4-6 P.M. Riverside Park, Neenah, WI
Food Not Bombs monthly meeting, come join us for discussion about upcoming events and how we can support change in our community, plans for our future as a group, and talk about new ideas! Come as you are, all are welcome to join in even if this is your first meeting and you’ve never served or attended a meeting before. This month we will be meeting in the pavilion at Riverside Park in Neenah. See you then!
Love & Solidarity, FNBFV
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Build the People, Not the Jail!
We are winning! We have successfully pushed momentum to shift the board’s interest towards stopping the building of a new jail, but more work is needed. We have just a few weeks left to tell the county board to divest from systems of incarceration and invest in community.
Please join us on Monday, October 5 to tell the Personnel and Finance committee of the Dane County Board: No New Jail! There will be an opportunity to testify so please consider speaking in this virtual meeting. If you register to speak, you will be called at the number you provide. If you don’t feel comfortable speaking, you can still register your SUPPORT of Resolution 145, also known as the Doyle Resolution, which will effectively halt the construction of a new jail.
You can also email your own supervisor to relay this message or all supervisors at county_board_recipients@countyofdane.com.We will include the link to register for this meeting – either your support or your support and interest in testifying – when that link is available.
By Abayomi Azikiwe -Sep 24, 2020
Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo are issuing calls for damages rendered during European imperialist occupation joining efforts already underway across the continent and the Diaspora
During late August, the Central African state of Burundi appealed to the Belgian and German governments to pay reparations for the crimes committed during their colonial occupation of this country during the 19th and 20th centuries.
Burundi joins the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which had already spoken to the issue making similar claims on Belgium, the imperialist power which laid waste to the country from 1876 through the 1960s…
These developments in Africa, the Caribbean and among African Americans in the U.S. illustrate the convergence of these struggles to hold the racist systems of slavery, colonialism and neo-colonialism responsible for their crimes historically and in recent decades. African Americans are still consistently targeted by law-enforcement and vigilantes for brutality and assassination.
The existence of these complimentary demands provides even broader openings for international solidarity and organization. Only when there is a worldwide movement aimed at reversing the legacy of imperialism, will there be the possibility of creating a new international system based on genuine equality, self-determination and social justice.
By Abayomi Azikiwe
Editor, Pan-African News Wire, https://panafricannews.blogspot.com/
Wednesday September 23, 2020
Political Analysis
On September 24, 2010, the FBI raided five Minneapolis homes of peace activists and the handed out nine subpoenas for a Chicago Grand jury. The targets were suspected of providing material aid to foreign terrorist organizations. The charges would be ludicrous except under current circumstances they are deadly serious and dangerous. Here are the stories of some of the Minneapolis targets.In addition to the confiscated computers, phones, bank records the agents scooped up a knitting pattern, several t shirts, scarves plus the private papers of a recently deceased grandfather of one of the targets.
Dear friends,Henry Reeve was a 19-year-old American who left his home in Brooklyn, New York to join the Cuban struggle for liberation against the Spanish in the late 1800s. The Brigade named after him was inaugurated by the late Cuban leader Fidel Castro on September 19, 2005 after the US rejected an offer to send 1,500 Cuban doctors to provide assistance in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Instead, the Henry Reeve Brigade was redeployed to other countries in need, notably to help after a massive earthquake in Pakistan in October of that same year.Indian historian and journalist Vijay Prashad will be conversing with panelists about their experiences
Also actor and activist Danny Glover, with his long experience of working for peace and justice in Latin America and the Caribbean will share his thoughts about why he supports the Nobel Peace Prize for Cuba’s Henry Reeve Brigade.
In friendship,
Alicia Jrapko and Medea Benjamin Co-Chairs of the Cuba Nobel Prize Committee
Derision, Disbelief After Iowa Meatpacking Plant Where Hundreds Caught Coronavirus Fined Just $957
Iowa regulators on Thursday levied their first coronavirus-related fine against a meatpacking plant—a $957 citation for a minor record-keeping violation by a subsidiary of one of the nation’s biggest beef processing companies.
The Associated Press reports the Iowa Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued the citation to the Iowa Premium Beef Plant in Tama, where 338 of the facility’s 850 employees tested positive for Covid-19 during an April outbreak that produced one of the state’s first “hot spots.” That’s 80 more workers than the state previously acknowledged, according to inspection records.
Iowa OSHA announced on June 1 that it would investigate the Tama plant and four other meat processing facilities in the state where thousands of workers had tested positive for coronavirus. Records reviewed by the AP showed that none of the other plants were fined, despite at least nine Covid-19 deaths among them.
The other facilities that were investigated by the agency are Tyson Foods plants in Waterloo, Columbus Junction, and Perry, and the JBS plant in Marshalltown.
Iowa OSHA cited two “other-than-serious” violations committed by the Tama plant: failure to keep a required log of workplace-related injuries and illnesses, and failure to provide the document within four hours after inspectors requested it.
The fine was originally meant to be twice as high. However, Iowa OSHA Administrator Russell Perry approved a settlement with the company cutting the amount in half. Iowa Premium Beef—which last year was purchased by National Beef, the nation’s fourth-largest beef processor—also agreed to correct the violations…
Today, 23 September, a series of major Silicon Valley corporations – Zoom, Facebook and YouTube (Google) – joined hands with racist, right-wing, Zionist campaigns in an attempt to silence an academic event, “Whose Narratives? Gender, Justice, & Resistance: A conversation with Leila Khaled,” organized by Prof. Rabab Abdulhadi and Prof.
On Sept. 19, the newly formed New York City chapter of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression held a rally in Union Square Park to demand: “Stop police crimes! Withdraw federal troops! Community control now!” It was part of a national day of action called by the NAARPR.
Sana’a (GPA) – In a sign of deepening military ties, the United Arab Emirates has reportedly invited Israel to join its secretive occupation of Yemen’s remote Socotra island. The move is foremost a clear violation of Yemen’s sovereignty. Yet, the decision also signals a new era of polarization across theContinue Reading
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Please join the Milwaukee Area Labor Council as we come together to thank our Essential Union Workers who have continued to work during this pandemic. We demand protection for front-line workers while we also thank them for their service and loyalty to the job. We call it “We Thank You Wednesday” and will gather at different work sites to thank workers who have continued to show up to make life easier for our community.
This Wednesday we will show our support for delivery truck drivers at UPS and members of Teamsters Local 344 who have kept us connected throughout the pandemic.
Wednesday, September 30th
8am-9am
UPS in Oak Creek
6800 S. 6th Street, Oak Creek
There should be street parking along 6th Street by UPS.
We take the health and safety of our members seriously. For that reason, we require all those who join in We Thank You Wednesday’s show of support to wear masks and maintain social distancing rules of staying at least 6 feet apart during our rally.
If you have any questions, please contact jay@milwaukeelabor.org or emily@milwaukeelabor.org.
