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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 31, 2016 CONTACT: Molly Collins, ACLU of Wisconsin, 414-272-4032 x 215, media@aclu-wi.org ACLU of Wisconsin Condemns Milwaukee Police Department Arrests of Organizer Jarrett English and State Representative Jonathan Brostoff Last night in the Sherman Park area, Milwaukee police officers in riot gear wrongfully arrested Jarrett English, an organizer at the ACLU […]

Friday September 2nd just before midnight Honduras time (Sept. 3 EST) is the 6-month anniversary of Berta’s assassination, and nothing has changed in the investigation. The government has still not captured the intellectual authors, nor have they provided any new information to the family about the proceedings as we have a right to under the […]

http://www.maskmagazine.com/the-toxic-issue/struggle/national-prison-strike-on-attica-anniversary In Alabama and Texas, prisoners have enacted multiple strikes and uprisings over the last few weeks. Now they are calling for a national prison strike on the anniversary of the Attica Prison rebellion. More info: http://peoplespowerassemblies.org/sept-9-2016-nationwide-prisoner-action/

http://portside.org/2016-08-29/black-women%e2%80%99s-wages However, as the gender wage gap narrowed during the 1980s and early 1990s, the racial pay gap between white and black women grew. By 2015, white women’s wages had grown to 77 percent of white men’s, compared to 66 percent for black women relative to white men—a racial difference of 11 percentage points. The […]

http://www.stopfbi.net/ Rasmea Odeh, a survivor of vicious torture at the hands of the Israeli military, will be compelled to undergo hours of psychological evaluation by a government forensic examiner, according to a ruling by Federal Judge Gershwin Drain.  Drain cancelled a September 22 hearing on the matter in Detroit, where supporters from across the Midwest […]

Community Conversation with Monica Moorehead, Presidential Candidate for Workers World Party Friday, September 16. 6:30 – 8:30 P.M. 3020 W Vliet Street, Milwaukee at the African American Women’s Center (Former Carpenter’s union hall). Free and open to the public. Monica Moorehead has been an activist and organizer for more than four decades. Moorehead has long […]

Community Call to Action re: the Public Safety Action Plan “If you are silent about your pain, they will kill you and say you enjoyed it.” Zora Neal Hurston Common Council’s Public Safety Action Plan is No Starting Point as Common Council President Ashanti Hamilton Stated UBLAC’s Community Call to Action this Thursday at the […]