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By Daniel Larison

When Trump said he was considering a blockade of Venezuela yesterday, it was possible to dismiss it as a meaningless statement that would have no policy implications. Unfortunately, Trump seems to have meant what he said:

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It sounds like the Trump administration is moving towards military intervention against Venezuela after all. Ever since the failed would-be coup at the end of April, it seemed as if Trump had written off Venezuela and had turned his attention elsewhere. Now it appears that the U.S. could begin imposing a military blockade of the country in the coming months. The humanitarian implications of a blockade alone make it completely unjustifiable. Set aside for a moment the fact that blockading Venezuela serves no U.S. interests and would have no international legitimacy or support, and just consider that it would speed up and exacerbate a likely famine that our government’s sanctions have already hastened. Blockading a country suffering from a major economic and humanitarian crisis would be criminal, and it would inflict even more misery and death on tens of millions of innocent people….

2nd anniversary of Charlottesville Impeach Trump for Hate Crimes

This rally & vigil takes on special meaning for us in Baltimore after Trump’s vile racist remarks about our city — maybe its time to clean out the rat infested White House! Please bring “Impeach Trump for Racism” signs. This will also be a perfect opportunity for us to demonstrate our support for the courageous women: Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez and Ayana Pressley against the bigoted anti-woman racist attacks.

We will also give special time for the announcement by “ICE out of Baltimore” which is seeking to stop the building of a new detention center, shutting down the existing detention centers and linking this to a call to end the prison industrial complex.

If you or your organization would like to endorse this protest please message us or call/text 410-218-4835

THE NATIONAL CALL:

𝗢𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘃𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲 (𝗔𝘂𝗴. 𝟭𝟬-𝟭𝟭), 𝗮 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿: 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝗪𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗰𝘆 – 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗛𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀!

We hold in our hearts the memory of anti-racist activist Heather Heyer and the dozens injured by the fascists in Charlottesville, including Deandre Harris, a 20-year-old Black man, who was beaten with metal poles in a parking lot by a fascist gang, putting him in the hospital. While it was a Nazi thug who murdered Heather, it is the bigot-in-chief Donald Trump, endorser of the “very fine” Nazi and Klan scum, who has enshrined their genocidal ideology as his national policy against the disabled, the LGBTQ+ community, and all People of Color.

Migrants at our southern border, who are “engaged in a federally protected activity” of seeking asylum, are having their babies ripped from their parents arms, their children kidnapped and placed in cages, women forced to drink out of toilets. Cages are so crowded that no one can even lie on the floor. Food, soap, even toothbrushes are denied them, all on the orders from Trump because of their “race” and “national origin.” This meets the very definition of a federal hate crime multiplied thousands of times.

Trump is showing off his brutality “stripes” to his rich friends on Wall Street, to show them how tough he’ll be to those who oppose their cutbacks, like the dismantling of Obamacare. We’re supposed to fight over the scraps that they grant us. That’s why they’ve poured more than $100 million into Trump’s re-election campaign. We demand that Congress immediately impeach Trump for hate crimes and dump his whole gang of rich bigots!

We ask that organizations who agree with this message organize and publicize an activity within their community on these dates. Message us to have your group’s name added to this call.

Sponsors:
Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice (MECAWI)
Moratorium NOW! Coalition
Wisconsin Bail Out The People Movement
Peoples Alliance – Bay Area
In Defense of Our Lives
Peoples Power Assembly
Youth Against War and Racism

PHOTO CREDIT: EVAN CASEY

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More than 100 protesters shut down the Milwaukee Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building Thursday morning August 1. Protesters marched around the office in efforts to stop ICE agents from leaving to carry out raids and detentions in the area.

Twenty-two Wisconsin Jewish leaders stood in front of the entrances and exits of the building, effectively shutting the building down for a time. This is being done as part of the “Never Again Is Now” movement across the country. Just last Tuesday, protesters in Minneapolis effectively blocked exits at an ICE Detention Center court.

Over 30 other actions across the United States will also, or already have, taken place.

“Our whole lives we were taught, ‘You shall not stand idly by,’” said Rabbi Laurie Zimmerman of Congregation Shaarei Shamayim in Madison, one of the organizers of Thursday’s action. “We refuse to remain silent when migrants face inhumane treatment. We refuse to remain silent when they are forced into filthy, overcrowded detention centers and deprived of basic rights.

The office, located at 310 East Knapp Street in Downtown Milwaukee, is also home to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office. Protesters marched from Cathedral Square Park to the building. They then held signs, sang, and sat or stood – blocking the entrances for hours.

