Lamont Lilly was the 2016 Vice Presidential candidate for Workers World Party: http://www.workers.org/

https://ilwulocal10.org/

Passed on August 17, 2017

Whereas, the fascists, the KKK, Nazis and other white supremacists rallied and marched by torchlight in Charlottesville, whipping up lynch mob terror with racist, anti-immigrant and anti-Semitic slogans, and

Whereas, that attack resulted in one anti-racist counter demonstrator murdered and many others injured when one of the fascist bullies ran them down with a car, and

Whereas, President Trump’s whitewashing this violent, deadly fascist and racist attack saying “both sides are to blame”, and his attacking anti-racists for opposing Confederate statues that honor slavery adds fuel to the fire of racist violence, and

Whereas, the Klan, Nazis and other racist terrorists represent a deadly threat to African Americans, Latinos and immigrants, as well as Muslims, Jews, LGBTQ people among many others, and directly to members of our union and the labor movement as a whole, and

Whereas, the fascist “Patriot Prayer” group that staged violent racist provocations in Portland, Oregon and elsewhere, attracting Nazi and other violent white supremacists, has announced it will rally on Crissy Field on Saturday August 26, and

Whereas, far from a matter of “free speech”, the racist and fascist provocations are a deadly menace as shown in Portland on May 26 when a Nazi murdered two men and almost killed a third for defending two young African American women he was menacing; and our sisters and brothers in the Portland labor movement answered racist terror with the power of workers solidarity, mobilizing members of 14 unions against the fascist/racist rally there on June 4, and

Whereas, ILWU Local 10 has a long and proud history of standing up against racism, fascism and bigotry and using our union power to do so; on May Day 2015 we shut down Bay Area ports and marched followed by thousands to Oscar Grant Plaza demanding an end to police terror against African Americans and others; the San Francisco Bay Area is a union stronghold and we will not allow labor-hating white supremacists to bring their lynch mob terror here,

Therefore, ILWU Local 10 in the best tradition of our union that fought these rightwingers in the Big Strike of 1934, will not work on that day and instead march to Crissy Field to stop the racist, fascist intimidation in our hometown and invite all unions and antiracist and antifascist organizations to join us defending unions, racial minorities, immigrants, LGBTQ people, women and all the oppressed.

https://ilwulocal10.org/

WI BOPM Smash White Supremacy Half Sheet August 18 2017

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FREEDOM FIGHTER BOND FUND: http://durhamsolidaritycenter.org/bondfund/

FREEDOM FIGHTER BOND FUND: http://durhamsolidaritycenter.org/bondfund/

Hosted by Workers World Party – Baltimore

2011 N Charles Street, Baltimore, 6-8 P.M.

Livestreamed, Click Above Link

Join us for an important organizing meeting! Hear eyewitness accounts by front line participants in Charlottesville. Discussion on next steps in defending Durham activists.

Takiyah Fatima Thompson from Workers World Party was charged with participation in a riot with property damage in excess of $1,500 and inciting others to riot where property damage exceeds $1,500, both felonies, as well as damage to real property and disorderly conduct by injury to a statue, both misdemeanors.

Breaking news: two more Durham activists have been charged. Baltimore will be taking up defense for them. Come out to this important meeting.

Saturday, August 19, 2017 in Milwaukee at O’Donnell Park, 901 E. Michigan Ave. Stand in solidarity with the Movement for Black Lives, https://www.facebook.com/events/264176154097282/

Hosted by Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association

9 am: “Pre-Labor Day “Fight for $15” march will take place at 9am beginning at 12th and State and concluding at Zeidler Union Square prior to the Labor Day parade. Stand with the movement fighting for living wages and worker power.

10:30am: Celebrate Labor Day with your MTEA sisters and brothers! Wear your MTEA green and meet at Zeidler Park at 10:30am on Monday, Sept. 4. At 11am, we will march to Summerfest grounds for Laborfest 2017.

FREE FOOD AND DRINK TICKETS WILL BE PROVIDED FOR THE FIRST 100 MTEA MEMBERS WHO RSVP. You must be present at Zeidler Park to receive your food and drink tickets.

Click here to reserve your tickets: http://mtea.weac.org/event/labor-day-mtea-2017/

http://inthesetimes.com/article/20433/Durham-North-Carolina-freedom-fighters-white-supremacy-racism-resistance

#TearEmDown

“My name is Angaza Laughinghouse. I am a long-time community activist and labor union leader. I’m the former president of North Carolina Public Service Workers Union. I was a founding member of Black Workers for Justice. I am from North Carolina. My parents are from Greenville, North Carolina. I grew up around the main streets where the demarcation line for apartheid is: Line Street and Boundary Street.

We had no public libraries in Greenville for the black community. We couldn’t cross over the line on Boundary Street to get to any of the facilities. There was no equal access to public facilities at all when I was growing up for part of my life in Greenville, North Carolina…

…One of the things we are asking people to do is call the district attorney in Durham County, dial 919-808-3010. We are asking them to tell whoever answers the phone to drop the charges on the freedom fighters that took down the statue. The other thing we are doing is we are asking people to please donate. If they go online to the Durham Solidarity Center Freedom Fighters Fund, they can donate towards the legal representation of the people who took the statues down.

In light of what is happening in our workplaces, I think we have to take up this discussion of why all workers have to make every effort to defeat white supremacy: this white nationalist and neo-fascist popular moment that is developing. It keeps workers divided in our workplaces so we can’t unionize and win basic rights and better conditions and wages in our workplace. Many of us have heard about the recent loss down in Mississippi with the United Auto Workers Union organizing of the Nissan plant down there in Mississippi. It is just very important to take time out to see how this impacts our workplace.”

Freedom Fighter Bond Fund: http://durhamsolidaritycenter.org/bondfund/

#TearEmDown

http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2017/08/17/people-rally-durham-support-activists-toppling-confederate-statues/#sthash.VPjs0A1z.dpbs

Lamont Lilly of the Workers World Party helped to organize the rally Thursday. He told the crowd that his shared house was raided by Durham County sheriff’s deputies this week who said they had a warrant for the ladder Thompson used to climb the statue. The deputies damaged doors and furniture in a needlessly aggressive search, Lilly said.

“We feel violated as community members, as stakeholders in this city,” Lilly said.

“They will come for Black folks first,” Lilly told the crowd. “We will catch the hell first. But they will come for other communities later, so we must stand in solidarity.”