Milwaukee, October 1, 2019: Community Town Hall Regarding Ascension St. Joseph Hospital

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Please join us October 1, from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm at Wisconsin Black Historical Society, 2620 W. Center St. for a TOWN HALL hosted by the St. Joe’s Accountability Coalition-SJAC.
We will share the results of our COMMUNITY SURVEY regarding services at St. Joseph Hospital and we will call on Ascension Health leadership to negotiate a COMMUNITY BENEFIT AGREEMENT with specific, enforceable commitments for the future of this important healthcare resource.
Come join the community effort to ensure quality accessible healthcare, greater investment, and family sustaining jobs for Milwaukee’s north side.
SJAC is a coalition of community groups and unions committed to ensuring that St. Joseph Hospital – and its corporate parent Ascension Health – live up to their obligations as nonprofit institutions. SJAC believes that St. Joe’s must not only provide healthcare services that address the community’s pressing health needs, but also be a high-road employer, a responsive community partner, and a responsible local business.
SJAC formed in 2018 to fight Ascension’s plan to close St. Joe’s. The coalition includes Metcalfe Park Community Bridges, African American Roundtable, Black Leaders Organizing for Communities, Sherman Park Community Association, Wisconsin Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals, Milwaukee Area Service and Hospitality Workers Organization, and Citizen Action of Wisconsin.
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WORT Madison, Community Radio @ 89.9 FM

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WORT FM

Noncommercial radio & webcast emanating from Madison to South Central Wisconsin via broadcast, & available worldwide through online streaming and archives. We provide an outlet for communication, education, free expression, entertainment, training and access for the purpose of sharing musical and cultural experiences. Please visit our website at www.wortfm.org for information on how to submit news tips or music, get in touch with the music or news departments, volunteer for WORT, contact individual program hosts, etc.

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Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Passes Solidarity Resolution Supporting UAW Members On Strike at GM

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Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU)

In a unanimous vote of the delegates to the ATU Convention transit workers pledged their support for the UAW strike of General Motors! #solidarity #ATU

ATU INTERNATIONAL MOBILIZES TO JOIN UAW PICKET LINES!

The Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) represents over 200,000 working families in the United States and Canada.

Yesterday, over 640 delegates at our convention voted unanimously to mobilize solidarity trips to United Auto Workers (UAW) strike picket lines.

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…SOLIDARITY TRIPS TO UAW PICKET LINES

September 25, 2019

WHEREAS, 49,000 United Auto Worker (UAW) families are currently on strike for good healthcare and a fair contract; and

WHEREAS, a win this big for labor will have ripple effects throughout the labor movement; and

WHEREAS, ATU members’ putting our bodies at the front lines of the first major national industrial strike in a generation will have a transformative effect on our union;

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that our International President will urge International Vice Presidents and International Staff to coordinate with Local Unions across the United States and Canada to organize trips of ATU members and supporters to UAW picket lines; and

FURTHER, BE IT RESOLVED, that where possible, we will organize solidarity collections of money or food to help our UAW brothers and sisters sustain and win this fight; and

FURTHER, BE IT RESOLVED, that we will record and document these solidarity actions and make them very public in an effort to help build our UAW brothers’ and sisters’ morale as well as to help win the national public relations battle between UAW and GM.”

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GM thinks they can starve workers into submission. They underestimate the power of solidarity. We urgently need help from rank-and-file workers, leaders, and activists.

If you are a GM-UAW worker, retiree or leader, please contact your nearest ATU local union (see list below) and invite us to join you as a group at your picket line!

If you are an ATU worker, retiree, supporter or leader, contact your local union and offer to help organize buses or caravans to UAW picket lines. Please also contact ATU International.

We urgently need pictures and video of ATU workers and supporters (in ATU shirts or carrying ATU signs) at picket lines, GM dealerships, etc. Pictures, videos and press conferences of ATU standing with UAW is also very useful to our national public relations battle with GM. Please send images to your nearest ATU local, the UAW, and also the field mobilization department of ATU International.

ATU local union contact info list: https://www.atu.org/union/directory

List of UAW picket lines https://www.labornotes.org/…/lend-hand-heres-list-general-m…

Uaw contacts by region: https://uaw.org/regions/uaw-detroit-offices/

Your fight is our fight! An injury to one is an injury to all!

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Madison, October 13, 2019: “The War at Home: Then & Now” Documentary Screening

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40th Anniversary Benefit Screening of The War at Home

One-Night-only, 40th Anniversary Screening of the Academy Award Nominated feature documentary The War at Home.

Time: 6 p.m. on Sunday, October 13, 2019

Place: The Orpheum Theater, 216 State St., Madison.

