SEPTEMBER 26 “DONTRE HAMILTON FUNDRAISER AND ORGANIZING PARTY”

INFORMATION: Hey Family! We’ll be holding a fundraiser for the Coalition for Justice on Friday September 26th. We’ll have performances by family members and friends of the coalition and we’ll be making signs and banners to prepare for the September 30th speak-out and march. EVENT INFO: http://tinyurl.com/kyn2e7n

We ask for $5 at the door. The fight for #justicefordontre is going strong, but the Coalition for Justice will need funds to win. We invite you all to join us for some music and fun with fellow freedom fighters. Everyone is invited to share their own talents, as well, so feel free to bring your instruments!

We have come so far, but It is more important now than ever to sustain the momentum in our fight. Join us as we continue to organize and build towards a Milwaukee free of racist police and white supremacists. If we can all come together, there is no question that we will win!

CoSponsored by the Step By Step Collective and the Riverwest Public House Cooperative

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MILWAUKEE, SEPTEMBER 30: JUSTICE FOR DONTRE – SPEAK OUT AND MARCH

Calling all Community Members, activists, friends, and family to stand with us against injustice on our streets and in our communities. EVENT INFO: http://tinyurl.com/kxfrr6r

September 30th will be the 5 month anniversary since Dontre Hamilton was murdered by a Milwaukee Police Officer. Dontre Hamilton was shot 14 times for resting in a public park. A lot of promises have been made by public officials looking for a photo op. But the truth is the truth – 5 months later and his family has yet to see justice.

Join us as we gather, once again, at Red Arrow Park (Ground Zero) to demand #justicefordontre and for all victims of MPD brutality and white vigilante violence. We will hear families of those that we have lost share their experiences through a public speak-out, followed by a march.

We will NOT tolerate racist police killing innocent people in our streets. On September 30th, we will rally as a community with these families and we will #standforjustice.

*If you would like to co-sponsor this event, please message the coalition for justice on Facebook.

Co-sponsors: Occupy Milwaukee, Angela N. Walker for Milwaukee County Sheriff, Welfare Warriors, Wisconsin Bail Out the People Movement, Workers World Party, Envisioning the Future, more to come…

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From Madison’s Labor Radio, http://laborradio.org/

By Doug Cunningham

Fourteen hundred organizations are supporting The People’s Climate March in New York City this Saturday. It’s being billed as the largest climate march in history, demanding action to protect the world from the impact of climate change caused by human pollution. Organized labor is represented by the CWA, Connecticut chapters of the AFL-CIO and SEIU, IBEW Local 3, Teamsters Joint Council 16, National Nurses United, UAW Region 9, AFSCME DC37, TWU Local 100 and others. The march is for a future with good jobs, clean air, and healthy communities for all. Demands include a world with an economy that works for people and the planet. Labor backers say climate change must be considered a labor and social justice issue.

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ALSO FROM LABOR RADIO:

Unions Call On Chicago Mayor To End $100 Million A Year Bank Deals

Posted: September 17, 2014 by laborradio

By Doug Cunningham

The Chicago Teachers Union, AFSCME Council 31 and SEIU Healthcare of Illinois and Indiana are all calling on Chicago’s mayor to file for arbitration to recover millions of dollars from toxic interest rate swap deals. The unions want Mayor Rahm Emanuel to end the deals they say are costing the city of Chicago and Chicago schools $100 million a year.

The unions say banks like Bank of America and investment firms like Loop Capital are profiting from toxic interest rate swap deals at the expense of city services and education in Chicago. A similar effort is underway by a labor-community coalition in Los Angeles. Similar deals have cost the public billions of dollars nationwide. Labor-community coalitions say the banks did not properly disclose the risks involved in these deals.

When the economy was crashed in 2008 by big banks and their fraudulent and toxic complex financial instruments the aftermath created historically low interest rates. And that, ironically, has meant the banks are profiting from a financial meltdown they caused.

 

From the Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle of New York

We will meet at 79th Street and Central Park West to March against Climate Change this coming Sunday at 10 AM Sept 21. Please join to the ALBA countries Against Climate Change.

We will be marching with Claudia Salerno, Venezuela.  Rene Orellana, Bolivia. both of them Presidential Special Envoy for Climate Change of their respective countries. Jaime Hermidas, deputy ambassador and chief negotiator for climate change Nicaragua.

The agreement was proposed by the government of Venezuela, led by President Hugo Chávez, as an alternative to the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA or ALCA in Spanish), a proposal by the United States that was opposed by several countries and the region and inspired massive popular protests.

