EVENT: http://tinyurl.com/kk3b9l2

Adjunct faculty members across the country are holding a day of action to come together for better wages and working conditions. The UWM Union of Faculty and Academic Staff (AFT 3535) invites academic staff, faculty, and students to gather to discuss how we come together to collectively resist budget cuts and advocate for ourselves.

Educators march at the opening of the United States Social Forum (USSF) June 2010, Detroit

For more information, updates and how to join the struggle: #‎wibudget‬

#‎DontMessWithMPS‬ ‪#‎FundOurFuture‬

WI BOPM statement in response to Gov. Scott Walker’s announcements-on behalf of Wall Street-to dismantle the University of WI System: http://tinyurl.com/owwcegk

Protest action Feb. 16 at Gov Walker’s Wauwatosa home in response to #wibudget cuts to public education and the state’s UW System. [Photo: Joe Brusky]

EVENT: http://tinyurl.com/lwqancq

MARCH: 10 AM. Meet at Federal Building, Adams and Dearborn, Chicago

FORUM: 12 noon 135 S. Lasalle Suite 4300, Chicago

Participants are invited to speak, and the floor will be open for discussion regarding topics such as the Black Lives Matter movement and proposals for action including on the following topics:

• Stop All Cuts To SNAP And Government Food Programs
• Healthy Food Affordable for all – End Food Deserts
• Economic Justice for Food, Agricultural and All Workers, Including $15 Minimum Wage And The Right To Unionize.
• Hold the Food Industry and Agribusiness Accountable for Environmental and Health Impact in the US and Around the world.

*General Comment No. 12 of the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has declared “the right to adequate food is realized when every man, woman and child, alone or in community with others, has the physical and economic access at all times to adequate food or means for its procurement”

For more information call 708 524-6904

Sponsored by Dominican University, Nutrition Science and the Food is a Right Chicago People’s Assembly. Endorsed by Rockford FIST, and Wisconsin Bail Out The People Movement. List in formation.

EVENT: http://tinyurl.com/q6wuwae

The time is NOW to protect our future. Come experience an incredible confluence of ideas, music and defiance at this historic summit.

The waters of the Midwest, along with air quality, endangered species and habitat, are at risk due to the foolish practices of the 1% with political, economic and violent power in this region.

It is important to RSVP via this link to assure your seat at this event as we have been receiving a lot of interest! http://action.sierraclub.org/site/Calendar?view=Detail&id=176161

Join us from 1 to 9:30 p.m. (or as much as you can) at the University of Wisconsin Pyle Center on Langdon Street to learn about the threats posed by transportation of Canadian tar sands oil and fracked Bakken oil across the midwest and Great Lakes Region.

Learn what you can do to protect our land, wildlife, water and the health and survival of future generations, how communities including indigenous communities are gathering to protect themselves, and be inspired to Love Water, Not Oil.

Featuring Winona LaDuke of Honor the Earth and Jane Kleeb of Bold Nebraska. Free and open to the public!

This will be an unprecedented Strategy Gathering to Combat the Enbridge Expansion in the Midwest.

EVENT: http://tinyurl.com/qxc3cje

Celebrate International Women’s Day 2015

Sponsored by Committee to Stop FBI Repression, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, the U.S. Palestinian Community Network, the American Party of Labor, Anakbayan, and the Chicago Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression.

March 8, International Women’s Day, born of the struggle of working women, of immigrants, in New York 100 years ago – is a day of celebration and resistance. There can be no more fitting way to mark the occasion than to revisit the past struggles and victories won, in order to continue to build the struggle for women’s liberation.

We’ll have as our special guest Rasmea Odeh. Her courage and strength as she faces ongoing persecution by the U.S. Dept. of Justice has made her a symbol of Palestinian women’s resistance, and of women in the struggles for national liberation all over the world.

Other guests include:
Mariame Kaba, founder of Project NIA in Chicago. She is a local organizer and educator.

Sarah Chambers, a member of the bargaining committee of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) that led the strike in 2012, and co-chair of the Caucus of Rank and File Educators, leaders in CTU.

Kait McIntyre, a leading anti-war activist in Chicago, and a member of Freedom Road Socialist Organization.

Plus cultural offerings from Chicago and Anakbayan, the national democratic organization of Filipino youth in the US.

We will also have a fund raising appeal for the Rasmea Defense Committee.

