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Milwaukee, July 7: 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 theground — 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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More information: 414-395-0665
Fight! Smash! Win!
June 19-20: Phone and Email Zap: Support Wisconsin Prisoners’ Hunger Strike Day 13 and 14
Phone and Email Zap: Support Wisconsin Prisoners’ Hunger Strike Day 13 and 14
Please email and call Waupun Correctional Institute on Sunday and Monday. As of Sunday people have been on hunger strike in Waupun for 13 days. One of the hunger strikers, Cesar De Leon, announced 6/15/16 that he is now also refusing water because Waupun’s water supply is contaminated by lead, he vomits up their water and experiences stomach pain and heart-burn when he drinks it.
For Sunday and Monday, contact Warden Brain Foster
Email brain.foster@wisconsin.gov
Phone 920-324-5571
Sample script: “I am calling/writing in concern for the hunger strike happening now, and their six humanitarian demands against solitary confinement. You need to meet with them. Also, one of the participants, Cesar De Leon, #322800, is in medical distress because Waupun’s water supply is contaminated with lead and he’s refusing toxic water. Give him clean bottled water immediately.”
Maximum impact for phone calls to Waupun will be Monday, between 8 AM and 5 PM, central time. If unable to make this time, can call and leave message, and email whenever. Each person that participates adds to the impact. There will be updates and further calls to action as the situation develops.
For people who have time, the same message can also be carried to Wisconsin Department of Corrections Secretary Jon E Litscher at (608)- 240- 5000 jon.litscher@wi.gov
Here is a “How-To” video for calling prisons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=251DPVDQ17A (the example used is a lot longer than what’s expected for this call, but it shows how the process can often look like)
If you’re participating internationally, you can make an international voice call to the US very cheaply using google voice / hangouts
If you wish to write to participating prisoners to make message of support to hunger strikers, please write to: Cesar Deleon #322800, Lamar Larry #293906, Rayshun Woods #390831, LaRon McKinley #42642, at:
Waupon Correctional Institute
P.O. Box 351
Waupon, WI 53963
Norman Green #228971 has recently been transferred to Columbia, and can be written at
Columbia Correctional Institute
P.O. Box 900
Portage, WI 53901
People who wish to write can use the Milwaukee IWW PO Box as a return address, at PO Box 342294, Milwaukee, WI, 53234
More information on the incarcerated workers participating in this action and their writings can be found at: solitarytorture.blogspot.com
An injury to one is an injury to all.
From France: The CGT in solidarity with LGBT people
Attack in Orlando
The CGT in solidarity with LGBT people
Monday, June 13, 2016, http://cgt.fr/
Once again, barbarism has struck, during a massacre in Orlando
(Florida, USA), presently claimed by Daech(ISIL).
The CGT in solidarity with LGBT people
Monday, June 13, 2016, http://cgt.fr/
Once again, barbarism has struck, during a massacre in Orlando
(Florida, USA), presently claimed by Daech(ISIL).
Homophobia is the cause of this tragedy.
Discrimination, violence, repression related to sexual orientation and
gender identity are still very present in the world. Some countries
still have laws that criminally condemn LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bi,
Trans).
If in France, through the power of mobilizations, the rights of LGBT
people have evolved, the fact remains that everything is not acquired
nor conquered since inequalities persist in the workplace and in
private life.
The CGT is very committed to equal rights and actively fight all forms
of discrimination, hatred and violence to which they lead.
The CGT strongly supports trade unions and American associations
representing and defending the rights of LGBT people in the workplace
and in life. http://cgt.fr/
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.
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San Francisco Solidarity With French General Strike
Immigrant Community Responds to Wisconsin ICE Raids
¡Alto a los ataques en contra de nuestras comunidades! Stop terrorizing our communities! #ShutdownICE #Altoalasredadas
Voces de la Frontera
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Immigrant Community Responds to Wisconsin ICE Raids
MILWAUKEE – Today Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced they had arrested 39 people in raids throughout Wisconsin in the past month. Voces de la Frontera issued the following response:
“ICE claims their raids make communities safer, but in fact ICE makes us all less safe by traumatizing families, robbing children of their parents and making immigrant community members afraid to cooperate with law enforcement to report crimes,” said Christine Neumann-Ortiz, Executive Director of Voces de la Frontera.
“In these raids ICE arrested the son-in-law of one of our members, and the only offense on his record is a 10-year-old conviction for working with a made-up Social Security Number. He is not a threat to anyone. His crime was working to support his wife and 2 children, and he was only arrested because of a racist, Arizona-type workplace raid, where ICE went to the Star Packaging Factory in Whitewater in 2006 and racially profiled all the Latino workers. Contrary to what ICE claims, he is not a priority for deportation. He is a victim of civil rights violations and his case should be closed immediately.”
Comunidad inmigrante responde a las redadas de ICE Wisconsin
MILWAUKEE – Hoy Control de Inmigración y Aduanas (conocido como ICE por sus siglas en inglés) anunció que había arrestado a 39 personas en redadas a través de Wisconsin en el último mes. Voces de la Frontera publicó la siguiente respuesta:
“Migración dice que sus redadas más seguras la comunidades, pero en realidad ICE hacen a todos menos seguros, porque traumatizan familias, roban a niñxs de sus madres y padres y hacen que los miembros de la comunidad inmigrante tienen miedo de cooperar con la policía para reportar crímenes,” dijo Christine Neumann-Ortiz, directora ejecutiva de Voces de la Frontera. “En estas redadas ICE detuvo a un yerno de uno de nuestros miembros, y el único delito en su record es una condena de hace 10 años por trabajar con un número de seguro inventado. Él no es una amenaza para nadie. Su crimen era trabajar para mantener a su esposa y 2 hijos, y sólo fue detenido debido a una redada en un trabajo, de tipo racista de Arizona, donde ICE fue a la fábrica de Star Packaging en Whitewater en 2006 y cometió el perfil racial en contra de lxs trabajadorxs latinxs. Contrario a las declaraciones de ICE, este hombre no es una prioridad para deportación. Él es un víctima de violaciones de los derechos civiles y su caso debe ser cerrado inmediatamente.”
Photo: Joe Brusky
