Burgerville Workers Union

Morrisha has worked at Burgerville for 3 years and is currently 8 months pregnant. She is highly respected by her coworkers and has been a member of the BVWU for 3 years. On Wednesday, one day before she was scheduled to go on unpaid maternity leave, the day that 90% of workers filed for their union election, Burgerville suspended her for not wearing a name tag – without any chance to find her name tag or offer her a new one (managers regularly give workers new name tags without question). In the same conversation, her manager Matthew Pippin, told Morrisha that union members should be expecting different treatment from now on.

CLOSEmsdf Coalition Meeting

Join us on Tuesday, March, 19th at 6 pm to get involved with the efforts to decarcerate Milwaukee, #CLOSEmsdf, and #buildCOMMUNITIES. The #CLOSEmsdf Campaign is now over 50 organizations strong. Visit https://closemsdf.org/ for information.

Sign the #CLOSEmsdf petition at https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/its-time-to-close-milwaukee-secure-detention-facility-msdf.

Like us on facebook at CLOSEmsdf. Follow us on twitter at https://twitter.com/CLOSEmsdf.

The Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility (MSDF) is an irredeemable torture chamber. It represents how mass supervision fuels mass incarceration. It was built to warehouse people alleged to have violated rules of probation or parole – infractions like missing an appointment or being late for curfew. MSDF is taking lives and destroying communities.

It is time to #CLOSEmsdf.

Waukesha Membership Meeting / Junta de membresía de Waukesha

ENGLISH BELOW

ALERTA – La junta del viernes 1ro de marzo estará en Casa de Esperanza (410 Arcadian Ave) a las 6pm.

ALERT – The meeting for Friday, March 1st, will be in Casa de Esperanza, 410 Arcadian Ave, at 6pm.

Junta de membresía del capítulo de Waukesha
Cada otro viernes, 6pm

¡Acompáñanos para la próxima junta de membresía de nuestro capítulo en Waukesha! Platicaremos sobre nuestros esfuerzos para luchar por las licencias de conducir y contra las políticas anti-inmigrantes como el 287g. Tendremos las juntas de membresía cada 2 semanas.
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Waukesha Chapter Membership Meeting
Every other Friday, 6pm

Join us for the next membership meeting of our chapter in Waukesha! We will discuss our efforts to restore access to driver’s licenses to immigrants and the fight against anti-immigrant policies like 287g. We have membership meetings every two weeks.

No to NATO, War & Racism, Hands off Venezuela

A Call for National Mobilization to Oppose
NATO, War, and Racism and US intervention in Venezuela
April 4, 2019, will mark the 51st anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the internationally revered leader in struggles against racism, poverty and war.

‘Stand For Peace!’ January 26, 2019 Milwaukee, WI

*If you have security concerns do not rsvp on facebook*

Update:
Rally Schedule:
12:30pm – Arrive at Lafayette Sq.
1:00pm – Opening speakers
1:30pm – Picket Blair house where Bolsonaro is staying (also at Lafayette Sq)
2:00pm – Final speakers
2:30pm – Picket the White House
3:00pm – Wrap up
3:30pm – Permit section of the rally officially ended.

Speaker List will be announced shortly. We will have Brazilian speakers, environmental activist, trans activist, socialist organizers, anti-racist organizers, and others.

Greetings fellow anti-fascist!

The election of Donald Trump in 2016 has emboldened organized white nationalists and fascist gangs to take to the streets across the United States. These groups have organized attacks on immigrants, Muslims, Jews, people of color, LGBTQ folks, organized workers, and leftists in Charlottesville and across the US, and have encouraged individuals to engage in violent hate crimes. There is an urgent need to work together to stop the alarming rise of the ultra-right and fascists.

On March 17-19 neo-fascist and newly elected president of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro will arrive in Washington DC for a two day meeting with Donald Trump. The meeting of two heads of State from the largest economies and populations in the western hemisphere serves to bring undue legitimacy to both the Trump and Bolsonaro administrations. Currently we are experiencing a global rise of the far right based on nationalist rhetoric including scapegoating immigrants, Islamophobia, anti-environment, anti-worker policies and continued attacks on the oppressed and vulnerable. These attacks are happening both in the streets and inside governments. People of good standing must take it upon themselves to resist this global rise, DC United Against Hate recognizes the need to oppose fascism and far right hate both locally and internationally.

