June 6, Milwaukee: ‘Keep It In The Streets’ rally & march

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After voting on June 5 we have to make our voices heard in order to hold our Governor accountable. Occupy Milwaukee, community allies and labor unions will march on June 6 to make the following demands of our Governor:

1. Repeal Act 10 – We demand Wisconsin return to full collective bargaining for public employee unions.
2. Restore the Equal Pay Act – We demand essential civil rights and compensation for victims of discrimination based on gender, ethnicity, physical ability and sexual identity.
3. Tax the 1% – Hold the banksters and the 1% accountable for their economic crisis, and stop the cuts to working and oppressed people.

We will rally at Pier Marquette Park before marching on Milwaukee’s banking district.

Sponsors (in progress) – Occupy Wisconsin, Occupy Milwaukee, 9 to 5, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 998, Welfare Warriors, Casa Maria, Iraq Veterans Against the War, AFSCME 82, Milwaukee Students for a Democratic Society, Wisconsin Bail Out The People Movement…

May 5, 2012 Fond du Lac.

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June 23, Milwaukee: “Stop Foreclosures & Evictions, Moratorium NOW!”

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Community Organizing Meeting

Tens of thousands of residents in Wisconsin have been illegally foreclosed on and evicted by the banks. Since 2007 in Milwaukee over 20,000 families have been tossed out on the street by the banks. Come to this meeting to join the growing international peoples’ movement to stop the foreclosure and eviction crisis that the banks and other members of the 1 percent have created. Join members of Occupy Wisconsin and other labor, community, student and faith-based organizations from throughout the Midwest fighting to take our communities back! Fight for a moratorium on foreclosures and evictions!

Saturday, June 23, 2012 / 1-4 p.m.
Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 998 hall
734 N. 26th Street, Milwaukee, WI
Free and open to the public

More info:
414-395-0665
wibailoutpeople@gmail.com
https://wibailoutpeople.org/

Housing Is A Human Right!
Bail Out The People Not The Banks!

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Support Needed NOW for Hunger Strikers at Virginia’s Notorious Red Onion Super-Max Prison!

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Dear friends,

On Tuesday, May 22, a group of prisoners held in Virginia’s notorious Red Onion Super-Max prison began a hunger strike to demand that the Virginia Department of Corrections (DOC) follow its own regulations in regard to meals, sanitation, isolation, safety and procedures for processing prisoner grievances. To support these courageous prisoners, a press conference was held today at 11 a.m. outside DOC headquarters in Richmond, sponsored by the Richmond chapter of SPARC (Supporting Prisoners and Advocating for Radical Change). (See: http://vimeo.com/42634852)

Below is the list of the hunger strikers’ demands. As you can see, these prisoners, most of whom are African-American and virtually all of whom are poor, are not asking to be released from prison or for any special privileges. They want enough food calories to be able to survive. They want adequate medical care. They want an end to physical abuse by guards. They want to be recognized as human beings.

Red Onion is one of the most isolated prisons in the entire country, one that has come under special scrutiny over the years for its barbaric conditions. The hunger strikers are depending on those of us on the outside to help press their demands.

Please take just a moment to contact the following officials and demand (1) an immediate agreement to meet the prisoners’ just demands, and (2) a pledge that there will be no retaliation of any kind against these heroic fighters for justice.

Virginia DOC Director Harold W Clarke: 804-674-3118

Red Onion State Prison Chief Warden Randall Mathena: 276-796-7510

Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell: 804-786-2211 or email from: www.governor.virginia.gov/AboutTheGovernor/contactGovernor.cfm

And tune in next Monday, May 28, at noon to DefendersLIVE! for a radio interview with members of Richmond SPARC, the prisoner support group that organized todays press conference. WRIR 97.3 FM or online at www.wrir.org.

And for more coverage, look for the next issue of the Virginia Defender newspaper.

Thanks,

Phil Wilayto

for the Defenders for Freedom, Justice & Equality

www.DefendersFJE.org

www.DefendersFJE.blogspot.com

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10 Demands of the Red Onion State Prison Hunger Strikers

We (Prisoners at Red Onion State Prison) demand the right to an adequate standard of living while in the custody of the state!

1. We demand fully cooked food, and access to a better quality of fresh fruit and vegetables.  In addition, we demand increased portions on our trays, which allows us to meet our basic nutritional needs as defined by VDOC regulations.

2. We demand that every prisoner at ROSP have unrestricted access to complaint and grievance forms and other paperwork we may request.

3. We demand better communication between prisoners and higher- ranking guards. Presently higher-ranking guards invariably take the lower-ranking guards’ side in disputes between guards and prisoners, forcing the prisoner to act out in order to be heard. We demand that higher- ranking guards take prisoner complaints and grievances into consideration without prejudice.

4. We demand an end to torture in the form of indefinite segregation through the implementation of a fair and transparent process whereby prisoners can earn the right to be released from segregation. We demand that prison officials completely adhere to the security point system, insuring that prisoners are transferred to institutions that correspond with their particular security level.

5. We demand the right to an adequate standard of living, including access to quality materials that we may use to clean our own cells.  Presently, we are forced to clean our entire cell, including the inside of our toilets, with a single sponge and our bare hands. This is unsanitary and promotes the spread of disease-carrying bacteria.

6. We demand the right to have 3rd party neutral observers visit and document the condition of the prisons to ensure an end to the corruption amongst prison officials and widespread human rights abuses of prisoners. Internal Affairs and Prison Administrator’s monitoring of prison conditions have not alleviated the dangerous circumstances we are living under while in custody of the state which include, but are not limited to: the threat of undue physical aggression by guards, sexual abuse and retaliatory measures, which violate prison policies and our human rights.

7. We demand to be informed of any and all changes to VDOC/IOP policies as soon as these changes are made.

8.  We demand the right to adequate medical care. Our right to medical care is guaranteed under the eight amendment of the constitution, and thus the deliberate indifference of prison officials to our medical needs constitutes a violation of our constitutional rights.  In particular, the toothpaste we are forced to purchase in the prison is a danger to our dental health and causes widespread gum disease and associated illnesses.

9.  We demand our right as enumerated through VDOC policy, to a monthly haircut. Presently, we have been denied haircuts for nearly three months.  We also demand to have our razors changed out on a weekly basis. The current practice of changing out the razors every three weeks leaves prisoners exposed to the risk of dangerous infections and injury.

10. We demand that there be no reprisals for any of the participants in the Hunger Strike. We are simply organizing in the interest of more humane living conditions.

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