Food Not Bombs – Fox Valley

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Food not Bombs – Fox Valley

Sunday, October 25, 2020 at 4:00 PM EDT

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xT8fxhbDTk6CVrak5jUnUQ

Defend Black lives! Defend activists and organizers under attack!

Sunday, October 25
4:00 p.m. Eastern / 3:00 p.m. Central / 2:00 p.m. Mountain / 1:00 p.m. Pacific

Zoom info: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xT8fxhbDTk6CVrak5jUnUQ

A special webinar featuring activists fighting state repression across the U.S., including:

Initial List

• Delegate Attica Scott, Kentucky’s only Black woman state representative, arrested in Louisville during protests for Breonna Taylor
• John Parker, Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice & Struggle La Lucha
• Regina Joseph of the Tally19 arrestees, Haitian-American activist, president of Tallahassee Community Action Committee and district organizer for Freedom Road Socialist Organization
• Frank Chapman, Executive Director, National Alliance Against Racism and Political Repression
• Denzel Draughn, San Diego anti-racist activist and supporter of the African People’s Socialist Party, facing 19 felony charges
• Suzanne Adely, National Lawyers Guild president and Palestinian-American activist
• Janine Africa, Janet Africa, and Michael Africa, Sr. MOVE organization
• Plus representatives from Aurora, Colo., Portland, Ore., and many others.

In the spirit of unity and solidarity, this special webinar will bring together representatives of many local struggles and groups under attack for their involvement in the uprising against racist police shootings by federal agencies, local police and the violent white-supremacist movement. Hear some of the activists directly involved and learn how you can help.

Read more about the cases:

Defend activists and organizers under attack! Defend Black lives!

https://www.struggle-la-lucha.org/2020/09/19/defend-activists-and-organizers-under-attack-defend-black-lives/embed/#?secret=74onCZj4ag

Read the ‘Appeal to Revolutionaries’:
“It is the responsibility of revolutionary parties and organizations, armed with revolutionary theory and decades of combined revolutionary practice, to ready the masses for this political period and those to come. In order to do this, the revolutionary forces, scattered geographically and politically, must begin to unite. The Socialist Unity Party proposes a first step towards this unity: We must commit to defend each other from state attack.”

Appeal to revolutionaries: We must defend each other from state attack

https://www.struggle-la-lucha.org/2020/09/09/appeal-to-revolutionaries-we-must-defend-each-other-from-state-attack/embed/#?secret=uY0ZQpQuzy

Sponsored by: Struggle La Lucha for Socialism; Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice; Peoples Power Assembly

teleSUR English

By Lee Ross

When someone is called “gung ho” in English it generally means enthusiastic and dedicated, often with military connotations.

This is ironic, because “gung ho” is actually Chinese and Communist in origin, meaning ‘to work together’.  Back in World War 2 a US Marine Major in China was liaison with both the Nationalists and Communists fighting the Japanese.  He noticed that Nationalist ranks were rife with corruption, soldiers were cruel to civilians, regularly stole from them and had low morale.  Among the Communists he noticed the total opposite: no noticeable corruption, soldiers were taught to respect civilians and everyone worked together both to drive out the Japanese and to take care of each other.  A Chinese Cooperative association’s motto summed up this spirit as gung ho, which he learned meant “Work together—work in harmony”. He brought this back as an ideal to the US, where the concept first spread through the Marine Corps…

Dr. Bruce Aylward of the World Health Organization team that visited China in February described the all-out effort:

“I talked to lots of people outside the system—in hotels, on trains, in the streets at night. They’re mobilized, like in a war, and it’s fear of the virus that was driving them. They really saw themselves as on the front lines of protecting the rest of China. And the world…. They actually changed the course of a respiratory-borne outbreak without a vaccine, which was extraordinary…”

What China did:

