http://www.freemumia.com/

Hosted by Region 7 – UEP Wisconsin

AFT, Local 212 MATC

Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association

Schools and Communities United

Join us for food, drinks, fun and a live radio broadcast featuring 9 of the 10 major candidates seeking to challenge Scott Walker in this year’s election. Find out where our next governor stands on issues important to educators and public schools.

2844 N Oakland Avenue, Milwaukee

12-3 P.M. (Doors open @ 11:30 A.M.) Miramar Theatre  

At Hartford Avenue Elementary, Milwaukee, April 19, 2018

https://www.workers.org/2018/04/19/oklahoma-and-the-school-strike-surge/

By Workers World staff posted on April 19, 2018

Marching into mass rally at Capitol building in Oklahoma City, April 9, 2018.

Going forward, Oklahoma educators deserve solidarity to consolidate their gains, to make their unions more militant and to confront new efforts by right-wing politicians. Punitive legislative moves include a ballot proposal to reverse the tax increases that the struggle won, as well as anti-strike measures.

But given the historic and continuing stranglehold of big business, purely electoral struggle is not the answer. For education workers, keeping a focus on building independent social and worker power will be decisive.

Education workers’ movement still growing

The Oklahoma actions, like those in West Virginia and Puerto Rico, are inspiring education workers in other localities, including Kentucky, Arizona, Colorado and Wisconsin. https://www.workers.org/2018/04/19/oklahoma-and-the-school-strike-surge/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/arizonaeducatorsunited/

https://www.facebook.com/ArizonaEducationAssociation/

Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association

Defend Our Schools Rally at North Division High School to say NO to privatizers circling their school and NO to another 5% budget cut to students and classrooms.

#fightforfunding

North Division staff, students, and community supporters rallied outside the school this afternoon April 19, 2018 to call attention to the current budget proposal which cuts 5% from district schools. Our students and our schools cannot sustain more cuts!

Join us in the #fightforfunding! Picket To Defend Our Schools

Photo: Joe Brusky

http://wisaflcio.typepad.com/

The Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association will be holding an Informational Picket on Tuesday, April 24^th from 4:30pm-6:30pm at MPS Central Office, 5225 W. Vliet St., Milwaukee, WI 53208. Please join educators, parents, students, and community members to fight for a just budget!

Last week, over 1,200 Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association (MTEA) members, parents, students and supporters packed Milwaukee Public Schools Central Office, filling three overflow rooms and hallways with educators, parents, and students demanding a budget that honors the classroom and education workers.

MTEA’s demands are simple:

• Keep budget cuts away from schools!
• Time for teachers and educational assistants to meet the needs of their students.
• Quality, affordable healthcare for ALL full-time education workers – including subs!
• Raises to attract and retain the education workers our students deserve.

Will you stand in solidarity with the Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association on April 24th for an informational picket?

MPS Administration has accepted and passed along years of budget cuts and austerity to Milwaukee Public School students and classrooms. Tattered textbooks, crowded classrooms, and shrinking art, music, and physical education programs are just a few of the consequences students and educators face thanks to Scott Walker’s unprecedented public education cuts.  Enough is enough!

Click here to let the MTEA know you’re coming to join educators, students, and families at the 4/24 Picket to Defend our Schools outside MPS Central Office at 5225 W Vliet St., Milwaukee, WIfrom 4:30-6:30pm!

See you on the picket line!

In Solidarity,

Phil Neuenfeldt, President

Stephanie Bloomingdale, Secretary-Treasurer

WI AFL-CIO, http://wisaflcio.typepad.com/

Hosted by Chicago Anti-War Coalition

Michigan Avenue & Congress Expressway, 12 Noon 

— En español abajo —

The U.S. government has been at war for over 16 straight years. It has killed hundreds of thousands of people and devastated several countries in the Middle East and Africa, creating millions of refugees, all in flagrant violation of international law and the Constitution. It continues to regularly bomb and drone-strike in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen and Somalia and is funding a murderous covert drug war in Mexico. Now it is threatening new wars against North Korea, Iran and Venezuela, and has adopted a dangerously more aggressive policy on nuclear war, while engaging in dangerous brinkmanship with Russia.

The result? We have literally been made to pay TRILLIONS of dollars to make our lives LESS safe and secure. This money has benefited only the wealthy owners of energy, weapons and other corporations, while millions of working people in Chicago and around the nation, especially communities of color, struggle to survive. Every bomb that’s dropped and every missile that’s fired is a theft from our communities, robbing us of the good quality jobs, schools, public services, infrastructure improvements and just transition to a clean energy future that should be created instead.

