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On Sunday, August 18, at 10AM Pacific Time, 11AM Mountain, Noon Central, and 1pm Eastern Time, there will be an online meeting, also accessible by phone, with the goal of forming a new North American Coalition for Peace in Colombia. We invite all those who are interested to participate.

If you would like more information, please send an email to JAMES@AFGJ.ORG with your name and affiliation, and we will send you information on how you can attend.
We are most powerful when we are united together. Today, in Colombia, our friends and comrades need the power of an international solidarity movement that is united with them against the humanitarian crisis they are facing. Because of U.S. policies, social leaders are being killed on an almost daily basis. Corporate media ignores the crisis. Instead, Colombia is presented as a model of democracy even while the country is converted into the Latin American center for threats against Venezuela and popular movements and governments throughout the region.

Therefore, we say that “Peace for Colombia is peace for the world!” We know that a just, peaceful, and sovereign Colombia would have a positive and liberating impact far beyond its borders.

In preparation for this meeting, activists from grass roots organizations across the U.S. and Canada have formulated the following Points of Unity for the proposed coalition:

North American Coalition for Peace in Colombia
Points of Unity

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Rally to Save the VA at the Milwaukee VA, August 13, 2019

More info on the AFGE campaign to save the VA: https://www.facebook.com/afgeunion/

Veterans For Peace Milwaukee: https://www.facebook.com/MilwaukeeVetsforPeace/

More Photos of August 13, 2019 Rally: https://www.facebook.com/wibailoutpeople.org/

https://www.afge.org/

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Listen to the Sun. Aug. 11, 2019 edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azkiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. The program features our regular PANW report with dispatches on two statements of solidarity issued by the South African Communist Party (SACP) related to the role of United States towards the Republic of Cuba and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela; Angola and Kenya are discussing the potential for enhancing their economic relations; a number of African leaders have witnessed the signing of a peace agreement between the ruling FRELIMO party in Mozambique and its longtime adversaries of RENAMO; finally an editorial published in the Zimbabwe Sunday Mail says that the Chimurenga spirit is alive and well inside this Southern African state. In the second and third hours we begin a monthlong focus on Black August, a commemoration of the resistance history of African people from slavery and colonialism to settler-colonialism, imperialism and neo-colonialism. We look back at the Haitian Revolution from 1791-1804 through the lens of Caribbean-born historian CLR James. Later we reexamine the role of British imperialism in the spread of slavery and colonialism.

https://fighting-words.net/2019/08/11/demonstrations-surround-democratic-debates-in-detroit/

By Abayomi Azikiwe
On July 30 and 31 the attention of the national media in the United States was focused on the Fox Theater in downtown Detroit where 20 Democratic Party candidates for the presidency debated various issues presented to them by anchors from the Cable News Network (CNN).

What went largely unmentioned by CNN and other corporate and government-sponsored media outlets were the events taking place in the surrounding blocks near the debate venue.

On Tuesday July 30, several organizations led by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), along with a number of environmental and social justice groups, held a rally at Cass Park beginning four hours before the commencement of the first night of the debate. SEIU workers began to arrive before 4:00 pm in buses from cities as far away from Detroit as Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Cleveland, Chicago, Flint, among other municipalities.

The members wore t-shirts which said “Unions for All.” The SEIU organizes low-wage employees such as janitors, security guards, restaurants and fast food workers.
Speakers from the podium discussed issues involving the need for a $15 per hour minimum wage and the right to union representation for the purposes of collective bargaining. Other speakers were invited by a coalition of largely non-profit organizations known as “Frontline Detroit.”

Sunrise, a nationwide group said to have been inspired by the newly-elected New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, had in conjunction with SEIU, put together the alliance which sponsored the rally. An entry on the Sunrise website says of the group that:

“We’re building an army of young people to make climate change an urgent priority across America, end the corrupting influence of fossil fuel executives on our politics, and elect leaders who stand up for the health and well being of all people…. We are not looking to the right or left. We look forward. Together, we will change this country and this world, sure as the sun rises each morning.”

Many of the rally participants held signs calling for the implementation of the “Green New Deal”, a campaign which in broad generalities proposes the conversion of some aspects of the productive capacity in the U.S. to environmentally safe industries curbing the utilization of fossil fuels, a major component in the rapid process of climate change. Nonetheless, there were no specific demands from the July 30 rally proponents of the “Green New Deal” urging the transformation of the U.S. economy from capitalism to socialism, a prerequisite for genuine change towards social equality, the economic empowerment of working people and the nationally oppressed….

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9416 Northwestern Avenue, Franksville, WI 9 A.M. – 5 P.M. – Caledonia-Mt. Pleasant Memorial Park 

Join us for Racine’s annual Labor Fest!

Please bring 3 non perishable food items for the Racine County Food Bank. This will entitle you to a one free food plate and two free drinks (beer or soda).

We will have local electeds and candidates in attendance.

Car Show!!!
9-1:30
Awards given to the 3 top voter getters
Registration is free

September 20, 2019, three days before the United Nations Climate Action Summit in NYC, young people and adults will strike all across the world, including the United States, to demand transformative action be taken to address the climate crisis. Millions of us will take the streets with and in support of our youth, to demand a right to a future, and we’re inviting you, our amazing Climate Mamas and Papas to #strikewithus

Find a strike near you to attend on September 20th. If you don’t see an event in your area, organize one!

Whether you’re 7 or 107, you’re invited to join the movement.”

On September 20th, Climate Mamas and Papas from around the world will be standing beside, behind, and in front of our children – wherever needed – to show the world we understand clearly our climate emergency and that we must take decisive action now.

New York youth released the following statement on August 8th, 2019. Stay tuned and learn more about what is happening in your own community. Go to StrikewithUs and sign up to join a strike in your area or create one if there isn’t one already.

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Sponsored by the Fox Valley Area Labor Council to celebrate Fox Valley workers and their families.

FREE ADMISSION – PUBLIC WELCOME

10 am PARADE Racine/Broad St Menasha to Downtown Neenah
11 am – 5 pm FESTIVAL outside Neenah Labor Temple, 57 S Green Bay Rd. Neenah

LIVE MUSIC
12 – 5:00 TIME MACHINE BAND https://www.facebook.com/Time-Machine-Band-708703976181090/https://www.facebook.com/Time-Machine-Band-708703976181090/

FOOD, BEVERAGES, RAFFLES, FAMILY FUN