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The Grass Is Greener on Riverwest Radio: Phil Wilayto on the Bradley Foundation

June 25 show: http://bit.ly/28VRxuY Prisoner Protest Update and Phil Wilayto on Bradley Foundation First we have updates on the Wisconsin prisoners refusing food to protest solitary confinement. Then Phil Wilayto, current editor of the Virginia Defender, and a formerly Milwaukee-based activist who literally wrote the book on the Bradley Foundation, comes on to tell us […]

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Madison Cops Brutalize Another Black Teen, Community Responds & Demands All Charges Be Dropped #‎GeneleLaird‬

#‎SayHerName‬ ‪#‎GeneleLaird‬ YGB Ferguson To Madison

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The Grass Is Greener on Riverwest Radio: Fighting Solitary Confinement

http://bit.ly/28OE5sB http://www.riverwestradio.com/ Guests Mark Rice and Talib Akbar join us from from Ex-Prisoners Organizing (ExPO). Talib explains what it was like in solitary confinement and discusses the current prison hunger strike against the use of it. Mark talks about some of the current work of ExPO and WISDOM to make changes in the prison system. […]

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Milwaukee, July 7: Building People’s Power, Lamont Lilly Leads Community Conversation

Building People’s Power, Lamont Lilly Leads Community Conversation Lamont Lilly, Vice Presidential candidate for Workers World Party (WWP) will be leading a community conversation about BUILDING PEOPLE’S POWER at this event. Lamont Lilly is a leading member of the Durham, North Carolina., branch of WWP and a member of WWP’s National Committee. As a people’s […]

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Milwaukee, June 27: Letter Writing To Prisoners At Stanley Correctional Facility

Letter Writing To Prisoners At Stanley Correctional Facility Join us to discuss prisoner correspondence, follow up on established correspondence, and write letters of support to incarcerated workers at Stanley Correctional Facility.

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Milwaukee, July 16: UWO Labor Movie Night: Still The Enemy Within

UWO Labor Movie Night: Still The Enemy Within Please join the United Workers Organization for a Labor Movie Night on Saturday, July 16th at 7pm at the AFSCME Council 32 hall at 3427 W St Paul Ave, Milwaukee, WI. “Still the Enemy Within” is an award winning 2014 documentary about the year-long public sector miners […]

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Picket lines go up as 5,000 Allina nurses begin strike in St. Paul, MN

June 19, 2016 by Union Advocate, https://advocate.stpaulunions.org/ Nearly 5,000 nurses employed by Allina Health began a seven-day strike this morning, setting up picket lines outside five metro-area facilities. In downtown St. Paul, well over 200 nurses and their supporters blanketed the sidewalk outside United Hospital in red, the Minnesota Nurses Association’s official color. Picketers put […]