EVENT: http://tinyurl.com/qf62kar

6:30 p.m., UW-Milwaukee Student Union, 2200 Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee

Please join Progressive Students of Milwaukee as we host Hatem Abudayyeh, Executive Director of the Arab American Action Network (AAAN), who will speak about the politically-motivated arrest of his colleague, Rasmea Odeh.

Rasmea Yousef Odeh was arrested at her home on Oct. 22, 2013, by agents from the Department of Homeland Security, alleging an immigration violation on a 20-year-old application. Rasmea, who has made it her life’s work to serve and help empower Palestinian and Arab families, is the victim of another witch-hunt by our federal law enforcement agencies, which continue to violate the civil rights of Arabs and Muslims with impunity, particularly those who are critical of U.S. support for Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian people.

Rasmea Yousef Odeh

EVENT: http://tinyurl.com/msuqcrp

Event: Marxism: The Science Behind the Struggle
Date: Sat. & Sun. Aug. 23-24, 2014
Location: 5920 Second ave. at Antoinette, Near WSU
Sponsor: Workers World Party Detroit Branch & Fight Imperialism, Stand Together (FIST)
Contact: (313) 671-3715

Join us to hear panelists report on various issues including:

–Detroit’s Economic Crisis and How to Fight It
–Assaults on Workers and the Nationally Oppressed
–Theft of Pensions, Water and Other Public Assets
–Fighting for the Liberation of Women
–Immigrant Rights and the Global Economic Crisis
–LGBTQ Struggles for Equality
–Imperialist War Drives in Africa, the Middle East, etc.
–History of WWP and the Global Class Struggle

There is a resurgence of the anti-people, anti-worker agenda of the banks and corporations which is devastating the working class and the nationally oppressed. Job losses, increasing unemployment, racism and war are the day-to- day realities of the majority of people here in the United States and around the world.

In the U.S. we are in the citadel of world capitalism and imperialism. Our responsibility is enhanced due to the role of the ruling class in their efforts to extract even more profits from the misery under which we are forced to live…

Join us on Sat. Aug. 23 and Sun. Aug. 24 for a conference to analyze and present solutions to the present crisis. Hear speakers from Detroit and around the country who are involved in the mass and working class struggles that will prove decisive in the movement to emancipate the people from exploitation and repression.

For more information on the conference contact us at (313) 671-3715.

EVENT: http://tinyurl.com/nje486w

A diverse coalition of clergy, community activists, civic leaders will gather Monday, August 4 4:30 pm at the Martin Luther King Jr. statue on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Milwaukee to protest Israeli aggression against the people of Gaza, which has resulted in more than 1,370 Palestinian deaths since the beginning of Israel’s ‘Operation Protective Edge’. The United Nations and the international community have roundly condemned the Israeli offensive, with calls for an immediate end to the ground invasion and air assaults on civilian targets and infrastructure…
Concerned community members are encouraged to attend Monday’s press conference and support the movement on social media using the hashtag, #MKE4GAZA.

http://iacenter.org/

ARTICLE from Venezuela Analysis: http://tinyurl.com/lxvseok

Venezuela’s foreign minister says an initiative to send relief aid to Gaza is a “testament of solidarity” with Gazans being “massacred” by Israel.

Venezuela’s foreign ministry has opened its doors to donations of humanitarian aid for Gaza.

ALSO:

The Presidents of Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Venezuela on July 29 unanimously condemned the disproportionate use of force by the Israeli troops in Gaza, which after 22 days has mostly affected civilians, women and children.

The leaders of Argentina, Cristina Fernandez, Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, Jose Mujica, Uruguay, and Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, also condemned any kind of violent actions against civilian populations in Israel.

The regional heads of state were celebrating the Mercosur Summit in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas to discuss various integration issues.

ARTICLE from BDS (Boycott, Divestment andSanctions): http://tinyurl.com/kfm9mwz