• Government and health officials notified the Chinese people and the World Health Organization about a novel coronavirus on December 31, less than three weeks after unexplained pneumonia symptoms were first noticed on x-ray
• Completed a full genome of the virus within two weeks, releasing it to the world to help in the search for treatments and a vaccine
• Imposed a 76-day lockdown of approximately 60 million people in Wuhan and other cities in Hubei province, including shutting down both urban mass transit and nationwide intercity rail lines during the Chinese New Year, when families coming together create the largest short-term human migration on Earth
• Mobilized medical personnel from all over China to aid Wuhan, which had lost many of its own healthcare workers to the virus in its early days.  Doctors and nurses from the Communist Party and People’s Liberation Army led by example, volunteering by the thousands
• Built a complete hospital with 1000 bed capacity within a week
• Built a second complete hospital with 1600 bed capacity the following week
• Saw to it that no one needed fear about losing their job or income—paychecks still came regardless of quarantine
• Through the above they saw to it that no one needed fear eviction or piling up of rent debt
• Saw to it that testing and treatment were free, so no one needed fear medical bankruptcy due to the pandemic
• Expanded production of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), testing materials, ventilators and other medical equipment as if for war: from January 28 to March 31 there were increases of 20 times the production of PPE and 6 times of testing materials, with comparable increases in ambulances, blood gas analyzers, air disinfectant machines, and more
• Ensured that food, fuel and other necessities of life remained in steady supply at normal prices, and offered financial support for small and medium sized businesses (which in turn if deemed essential and kept open were obligated to provide a safe working environment)
• Created temperature checkpoints throughout society—especially transportation portals—to catch as many pre-symptomatic carriers of the virus as possible
• Saw to it that everyone was tested at the first sign of symptoms, and if shown positive evacuated to separate quarantine away from their families (family spread of the virus being a prime vector)
• Converted public buildings into temporary hospitals to house those quarantined, saving the main hospitals for severe cases
• Traced contacts of everyone who tested positive to follow up with testing those individuals, regardless of whether they were symptomatic
• Directed Neighborhood Committees to conduct daily rounds of every residence, asking if anyone was symptomatic, if any food, fuel, medicines or other supplies were running low, and to generally check in—anything needful was delivered within hours.  In these demanding and dangerous daily surveys 53 committee members were lost to the virus in the first six weeks of lockdown in Wuhan, 49 of them Communist Party members

What was this like to live through?  On YouTube you can watch the Chinese documentary One Month in Wuhan.

And not only all this to defeat the pandemic at home—as soon as different strains of the virus manifested in other countries, China sent brigades of coronavirus-experienced medical volunteers to help treat patients, as well as donated immense quantities of PPE, ventilators, testing materials and other supplies to 16 countries in Europe, 28 in Asia, 26 in Africa, 10 in the South Pacific, 9 in Latin America and even to New York City in the US itself.  China’s New Silk Road global trade project has a health component, the Health Silk Road, developing dozens of countries’ health infrastructure to enhance development and safe trade—the Health Silk Road has been expanded, moved to forefront priority and updated specifically for the novel coronavirus.

The pandemic had gone global and China rose as an ally to all humanity.  In beleaguered Italy the quarantine-empty streets were filled in gratitude with the sound of the Chinese national anthem, The East is Red.  Tedros Ghebreyesus, the WHO Director-General, described China as “setting a new standard for outbreak response” that heroically bought the rest of humanity six to eight weeks’ time to prepare for its spread.

This is gung ho in practice: “work together—work in harmony”.  This is human beings rising to a deadly challenge and working in global solidarity to end it—a People’s War on a deadly foe.

Milwaukee Freedom Fund

https://supportwomenshealth.salsalabs.org/mkefreedomfund/index.html

Protesting tonight after curfew? Be careful and write the number for Kimberley Motley on your body (704) 763-5413 to call from jail. We don’t know where folks will be taken or if they will have their right to a lawyer, right to a phone call or other rights respected if arrested. Law enforcement has changed their tactics up making it hard to find arrested protesters. So we are adjusting our process and working with some folks to ensure each arrested protester:

Has a lawyer to challenge a curfew ticket

Has access to bail if they need it

Has access to funds to pay a ticket if they need it.

Has access to funds to pay for towed vehicles.

If you have been arrested or had a vehicle towed and you have not connected with us or Kimberley please use this form: bit.ly/ArrestedProtestersTriage.

We want to make sure you all know that we have your back.

Tips for protesting in Tosa:Let someone who is not protesting know where you will be.Use encrypted apps like signal or telegram for secure messaging.

TURN FINGERPRINT/ FACE UNLOCK OFF ON YOUR PHONE!

Don’t live stream, especially not publicly, and if you take video or photos try to avoid taking pictures of other demonstrators’ faces or anything else that might identify them.

Police have issued people with curfew tickets and other more serious charges based only on seeing them in live streams.

Videos and photos, and anything else on your phone can be used as evidence against you and others if you’re arrested. Many people who have been detained for curfew violation in both Kenosha and Tosa did not get their phones back upon release, and some have been tracked to the Milwaukee FBI office.

https://supportwomenshealth.salsalabs.org/mkefreedomfund/index.html

CARRY WATER to keep yourself hydrated but especially to flush your eyes and throat if you’re hit with teargas. Street medics have requested that protesters carry what they need to handle teargas, minor pain etc. so they can focus on those with more serious injuries.Buddy up. 4 is better than 2. Stick together until you’re all home or in your cars (and ideally out of the curfew/ law enforcement activity area).

