EVENT: http://tinyurl.com/kkzmyky

We’d like to first thank every one of you who have been diligently willing to participate even on such short notice. This progress could not have been made without you.

We’ve been informed of a Public Protection and Judiciary Committee (PP&J) meeting 5:15 PM, Jan 27th at the City County Building.

We’re close to making a difference, but we need your testimony. We need to continue to apply pressure. So, The Young Gifted and Black Coalition will be holding a rally and action to stand against State Violence, in solidarity with Ferguson, New York, and Black Lives lost everywhere

Continuing to push against money going into jails:

We will gather at 4:30 PM at the City County Building 210 M.L. King, Jr. Blvd. for a short rally before making our way into the PP&J committee meeting to speak in support of funding our community instead of the jail. We understand that the committee will be debating a resolution regarding what to do with the proposed $8 million, and we will speak in support of the items in the resolution that put money towards black-led community initiatives.

In Dane county we experience state violence in the form of mass incarceration. Our movement takes to the streets to end state violence against all black lives—Women, queer, trans folks, men, homeless folks, children, those in the prison industrial complex, undocumented folks, and folks with disabilities…All BLACK LIVES!

We continue to push for our demands

1) The $8 Million proposed for the jail study be taken off the table, and given to resources and initiatives led by the Black community.

2) The immediate release of Black people incarcerated for crimes of poverty. Make a plan to get 350 Black people out of jail, and keep them out. This would end the disproportionate incarceration of Black people- and stop the need for renovations due to overcrowding

3) End solitary confinement. No one should be put in solitary confinement.

“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 loose but our chains.” -Assata Shakur

Please Join Us and Spread the Word

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Young, Gifted and Black Coalition

EVENT: http://tinyurl.com/lv44llx

7 p.m. Thursday at the All People’s Church.

We are building an anti-war group in Milwaukee! Last week we discussed doing educational and solidarity events against US war and occupation. We are researching a BDS campaign as well. Hope to see you at the next meeting!

http://bostonschoolbus5.org/petition/steketee/

EVENT: http://tinyurl.com/nmtrzhu

Join Rockford Fight Imperialism, Stand Together (FIST) as we host a discussion on what poverty wages and police terror are doing to our communities along with how to organize the struggle against these issues.

Hear from a panel of local activists and featured speaker Lamont Lilly from North Carolina. Durham-based activist Mr. Lamont Lilly is a contributing editor with the Triangle Free Press and organizer with Workers World Party. He was a delegate at the “Jackson Rising: New Economies Conference,” in Jackson, Mississippi. Mr. Lilly is a regularly featured speaker and as a writer has contributed to The Root, Truthout, CounterPunch and Black Youth Project, among other publications.

*FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC*
Sunday, February 8.
1pm. 204 N. Church St. Rockford, IL.

Contact us for more Info:
https://www.facebook.com/RKFDFIST
(424) 262-FIST

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Articles by Mr. Lamont Lilly:
Lennon Lacy: ‘Strange Fruit’
http://www.thedurhamnews.com/2014/11/14/4314170/lamont-lilly-lennon-lacy-strange.html

Gentrification Rocks North Carolina’s Historic Black Community:
Old Hayti & Black Wall Street
http://newblackman.blogspot.com/2013/10/gentrification-rocks-north-carolinas.html

Jesus Huerta: A Child Killed In Durham Police Custody
http://www.latinorebels.com/author/lamontlilly/

Mr. Lamont Lilly

Members of a delegation from the youth/student group Fight Imperialism Stand Together (FIST) march in Washington D.C. August 2, 2014.

EVENT: http://tinyurl.com/kfqq4zp

The Young Gifted and Black Coalition presents a day of Political Education and protest.

We will begin at 4:00PM at UW Elvehjem building–Room L160. Located next to the Chazen Museum—with Max Rameau speaking on Community Control of the Police.

*Why it IS needed?
*How we can make it happen!!!

Following our political education and community engagement session—WE WILL TAKE IT TO THE STREETS.

At 7PM we will gather in front of Chazen Museum.

YGB is committed to educating the public and empowering Black communities in Madison WI.

It is time to take Power from the State and Transfer it to the PEOPLE!!!!!

Thus we demand:

1) That the $8 Million proposed for the jail study be taken off the table, and invested in resources and initiatives led by the Black community.

2) The immediate release of 350 Black people who are currently incarcerated for crimes of poverty and that they remain out!!

3) End solitary confinement. Solitary confinement exacerbates mental health problems for all people.

Silence = Violence

We NO longer will participate in the oppression of OUR people.

“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

Please join us.

For more information on the event, search for #BlackLivesMatter Self-Determined Community Control or “Ferguson to Madison” on Facebook.

Email: FergusonToMadison@gmail.com

Join Gary Grass, Babette Grunow and Alan Eisenberg this Saturday, January 24 at 8 p.m. for the Grasse is Greener on Riverwestradio.com. Our guest will be Mr. Abayomi Azikiwe, Editor of the Pan-African Newswire, http://panafricannews.blogspot.com/. He will discuss MLK Day 2015 and the Selma movie, the State of the Union address, the escalating renewed war in Iraq and Syria, the demonstrations against Charlie Hebdo in Africa, Black Lives Matter and related issues.

Detroit-based Mr. Abayomi Azikiwe, known in particular for his activism and journalism on behalf of the African diaspora, is a frequent contributor to multiple publications internationally including RT, http://rt.com/, Press TV, http://www.presstv.ir/.

Mr. Azikiwe is a Contributing Editor to the weekly newspaper Workers World, http://www.workers.org/. His contributions to works such as the pamphlet “U.S. Hands Off Libya,” are circulated worldwide: http://www.workers.org/ebooks/Libya2011.pdf

As an activist in Detroit, Mr. Azikiwe is a co-founder of the Moratorium NOW Coalition, http://moratorium-mi.org/ and the Michigan Emergency Coalition Against War  & Injustice (MECAWI), http://www.mecawi.org/. Both of these organizations have been leading the fight against the banks and corporations ongoing destruction of this majority Black and working class Midwestern city. Campaigns Mr. Azikiwe’s organization’s have been involved in include the fight for a moratorium on foreclosures and water shut offs and the banks looting of Detroit’s public resources including the theft of retiree pensions.

Since the February 2011 state capitol occupation in Madison, Mr. Azikiwe has been a frequent visitor to Wisconsin including participating in the May Day march in Milwaukee in 2011 and a supporter and guest of the Wisconsin Bail Out The People Movement for various speaking engagements. Mr. Azikiwe will speak next at a February 7, 2015 Workers World Party forum in Chicago: EVENT: http://tinyurl.com/qa5ffn8 FLIER: http://tinyurl.com/nmqo7dj

Mr. Abayomi Azikiwe of the Pan African Newswire and the Michigan Emergency Committee Against War and Injustice (mecawi.org).

March in downtown Detroit, July 2014. [Photo: Abayomi Azikiwe]

ARTICLE: http://tinyurl.com/pmyps8p