On March 17th DC United Against Hate a coalition of socialist organizations, anti-fascist activists, progressives and others call for a rally to oppose Bolsonaro’s visit to DC. We also wish show support and solidarity with those in the international community resisting far right governments and those who support these governments. The same weekend there will be actions and demonstrations around the world to recognize March 16th as a International Day of anti-fascism. We stand with people from around the world who recognize the fascist threat, in doing so we are building links and standing in solidarity with our anti-fascist allies throughout world.

The rise of racism and the far right represents a grave danger for the vast majority of the population. We will never be able to resolve the different social problems we face unless we defend the unity of ordinary people in the face of the attempts of racists and fascists to divide us.

But we have also seen a rise in resistance in the U.S., with demonstrations against the alt-right and neo-Nazis hate events often shutting them down, limiting their audience, demoralizing their new recruits, and bringing in more anti-fascists into struggle. The situation is still urgent, and the potential for our resistance is much bigger.

On or around 16 March 2019 there will be coordinated mass anti racist demonstrations in Austria, Britain (London, Glasgow and Cardiff), Catalonia, Spain, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Hungary, the Netherlands, Poland, Turkey, Australia, Canada, Brazil and the U.S. (New York and Washington DC).

We are dedicated to building a broad movement to bring as many together as possible in opposition to the far-right. We would like to see more mobilizations in the spirit of the 25,000 who marched against the Alt-Right in Boston, 2017, the 250,000 on the #Unteilbar (indivisible) demonstration in Berlin in October, and the quarter of a million against Trump in London in July of 2018.

We need to build broad movements to continue and develop this opposition. Join together March 17 from 12:30 – 3:30pm at Lafayette Square directly north of the White House for a rally and demonstration in solidarity with actions around the world as well as oppose Jair Bolsonaro’s meeting with Donald Trump.

#AllAgainstFascism #OneWorldNoRacismNoFascism

Los Angeles March 16, 2019

Coordinating Committee meeting Sheboygan March 16, 2019

SHEBOYGAN

To start the day off in the spirit of unity, we will join together with the Menominee Nation Community for a water ceremony.
10 am at Deland Park Beach Sheboygan
Para empesar el dia en el espiritu de unidad vamos a tener una ceremonia de agua con La Comunidad de los Indigena de Menominee.
10 am Deland Park Beach en Sheboygan

The Rasmea Defense Committee is re-publishing this statement from Samidoun, and asking all of Rasmea’s supporters to pay close attention to samidoun.net and @uspcn on Twitter and Facebook in the coming days, to be ready to provide support as soon as Rasmea and her advocates in Germany ask us for it.

We urge people of conscience around the world to support justice for Rasmea Odeh and justice for Palestine. We will be issuing urgent calls for additional actions in the coming days. Your solidarity statements and messages are important in making clear that the world rejects the actions of the German, U.S. and Israeli governments to silence Rasmea Odeh and instead stands with Palestinian women and the Palestinian people in their quest for liberation.

Following a frenzied campaign of harassment by pro-apartheid journalists, the Israeli ambassador and the U.S. ambassador to Germany (infamous for his connection to far-right groups), Berlin officials declared on Friday night, 15 March, that Palestinian former prisoner and renowned activist Rasmea Odeh‘s visa would be cancelled and that she was prohibited from political activity.

International solidarity is critical at this time. Please send statements of support for Rasmea Odeh to samidoun@samidoun.net.

Supporters of the AfD, the most far-right party in Germany, deeply engaged in anti-Muslim, racist rhetoric and with a long history of welcoming Holocaust revisionists, demanded the cancellation of Rasmea’s speech and the revocation of her visa. Of course, the AfD – which aspires to emulate Israeli apartheid – was not alone, but was instead joined by Green politican Volker Beck, who has made his career by attacking Palestinians at the behest of the Israeli apartheid state and various Berlin city officials, including SPD mayor Michael Müller.

