Kenosha, June 27, 2020 – Despite protesters being assaulted physically by right wing goons (protected by the police), a diverse crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters and allies stood their ground against the right-wing racists!
Kenosha, WI June 27, 2020 / Photo: WI BOPM
Whitewater, WI June 27, 2020 / Photos: WI BOPM
Every day meet at 6 P.M., 1069 W Main Street, Whitewater, WI
March on Briggs for Big Mike Jackson. People Over Profits!
Mike Jackson was a Briggs & Stratton worker, union member, and father who died of coronavirus after fighting for safety on the job. Join us to march on the company with Mike’s family and coworkers to demand justice for Mike and safety for essential workers.
While Briggs & Stratton executives were working from the safety of their homes, negotiating millions of dollars in bonuses for themselves, and finalizing plans to move hundreds of jobs out of the Milwaukee area, Big Mike Jackson was being worked to death in the company’s Wauwatosa plant.
Mike’s life mattered. Let’s honor him by keeping up the fight he started.
Thursday, July 2, at 12:30, gather at Unitarian Universalist Church at 13001 W North Ave, Brookfield. From there, we will march to Briggs & Stratton.
Come join us to watch this historic vote!!
MMSD School Board will be voting on the School District’s police contract!
Monday, June 29th 3:30pm
Freedom Inc Office
2110 Luann Lane, Madison, WI
March Demands:
– Justice4GeorgeFloyd and all victims of police murder
– Defend Black Trans Folks
– Community Control of the Police
– Free all political prisoners and the wrongfully incarcerated
Schedule:
– 11am: March!
*** we will march past Peavey Plaza at 11th & Nicollet, for kids or others who want to join but need a shorter route ***
– Program at Loring Park
with some amazing queer and trans BIPOC artists and speakers!
*Please wear a face mask and physically distance if possible. We will be providing paper masks if you don’t have one. #StopTheSpread #BLM!*
STONEWALL WAS AN UPRISING AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY. THIS YEAR WE MARCH ON THE HEELS OF AN UPRISING AGAINST POLICE MURDER IN MINNEAPOLIS, AND IN PROTEST OF THE POLICE MURDER OF TRANS MAN TONY MCDADE, JUST A COUPLE WEEKS AGO. THIS MARCH IS EXPLICITLY ANTI-COP AND ANTI-CORPORATE. WE ARE PRO-BLACK AND PRO-TRANS. IF YOU’RE NOT, PLEASE GO ELSEWHERE.
Join us the day before, on Saturday, to help prep! https://www.facebook.com/events/868598893627423/
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Day of the Event
This is a family-friendly march.. We usually can accommodate them. We will also have marshals, please also contact us if you wish to assist with marshaling.
Endorsements
Please contact us ASAP so your organization can be listed as endorser. We also recommend sending a representative to a meeting. We can be reached at justice4jamar@gmail.com and 612.276.2059.
Donations
If you would like to donate to organizing for this event you can mail a mail a check to TCC4J (memo: pride) to PO BOX 11126 Minneapolis, MN 55411, via paypal justice4jamar@gmail.com, via cashapp $justice4jamar, or arrange a cash donation by contacting us at the same email.
Meetings
Planning meetings will be held Saturdays 11 AM until the day before Pride Sunday.
Organizing meetings are open; BIPOC, queer/trans folks are encouraged to actively assist in organizing. Orgs are requested to send a BIPOC, queer/trans representative.
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us via facebook messenger @tcc4j, email justice4jamar@gmail.com, or phone 612.276.2059.
https://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/deadlyexchangereport/
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 12, 2018
Contact: Sonya E Meyerson-Knox | sonya@jvp.org | 929-290-0317
Thousands of participants in Deadly Exchange programs include ICE agents and past and current police chiefs of Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, LA, Seattle and Washington DC
September 12, 2018 – From the acting Deputy Director of ICE to the current Chief of Police in Washington DC, from San Diego to Chicago to Atlanta, since 2002 thousands of American law enforcement officials have trained in Israel with Israeli police, military and the Shin Bet. And thousands more have participated in security conferences and workshops with Israeli military, law enforcement and security officials held in the U.S. But despite their branding as top-tier counter-terrorism experts, Israeli police and security agents regularly violate civil rights, and implement racist and deadly policies.
