Global Climate Strike Planning Meeting

30 W Mifflin, #702, Madison, 7-9 P.M.

School strikers are calling on everyone: young people, parents, workers, and all concerned citizens to join massive climate strikes and a week of actions starting on September 20.

People all over the world will use their power to stop “business as usual” in the face of the climate emergency. We will join young people in the streets to demand an end to the age of fossil fuels and emergency action to avoid climate breakdown.

With less than 12 hours to the strike launch, meet us in Room 702 of 30 W. Mifflin St. to finish last details for the morning. For more information write to: GlobalClimateStrikeMadison@gmail.com

The Electronic Intifada

CTU at City Budget Hearings

CTU will be leafleting this Saturday, Sept 14, at Clemente High School, 1147 N. Western Avenue. The City of Chicago has scheduled a City Budget Town Hall from 9 am – 11 am at Clemente.

Please join CTU members starting at 8:30 a.m. as we leaflet outside and testify inside the Budget Town Hall. We plan to call attention to the Lincoln Yards TIF scandal, as a recent Chicago Tribune article exposed why Mayor Rahm Emanuel rushed through the Lincoln Yards TIF district, which is worth $1.3 billion in taxpayer payouts to developers. The reason is, that if they had waited another 6 weeks, the rising property tax assessments in “blighted” Lincoln Park would have disqualified Lincoln Yards from TIF approval.

We plan to show our strong condemnation of the choice to give away $1.3 billion in taxpayer money to developers in Lincoln Park, at the same time that Chicago Public Schools are refusing to choose to invest in school nurses, librarians, social workers, counselors, and paraprofessionals for Chicago students.

Sign up at ctulocal1.org/budget click on west side, and scroll down to sign up!

Fight for Music for ALL in MPS!

LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD! MUSIC MATTERS!

We need as many teachers, students, parents and community advocates to come out to this LRP school board committee meeting and speak for two minutes on the importance of music education equity for all students in MPS! We want to hear from diverse voices, including those who attend or teach at schools that do not currently offer music.

More info at:
http://tinyurl.com/musicinmps

Currently, there are only 68 music teachers in the entire district, one for every 1,120 students in MPS. There are tens of thousands of students who have little or no access to music education delivered by certified educators. Site-based budgeting creates serious equity issues between schools, which has led to unfilled positions, especially in the poorest areas of our city. We want to see that change and we need the arts
community of Milwaukee to join us in insisting on quality music education for all students in the district.

The Milwaukee Music Educators Association has proposed to the school board an official Policy and Procedure for Music Education in MPS that provides accountability to the district to ensure equitable access to comprehensive music education for all students taught by certified music educators!

MTEA Members Will Fight for Climate Justice!

MTEA elected leaders passed a resolution calling on Milwaukee education workers to take steps to address the growing climate crisis and to support the ongoing organizing by our students around the issue. The resolution encourages us all to take steps to educate, advocate and activate ourselves and others in the fight for climate justice:

“Whereas we the members of the agree with the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that we have just eleven years to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions by 50% before the damage is irreversible

And whereas we support Greta Thunberg’s and other youth climate activists across the globe including Rufus King student and Youth Climate Action Team Executive Director Ayanna Lee, for a climate strike on September 20th to call attention to this global crisis.

We support the call to action for all educators to participate in and support the following actions:

• The Art Build 4 Climate Strike on September 15th at Kenilworth Studios (1915 E. Kenilworth Pl.) from 10 to 6 p.m. to make signs and banners for the strike. Art Build 4 Climate Strike

• MTEA members organizing a “climate assembly” in their individual schools in conjunction with the Global Climate strike as an opportunity to call attention to the issue inside and outside of our school buildings. Schools will receive a statement that can be read at the assembly as well as other resources to allow students to begin learning about climate change and what they can do about it.

• The Milwaukee Climate Strike!! organized by Youth Climate Action Team to take place beginning at City Hall, marching to Water Tower Park at 11:00 followed by a rally, speeches, letter writing, food, music and celebration at North Point Park.

• The march and rally organized by 350.org to take place on Saturday, September 21st. 12:00 – 1:00 Meet at Milwaukee County Court House 1:00 – 3:00 | March and Rally
* March from the County Court House down Wells St., past the State office Building, to Milwaukee City Hall.

• Any future actions to support the work of environmental activists who are working to stop climate change as it will disproportionately affect the most vulnerable in our society.”

#ClimateStrike

Coalition for Peace in Colombia

Colombian President Iván Duque, with his mentors, Álvaro Uribe and U.S. President Trump must Fulfill their obligations to the Peace Accord & End the genocide against the social movements and rural, indigenous, and Afro-Colombian communities.

CLOSEmsdf September Picket

901 N 9th Street, 11:30 A.M. – 1:30 P.M. (Milwaukee County Courthouse)

Why do we picket?
1. To educate people on the inhumane conditions at MSDF.
2. To memorialize the 18 people who have died in MSDF since it opened.
3. To let WI taxpayers know that each day someone spends in MSDF for a crimeless rule violation costs us $100.84 vs $40 to treat that person in the community where their job, housing & support systems stay secure.
4. To hold Governor Tony Evers to his campaign promises. He told the Journal Sentinel he thinks MSDF should close “as soon as possible”. It is possible right now, and he can do it himself, with a few just and necessary policy changes.

End Prison Slavery

Film Screening and Conversation

What: Film / Panel / Opportunities for Activism
Date: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 
Location: La Verna Commons, Alverno College
Time: 3-7 pm. Film Screening will be at 4 pm.
Cost: FREE (plus provided snacks!)

Voces is proud to host this special film screening and community dialogue surrounding issues pertaining to students, DACA, and progressive actions that Voces is taking in the state of Wisconsin. There will also be a panel of local experts to discuss the unique challenges DACAmented students face attending college.

Description of the film The Unafraid below:

“The Unafraid is a feature-length documentary that follows the personal lives of three DACAmented students in Georgia, a state that has banned undocumented and students receiving Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) from attending their top five public universities and disqualifies them from receiving in-state tuition at any other public college.

Shot over a period of four years, this film takes an intimate look at the lives of Alejandro, Silvia and Aldo and the obstacles they face in their home state when trying to go to college. This is also a story about family and community and the systemic challenges faced by the working poor and undocumented in the Deep South.”