For Immediate Release

Media Advisory

Event: 50th Anniversary Detroit 1967 Rebellion Tour

Date: Sat. July 22, 2017, 9:30am-4:00pm

Location: St. Matthew’s-St. Joseph’s Church 8850 Woodward

Breakfast Forum: 9:30am-Noon

Tour: Noon-4:00pm to see historic sites during July 1967

Sponsors: Detroit MLK Committee

Contact: 313-405-2185

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URL: https://mlkdetroit.org/

Detroit MLK Committee to Host Day of Rememberance Tour Commemorating the 1967 Rebellion

Schedule of Events:

Gathering and Breakfast: 9:30-10:00am

50th Anniversary Forum: 10:00am-Noon

Bus Tour: 12:30-4:00pm

Speakers Include: Dorothy Aldridge, Dan Aldridge, Aurora Harris, Abayomi Azikiwe

July 23 represents the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Rebellion in Detroit. The five days of events had a profound impact on the history of the African American Civil Rights and Black Power movements as well as shifting the character of politics in the United States as a hold.

Join the Detroit Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Committee for a day of commemorative discussion and a tour on Sat. July 22. The event is designed to provide an accurate perspective on the social conditions that spawned the Rebellion and its influence on historical developments in Detroit, the U.S. and internationally over the last five decades.

We will open with a community breakfast at St. Matthew’s-St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church beginning at 9:30am. At 10:00 we will hear presentations by Dorothy Aldridge, chair of the MLK Committee, who was a Civii Rights and Community activist in 1967; Dan Aldridge, another well-known activist in the city since the 1960s; Aurora Harris, a member of the MLK Committee, a poet and higher education instructor; and Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire, and a co-founder of the Annual MLK Day Rally & March held in the city since 2004.

The bus tour will visit these and other historical sites:

–Location of the Algiers Motel and annex; the scene of the massacre of three African American youth on July 25, 1967

–Virginia Park District where the rebellion began on July 23, 1967

–Visit to the offices of the Virginia Park Citizen’s District Council

–Site of the home of Rosa Parks and other luminaries in Virginia Park

–Shrine of the Black Mandonna Church; location of the People’s Tribunal of Aug. 30, 1967

Please RSVP for the tour since seating will be limited. We are requesting a $20 donation for the breakfast and tour. If people are unable to give $20 any amount is acceptable. No one will be turned away due to lack of funds.

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Saturday, July 8
2pm
St. Matthew & St. Joseph Episcopal Church
8850 Woodward Ave., Detroit, MI
Dinner will be served (bring a dish if you can)
Financial help is needed – we will present
Rev. Pinkney with a Welcome Home check at the Detroit celebration!

Send checks to ~
Moratorium NOW Coalition
5920 Second Ave.
Detroit, MI 48202
(on memo line write: Welcome Home Rev. Pinkney)

http://moratorium-mi.org/

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Join the Protest July 11 in Berrien County!

When: Tuesday, July 11, 10:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Where: Berrien County Courthouse (811 Port Street, St. Joseph, MI 49085)
Bring: Signs, water, friends and family

In the American criminal justice system, justice is totally absent. There is no such thing as justice in America for the poor. The criminalization of U.S. citizens by the injustice system is now one of America’s largest industries. Prisons have been privatized and inmates comprise cheap labor for big corporations.

The United States of America not only has the highest percentage of its population in prison, it has the highest absolute number, substantially higher than authoritarian China—a country whose population is four times the size of the United States, but a country with fewer people in prison.

On July 11, we will gather at 10:30 a.m. in front of the Berrien County Courthouse (811 Port St., St. Joseph). We will march, and at noon we will protest in front of Whirlpool Headquarters. The state of Democracy is detestable, and we are not about to sit back and let it continue its course. Corporations’ interests are not above the rights of every day human beings like you and me.

Whirlpool Corporation is responsible for the death of 79 people in London and we must stop the hostile takeover of the city of Benton Harbor. They must be held accountable to the people.

Let’s confront the criminal justice system and the corporations that are destroying our country!

“Redacted Tonight” video: The American Political Prisoner You’ve Never Heard About
Watch Lee Camp’s coverage of Rev. Pinkney, political prisoner, on “Redacted Tonight,” from 2015. http://www.bhbanco.org/2017/07/redacted-tonight-video-american.html
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http://www.bhbanco.org/
Rev. Pinkney hosts a radio show on Sundays 5pm ET on Blogtalkradio.com or call 323-642-1559.