Check in with each other when you make it home. It’s OK to back down. Be aware of your limits.There are armed security personnel for the protests, due to death threats.There are also armed counter protesters who attempt to intimidate the protests.Stay with your group and the people you know.

We are moving quickly. We are not lawyers but we did consult with lawyers to get information out. We now have a resource list that can be updated more often: bit.ly/MKEAreaLegalSupport. This has information on how to connect with a lawyer, get help with bail, tickets and towing fees.

https://supportwomenshealth.salsalabs.org/mkefreedomfund/index.html

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Rhiannon Giddens

THE EPIC – “GET OUT THE VOTE” TWO-NIGHT CONCERT FEATURING 50 ARTISTS FROM 50 STATES

About this Event

The All Souls to the Polls Concert | 50 Performers; 50 States; 2 Nights: 1 Goal | All Vote in 2020

Cultural organizers from across the US have come together to organize a special two-night concert to prompt GET OUT THE VOTE activities for the upcoming election. The concert features musicians and prominent social justice and grassroots community activists from diverse regions of the US – making this an unprecedented salute to the variety of local cultures and issues at the core of our nation’s progressive principles.

This two-day cultural event on Saturday October 17 and Sunday October 18 features a range of stylistic expressions and voices nurtured on our soil – from folk songs and indigenous traditions to special creative verses inspired by the moment. From Anchorage to Arcadia and from St. Augustine to Baja, voices calling for change will sing out! The roster of talent amassed for this historic event signifies the concert as one of music history’s most memorable gatherings.

The producers have aligned with various progressive mass organizations to maximize GOTV efforts. This is a non-commercial, educational, and cultural event offered for free to get ‘all souls to the polls’!

Representatives from activist organizations will interact online during the event and via social media to propel the CALL TO ACTION, identify local campaigns, direct HOW TO VOTE, and maximize turnout.

The 50/50 CONCERT broadcasts exclusively SATURDAY OCTOBER 17 AND SUNDAY OCTOBER 18| 8pm Eastern | 7PM Central | 5pm Pacific Time via the Twitch.tv/5050gotv channel and simulcast on other online platforms. The program will be presented for free without paywalls.

PRODUCERS Marguerite Horberg |Bill Martinez |Alicia Zertuche | Raul Cuza | Melissa O’Brien |

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More info at 50to50concert.com

WATCH ON TWITCH TV

https://www.twitch.tv/5050gotv

AND ON FACEBOOK PAGE

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UPDATES ALSO ON THE FACEBOOK EVENT

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Featuring musicians and social justice voices from sea to shining sea

List in formation

Arizona Linda Ronstadt, LA Orkesta; California Danny Glover, Los Lobos, Raq Filipina, Meklit Hedero, and Fantastic Negrito; Colorado Trace Bundy; Delaware Tahira; Florida Morikeba Kouyate, John Daversa Quintet with Sammy Figueroa Dafnis Prieto, Carlos De Rosa, and Gonzalo Rubalcaba; Hawaii George Kahumoku; Iowa Greg Brown with Bo Ramsey; Illinois Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, Bea Lumpkin, Funkadesi, Isaiah Collier and the Chosen Few; Kansas Stan Herd with Jessica Paige; Ohio Jenna Fournier; Louisiana Dirk Powell; Maine Dennis Carter and Anneli Carter-Sundqvist Massachusetts Twisted Pine; Michigan: Regina Carter, Thornetta Davis and Congressman Dan Kildee; Minnesota Douglas Ewart; Missouri Making Movies; Nevada John Toles-Bey; New Jersey Jason Kao Hwang; New Mexico Rob Martinez, Ivon Ulibarri/Cafe Mocha; New York Amy Goodman, Arturo O’Farrill, Eleanor Reissa & Frank London and the Klezmer Brass All Stars; Pennsylvania Aisha Fukashima; Puerto Rico Plena Libre; Rhode Island Allysen Callery; South Carolina Ranky Tanky; Texas Clemente Castillo, Beto O’Rourke; Washington Paoli Mejias; Wisconsin Paul Cebar; & Wyoming The Taylor Scott Band. Hosts Medea Benjamin, Chelis Lopez, Davey D., Gabe Romero and Shoshonna Stern