Tune in on our panel discussion to learn why the global call to #DefundPolice is in alignment with efforts to end gender based violence. Hear from: Kabzuag Vaj of Freedom Inc, Tia Murray of Harambee Village Doulas, and Veroninca Figueroa of UNIDOSRegister here: bit.ly/freedomPE
SAVE THE DATE: On Saturday, October 24th, between the hours between 10:00 am and 4:00 pm, car caravans and other activities promoting early voting will be happening in numerous communities around Wisconsin.
We invite you, your congregation, club, group, or business to co-sponsor this event, make it your own, and make sure that the caravan in your area is a huge success!
“Pack the Polls Parades”These events will share common themes:
So far, it looks like there will be parades in Madison, Fond du Lac, Janesville, La Crosse, Racine, Beloit, Milwaukee, River Falls, Fitchburg, and Green Bay! New communities are joining each day.
Imagine: Seventeen or more car caravans, in the same window of time, all over Wisconsin, all with the same nonpartisan message: Let’s turn out the vote! Let’s reduce the risks by voting early. Let’s leave no vote behind. Let’s celebrate democracy and our right to vote!
We will link these parades via a “Unity Zoom Gathering” which will then be broadcasted via Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/buildingunitywi
Spread the “Save the Date” on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/events/641315329907539/
This simple and straightforward statewide action needs your support! If you’re interested in co-sponsoring, endorsing, supporting, or helping to promote one of these car caravan events in your community, please call Tim at 608-630-3633.
Next week we will be bringing together partners from all over the state into the first two statewide planning meetings:
Join Zoom Meetinghttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/87883832325
One tap mobile +13017158592,,87883832325# US (Germantown)Dial: 1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown) Meeting ID: 878 8383 2325
At these meetings, we will get the opportunity to meet as people from all over the state. We will also work in breakout groups to focus on our own communities.Please share this notice widely and bring some friends to one or both of these first two planning meetings.
For Our Strength, in Unity,Tim Cordon: 608-630-3633
Racine Coalition for Peace and Justice
Come fly our BLM banner this Saturday the 10th, at the Dr. Martin Luther King Plaza, on State St. between Marquette St. and Martin Luther King Drive in Racine!. It is from 10 am to 11 am. We social distance and wear masks in this refreshing outdoor demonstration.
http://racinepeace.wordpress.com/
We will be here tomorrow at 1 pm in the townhouses in Manitowoc giving pantries nor need to get out of their car.
Hosted by TAA – Graduate Worker Union of UW-Madison and UW Madison BIPOC Coalition
Camp Randall Arch, (W Dayton Street & North Randall Avenue) – 5 P.M.
Our administrators refuse to listen to us.Minutes after student leaders in ASM passed a vote of no-confidence of UWPD, Becky Blank tweeted “I support our department, its officers and its progressive values.”
In a meeting with the Badger Herald, Becky stated that she hadn’t heard any specific complaints about incidents with UWPD officers. This is, frankly, impossible to believe.Becky called the removal of the Abe Lincoln statue a “non-starter,” despite this being the first demand of the BIPOC Coalition.
Administrators have also boasted of deploying UWPD officers to police off-campus gatherings, a move which increases the likelihood of police encounters for BIPOC students living off-campus.When administrators have been willing to “listen,” it’s only on their terms. They will not have a conversation in public with students, workers, or community members. The only meetings they want to have are private and behind closed doors—on their terms.
On Friday, the UW BIPOC Coalition and the TAA invite you to get loud and make some noise to tell Becky and UW administrators: Listen Up! Can You Hear Us Now?Bring noisemakers, signs, and your marching shoes.
*Masks required and social distancing protocols will be observed*
Link to survey gathering negative experiences with UWPD: https://docs.google.com/…/1FAIpQLSeycrLzh1POZQ…/viewform
Originally published by tortilla con sal http://www.tortillaconsal.com/tortilla/node/10378
International Network in Solidarity with Nicaragua, September 28th 2020
Friday, October 9 at 2 pm, Marathon March organizers will gather at the State Capitol in Madison for a day of art and community building prior to the march. See you there.
Masks required!
***MONDAY, OCTOBER 5TH — Today’s list of actions, vigils and other relevant BLM / Social Justice events is updated.***
Link for the Updated List: https://docs.google.com/…/1uLk5DYYMqlxZAbO…/edit… As always, you can find all of the event pages listed under the “Events” section of the People’s Climate Coalition FB Page.
You can (and should!) also check out the new Impact Demand event calendar: https://events.impactdemand.org/posterboard and follow the Wisconsin Bail Out The People Movement for news and actions from around the state and Rid Racism Milwaukee for a list of additional racial justice actions / events.