Benefit: All the funds raised will go to The Progressive, Inc. (a 501c3 non-profit).

Co-Director Glenn Silber will be in attendance to introduce the film and participate in a panel discussion on the lessons and legacy of the Antiwar Movement – “The War at Home: Then & Now” followed by a panel

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Fifty years ago, activists across the country spoke out against the war.

“The Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam” was a massive demonstration and teach-in across the United States (including 15,000 demonstrating in Madison and several Wisconsin cities) against the United States involvement in the Vietnam War. It took place on October 15, 1969, followed a month later by the National Moratorium in Washington on Nov. 15, 1969, attracted more than 500,000 antiwar protesters, which many active-duty GIs in Vietnam supported.

These events are among the many important events of the Antiwar Movement documented in the film The War at Home.

The War at Home had its World Premiere at the Majestic Theater in Madison on October 12, 1979. Last year, the film was restored from its original 16mm format to a new 4K Digital Cinema Package (DCP) and had its 4K “premiere” at the 2018 New York Film Festival.

The NYFF Film Festival listing read as follows:

The War at Home Directors Glenn Silber and Barry Alexander Brown, USA, 1979, 100 min. A Catalyst Media Productions release.

This meticulously constructed 1979 film recounts the development of the movement against the American war in Vietnam on the Madison campus of the University of Wisconsin, from 1963 to 1970. Using carefully assembled archival and news footage and thoughtful interviews

with many of the participants, it culminates in the 1967 Dow Chemical sit-in and the bombing of the Army Math Research Center three years later.

One of the great works of American documentary movie making, The War at Home has also become a time capsule of the moment of its own making, a welcome emanation from the era of analog editing, and a timely reminder of how much power people have when they take to the streets in protest.

For more information on the Oct. 13, 2019 Benefit Screening Contact: Norman Stockwell at The Progressive at 608-257-4626.

Tickets available at the Orpheum Theater box office and online through Ticketmaster.

40th Anniversary Benefit Screening of The War at Home

For info on this award-winning film go to: www.TheWarAtHome.tv

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#CLOSETHECAMPS OCTOBER 11-14, 2019 NATIONWIDE ACTIONS

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Stop the War on Immigrants

A Call to Action on October 12 Weekend

From the day he took office, Donald Trump escalated a failed and cruel immigration policy into an all-out war against immigrants, banning Muslims, slamming the door on refugees, tearing children from their parents’ arms.

Each new affront has been met with outrage and protest, but even when he has retreated, Trump has sought new lines of attack: concentration camps, workplace raids, new bars to green cards and citizenship.

Meanwhile many immigrants are being terrorized in their own communities, afraid to answer the door, take children to school, or go to work. These communities need to see and feel the solidarity of the majority that stands with them.

We call on all those who oppose the raids, family separation, deportations and incarceration to unite against this reign of racist persecution.

It is time to say, “¡Basta Ya!” Enough is enough!

This Indigenous Peoples’ Day weekend let us act together –whether with a march, vigil, rally or direct action– against those who would give us a future of division and white supremacist hate.

It’s only fitting to have these actions on Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Many immigrants crossing the border are indigenous and are not given proper translators in their indigenous languages. The current colonial border between the U.S. and Mexico were imposed upon Indigenous Peoples on both sides. They didn’t cross the border, the border crossed them and no one is illegal on stolen land!

Let us unite in broad regional coalitions drawing together people of faith, unions, anti-racist fighters and other progressives to target camps, jails, shelters or other parts of Trump’s anti-immigrant, deportation machinery.

Let us act in the knowledge that no human being is illegal anywhere, not least in a country formed through violent colonialism.

Most of all let us open our arms to immigrants in our country or at our borders with a greeting of friendship:

Mi casa es tu casa.
Our home is also your home.

Madison, October 1, 2019: Organizing Meeting for National Day of Action

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Organizing Meeting for National Day of Action

201 E Mifflin Street, Central Library, Madison Public Library, 6 – 7:30 P.M. 

Join the Madison chapter of the Coalition to Close the Concentration Camps as we organize to bring people to Chicago on Oct 13 for the National Day of Action against the immigrant detention camps and those who profit off of them.

On Oct 13, thousands in Chicago will march against ICE and against the Amazon headquarters. Amazon provides ICE with software and with digital storage and makes millions each year on these contracts, profiting off of the terror and violence that ICE inflicts on immigrant communities across the US.

Other actions are talking place across the US, at other ICE offices, at other tech companies that profit off of the deportation machine, and at concentration camps.

We will have a bus leaving from Madison on Oct 13 to go to Chicago to participate in the actions there. This meeting is to organize our plan for the event and how to get more people to Chicago.

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