Hosted by The Wisconsin Coalition to Normalize Relations with Cuba

Milwaukee artist Fatima Laster presents “Exploración Arte,” based on her December 2016 trip to Cuba.
Also,
– Alex Skeeter will share her impressions and experiences. She has just returned home from her 2nd year of free medical school in Havana. Seehttps://jsonl.in/2uhgLuU
– We will update & answer any questions regarding President Trump’s increased restrictions on the right of U.S. people to travel to Cuba.

Hosted by Support the Colombian Peace Process, Free Simon Trinidad/Ricardo Palmera

Free Simon Trinidad! Free Sonia!

We are demanding President Trump release Ricardo Palmera (Simon Trinidad) and show support for the ongoing peace process in Colombia. The FARC no longer exist and turned in their weapons, so it is time to show Colombians that their country belongs to them, not the U.S. We say let Trinidad’s voice be heard in political campaigns in Colombia, instead of being silenced in the Colorado mountains.

We are also demanding freedom for “Sonia” or Anayibe Rojas Valderrama, another FARC member imprisoned in Forth Worth, Texas.

Trinidad is held in the Florence, Colorado supermax prison, in solitary confinement. Solitary confinement is a special type of torture. He is not even allowed to read our letters to him. Florence supermax is the “Guantanamo of the Rockies” where human rights are violated as a matter of policy. In 2015, thirty-five American activists, from nine states, held a march and rally outside the underground Colorado prison to demand freedom for Simon Trinidad.

There are still hundreds of FARC fighters held in prison and they need to be free to propel the Colombian peace process forward. The Colombian government must also act quickly to end the murders by right-wing militias tied to land owners and drug cartels. Laws must be enforced and impunity for police and soldiers brought to an end. For peace and reconciliation to succeed, those who were the most involved in the war need to be engaged in and publicly seen to support the processes. If there are long delays and changes in interpretations of the peace agreement, it breaks trust and confidence. What Simon Trinidad and most Colombians want is a political and legal system that belongs to Colombians and is not dominated or manipulated by foreign companies or governments.

Simon Trinidad and “Sonia” are casualties of the Colombian peace process. It is time for President Trump to step up and support the changes coming to Colombia. If Trump frees Simon Trinidad and sends him home to promote the peace, it sends a message that Colombia’s future lies in the hands of Colombians.

Call Trump: 202-456-1111 and say:
We want the President to Free Ricardo Palmera (Simon Trinidad)!
We want the President to Free Anayibe Rojas Valderrama (Sonia)!
It is Time for Trump to Step up for Peace!

Please also support the action at the US Embassy in Bogota, Colombia organized by the Alliance for Global Justice by going here:https://www.facebook.com/events/702639756610789/?acontext=%7B%22ref%22%3A%222%22%2C%22ref_dashboard_filter%22%3A%22upcoming%22%2C%22feed_story_type%22%3A%2222%22%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22%5B%7B%5C%22surface%5C%22%3A%5C%22dashboard%5C%22%2C%5C%22mechanism%5C%22%3A%5C%22main_list%5C%22%2C%5C%22extra_data%5C%22%3A%5B%5D%7D%5D%22%7D

http://www.coha.org/right-wing-terrorism-in-venezuela/

By Frederick B. Mills, Guest Scholar at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, and William Camacaro, Senior Research Fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs

It is urgently important to condemn not only abuses by security forces, but also the selective assassinations and hate crimes against Chavistas.  The MUD leadership’s failure so far to denounce all terrorist violence and to completely repudiate the use of children at the barricades, as well as the continued reluctance of some opposition mayors to act to restore public order in their municipalities, is not consistent with a principled stand on human rights.  Although so far anti-government violence is limited to a few parts of the country, attempts at plunging this South American nation into chaos in order to justify foreign intervention ought to set off alarm bells for all progressive forces.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin June 24, 2017

http://www.telesurtv.net/english/analysis/What-Marxism-Teaches-Us-About-Protests-in-Venezuela-20170522-0004.html

By Ramiro S. Fúnez

Marx posited that capitalism creates constant crises within society because of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall. Profit is defined as financial gain accumulated from the difference between the amount earned and the amount spent in buying, operating or producing something.

As workers around the world make less money because of neoliberal austerity, they are unable to purchase the same products they produce as consumers. This creates a situation where private companies are unable to sell their products because no one has enough money to buy them, hindering the companies from making profits.

This situation is being played out on a global scale, facilitating the deterioration of markets and paving the way for a looming international financial crisis. And as capitalism continues to reach a decline that it can not overcome, as it reaches a dead end, its credibility becomes more questionable as time progresses.

The Venezuelan opposition, like capitalism, have nothing to offer the South American country. Both have reached a dead end.