***#Covid19 reminder to wear a mask and gloves to all in-person events and somehow try to social distance, if possible.***
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If you can’t attend a protest, making a contribution to any of the following organizations / causes would be super helpful (you can also find more listed in the donation tab within the excel sheet):-
Legal Aid & Resources: Milwaukee Freedom Fund– Free Chrystul Kizer– Youth Rising Up -YRU- North Division High School– Black Leaders Organizing for Communities– Leaders Igniting Transformation– Urban Underground–
Love on Black Women: https://www.facebook.com/loveonblackwomen/–
The Peoples Movement of Milwaukee: https://www.facebook.com/The-Peoples-Movement-of-Milwaukee-106923321057366/ – The Peoples Revolution Milwaukee– Milwaukee Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression– Human First Project : https://gf.me/u/x79ydc– Black Educators Caucus MKE– Urban Legacy MKE–
GoFundMe for Jacob Blake: https://gf.me/u/ytqyyz– Wisconsin Bail Out The People Movement– Community Task Force MKE
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Let me know if there are any other actions / donation pages / relevant orgs that should be added to the list. You can email me at lee.stedman.gaiacoalition@gmail.com or PM me directly on Facebook.
#BlackLivesMatter#Milwaukee#milwaukeeprotest
#JusticeForJacobBlake#GeorgeFloyd#BreonnaTaylor
#DontreHamilton#JoelAcevedo#FreeChrystul#SayTheirNames
#Juneteenth#AlvinCole#JayAnderson#AntonioGonzales
#Justice4TheeThree#DivestFromMPD#DefundThePolice
#ElijahMcMclain#DontreHamilton#AlvinCole#SandraBland
#JasonPero#AtatianaJefferson#KorrynGaines
#JonathonTubby#AlesiaThomas#RodneyKing
#KevanRuffin#VanessaGuillen
September 28, 2020
The United Nations Human Rights Council issued a report* by the Independent Mission to Determine the Facts in Venezuela (Independent Mission), which accuses Venezuela of “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment committed since 2014.” The veracity, timing, and political intent of this report is best understood in the context of a campaign led by the U.S. to overthrow Venezuela’s democratically elected government of President Nicolás Maduro and before him of Hugo Chávez.
Venezuela is a historically petroleum exporting nation and has consequently suffered from the crash in the international oil prices starting in 2014. Since this spring, Venezuela along with the rest of humanity has been hit by the additional stressor of the COVID-19 pandemic. Taking advantage of these externally induced vulnerabilities, the campaign by the U.S. and its allies of low-intensity war has only intensified under U.S. President Trump’s “maximum pressure” hybrid war operation.
The Independent Mission, which published the critical report, was approved by the U.S. and other states opposed to the Bolivarian government of Venezuela. This special Independent Mission circumvented the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, which has an office in Venezuela and is working with the legitimate Venezuelan government. In contrast, the Independent Mission does not have a presence in Venezuela and based its investigation on interviews with people living abroad and mainly in opposition to the government.
The Independent Mission report is being used to delegitimize the Venezuelan government. Issued on September 16, the timing comes when Venezuela is planning parliamentary elections on December 6. The European Union (EU) had been invited to observe the elections by the Venezuelan government but has used the report to refuse the offer. Instead, the EU along with the U.S. has called for a boycott of the elections in direct interference with the internal affairs of a sovereign country. Likewise, Secretary General of the Washington-based Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, used the report as an excuse to deny the legitimacy of the elections even before they are held.
All this is concert with the U.S. government’s long-term effort at regime change in Venezuela, which has set bounties on the heads of top elected Venezuelan officials while selecting Juan Guaidó as the unelected president of the country. U.S. Secretary of Defense Pompeo recently toured Latin America to discuss military intervention in Venezuela by hostile countries. New U.S. troops have been sent to Colombia on Venezuela’s western border. On the eastern border, the U.S. is conducting joint military patrols with Guyana.
Inside Venezuela, mercenaries based in Colombia staged an incursion of the Venezuelan coast in May. More recently, heavily armed U.S. mercenary Matthew John Heath was captured before he could sabotage Venezuelan power facilities.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Fourth Fleet patrols Venezuela’s Caribbean coast, and the US has permanent land military bases surrounding Venezuela in Colombia, Aruba, and Curacao. This is in addition to a multi-national U.S.-led naval armada deployed this spring under the ruse of interdicting drugs.
Over-arching all this are punishing U.S. and EU sanctions – unilateral coercive measures, illegal under U.S., OAS, and international law – causing great suffering in Venezuela. There is a humanitarian crisis in Venezuela. But it is not due to human rights violations by the elected government. The Independent Mission human rights report blames the victim for the intended consequences of U.S. imperialist blockade and other forms of warfare against the people of Venezuela.
The U.S. Peace Council strongly condemns the politically biased and motivated Independent Mission report and calls for ending of all unilateral coercive measures by the U.S. and its allies, ceasing the US blockade, and respecting the sovereignty of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
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*See this analysis by Mision Verdad for a detailed deconstruction of the Independent Mission report.