Sheila Plotkin, a Jewish woman who came from Madison for the rally, said this is an issue that resonates with her.

“I believe in individual action, I believe in democracy, and that’s what this is and we’re losing it. We’re losing it quickly and I’m here to say no,” she said.

Potkin has family members who were lost in the Holocaust.

“We have to learn from our history. We cannot repeat it,” she added.

Ari Bloomekatz helped organize the protest. He said what excited him about the protest is that it was organized by a large group of individuals across the state.

“It’s very inter-generational,” he said. “This has, in many ways, really been a convening of the Jewish community across the state to make this happen.”

Voces De La Frontera and other community action groups were also present at the event.

The Never Again Is Now Wisconsin group further explained Thursday’s action with the following statement in a press release.

“Central to Jewish life is the concept of Tikkun olam, the responsibility to heal the world and pursue social justice. Jews are taught from an early age that to remain silent in the face of injustice is morally unacceptable. We know from bitter experience where the separation of families, the rounding up of people, and the creation of detention/concentration camps leads. We refuse to wait and see what happens next. We are putting our bodies on the line and risking arrest in memory of our loved ones whose families were broken up, whose lives were stolen, and because when we say never again, we mean never again for anyone.We take action now to stop the breaking up of families and the deportation of immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers and to demand that ICE be shut down.”

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2nd Anniversary of Charlottesville: Act Against White Supremacy

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𝗢𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘃𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲 (𝗔𝘂𝗴. 𝟭𝟬-𝟭𝟭), 𝗮 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿: 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝗪𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗰𝘆 – 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗛𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀!

_____EVENT TIMES_____
Protest at Houdini Plaza: August 10 2pm central time
Vigil at Houdini Plaza: August 10 7pm central time

We hold in our hearts the memory of anti-racist activist Heather Heyer and the dozens injured by the fascists in Charlottesville. While it was a Nazi thug who murdered Heather, it is the bigot-in-chief Donald Trump, endorser of the “very fine” Nazi and Klan scum, who has enshrined their genocidal ideology as his national policy against the disabled, the LGBTQ+ community, and all People of Color.

Migrants at our southern border, who are “engaged in a federally protected activity” of seeking asylum, are having their babies ripped from their parents arms, their children kidnapped and placed in cages, women forced to drink out of toilets. Cages are so crowded that no one can even lie on the floor. Food, soap, even toothbrushes are denied them, all on the orders from Trump because of their “race” and “national origin.” This meets the very definition of a federal hate crime multiplied thousands of times.

Trump is showing off his brutality “stripes” to his rich friends on Wall Street, to show them how tough he’ll be to those who oppose their cutbacks, like the dismantling of Obamacare. We’re supposed to fight over the scraps that they grant us. That’s why they’ve poured more than $100 million into Trump’s re-election campaign. We demand that Congress immediately impeach Trump for hate crimes and dump his whole gang of rich bigots!

We ask that organizations who agree with this message organize and publicize an activity within their community on these dates. Message us to have your group’s name added to this call.

Main event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2729618263733359/?event_time_id=2729618270400025

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Superior/Duluth Pride Letters to Prisoners

Since Pride is at the end of August and in September, we thought it appropriate to write to marginialized LGBTQIAplus folx. These folx are constantly suffering sexual, physical, and mental harrasment. We write letters to folx in solidarity on this side of the wall!

Superior Save the Kids is a chapter of Dismantle the School to Prison Pipeline-Save the Kids. We have projects for Formerly Incarcerated peers, community activism, food justice, and in soldarity with hunger strikers such as Cesar De Leon
We are a group of activists, community organizers, students, and academics trying to end criminalizing detention of youth. Our main goals is education and organize around police murder of youth, decarceration of criminally-involved youth, and transformative justice.
Our main project is Letters to Prisoners which emphasizes solidarity over charity. We have special meetings to highlight Holidays, Mothers, Fathers, Trans folx, and Valentines events. This is a great and easy project to send communication to someone on the other side of the prison wall. Letters make sure incarcerated folks are not left in the shadows of America’s gulags.

Monday, Aug. 5, 7pm

5920 Second Ave., (at Antoinette, one block north of I-94)
Detroit 48202

You are invited to a special weekly organizing meeting of Moratorium NOW Coalition and MECAWI where Julia Kassem will report on her recent trip to Cuba with the 50th Venceremos Brigade. Julia has studied in the Lebanon for the past year and will also discuss the political situation in the Middle East from a revolutionary perspective. Julia is a leader in the U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) and has worked with community groups in Detroit organizing against the massive property tax foreclosures in our great city.

On Fcebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/637709863387933/