Menominee Nation News

Shorewood Environmental Film Festival

The Conservation Committee is hosting three movies in the Village Center free to the public. Each film focuses on an environmental issue. After each film will be a community discussion for those that would like to participate. A great opportunity for 100+ community members to engage in important environmental topics.

AWAKE: A Dream from Standing Rock – Friday, February 7

Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story – Friday, March 13

Symphony of the Soil – Friday, April 3

Feb. 5: Rally for Chrystul Kizer at UW-Parkside

Feb. 6: Pack the Court! Bond Reduction Hearing

Stand for a Livable Climate
Every Friday at Noon!
(Then maybe catch a hot beverage at The Coffee Bean)

Chase & Wells Fargo Banks
Wisconsin Ave. at Water St.

Chase ($63.9 Billion 2018)
& Wells Fargo ($61.4 Billion 2018)
are the 1st & 2nd LARGEST
funders of Fossil Fuel companies in the WORLD!

We’ve had 12 to 15 people each week. Please join us – rain, snow or shine. (Unless it’s a serious blizzard or below zero!) Just dress in layers for the weather. There are lots of pedestrians over the noon hour and we pass out lots of flyers and talk to lots of folks.

We’ll have signs and banners, but feel free to bring your own

On Dec. 6, 2019, The People’s Climate Coalition held a rally and demonstration in downtown Milwaukee in accordance with the International Youth Climate Strikes and the Sunrise Movement National Climate Strikes.  On that day eleven individuals were arrested during a peaceful sit-in protesting fossil fuel financing by Wells Fargo Bank.

We will provide information for a crowd sourced fund to cover their court costs when it’s ready.  Watch this space for further details as they become available.

https://350milwaukee.weebly.com

350 Milwaukee

Ice Cream Social for Lgbtq+ People of Color

Come join us for our first LGBTQ+ People of Color event this year. There will be music, great people and of course, ice cream!

The biggest education system in the US—California’s—is about to make an incredibly consequential decision:

Will it institute a Ethnic Studies curiculum that uplifts the stories of all communities of color or reject one that includes Arab Americans—bending to the desires of pro-Israel groups who simply don’t agree?

Under tremendous pressure, the fate of Arab Americans in our textbooks is currently being decided upon by our state electeds. But if we act now—making our demands for inclusion and justice clear—we can still save Ethnic Studies in our state and set a historic precedent for the country.

Go to: https://bit.ly/36QAUdt

#indefenseofES

https://fighting-words.net/2020/01/29/the-struggle-to-end-imperialist-militarism-in-the-21st-century/

By Abayomi Azikiwe

Note: This address was prepared and delivered at a Communist Workers League (CWL) class on United States Imperialism and the War against Iran which was held on Saturday January 25, 2020 in Detroit. The event featured Randi Nord, the editor of Geo-politics Alert website which covers events related to international affairs with a special focus on West Asia, Latin America, U.S. foreign policy and developments in Europe. Also addressing the class was Yusuf Mshahwar, an observer of West Asian affairs and a student at Wayne State University. Abayomi Azikiwe, PANW Editor and writer for various publications, discussed the relationship between imperialist interventions in North Africa and related occurrences in West Asia and other geo-political regions within the international community.

As we enter the third decade of the present century, it is important for anti-imperialists to take stock of events over the previous ten years.

Since 2010, the role of United States imperialist militarism has been just as disruptive, destabilizing and deadly as in previous eras.

Of course there was some initial hope when uprisings erupted in Tunisia and Egypt during late 2010 and early 2011. Nonetheless, neither of these popular rebellions against the neo-colonial dominated regimes in Tunis and Cairo developed into a revolutionary transformation of society.

In Tunisia and Egypt, it was only the military and security apparatuses which proved capable of seizing state power and ushering in a transitional process. Tunisia seems to have been the most pliable in regard to stabilizing a bourgeois democratic system. However, Egypt after the election of the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), which was dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood, was the scene of continued unrest and the eventual well-planned takeover in July 2013 by the military.

Former Field Marshall Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi, soon stepped down from the military and won two successive terms as president. At present, Egypt is the Chairman of the continental 55-member African Union (AU).

The situation in neighboring Libya clearly exposed the dangers of fomenting unrest absent of a revolutionary character. In fact developments in Libya since February 2011 represent a counter-revolution against not only the people of that oil-rich North African state but also influencing the impact of the constantly deteriorating situation on other regional nations and the international community in general.

At present a conference in Germany on January 19 discussed the future of what was Africa’s most prosperous country under the Jamahiriya led by Col. Muammar Gaddafi. Turkey has sent troops into Libya in an effort to bolster the Government of National Accord (GNA) headed by Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj which was imposed by the United Nations Security Council four years ago amid internecine conflict and dislocation….

Moratorium NOW! Coalition: Night Out at the Detroit Repertory

Join the Moratorium NOW! Coalition for our Annual Night Out at the Detroit Repertory Theater on Thurs. Feb. 6, 2019.

Tickets for the play “The Puppeteer” are $20. There will be a reception with champagne and Hors d’oeuvres at 7:30pm and the show starts at 8:30pm sharp.

This event is a fundraiser to support our headquarters at 5920 Second Avenue in Midtown. All proceeds from the event will go towards maintenance and other costs for our location which serves as an organizing center for activists in Detroit. Tickets can be purchased at the Moratorium NOW! Coalition office during our open hours: (Mon.-Fri., Noon-4:00pm) or you can send a check/money order to 5920 Second Avenue, Detroit, MI 48202. For more information call (313) 671-3715.

The gathering is being held in honor of African American History Month 2020. The play is by Desiree York. Read the description of the story below:

“When Constance, a 1920’s jazz singer, chooses to stand on her own, not only is her name carried on through multiple generations, but so is her determination to find an identity in an ever changing world. Spanning five generations, starting in the Harlem Renaissance and ending in present day, the women from one African American family struggle to overcome the roles assigned to them by society in order to find their way home.”
http://www.detroitreptheatre.com/thepuppeteer