These wars have also devastated our environment. In addition to contaminating the nations under attack, the military is a huge consumer of fossil fuels and the wars are mainly being waged for rich corporate owners to control supplies of oil, natural gas and other valuable resources in order to profit from their consumption. Thus, these wars are major contributors to catastrophic climate change.

It’s time to stand up and say ENOUGH is ENOUGH! END the WARS at HOME and ABROAD! If you have had enough of war, please JOIN US on Saturday, April 21st, marking Earth Day, for a RALLY and MARCH, beginning with a rally at noon at Michigan Ave. and Congress Expressway in Chicago, and marching to the Tribune Tower at 435 N. Michigan Ave. for a concluding rally. Featured speakers will include Dr. Anne Scheetz of Physicians for a National Health Program, journalist Randi Nord and Kathy Kelly of Voices for Creative Non-Violence.

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ESTE EL MOMENTO DE PARAR las GUERRAS!

¡Marcharemos en protesta!

El gobierno de EE. UU. ha estado en guerra por más de 16 años consecutivos. Cientos de miles de personas han sido exhiliadas y refugiadas abandonando sus seres queridos, familiares y hogares. Igualmente, miles de personas han muerto en lo que podriamos llamar crimenes de leza humanidad. Varios países en el Medio Oriente y África han sido nefastamente devastados por los Estados Unidos, creando cientos de refugiados, todo esto en flagrante violación a los derechos humanos, tratados internacionales y la Constitución nacional. Estados Unidos continúa bombardeando y lanzando drones con regularidad en Afganistán, Irak, Siria, Libia, Yemen y Somalia, y está financiando una guerra clandestina contra las drogas en México, donde aparecen miles de personas asesinadas aplicando penas de muerte in forma ilegal. Y como lo anterior fuera poco, es eminente la amenaza de nuevas guerras contra Corea del Norte, Irán y Venezuela, adoptando una política peligrosamente más agresiva de guerra nuclear, mientras se involucra en prácticas arriesgadas con Rusia.

¿El resultado? Se nos ha obligado a pagar TRILLONES de dólares para que nuestras vidas sean menos SEGURAS. Este dinero ha beneficiado solo a los ricos propietarios de corporaciones que producen energía, fabricantes de armas y otras mientras que millones de personas que trabajan en Chicago y en todo el país, especialmente las comunidades de color, luchan por sobrevivir. Cada bomba que se arroja y cada misil que se dispara es un robo a nuestras comunidades, nos roban la oportunidad de desempenarnos en trabajos dignos, buenas escuelas, servicios públicos, servicios de salud, inversion en infraestructura vial y servicio de transporte, la falta de inversion en trabajos locales que promuevan technologia limpia (sin el uso del petroleo y otros materiales quimicos que deterioran el medio ambiente).

Estas guerras también han devastado nuestro medio ambiente. Además de contaminar a las naciones atacadas, las fuerzas armadas son un gran consumidor de combustibles fósiles y las guerras se llevan a cabo principalmente para que propietarios de empresas ricas controlen los suministros de petróleo, gas natural y otros recursos valiosos, con el fin de sacar provecho de su consumo. Por lo tanto, estas guerras son importantes contribuyentes al catastrófico cambio climático.

Es hora de ponerse de pie y decir ¡BASTA YA!!! es SUFICIENTE! ¡PAREN las GUERRAS en casa y en el extranjero! Si tu consideras que Ya ha habido suficiente guerra! ÚNATE A NOSOTROS el sábado 21 de abril, celebrando el Día de la Tierra, en una marcha de protesta, comenzando con un mitin al mediodía en la Michigan Ave. y la calle Congreso en Chicago, y marchando a la Torre Tribune en 435 N. Michigan Ave. Los oradores incluirán a la Dra. Anne Scheetz de Médicos para un Programa Nacional de Salud, la periodista Randi Nord y Kathy Kelly de Voices for the Creative Non-Violence.

Hosted by Chicago Workers World Party

Marxist-Leninist Study Group

TOPIC: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

**Invite Friends and Comrades**

Marxist-Leninist Study Group is a discussion series for people hoping to learn more about socialism.

It is held the second Tuesday and fourth Thursday of every month, light snacks and beverages provided.

If you are not available in person, there will be a fb live stream available that will be posted in the event.

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NOTE: Do not feel like you have to come to the event knowing everything – it is okay to sit, listen, and learn. ♥
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“For the only great men among the unfree and the oppressed are those who struggle to destroy the oppressor.”
― Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
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We will be reading section 5.2 (“The Strengthening of Technological and Military Aspects of Capitalism”) from Walter Rodney’s “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa.”

A PDF of the reading can be found for free at this link below:
http://abahlali.org/files/3295358-walter-rodney.pdf