Released today, Deadly Exchange: The Dangerous Consequences of American Law Enforcement Trainings in Israel, comprehensively documents how these trainings solidify partnerships between the U.S. and Israeli governments to exchange methods of state violence and control, including mass surveillance, racial profiling, and suppression of protest and dissent.
Produced by Researching the American Israeli Alliance (RAIA) in partnership with Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), the report is the result of dozens of FOIAs yielding hundreds of documents, exclusive interviews with American and Israeli personnel, and exhaustive academic and media research in English, Arabic and Hebrew. Accompanying the report, RAIA released the Palestine is Here Database, a search engine mapping Israeli trainings of US law enforcement across American cities and towns.
“American police already have a terrible track record on civil rights and racism – and then they go to Israel and train with Israeli police and security agencies that are documented human rights violators! We should be investing in our communities, not militarizing our police” – Jewish Voice for Peace Deputy Director Stefanie Fox
“The dangers of U.S. law enforcement training in Israel for communities across the United States make clear that U.S. policy on Israel is not just a foreign policy issue, but one of civil rights. This unholy alliance between the U.S. and Israeli governments and American military industries is creating an injustice that we must urgently address” – RAIA Executive Director Eran Efrati
Deadly Exchange: The Dangerous Consequences of American Law Enforcement Trainings in Israel documents how these training programs contradict the heroic efforts of the civil rights movements in the U.S. to counter racist state violence – including counter-terrorism initiatives – in Black, Brown and poor communities.
CASE STUDY: On a police training exchange in Israel, the Boston Police Commissioner visited Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, where he learned about Israel’s passenger screening process, including racial and ethnic profiling of passengers. Shortly after, Boston’s Logan airport became the first American airport to pioneer the Israeli inspired Screening Passengers by Observation Techniques (SPOT) program. Years later, SPOT not only came under fire for being ineffective and wasteful, but also for facilitating discriminatory racial profiling at airports around the country.
The report also details the financial incentives and trade-offs between Israeli and American security firms and technologies.
CASE STUDY: Developed by Israeli police and manufactured by the Israeli company Odortec, “Skunk” is a foul-smelling liquid designed to cause nausea and linger for days when sprayed at high pressure onto protesters at demonstrations. Based on its proven effectiveness against Palestinian protests – particularly in West Bank village demonstrations against the Apartheid Wall – the American company Mistral Security began selling Skunk to U.S. police departments, including the St. Louis Metropolitan Police, following the 2014 protests in Ferguson, Missouri.
Deadly Exchange: The Dangerous Consequences of American Law Enforcement Trainings in Israel demonstrates that the U.S. law enforcement agencies’ endorsement of Israel’s use of invasive surveillance, blatant racial profiling, and brutal force as a model for policing puts us all in danger.
Stefanie Fox and Eran Efrati are available to speak with the media, along with activists on the ground
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Jewish Voice for Peace is a national, grassroots organization inspired by Jewish tradition to work for a just and lasting peace according to principles of human rights, equality, and international law for all the people of Israel and Palestine. JVP has over 200,000 online supporters, over 70 chapters, a youth wing, a Rabbinic Council, an Artist Council, an Academic Advisory Council, and an Advisory Board made up of leading U.S. intellectuals and artists.
Researching the American-Israeli Alliance (RAIA) is a research organization committed to the movement for justice in Palestine in the United States, and dedicated to exposing the connections between US and Israeli state violence.
Kenosha County Courthouse, 3721 60th Street, Kenosha, WI – 10:30 A.M.
Across the street in Civic Park, former Milwaukee Sheriff and well known hate speech leader, David Clarke, will be addressing supporters. The event he is speaking at has been organized to diminish the loud voices demanding that Black Lives Matter.
While some are gathering to “back the blue” we the people must assemble to be heard.
