives Matter movement and the continuing struggle for Black Liberation, and as a tireless
organizer whose energy and enthusiasm have helped encourage a new wave of activism among oppressed and working-class youth.
Lilly’s political commentary has been featured in Workers World newspaper, Truthout, Counterpunch, the LA Progressive, Black Youth Project, the Durham News, and Triangle Free Press.
Lilly was awarded a 2015 Local Hero Citizen’s Award by Indy Week of Raleigh-Cary-Durham-Chapel Hill N.C. for “pushing for workers’ rights and police reform.”
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Members and friends of Workers World Party conducting a street meeting on the corner of 27th and Wisconsin Avenue in Milwaukee, WI June 6, 2016.
Peoples Power Assemblies: Jobs Police Terror!
Mr. Danny Glover: Yes to dialogue, no to intervention in Venezuela
“…When friends like Venezuela are in need we should be providing collective help, not promoting intervention. Safeguarding the legitimacy of the OAS and not allowing it to be used as a political tool for intervention against a fellow Caribbean nation, one that has continuously supported our regional aspirations, just development and self-determination for all of our citizens, is at this time in history a matter of the utmost importance.
Danny Glover is an award-winning actor, citizen-artist, and human rights advocate.
FBI attempts to question LA activist
Los Angeles, CA – On the morning of July 5, Los Angeles activist Jared Hamil received repeated phone calls from FBI Special Agent A. Brett Fears.
Hamil told Fears that had nothing to say and the agent could contact his lawyer. Hamil has a long history of speaking out against repression and helped to lead the 2012 march on the RNC in Tampa, Florida.
“Agent Fears with the FBI called me three times today, once while I was at work. I made it real clear that I am not going to talk to him or anybody else from the FBI. There’s nothing good that can come from talking to them. The FBI has a long history of harassing, intimidating and jailing activists,” said Hamil.
Special Agent Fears is based in Tampa. Early this year he tried to question Tampa activist Jessica Schwartz – who helps lead the local chapter of the Committee to Stop FBI Repression and has been active in the campaign to defend Palestinian American leader Rasmea Odeh. Schwartz did not cooperate with the FBI.
The attempt to question Hamil comes in the context of stepped-up FBI spying and harassment as the Republican and Democratic conventions approach.
Steff Yorek, of the Committee to Stop FBI Repression, states, “The FBI is using its powers to try to frighten people away from exercising our First and Fourth Amendment rights at the political conventions like the RNC in Cleveland. It’s important for folks to know that the only safe course of action when confronted by an FBI agent is to decline to speak to them.” http://bit.ly/29fzPy3
