Southern Workers Assembly: http://southernworker.org/

On March 4-6, 2016, the Southern Workers Assembly (SWA) will hold the Southern Workers School in Raleigh, NC. This will be the first of an 8 session series of education, training and development of organizing tools to help prepare SWA worker-representatives to embark on a plan to build the organized rank-and-file infrastructure in workplaces and industries across the US South for the development a Southern Labor Congress.

Several dozen rank and file leaders of unions and workers organizations from Virginia to Texas are planning to participate in this historic gathering – but we need your help to make it a success! http://southernworker.org/

Building a movement to fight racism, police terror & the capitalism prison system

Black and Brown people in the United States live in a brutal police state, subject to terror, incarceration, violence, or death on a daily basis. We have seen inspiring resistance, from Black Lives Matter to the heroic fight back by Latino youth against ICE. How can we build and strengthen this movement? What will it take to win?

Join these Black Liberation Movement veterans, community organizers, and activists for a community discussion:

•Pam Africa – of the MOVE Organization, Millions for Mumia Abu Jamal
•Lamont Lilly – Vice Presidential candidate of Workers World Party
•Chairman Fred Hampton Jr – of the Prisoners of Concience Committe/Black Panther Party Cubs
•Dorothy Pinkney – wife of Michigan political prisoner Rev. Edward Pinkney
•Daphne Jackson – Chicago community freedom fighter (and other speakers fighting the U.S. raids and deportations of migrants and other people’s struggles TBA)

The event is free and open to the public.
Sponsored by Workers World Party Chicago
(312) 620-2305 ChicagoWWP@gmail.com

Chicago Workers World Party

At the ILA Local 1422 “Days Of Grace” protest in Charleston, South Caroline September 5, 2015 [Photo: WI BOPM]

https://libya360.wordpress.com/2016/02/08/150-years-of-civil-rights-legislation-and-the-struggle-for-black-power/

By Abayomi Azikiwe
Libya 360°
African American History Month 2016 Series No. 3

“…This election year of 2016 is marked by a total absence of discussions and debates by the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates over the status of African Americans and oppressed peoples inside the U.S. Should there be a new push for renewed legislation as opposed to a greater emphasis on mass civil disobedience, boycotts, urban rebellions and general strikes or combination of all of these tactics aimed at total equality and full national liberation? What is obvious is that the present system of declining capitalism and imperialist militarism offers no future for the African American people and the working class in general.

Only the realization of socialism where the people control the means of production will there be any possibility of eliminating racism, national oppression and economic exploitation. There can only be freedom for the oppressed with the expropriation of the ruling class and the radical redistribution of wealth to the working people.”

September 24, 2015 Madison

Here’s how you can join the movement to increase the role of public community schools in Milwaukee, while also continuing to fight the Takeover of MPS.

‪#‎noMPStakeover‬

From the Overpass Light Brigade

Update in the fight to stop the privatization of Wisconsin’s water!

The legislative calendar for Tuesday, Feb 9th has been circulated via ballot to legislative leaders on the Senate Organization Committee and AB 554 the “Water Takeover Bill” is NOT on the calendar that is being voted on. Nor is SB 432, the companion bill.

This means that the next most likely target date would be February 16th, but it also means our pressure is working, but we cannot stop until this bill is voted down for good. Keep those calls coming and keep up the great advocacy, Wisconsin.