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Milwaukee, April 30: Dontre Day!
We are already in the early stages of planning #DontreDay on Saturday, April 30, 2016. The time listed above is not accurate it’s TBA.
We plan on having entertainment for the entire family along with other community organizations and supporters to help make REMEMBERING DONTRE BIG!
If you’re interested in helping to make this event BIG please email us at thecoalitionforjustice@gmail.com. We will need assistance with the following:
Social media
Volunteering the day of
Children’s Corner
Community Engagement
Voter Registration
Arts Line Up
Supplies
Etc.
Coalition for Justice
#DontreDAY
Tell President Obama to call off raids against immigrant families
Southeast Immigrant Rights Network
Over 66,000 people have signed this petition: http://j.mp/CallOffRaids
Help our members take it to Washington. Please donate now! http://bit.ly/DonateJanuary27
[Photo: Joe Brusky]
Feb. 17: National Walk-In For Public Schools
FROM THE MILWAUKE TEACHER’S EDUCATION ASSOCIATION (MTEA):
We’ve started a national movement to WALK IN for public schools.
Be a part of history on Wednesday, February 17, 2016
In September, Milwaukee educators, parents, students and community supporters proclaimed our support for public schools in Milwaukee when we held walk-ins at over 100 public schools in our city to celebrate and reclaim our schools. As a result, we have pushed back school takeover attempts and forced the county executive and takeover commissioner to publicly commit to supporting MPS and to taking over only one empty building.
On Wednesday, February 17, 2016, our movement goes national as families and educators at over 700 schools – in Milwaukee and across the nation – walk in. Together we are standing up against school takeovers and demanding public community schools that welcome and serve ALL children and offer excellent academics, art, music, physical education, libraries, and support services including health care, before- and after-school care, tutoring, and family involvement.
Join us! WALK IN on Wed., Feb. 17, and be a part of history!
SHARE and INVITE others to attend! Copy this link [bit.ly/walkinwisconsin] into an email message, Facebook status update, or tweet. Include a short message such as “Join me in standing up for public schools in Milwaukee and nationwide on Wed., Feb. 17.”
HOST A WALK-IN AT YOUR SCHOOL. So far, all of the schools on the list below have registered their walk-in event so that participants can RSVP. If you don’t see your school on the list, click here to set up an event.
Hold Gov. Synder accountable for poisoning Flint children
SIGN PETITION: http://tinyurl.com/zpzo2cz
Members of the National Nurses United march in Detroit July 18, 2014.
Defend Planned Parenthood!
Madison, January 24: From Flint to Madison: Our Water is Under Attack!
We just learned that Wisconsin legislators are considering a bill (SB 432) that would allow for the privatization of the state’s water.
“SB 432 makes it possible for communities to transfer water utility management from the public sector to the private sector, which means out-of-state and potentially multi-national companies will assume control of our public water supplies with less oversight. Water privatization most often leads to declining quality of service, higher water rates, less accountability and oversight (private companies do not face elections or have to share information), and a loss of public sector jobs.” (Milwaukee Riverkeeper website)
We will gather at the Lady Forward statue on the northwest side of the capitol to assemble our message to help bring visibility to this unconscionable attempt to raid our public resources.
More information: http://conservationvoters.org/vote_tracker_bills/privatizing-wisconsins-water/
March in downtown Detroit, July 2014. [Photo: Abayomi Azikiwe]
Activists pull out of Chicago LGBTQ conference over Israel pinkwashing
Black Lives Matter Chicago has added its voice to protests over the National LGBTQ Task Force’s inclusion of an Israel lobby group in its Creating Change conference in Chicago this weekend.
Tarab-NYC, an LGBTQ and gender nonconforming group organizing in Middle Eastern and North African communities, launched the #cancelpinkwashing campaign in response to the inclusion of A Wider Bridge…
“…As we deepen the relationship between Black Liberation and Palestinian solidarity work, it is crucial to center Black Palestinian voices, perspectives and experiences,” Tompkins argued.
Tompkins also elaborated on how Palestinian liberation, including LGBTQ and Afro-Palestinian liberation, can play a role in Black liberation.
“The hope is that we can show up for each other as co-resisters and accomplices, and less so under a symbolic ally position,” Tompkins said.
This includes making solidarity statements and honoring calls for support, “but it also requires building collective knowledge about our histories and current struggles…”
UW Madison, Feb. 5: BlackOut UW Board of Regents Meeting #2
THE UNHEARD OUTCRY OF THE OPPRESSED STUDENT WILL BE SILENCED NO MORE!!!
No UW-System school student deserves to feel marginalized or oppressed at any UW-System Institution. It is time for the UW-Systems Institutions to answer to our cry for social progress and social justice on our campuses.
On Friday February 5 at 9 AM in Gordon Commons at UW Madison we will be continuing the UW-BlackOut Movement with our Seccond BlackOut Board of Regents Protest. We will continue to lift the demands of the students as we call out university officials on their lack of support and action in matters of Diversity, Inclusion, Harm against students of color, Campus social climate and the over all condition of non-majority students on campus. Our campuses are witnessing students wearing black face, racially charged incidents and students engaging in backlash against the protest of students of color. Rather than standing behind students of color in an attempt to make our campuses better for all students our administration (The Board of Regents) has passed a Free Speech Resolution that protects speech that can be considered discriminatory or hate speech. This does nothing but perpetuate a negative and hostile learning environment for students of color. Our protest calls for the removal of this resolution and the uplifting of our current demands that can be found in the link below.
Join us on February 5 as we fight for social justice in order to make the UW-System Schools a better learning environment for all Students. Invite supporters!
Wear All BLACK!
#BlackOut: United Council of UW Students Official Press Release After Meeting with UW System Administration. #BlackLivesMatter #SharedGovernance
Smash Jim Crow! Sign Petition to Demand Hands Off Civil Service Protections!
From the WI AFL-CIO:
Last fall, Gov. Walker and GOP lawmakers introduced Senate Bill 285, a bill that will destroy key components of Wisconsin’s civil service system. Wednesday night, the Senate signed off on the Assembly version of the bill AB 373.
The bill would remove impartial exams that test an applicant’s knowledge and skill level and give complete hiring control to the Department of Administration which is a direct extension of Gov. Walker’s office. The destruction of our great civil service system is now on Governor Walker’s desk, awaiting his approval.
Click here to tell Gov. Walker to VETO changes to our civil service system.
Removing the objective testing makes it easier to hire candidates with political pull and connections. The test ensures that public services are delivered with professionalism, efficiency and integrity by highly qualified workers. Our state works best when state workers are hired on what they know, not who they know.
Instead of working to create jobs, Gov. Walker and the GOP are focusing on expanding their parties influence and control by inserting politics into civil service and opening it up for cronyism.
Citizens are the big losers if civil service objectivity disappears. The work of Wisconsin state employees’ touches the lives of every single Wisconsin resident by delivering a wide range of vital services like keeping streets safe and clear in winter, monitoring safe drinking water and educating future generations.
If the civil service changes adopted by the legislature are approved by Gov. Walker, public agencies would open the door to political patronage. Corruption and cronyism would flourish. Wisconsin deserves better. Take action today.
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