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http://moratorium-mi.org/detroit-bus-to-march-on-wall-street-south-september-2/

Bus is being organized by the Moratorium NOW! Coalition

Departure: Saturday evening, Sept. 1

Return to Detroit,  Sunday evening, Sept. 2.

Ticket price (round trip): $100

Call 313-680-5508 to reserve a seat.

The ticket price  a lot of money, especially in these times,  and not everyone can afford the price of a ticket.  Moratorium NOW! will do its best to offer financial aid to those that want to go but cannot afford the full price.  If you can, please consider a donation to help subsidize the cost of the bus: http://tinyurl.com/cbt77n8

More info on March on Wall St. South:

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http://www.facebook.com/events/248888931880611/

Join the Palermo’s Workers Thursday July 12 at 5:30 pm for dinner, music, and FUNdraising for the Palermo’s Workers Union. United Lodge 66- 2611 W. Oklahoma Avenue Milwaukee, WI 53215
There will be music provided by community members as well as a piñata and entertainment for the kids!

Dinner will be provided for a small donation at 5:30pm and we will join the picket line at 7:30pm where we will deliver the donations. The Palermo’s Workers say they need food, water, umbrellas for the sun, and in particular monetary donations to help pay for rent and other living expenses while the struggle continues.

All donations are accepted. All are welcome.

If you would like to donate food to the dinner, please contact Carolina at sozacarolina@yahoo.com.

For more information about the event, contact Pepe at (414) 736-7287.

you can also donate directly to the Palermo’s Strike Fund here: https://www.wepay.com/donations/183059

Hope to See all of you there!

“The fight is never about grapes or lettuce (or pizza)…It is always about people.”Cesar Chavez

More info: http://vdlf.org/

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Emergency Meeting:

Monday – July 9, 2012 – 7 P.M.

5920 Second Avenue, Detroit

(at Antoinette St., just north of Wayne State University)

Public Act 4 and the Detroit “Consent Agreement” are nothing but union busting!

Hundreds of unionized city workers are about to be laid off even though their jobs are fully funded by the federal government through the Head Start, CSBG and Workforce Development grants and thus don’t cost the city one dime.  The city plans on replacing these long-time city workers through the creation of a new non-union agency which will be the conduit for federal grant funds to the city.

The union contracts for City of Detroit and Detroit Public School workers are being arbitrarily eliminated as the Public Employee Relations Act is superseded by the Emergency Manager Act.

Not to be out done, Better Made Potato Chips, workers, one of the few union factories left in Detroit, is attempting to impose a union-busting, two-tier, regressive contract on its east side workers.

These attacks are spearheaded by the banks who are actually running the city, first destroying our neighborhoods through their racist foreclosures, and now extorting $16.9 billion from the city treasury through debt service guaranteed by Public Act 4 and the “consent agreement” at the cost of the destruction of all city services and jobs.

Come to an organizing meeting to discuss how to beat back this union-busting attack on city workers in the public and private sector. The courts have shown they will not stop these attacks.  It’s time to hit the streets to stop the war on the workers and community

Only a united fight back can stop these attacks!

Don’t let the bankers and their lackey politicians get away with this!

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

ISSUED BY:

Moratorium NOW! Coalition to Stop Foreclosures, Evictions & Utility Shutoffs

313-680-5508

http://moratorium-mi.org/

Oct. 14, 2011 Occupy Green Bay protest at City Hall in Green Bay, WI.

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http://couragetoresist.org/news/956-rodney-watson-canada.html

Join us in helping Rodney with his monthly food and phone expenses. Please donated via our friends at vancouverwarresisters.org with a one-time or monthly PayPal contribution.

Rodney Watson

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From Occupy The Hood MKE:

http://www.facebook.com/events/338603626214013/

Oct. 29, 2011 Milwaukee.

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www.wicuba.org

On Saturday, July 7, the 22^nd Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba will visit Milwaukee for a potluck dinner at 6 pm and a 7 pm program featuring a Caravanista who is an indigenous youth leader from Vancouver, British Columbia, speaking at Central United Methodist Church (CUMC, 639 N. 25^th St.). The Caravan will then load material donations to be delivered to churches in Cuba, in an act of friendship and solidarity with the Cuban people as the U.S. economic blockade of Cuba continues past its 50^th year.

The Caravan will visit about 100 U.S. and Canadian cities. At every stop, educational events about the blockade will be held and donated material goods will be loaded, which are now being collected in Milwaukee. This includes construction supplies and tools; medical equipment and supplies (expiration Feb. 2013 or later); and school supplies, sports equipment, musical instruments (all in good condition), as well as bibles in Spanish. Donations can be dropped off at CUMC at the following times: Mon.-Fri., 9 am – 1pm; and Sunday, 11am – 12pm (please call ahead: 414-344-1600), as well as on Saturday, June 30, between 10-11:30 am. For a complete list of what and how to donate, or on joining the caravan, visit www.wicuba.org.

Aaron Mercredi is a young Metis social justice organizer and journalist based in Vancouver, Canada, who will be part of the Caravan and speak in Milwaukee. He is a founding member of Vancouver Communities in Solidarity with Cuba and the Indigenous Rights and Action Project. He has traveled to Cuba six times as part of the Caravan, and is an Editorial Board member of the Fire This Time Newspaper and a radio host with Kla How Ya FM on Vancouver Co-Op Radio, where he has covered extensively issues of indigenous self-determination and solidarity with Cuba.

Every year, Pastors for Peace (PFP) brings caravanistas from around the country and other nations to travel to Cuba without a U.S. license and bring material aid to the Cuban people as an act of civil disobedience to challenge the continued U.S. travel restrictions and economic blockade of Cuba. Founded by the late Rev. Lucius Walker, formerly of Milwaukee, PFP calls the economic blockade “immoral,” as it seriously affects the health and well-being of Cuban citizens who pose no threat to the U.S. Meanwhile, Cuba is continuing to offer free medical school education to U.S. citizens as it does to over 15,000 students from developing countries – in return for their promise to return home and work as doctors in under-served communities. This includes a Milwaukee student expected to graduate from medical school in Havana this summer after six years of free medical school in Cuba, and additional spaces are now available.

Sponsors welcoming the Caravan include include Wisconsin Coalition to Normalize Relations with Cuba (www.wicuba.org), Central United Methodist Church, Latin America Solidarity Committee, National Black United Front – Milw. Chapter, Progressive Students of Milwaukee, National Lawyers Guild – Milw., and Peace Action-WI (www.peaceactionwi.org). For more information, call (414) 273-1040, or visit www.wicuba.org, or and Pastors for Peace (www.pastorsforpeace.org).

Bus at July 8, 2011 Pastors for Peace Milwaukee stop.

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http://www.facebook.com/events/440476435974496/

2 p.m., 250 E. Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, WI

400 SEIU Local 1 janitors are about to start bargaining to renegotiate their union contract. What is at stake is not just a fight for a raise and a decent wage but also the health insurance that janitors fought hard to get in 2000 and are at risk of losing in 2012.

Fired SEIU janitors and their supporters rally at the Wangard Offices in Milwaukee Dec. 1, 2011.

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This Southern Workers Assembly is a part of the March on Wall St. South activities (http://wallstsouth.org/).

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Southern Workers Assembly Flier:

http://tinyurl.com/ccxk5ve

Members of the United Electrical Workers Local 150 protest the unjust firings of some of their African American members June 28, 2012 in Butner, North Carolina.

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http://www.facebook.com/events/317900628297238/

Carlos Montes

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