#RedForEd

Indiana State Teachers Association

Hosted by ATU Local 998

1942 N 17th Street, Milwaukee, 11:45 A.M. – 2 P.M.

Picket at Hillside Bus Station | Thurs., March 14, 2019 at 11:45am. Arrive early and dress warm!

County Executive Chris Abele & the Milwaukee County Transit System are once again trying to play with the lives of some of Milwaukee’s most respected public servants who go above and beyond to make Milwaukee move forward every day. Milwaukee transit workers have been in contract negotiations for over a year. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

Milwaukee transit workers need:

SAFETY – More proactive safety measures need to be put in place to protect transit workers and riders. Driver training is also a major safety concern. Transit workers must be trained by experienced drivers, not computer programs.

HEALTH – Transit workers suffer greater rates of illness than workers in many other industries and occupations. The additional deductibles, premiums, and co-insurance could result in workers paying thousands more in out of pocket expenses every year.

RAISES – Transit workers are asking for a modest 1.5% raise and a cost of living increase to keep up with the inflation.

July 2015 Milwaukee / Photo: WI BOPM

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Note: Following is the text of an address delivered by the author on Thursday February 28, 2019 at Henry Ford College in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. The event was held in honor of African American History Month. Abayomi Azikiwe was invited to give this lecture by the African American Association.

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This year’s African American History Month takes on an added significance due to the fact that it represents the 400^th anniversary of the beginning of slavery in the British colony of Virginia, in an area now known as the United States.

In acknowledgement of this anniversary, the West African government of Ghana has made an offer within the framework of the “Year of Return” for Black people in the Western Hemisphere that they are welcome to visit their ancestral homeland and to resettle if so desired. This declaration represents a continuation of the centuries-long efforts to reconnect Africans to the land from which they were torn asunder during the 15^th to the 19^th centuries.

During August 1619 a British ship under a Dutch flag transported stolen human cargo to the Jamestown Settlement. This colony would serve as a major entry point for Africans for more than another 200 years.

The Africans were kidnapped from the area which is known as Angola today in the Southwest region of the continent. This geographical region has a history of resistance to imperialism from the 17^th century to the present….

Slave advertisement for the acquisition of Africans

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From the WI AFL-CIO

Have you heard? Baristas, bakers, kitchen staff, roasters, delivery drivers, and production workers at Stone Creek Coffee are joining together and organizing for union rights with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 344.

Stone Creek Coffee workers want to negotiate together as a team for living wages, predictable scheduling, and other important workplace issues.

We stand in solidarity with the Stone Creek Coffee Worker’s Union.

We encourage union members, union supporters, and all who like a good cup of joe to stop in to your local Stone Creek Coffee location and voice support for the worker’s union. Sign our solidarity petition.

This is a historic organizing effort. The Stone Creek Coffee Worker’s Union would be the first union for coffee shop workers in Wisconsin and only the second in the country.

Show your support and solidarity with the Stone Creek Coffee Worker’s Union. Add your name to our solidarity petition.

Every worker should be able to exercise their fundamental right to join together with their coworkers for a voice on the job and a better workplace. Strong unions and good contracts lift up workers and build our middle class.

The Stone Creek Coffee Worker’s Union together with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 344 are paving the way forward for better jobs and pay.

In Solidarity,

Stephanie Bloomingdale, President

Dennis Delie, Secretary-Treasurer

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Here is the letter that was emailed to WDET:

Michelle Srbinovich
General Manager
msrbinovich@wdet.org

Joan Cherry Isabella
Program Director
joanisabella@wdet.org

Jerome Vaughn
jvaughn@wdet.org
News Director

Good morning,

We are sending you this letter on behalf of several activist organizations operating in the city of Detroit, specifically Moratorium NOW! and the Michigan Emergency Committee Against War and Injustice (MECAWI). These organizations, working alongside Detroit Active and Retired Employees Association (DAREA), Detroit 1500 and numerous other community-led organizations have engaged tirelessly in work for the people of Detroit, almost universally underserved by their government and the business interests commanding the city. We struggled directly during the bankruptcy, fighting to ensure that workers would not lose the pensions they had spent years earning through hard work to the donors and financial institutions that ravaged the city. Last year we mobilized a large number of activists to help Detroiters keep their homes, under threat by illegal over-appraisal and taxation. We joined in the Unite Here! strike at the Westin Book Cadillac, where workers won concessions from a major hospitality corporation that had been failing to pay them appropriately for their work. We have held countless demonstrations against imperialism at home and abroad, put on forums and classes to teach the oppressed, sponsored medic collective trainings and helped organize the yearly MLK Day Rally and March for the past 16 years. We stand for the people of Detroit, the people of the working class, and the people of the world in opposition to the violence inflicted upon them by the wealthy ruling class.