International Women’s Day in 2015: the system we live under is waging a war on women. Working class women; African American women and immigrant Latinas dealing with national oppression and racist discrimination; women in the oppressed nations of the world suffering under the wars and occupations of U.S. imperialism: all can take heart on this day. Women’s liberation is part of the bright future, where capitalism is ended and replaced by socialism.

Long Live International Women’s Day!

EVENT: http://tinyurl.com/m92zrqe

Among others, there is a huge disparity in the incarceration of black people, making up 6% of the population and nearly 50% of the jail. There is also a disparity in the way that predominantly black communities are policed. Madison Police Chief Koval has openly admitted that the MPD plays a role in Madison’s racial disparities; and he’s holding a forum on the south side to talk about community issues.

Join us as we hold MPD accountable for their role in disparities.
Help us raise the voice of the community that says we don’t want policing that adds to disparities.
Tell the Chief to support alternatives to incarceration that make things better for black people.

When: Thursday, February 19, 2015 at 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Where: Catholic Multicultural Center 1862 Beld Street

Why: Because there is power in numbers and your presence helps us all make a difference.

We continue to push for our demands:

1. The county abandon all attempts to expand the capacity of the jail or build a new jail (Black people are disproportionately impacted and jails do nothing to address root causes).
2. The investment into Black led community initiatives (Our solutions should come from us).
3. The immediate release of 350 black people incarcerated due to crimes of poverty (Surviving poverty is not a crime. Poverty itself is the crime).
4. The end of Solitary confinement (it is inhumane and makes mental wellness issues worse).

Please, Stand with Us.

“It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love and protect one another. We have nothing to lose but our chains.” ~ Assata Shakur

Solidarity —
Young, Gifted and Black Coalition

EVENT: http://tinyurl.com/lys63l6

GATHER OUTSIDE CHASE BANK, WOODWARD AND
FORT STREET, and MARCH TO GREEKTOWN

FROM DETROIT TO GREECE,
SAY NO TO THE WAR ON
THE WORKING CLASS!

CANCEL THE DEBT
STOP PENSION CUTS

Austerity in Greece has meant conditions much like those faced by Detroiters: A poverty rate of 44%, up from just 3% in 2009; a 27.7% unemployment rate; and 240,000 people with their utilities shut off.

But in response to these conditions, Syriza was elected to office in Greece on a promise to end the austerity imposed on the working class by the banks and the Troika (the European Union, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund). U.S. financial institutions have swindled huge profits off the backs of the people of Greece, Detroit and around the world.

In its first day in office, Syriza announced the following measures to ease the suffering of the masses: •Halting of privatization schemes; •Reinstating pensions; •Reintroducing of the monthly minimum wage; •Scrapping of fees for prescriptions and hospital visits; •Restoring collective work agreements; •Rehiring workers laid off in the public sector; •Giving free access to food and electricity to the victims of the bailout; and •Granting citizenship to migrant children born and raised in Greece. Aren’t these the kind of things we need in Detroit?!

The banks and their capitalist allies are now trying to economically strangle Greece, refusing to renegotiate the loans and threatening to cut off Greece from the international market. All over the world workers are demonstrating their solidarity with the people of Greece. It’s time to draw the line against the criminal banksters and to say PEOPLE come before profits. We’ll beat them back in Greece and across the world, and reverse the attacks on Detroiters imposed by emergency management and the state in service to the banks.

Initiated by
Moratorium NOW! Coalition to Stop Foreclosures, Evictions & Utility Shutoffs
Call 313-680-5508 or 313-671-3715 for more information, http://moratorium-mi.org/

http://overpasslightbrigade.org/blog/

Piercing winds and negative wind chills were not enough to keep hundreds of Wisconsinites from attending two actions against Governor Walker’s proposed budget cuts on the University of Wisconsin’s campus on Saturday, February 14. It was a cold, cold way to spend Valentine’s Day, with the wind in Madison whipping off of Lake Mendota, bringing the already frigid temperatures down to a danger zone of twenty-five degrees below zero. But this is Wisconsin, and in spite of the polar vortex, four or five hundred winter warriors arrived to rally. If these numbers, despite the cold, are any indication, Walker’s budget is drawing a lot of heat.

http://overpasslightbrigade.org/blog/

Brandi Grayson of the Young Gifted and Black coalition, speaking to hundreds of protesters at the state capitol in Madison Feb. 14, 2015. Grayson linked the struggles of the the Black Lives Matter movement and the fights to fully fund public education characterizing both as state violence on the people. [Photo: Joe Brusky]