https://www.facebook.com/WICNRC

https://wicuba.wordpress.com/

Oct. 8, Tuesday, 7 PM, WI Coalition to Normalize Relations with Cuba, monthly meeting to discuss the dire situation and suffering of the Cuban people with the increased US sanctions and blockade. Central United Methodist Church, 639 N 25th St (at Wisconsin Ave.)

The Wisconsin Coalition to Normalize Relations with Cuba consists of both organizations and individuals who have come together based on the following points of unity and principles. We hope you will join us based on the following principles:

We support the normalization of relations with Cuba.

We oppose any policy of our government designed to increase the misery of the Cuban people in order to obtain political gain.

We oppose the ban on travel to Cuba; and the recently intensified U.S. economic embargo, which has restricted even food and medicine, and discouraged third countries that seek to trade with Cuba.

We support and encourage increased person-to-person contact between the U.S. and Cuba, such as through religious, union, professional, and cultural organizations. U.S. businesses should be allowed to trade with Cuba on the basis of mutual benefit.

We especially seek to overcome the artificial barriers dividing African-Americans in the U.S. from people in Cuba, where a vibrant Afro-Cuban culture continues to thrive.

We also seek to particularly involve and promote activities by area residents of Latin American and Caribbean origin, so they may freely relate to our brothers and sisters in Cuba and help relieve their suffering in the current period.

The coalition is non-partisan and non-sectarian. It is not affiliated with and does not support any political party or candidate.

We do not presume to tell the people of Cuba what political or economic system they should adopt; that is their decision, on behalf of a sovereign nation with the right of self-determination.

The coalition may share and forward information on related activities challenging the embargo that we, as a coalition, have not formally endorsed (such as study tours, and challenges to U.S. restrictions).

Next meeting will be Sept. 18, 2019 at 7 PM

Peace Action Center, 1001 E Keefe Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53212

414-269-9525,  info@peaceactionwi.org

• March from the County Court House down Wells St., past the State office Building, to Milwaukee City Hall (.9 miles)
• Community Open Mic.  There will be speakers (students, activists, representatives, etc.), musicians, poetry reading, and more.

Green Bay Climate Strike!
Friday, September 20, 2019, 3 PM – 6 PM
301 N Washington St, Green Bay, WI 

This September, millions of us will walk out of our workplaces, schools, and homes to join youth climate strikers on the streets and demand an end to the age of fossil fuels.

Our house is one fire — let’s act like it. We demand climate justice for everyone. In the words of Greta Thunberg, “We must now do the impossible.”

Strikers from Marinette to Green Bay are demanding that Governor Evers, our county, and our city government declare a climate emergency.

Can’t strike? Protest in solidarity by disrupting the status quo and striking for 11 minutes to symbolize our looming deadline. Teachers, students, employees, kids, and many more will walk out in solidarity in this crucial climate movement.

Questions: general@ycatwi.org
Press: press@ycatwi.org

Friday September 27, 2019
No Bank Rally on Friday September 20th
12:00 – 1:30 pm

Chase & Wells Fargo Banks
12:00 – 12:45pm
Wisconsin Ave. at Water St.

Chase & Wells Fargo are the 1st & 2nd LARGEST 
funders of Fossil Fuel companies in the WORLD!
We’ll have signs and banners, but feel free to bring your own

At 12:45 we march to City Hall to:
Support “Fridays for Future”
(YCAT Student Climate Protest)
12:45 – 1:30pm
Milwaukee City Hall

https://www.struggle-la-lucha.org/2019/09/12/hong-kong-make-colonialism-great-again/https://www.struggle-la-lucha.org/2019/09/12/hong-kong-make-colonialism-great-again/

Sept. 10 — It is a thoroughly reactionary development when demonstrators carrying U.S. flags march through a city asking the most hated imperialist figure, Donald Trump, to come to their aid. But that is what is happening in Hong Kong.

Despite all the claims in the capitalist press about the demonstrators being advocates of “democracy” and “freedom,” they have embraced a political figure who has locked immigrant children in cages after separating them from their families.

They have called for aid from a president who has called for Muslims to be banned from the U.S. They have embraced a vile racist who has called African nations and Haiti “shithole” countries. Trump has called Mexicans rapists and criminals. What can be the political mentality of demonstrators who would ask for help from a racist bigot in the name of “democracy”?

It is the mentality of capitalist greed.

Donald Trump is trying to low-key the demonstrations because he wants to de-escalate a trade war with the People’s Republic of China (PRC). He is afraid that the trade war will trigger an economic downturn in the U.S. And an economic downturn will hurt his chances of re-election in 2020.

But Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, the China hawks in Trump’s administration and the CIA, did not get the memo. And if they did, Trump is playing soft cop in this scenario.

Washington and the mainstream media outlets are going all out to foment a full-scale pro-imperialist rebellion, basically demanding independence for Hong Kong. They hope to prolong the demonstrations in order to embarrass the PRC on the 70th anniversary of the Chinese Revolution on Oct. 1. But the strategic goal of the Trump administration is to back the PRC into a corner and provoke it to intervene in Hong Kong.

Washington and the Pentagon would like to create a small-scale version of the Tiananmen Square incident of 1989.

Washington hopes that this will give the entire worldwide propaganda apparatus of the imperialists a green light to open up a major anti-Chinese campaign and set the stage for hostilities or even war. Given the divisions in the imperialist camp and the growing weight of China as an economic power, however, it remains to be seen whether these plans can materialize. …

Hong Kong, Sept. 8, 2019

32BJ SEIU

32BJ SEIU janitors, who maintain nearly all of the region’s commercial office buildings, began negotiations yesterday for a new union contract with the Washington Service Contractors Association. The current contract expires on October 15. Notably, hundreds of janitors in Loudoun County, VA will bargain their first-ever union contract with 32BJ SEIU. Nearly 134,000 commercial janitors nationwide are bargaining for their livelihoods as part of what will be the nation’s large private sector contract bargaining of the year. “The economic development around the commercial real estate boom means there is more than enough wealth to ensure these workers are provided their fair share of the profits they help create,” said 32BJ SEIU Vice President Jaime Contreras. “This contract will prove whether the region’s prosperity will ever trickle down to move low-wage workers into the middle class.” Cleaners — most of whom work part-time, forcing them to take multiple jobs and still often not getting employer-paid health care — will be looking to expand full time jobs with benefits during this bargaining. photo: SEIU32BJ janitors in Miami

32BJ SEIU

Global Climate Strike: Wisconsin

This September, millions of us will walk out of our workplaces, schools, and homes to join you climate strikers on the streets and demand an end to the age of fossil fuels.

Our house is one fire — let’s act like it. It’s now time to rebel.

Both adults and young people alike need to take to the streets on September 20 to demand climate justice.

Can’t strike? Protest in solidarity by disrupting the status quo and striking for 11 minutes on September 20 to symbolize our looming deadline.

Flagship Strikes:
Madison: https://www.facebook.com/events/444295093093779/
Milwaukee: https://www.facebook.com/events/693776687701388/
La Crosse: https://www.facebook.com/events/361147151227652/
Appleton: https://www.facebook.com/events/473243190128356/
Ashland: https://www.facebook.com/events/400269883939953/

See ycatwi.org/sep20 for other strikes & more info on 11 minute strikes!