We are writing you today because of the misleading, biased and dangerous coverage of the current Venezuelan crisis. Your coverage, and that of NPR which you rebroadcast, has often merely repeated the statements of the U.S. State Department, despite the corrupt history of their leadership and the historic purpose of U.S. interventions in Latin America. U.S. imperialism in Latin America has been endlessly destructive to the people and nations that it reaches, and yet you broadcasted an interview with convicted war criminal and current special envoy Elliot Abrams, without questioning or criticizing his actions. Your coverage, largely, has been built upon obviously false principles: That the statements from the federal government in regards to Venezuela can be trusted; that U.S. Sanctions and the current economic crisis in Venezuela are separate; that there can be any justification for the invasion, or ‘humanitarian’ support for a white supremacist opposition, of Venezuela. Your institution is publicly funded by the people of Detroit and Michigan, who have far more in common with the people of Venezuela than they do with the Oil Tycoons and autocrats who will benefit from this war, and by failing to condemn those elites you are failing the people you have a duty to: the public. We feel, uncompromisingly, that you owe the people who listen to your station the principled truth.

To these ends, we are contacting you to arrange a meeting between our representatives and yourself or your station’s chosen representatives, so that we might discuss and plan for an interview and airtime. We are prepared to discuss and counter the lies of the U.S. Government (whose legitimacy, although highly dubious, your station never questions) and to make a clear, concise, and defensible argument for Venezuela. We want only to speak in defense of the Venezuelan working class, the people who will suffer and die in another needless war if the criminals in Washington get their way.

We look forward to your prompt response,

Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice (MECAWI)

March and Rally

Three march departure points. Choose any one! Join by 11 A.M. Look for “People’s Offensive March & Rally” banners (and signs)!

– 1104 Wisconsin Avenue, Sheboygan
– 9th & Superior, Sheboygan
– Bus Transfer Point between 8th & 9th Avenue (In front of Post Office)

We will come together to unite the community in a march and rally. We will lift up the voices of all exploited people to fight for a WISCONSIN WHERE ALL FAMILIES CAN PROSPER.

Visit the Facebook pages of these organizing groups for start locations and ongoing info:
● Wisconsin Bail Out The People Movement
● Sheboygan Comm-UNITY March
● Crusaders Of Justicia

More info: sheboygancommunity@gmail.com

PDF’s of English and Spanish Fliers:

PeoplesOffensiveFlyer01 March 23 2019 Sheboygan

PeoplesOffensiveFlyer02-Spanish March 23 2019

HALF-SHEET PDF: PEOPLES OFFENSIVE SHEBOYGAN MARCH 23 2019 HALF SHEET

United National Antiwar Coalition

March 30, 2019, 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm, Lafayette Park (across from the White House), Washington, DC

(Oakland, CA – March 31, Federal Building, 1301 Clay St., Oakland, CA)

Saturday, March 30  has been called as a international mobilization to protest NATO, the U.S. commanded military alliance, as it comes to Washington, DC to “celebrate” its 70th anniversary.

Because of the U.S. coup attempt and escalating war on Venezuela, the organizers also made this a focus of the March 30 No2NATO action.

Colombia, which borders Venezuela, has ominously become the first NATO partner in Latin America.  The U.S. and Colombia had planned an invasion of Venezuela in the guise of providing “humanitarian aid” to the people.  This was prevented by mass mobilizations within Venezuela and in some 153 other cities around the world.

As people come from around the country and from many other countries to protest NATO, we want to make it clear to the U.S. government that we will oppose any attempt at regime change in Venezuela from the U.S. and its NATO allies.

For more information and to endorse the March 30 mass demonstration, and week of resistance please go to http://no2nato2019.org/.  

Start organizing now to get to DC on March 30.  We will be joined by people from many countries and more than ever they are depending on a strong US antiwar movement.

Join and share the Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/487410295119547/

“Stand For Peace!” January 26, 2019 Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Workers Memorial Day

Every year on April 28th, the unions of the AFL-CIO observe Workers Memorial Day to remember those who have been injured and killed on the job and to renew our efforts for safe workplaces.

Join the Milwaukee Area Labor Council, the Waukesha County Labor Council, and WisCOSH at our ceremony commemorating Workers Memorial Day.

Sunday, April 28th at 2:30pm at the Workers Memorial Gazebo in Zeidler Union Square.

Join WisCOSH at the Postal Workers’ Hall (417 N. 3rd St) starting at 1pm for brunch prior to the ceremony. There will be a memorial procession from the hall to the park.

For more information contact: Emily at 414-771-7070 or emily@milwaukeelabor.org or Jim at 414-933-2338 or james.schultz@wiscosh.org