The Coup – “The Guillotine”
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Milwaukee, March 14, 2020: Lessons from the Chicago Teachers Strike
Lessons from the Chicago Teachers Strike
Chicago Teachers Union activists Sarah Chambers and Paula Baraja will share their experiences as leaders in the Chicago Teachers Union organizing drives and strikes that helped inspire a national public sector strike wave to defend public education and revive labor militancy.
Saturday, March 14th, 2020 @ 12 pm
MATC downtown campus Rm S120
Presented by The Young Workers Committee of the Milwaukee Area Labor Council-AFL-CIO, and the American Federation of Teachers Local 212.
Superior, April 13, 2020: Poems Behind the Walls
The Superior Public Library will be hosting “Poems Behind Walls” poetry reading. The reading will be hosted by Procurement Editor of Poetry Behind the Walls, Lucas Alan Dietsche. He and others will read poems written by incarcerated and system-involved youth. Poetry Behind Walls is a project of Save the Kids and is an ongoing book series that provides a medium for system-involved youth to express and encourage themselves through poetry. One Book Northland is teaming up with Clayton-Jackson-McGhie Memorial to provide book readings, movie showings, and events to encourage discussion on the 100th anniversary of three Black men being lynched in Duluth, Minnesota. http://poetrybehindthewalls.org/about-pbw/ and https://savethekidsgroup.org/
Madison, March 12, 2020, A free movie screening: ‘Dark Waters’
Safe Skies Clean Water and Sierra Club offer a free screening of Dark Waters (https://www.focusfeatures.com/dark-waters) on Thursday, March 12 at Warner Park Community Center. It will be 6-9pm. It will include a light meal and have a panel discussion following the movie. The panel discussion with connect the PFAS discussion to Truax and F35s. Registration is necessary.
Assata Shakur documentary
Milwaukee, March 28, 2020: Wisconsin LGBTQ Summit
The Wisconsin LGBTQ Summit is focused on building a more skilled and connected network of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ), and allied individuals who are empowered to achieve and protect LGBTQ equality in their local communities across the state of Wisconsin.
At the Summit, you can:
– Deepen your understanding of issues facing the LGBTQ community
– Network with others in our community from across the state
– Learn what organizations and individuals are doing to advance health, safety, fairness, and inclusion in the LGBTQ community in Wisconsin
– Join efforts to ensure LGBTQ protections in Wisconsin.
– Join established and emerging leaders, activists, advocates, community members, and allies from throughout Wisconsin for a day of learning and networking!
REGISTER AT: https://www.wilgbtqsummit.org/
General Conference Registration
$75
Student & Limited-Income Registration
$25
Water Walk Milwaukee April 25, 2020
UW-Milwaukee, March 20. 2020: Midwest Two-Spirit History: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, & Land
Midwest Two-Spirit History: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, & Land
Located in Bolton Hall B 52 at UW-Milwaukee, WI
FOOD PROVIDED from Milwaukee Pride
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200 Years of Two-Spirit History in the Midwest: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Land
In this presentation you will find: An Ojibwe woman warrior from the 1830s, a Potawatomi servant who transitioned as a woman in the 1880s, and an African American/Potawatomi resident of Milwaukee who caused a scandal for crossdressing and bigamy in 1914. You will also hear about: An organization for gay Indians founded in 1975, a dream received by a Native lesbian in 1990, and a 2016 Two-Spirit camp of land defenders. All of these histories tell us something important about gender, sexuality, and the theft of Indigenous land in the 200 years of American colonization in the Midwest. This presentation focuses on both recent and distant LGBTQ/Two-Spirit Native American history to reveal how central Two-Spirit people have always been to their communities and to the past and present of the Midwest.
Kai Minosh Pyle is a Métis and Sault Ste. Marie Nishnaabe Two-Spirit writer originally from Green Bay, Wisconsin. They have lived in the Midwest their entire life and currently reside on Dakota land in Bde Ota Othunwe (Minneapolis, Minnesota). As a PhD student at the University of Minnesota, they are researching Anishinaabe Two-Spirit memory-making and kinship through the lenses of history, language, and literature.
International Working Women’s Day Celebrations in Milwaukee March 6 & 8, 2020
March 6, 2020:
Women Rising: Celebrating A Decade Of Women Leading Struggle
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March 8, 2020:
International Women’s Day 2020 in Milwaukee
Argentina’s Fernandez Defends Evo Morales’ Presidential Victory
Former Bolivian President Evo Morales meets with supporters during his campaign trail. | Photo: EFE
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology conducted an analysis of the results of the elections in Bolivia last October 20 and highlighted the legitimate victory of Morales by more than 10 percentage points.
The President of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, ratified his complaint that in Bolivia “the rule of law was violated” after the coup d’etat against Evo Morales and demanded “prompt democratization” in the country “with the full participation of the people.”
“According to a report published by the Washington Post and made by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Evo Morales won last year’s election by more than 10 points, without any fraud,” the president wrote.
In a series of tweets on his Twitter account, Fernández said that “the report disseminated, with singular hardness, criticizes, for its inconsistency, the audit conducted at that time by the OAS (Organization of American States) that concluded in affirming the existence of irregularities in the election that is now claimed”.
“As I always pointed out, in Bolivia the rule of law was violated with the actions of the Armed Forces and sectors of the opposition to the then president and with the explicit complicity of the OAS that was called to ensure the full validity of democracy.”
Fernández said: “The Argentine Government at the time (headed by Macri), kept an accomplice silence before such an outrage, ignoring the voices that then rose to preserve the Bolivian institutionality.”
The MIT study questions the report in which the OAS once noticed irregularities in the elections and that served as an argument for its secretary general, Luis Almagro, to ensure that there was fraud in favor of Morales….
