https://moratorium-mi.org/

Friends – Throughout this pandemic the Moratorium Now Coalition has kept working for justice and kept meeting on line every week. Since the mass uprisings against police terror erupted with the lynching of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery (and others) many of our members have been breaking isolation EVERY DAY  to join the Detroit protests. We have raised our banners, printed leaflets, provided our sound system and distributed many printed signs.

https://fighting-words.net/2020/06/13/labor-call-to-down-tools-to-honor-all-victims-of-police-murder/

ILWU Local 10 marching against police terror on May Day 2015, Oakland, California. | Photo: The Internationalist

By ILWU Local 10

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Coast Longshore Division, representing locals at all 29 West Coast ports, will stop work and lay down their tools on Tuesday, June 9 at 9:00 a.m. Pacific for an 8 minute 46 second collective vigil of silence to honor the memory of George Floyd and all those murdered at the hands of the police. “We must continue the mission for the Disenfranchised, the victims of Systemic Racism and Police Terror,” stated Trent Willis, ILWU Local 10 president.

Operations at ports on the East and Gulf coasts also will be shut down (12 noon to 1 p.m.) as longshore labor from the 65,000-member International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA), AFL-CIO, honor the lives of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and Walter Scott, among others.

Throughout the United States, workers, organized and unorganized, are joining this historic moment of protest.

“The Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC, AFL-CIO) has a long history of fighting police repression as early as the late 60’s,” explained FLOC President Baldemar Velasquez. “We withstood beatings, arrests, jails from local police departments and county sheriffs. FLOC members tilling the land at nearly 650 farms under union contract will join this act of solidarity.”

Simultaneously, in New York City, the Metro North and building service workers, members of International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 808, will stop work to join labor’s collective vigil.

”It is important that labor become what it is supposed to be — that is, the vanguard organization of the working class,” stated Chris Silvera, Secretary-Treasurer, Teamsters Local 808. “Labor must step to the forefront of the struggle for justice in America.”

With these actions and more on June 9, labor’s voice will be heard throughout the land!

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Personal tweet by Sara Nelson

ILWU announced a call for all Labor to stop in a 8 min, 46 sec vigil of silence at Noon ET June 9, to honor George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, & victims of police brutality. They state, “all lives will matter when Black lives matter because an injury to one is an injury to all.”

— Sara Nelson

President of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (in a personal capacity)

And on June 19:

 ILWU will be having a coast wide Shutdown  .  ( Around both Opposition to Police Violence and other Local Class issues ).A Mass rally will begin at  the Port of Oakland 10 am ( Middle Harbor park ) followed by a March and Motorcade to Oscar Grant Plaza 14 th and Broadway. Oakland  NOTE This won’t be a Bay Area event only . The Ports of Stockton , Eureka and Sacramento will be closed also and there is a strong possibility that ILWU ers from those areas ( as well as other Trade Unionists and other Supporters ) will be attending the Oakland Rally/ March .

#thatblackness #ninasimone

Freedom Youth Squad Action

Join Freedom Youth Squad on Tuesday at the Doyle building at 3pm. We love to see young people lead action and being apart of the revolution. Share with family and friends.

Freedom Youth Squad’s Police Free Schools Campaign Demands:
1) Completely remove cops from schools and create accountability measures for when school staff use police to harm students.
2) Invest in the leadership, wellness and creativity of Black youth and youth of color.
3) Use restorative and transformative justice practices instead of punitive punishment.
4) Community control over schools! Let students, parents and trusted adults have real decision making power about schools.

#PoliceFreeSchools
#InvestInYouth
#CommunityControl

Freedom Inc

Queer Power Rising: Political Education (PE) & Action

From Stonewall to the current global uprising, we all benefit from rebellion–especially when they are led by Queer folx.

Join us as we continue our PRIDE celebrations with some political education about the Stonewall Uprising and how Black & POC members of the LGBTQI+ community continue to fight for our liberation.

Week of Action: CopsOutCPS

BLM March – St. Francis &Cudahy

Start at Howard & KK, 1 P.M.

Today is the day we say no more! It is time to break the barriers that have been set up from the beginning. We need to be part of the solution! Standing together as one! Let’s show our corrupt biased system who is in charge.

Say their names. No justice, No Peace. ✊✊🖤🖤✊✊

Marching about 7 miles spreading love, unity, and peace.

We are starting at the corner of KK and Howard (where St. Francis brewery is) for poster making signs from 1-2.

We will then march from 2-5 past St. Francis PD and head into Cudahy to their PD.

If you are not able to attend the poster making portion, I highly encourage to stop by Find your Light LLC in Cudahy (3701 E Layton Ave) during the week -10am-4pm. Shoot them a message to make sure. They have some supplies to help you!

****Please also remember masks and social distancing are strongly encouraged.****

There is nothing they can do if we all become one! No more dividing us! We understand! We are with you! Justice for George and the many others that were killed and wrongfully accused! Justice for Black Lives Matter!!
🖤🖤✊✊🖤🖤

Wee Chalk Your Walk Murray Hill Neighborhood MKE!

N Maryland and E Bradford, Milwaukee – 3-5 P.M.

As a continued sign of solidarity with National Black Lives Matter Week of Action, Wee Chalk Your Walk. Let’s chalk messages in our own neighborhoods, then let’s go to the MPS school board President’s neck of the woods. Bring yourself, chalk, and signs if you have them. We will meet at Prospect Traingle on the corner of North Maryland and East Bradford Ave . We will walk and chalk the streets and sidewalks with Black Lives Matter solidarity messages. We will end in front of school board President Larry Miller’s house with an organized gathering. This is a Family Friendly space!

Four Demands of the National Black Lives Matter at School Movement
*Recruit and retain Black educators
*Fully Resourced Restorative Practices
*Black History and Ethnic Studies in all schools
*Fund Counselors, Not cops

13th Drive In Movie Showing

13th is a powerful documentary that addresses racial issues confronting America in 2016. In a time of polarized attitudes about mass incarceration, brutality, and the explosion of for-profit prisons and their affiliates, director Ava DuVernay interviews social activists, academics, journalists, and political figures to make the case that today’s prisons, which house millions of persons of color, are simply the next incarnation of the centuries-old U.S. exploitation.

Your $10 suggested donation to reserve your parking spot will be donated to Leaders Igniting Transformation to further their social justice activism in the community. We’ll also provide you with a $5 coupon code for food and drinks during the showing.