Saturday, August 8 @ 2-9 pm
Urban Ecology Center – Washington Park
4145 W. Lisbon Ave.
Milwaukee, WI 53208

Join the Facebook event here!

2-6pm:
Peace Benefit Concert
featuring music from Reverbnation, Ronnie long and Mitch Cooper Duet & Miss Meaghan Owens

6-9pm:
Lanterns for Peace Ceremony

This event is free and open to the public

Lanterns for Peace is the annual commemoration of the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II. On this, the 70th anniversary, we draw inspiration from the tragic events by recognizing what we can achieve when we mobilize our nation’s resources and collective will behind confronting our county’s most pressing challenges.

Join us in lighting a brighter future!

The event features food, beer, live music, family activities, paper crane origami and making of traditional Japanese paper lanterns that will be illuminated and set afloat at dusk.

Unlike here in Wisconsin, where Wall Street forces are cutting back on education, socialist Cuba runs a medical school free for students from all over the world. Hear from two students from WI studying at ELAM–Latin America Medical Students. Alexander Skeeter and Olive Albanese describe how they got into ELAM, what the course of study has been like and what they hope to do after they graduate. http://tinyurl.com/q6bwpp4

MILLION PEOPLE’S MARCH AGAINST
Police Brutality,
Racial Injustice
& Economic Inequality

Saturday July 25th @ 12 noon
Lincoln Monument, Newark, NJ
Corner of Springfield Ave & West Market St

Sponsored by: People’s Organization for Progress
More than 120 endorsing organizations.
See full list at: facebook.com/events/418074548350082/
Or call: 973-0801-0001 www.njpop.org  #popjuly25newark

    SHUT DOWN Racist Terror!
     Charleston to Ferguson;
Baltimore to Newark and New York
Stop Racist Violence Against Black Women
 #SayHerName   #SandraBland   #KindraChapman     #KyamLivingston      #IndiaClark
Black Lives Matter!  Power to the People!

TRAVEL TO NEWARK & MARCH
with PeoplesPowerAssemblies.org, 
International Working Women’s Day Coalition
& International Action Center

‪#‎Take15for15‬ ‪#‎FightFor15‬

#‎Winning‬

https://www.facebook.com/RaiseUpMKE

Rally at 9th and North Avenue at 11 a.m. in Milwaukee and in Madison at 12 NOON at 1102 Regent Street on July 23.

Boots Riley, http://bootsriley.tumblr.com/ the Oakland-based activist and performer discusses the need for workers to look beyond city councils and form a radical new labor movement.

http://creativetimereports.org/2015/07/20/boots-riley-the-problem-with-the-fight-for-15/

“…I suggest that radicals create new, militant unions that are upfront about their revolutionary ideals, clearly articulating that winning fights around wage hikes through militant strikes is but one step in a revolutionary strategy. Declaring that we’ll physically keep scabs out will increase workers’ faith in their ability to win.

These new unions will break the laws that make current unions so powerless, and union organizers may go to jail. Jail isn’t new to radicals. An actual militant labor movement could organize a strike that is so effective that we negotiate wage increases and demand that the prices of goods be tied to corresponding wage increases, ensuring that wage hikes have real effects.

This sort of movement has the potential to be popular. It could lead to widespread general strikes to affect policy and develop from there into a situation in which the workers take over the facilities en masse. This would be the start of a revolutionary situation – one in which a living wage is a right, not a polite request.”