An ongoing and severe harassment campaign directed at the venue that had been engaged to host the event. The hall was vandalized and the organization that owns it were subjected to numerous threatening and harassing phone calls and demands.

Despite multiple assurances by police that the event could indeed go forward, Rasmea was pulled aside by police on her way to deliver her speech about Palestinian women in the struggle for liberation.

Hundreds of police surrounded the venue, while around 15 pro-apartheid, Zionist counterprotesters carried Israeli flags. At the same time, around 150 supporters of justice in Palestine gathered outside the venue to hear the planned speeches of Rasmea Odeh and Dareen Tatour.

Rasmea was surrounded by police and delivered a stack of documents in German declaring that her visa had been cancelled. These documents were replete with allegations that had been apparently taken fully from scurrilous and inaccurate right-wing media reports as a justification to force her to leave the country.

Police then followed Rasmea kilometers away, demanding that she move down the street, leave another cafe in pouring rain, threatening her with arrest if she did not continue to move toward the east side of the city, even long after she had already left the venue for the event.

Pressure tactics, intimidation and repression have been used to compel multiple venues to cancel events featuring Palestinian speakers, most notably officially-supported threats to cut the funding of an Iranian community center if it allowed an event with Manal Tamimi to move forward in September 2018. However, this comes hand in hand with cancellation of musical events for bands that support BDS, censorship of DJs for Palestine and pressure on venues and universities to cancel lectures and events about any aspect of Palestinian rights and existence.

Palestinian and non-Palestinian women who participated in the Women’s March in Berlin were vilified in person and on social media for carrying signs recognizing that Palestine is a feminist issue.

Rasmea Odeh was subjected to repeated and unsubstantiated allegations of “anti-Semitism,” which media organizations did not even attempt to justify except through the use of the “terrorist” label. Not one of the articles using this label could point to a single anti-Semitic statement, message or belief on Rasmea’s part; her commitment to the liberation of Palestine was deemed sufficient to make this allegation.

This was clearly a racist attack on the right of a Palestinian woman to speak and the right of her audience to hear her. Through her life, she has been subject to intense state violence: sexual assault, torture, imprisonment, imprisonment again, deportation. The stripping of her visa is only the latest example of state violence directed against Rasmea Odeh in an attempt to block her message from being heard, a message that has garnered her support from Angela Davis, Jewish Voice for Peace (US) and countless supporters of justice worldwide.

It should be noted that following the demonstration, which was enthusiastic, well-attended and led by women and youth, participants – particularly young Palestinians – were later followed by police and questioned about chants at the demonstration (particularly those challenging German foreign policy) and their relationship with Rasmea, even hours after the event had ended. This is an attempt to intimidate young people from being involved in the movement for justice in Palestine.

https://www.cair.com/cair_condemns_terror_attack_on_new_zealand_mosques_urges_stepped_up_security_by_muslim_communities_in_u_s_worldwide

(WASHINGTON, D.C., 3/15/19) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today mourned the deaths of more than 40 worshipers gunned down in terror attacks on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, during prayers on Friday, condemned the apparent anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant hate that motivated the attacks and urged mosques in the United States and worldwide to step up security measures.

A man who claimed responsibility for the attacks left a 74-page anti-immigrant manifesto in which he said he was a 28-year-old white Australian and a racist. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the attack was carried out “by an extremist right-wing violent terrorist” and media reports indicate that the manifesto posted before the attack includes anti-Muslim rhetoric.

The white supremacist author of the manifesto called himself a supporter of President Donald Trump, who he sees “as a symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose.”

Authorities have detained four people and defused explosive devices following what appeared to be a carefully-planned terror attack.

https://bit.ly/2W28U1l

This comes after Venezuelan President Maduro said he would request China, Russia, Cuba and Iran, as well as the UN, to probe a recent attack on the country’s power grids that left the country’s vast territories without electricity for several days.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry has voiced Beijing’s readiness to help Venezuela restore its energy supply system.