LGBT Radical History Slide Show: Hidden History of the LGBT Labor Movement
10 Slide program slideshow of the hidden history of the LGBT Labor Movement and Revolutionary Beginnings. Gerry Scoppettuolo, historian,has researched and participated in this history for three decades and compiled a first hand account of many struggles of which our community was a part of.
2016 Workers World Party Election Campaign: Real people. Real struggles. Real socialist revolution. Monica Moorehead & Lamont Lilly 2016
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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 Thursday, July 7 at 734 N 26th Street in Milwaukee at 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. Monica Moorehead, WWP Presidential candidate, will join the meeting via Skype.
Mr. Lilly’s Campaign Manager Ms. Teresa Gutierrez, will also be speaking July 7. WWP activists and supporters are now collecting signatures for Mr. Lilly and his presidential running mate Ms. Monica Moorehead to obtain ballot status in Wisconsin.
Announcements will also be made July 7 about how participants can travel to Cleveland to protest the RNC and to Philadelphia to protest the DNC.
Mr. 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.”
ROUGH SCHEDULE (if you can attend for only a short time, these are important times):
7:30 AM – arrive and set up
8:00 AM – DOC employees arrive
11:30 – 1PM testimonials, speeches, and increase activities while DOC staff come and go for lunch
1:30 PM- delivery of letter, demands and policy reccomendations by prisoners.
5:00 PM – DOC empoyees leaving for the day
6:00 PM – DOC office closes
There will be testimonials from prisoner’s letters, families, supporters, formerly incarcerated people, solidarity calls from solitary confinement units in other states with less restrictive communication access than WI DOC, theatrical re-enactments of solitary confinement, force feedings and other DOC torture practices, musical performances and singing, spoken word poetry readings, and other activities over the course of the day.
State Senator Lena Taylor and Representative David Bowen are unable to attend, but will send staffers to the rally. Members of The Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee (IWOC) of the IWW, ExPrisoners Organizing, WISDOM, and other organizations will be in attendance.
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Activists from Wisconsin and across the country will participate in the protest including Workers World Party (WWP) Vice Presidential candidate Mr. Lamont Lilly from Durham, North Carolina and his Campaign Manager Ms. Teresa Gutierrez. WWP activists and supporters are now collecting signatures for Mr. Lilly and his presidential running mate Ms. Monica Moorehead to obtain ballot status in Wisconsin. Mr. Lilly will also lead a “Building People’s Power” community conversation July 7 at 7 p.m. at 734 N. 26th Street.
Announcements will also be made July 7 about how participants can travel to Cleveland to protest the RNC and to Philadelphia to protest the DNC.
Stop the Bradley Foundation!
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 internationally 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 their communities and this has increased rapidly over the past five years after the implementation of the union-busting Act 10. 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 politicians 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.
Art Pope, a Bradley board member, an extreme right-wing member of Wall Street, is responsible for many attacks on poor and working people in North Carolina including the latest anti-LGBTQ, anti-worker attacks in that state which has sparked ongoing protests world wide. Pope has been a leading advisor to Bradley and other Wall Street vultures in how to bring the abysmal anti-worker laws and policies of the Jim Crow south to Wisconsin and other states with a history of strong unionism.
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. Labor and community activists will continue their conversations of how to keep fighting to build a people’s united front for a world of real freedom, justice, dignity and equality for all workers and their communities. And how to win a world without Wall Street and its tools like the Bradley Foundation.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, June 29, 2016
The California Federation of Teachers, which represents over 120,000 educational employees in California, is extremely concerned about the recent killings and attacks on teachers in Mexico. As U.S. President Barack Obama, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto gather today for a special summit, we call on Nieto to immediately halt these attacks, and to guarantee teachers and education workers in Mexico their human, civil, political and labor rights. In the last several weeks teachers have been subjected to extreme violations of these rights, including:
As educators, we are very concerned about the corporate direction of Mexico’s Federal education reform program, as we are about similar programs in the United States. We oppose the privatization of public education, and of the corporate-directed programs for standardized testing of students and teachers. We are especially opposed to the use of those tests as the instruments for mass firings, as has been suggested in both countries.
There is no possible excuse for imposing these reforms at gunpoint, for violently suppressing the rights of teachers to advocate for themselves and their students, and for firing and jailing teachers when they do so. We call for an immediate halt to the extensive support in money and training received by the Mexican police and military from the United States, given the use of such heavy arms and anti-personnel tactics in the recent killings in Oaxaca, and the illegal imprisonment of teacher union leaders. We ask California’s Congressional delegation to hold hearings to investigate the recent events in Oaxaca and the grave violations of the rights of teachers, students and the broader community in Mexico.
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The California Federation of Teachers is the statewide affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers, and represents more than 120,000 educational employees in public and private schools and colleges, from early childhood through higher education.