The Cuba-Venezuela Agreement, signed on December 14, 2004, by Presidents Hugo Chávez and Fidel Castro, was aimed at the exchange of medical and educational resources and petroleum between both nations. Venezuela began to deliver about 96,000 barrels of oil per day from its state-owned oil company, PDVSA, to Cuba at very favorable prices and Cuba in exchange sent 20,000 state-employed medical staff and thousands of teachers to Venezuela’s poorest states. The agreement also made it possible for Venezuelans to travel to Cuba for specialized medical care free of charge.

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Please mark your calendars and spread the word. A special screening of this film will be happening on Monday, September 29th at the Oriental Theatre as part of the Milwaukee Film Festival’s Milwaukee Show. The Milwaukee show features 9 locally made short films and the Corey Stingley piece will be the first film to play that night. Buy your tickets early, the Milwaukee show always sells out. You can purchase tickets here: http://mkefilm.org/tickets/

“On December 14, 2012, a young black high school student named Corey Stingley was aggressively restrained after he tried to shoplift alcohol from a neighborhood store. Three white men held Corey to th…e ground, “squeezing the hell out of him,” according to an eyewitness. When the police arrived, he was no longer breathing. He died two weeks later from brain injuries resulting from asphyxiation. The men who restrained him were never charged.

Corey’s story is painfully similar to those of young black men across the country. Did his skin color preemptively decide his fate in the American justice system? VICE News follows Corey’s father, Craig, as he seeks justice in the hyper-segregated Wisconsin city of West Allis, and mourns the death of his son.”

PURCHASE TICKETS HERE: http://mkefilm.org/the-milwaukee-show-i/

Audio commentary: http://tinyurl.com/odja6uk

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Call Jonathan Tukel in Detroit at 313-226-9100

Chief of National Security Unit, U.S. Attorney’s office, Eastern District of Michigan

Call Barbara McQuade at 313-226-9501

U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan

When you call say, “Hello, my name is ________, and I am calling from _________ to demand that U.S. Attorney McQuade drop the charges against Rasmea Odeh.” (first name pronounced Russ-MEE-yuh)

Make the calls!

More information: http://www.stopfbi.net/

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Come to Detroit on Oct. 2, Rasmea Odeh court appearance

Join us, the National Rasmea Defense Committee as we travel with Rasmea Odeh to court in Detroit on Oct. 2 for an important hearing before Judge Drain. We are asking you to join Rasmea Odeh’s supporters for rally and protest outside the court on Thusday, Oct. 2, Palestine solidarity and civil liberty activists from Detroit, Chicago, Minneapolis, Grand Rapids and other Michigan cities will join Rasmea Odeh and pack the courtroom. You can make a difference in stopping this ugly U.S. government targeting of a great woman and Palestinian leader. Join us in saying, “No more torture! Drop the charges now!”

October 2 Court Hearing for Rasmea Odeh
9 am. – Picket line outside the court building
231 W Lafayette Boulevard, in Detroit

Hearing starts at 10:00 a.m.

The Rasmea Defense Committee, United States Palestinian Community Network, United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC), the Michigan Emergency Committee Against War and Injustice (MECAWI) and the Committee to Stop FBI Repression (CSFR) are mobilizing to fill the courthouse.

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SIGN PETITION: http://www.iacenter.org/rasmeaodehpetition/

Rasmea Yousef Odeh

International Action Center alert: http://tinyurl.com/pukrn9k

The International Action Center (http://iacenter.org/) joins in demanding the immediate release of political prisoner Vladislav Wojciechowski!

Please contact the nearest Ukrainian embassy or consulate and the White House in Washington, D.C., to demand Wojciechowski’s immediate release. Let them know you hold Ukrainian President Peter Poroshenko and U.S. President Barack Obama responsible for his safety.

In the U.S., contact:

• Igor Sybiga, Chief of the Consulate General of Ukraine in New York, 240 E. 49th St., New York, NY 10017; phone: 212-371-6965; fax: 212-371-5547; email: gc_usn@mfa.gov.ua; website: ny.mfa.gov.ua.

• White House switchboard: 202-456-1414; comment line: 202-456-1111; submit messages of protest to President Obama online at tinyurl.com/cgup8c9.

PACK THE MILWAUKEE FIRE & POLICE COMMISSION MEETING SEPTEMBER 18
Community come out and show that we will not stand for injustice. Let your demands and your voices be heard. Remember that there’s strength in number and together we make the difference. Meet at Red Arrow at 5 pm on Thursday, September 18 2014. March to Fire & Police Commission meeting that begins at 6:30 P.M., 733 N 8TH STREET, MILWAUKEE. http://tinyurl.com/nnol4wr

Hundreds rally at Red Arrow Park in Milwaukee August 22, 2014 to demand justice for Michael Brown, Dontre Hamilton & other victims of police terror. [Photo: WI BOPM]