Rally – Madison United Against the Far Right

2 E Main Street, Wisconsin State Capitol, 11 A.M. – 3:30 P.M.

On January 12, far-right groups are planning a “We the People” rally to be held at the Wisconsin state capitol. The organizers of this rally include the 3% United Patriots and The Free Men Report.

The 3% United Patriots is a right-wing militia group that has been organizing armed vigilante squads at the US-Mexico border for years. They detain people crossing the border, handcuffing them and delivering them to US Border Patrol. They’ve since spread across the country.

The Free Men Report is a Madison-based far-right group. They organize against the rights of immigrants and against women. They harassed a group of UW students marching against the Kavanaugh appointment, screaming at people as they walked past.

The far right has been exploding in growth since the election of Donald Trump. The murder in Charlottesville at the “Unite the Right” rally and the shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue are two of the most visible attacks, but they are not the only ones. Hate crimes have skyrocketed, pipe bombs were sent through the mail, and others were stabbed to death on a train in Portland and at a bus stop in Boston. Far right groups like Patriot Prayer, the Proud Boys, and the 3%ers have grown in membership and influence.

On Dec 29, dozens of us, from many different political organizations and backgrounds, met to discuss the rise of fascism across the world and in Wisconsin and to organize a response to it. At that meeting, we agreed to hold a counter-rally at the time and location of the far-right rally, where we will gather in large numbers to show that anti-immigrant, racist, and sexist groups have no place in Madison.

We will be rallying at the State Capitol on Jan 12 at 11:30am, on the State Street side, to counter this far-right rally.

We are also having a second organizing meeting on Saturday Jan 5 from 2pm-3:30pm. This meeting is open to the public, even if you can’t attend the rally. Find the Facebook event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/398912914181868/.

If you are a part of an organization or group that would like to sponsor, endorse, or help organize, please reach out to the hosts to get in touch.

https://bit.ly/2VpRso4

…. We write this letter to you in this crucial moment for all of us as educators, as union sisters and brothers. Together, we have been teaching for over 150 years combined, and we have been in positions of leadership for decades combined. It is our privilege to work with all of you. Please read the letter and the Frequently Asked Questions that follow in their entirety, and keep them near you over the next couple of weeks so that you can refer back to them when needed.

We want to convey to you in the most clear and unambiguous terms possible that we have never been more certain that we are at a watershed moment in defending public education in Los Angeles.  For our students, for our jobs, healthcare, and profession, if the district forces us to strike on January 10, it is crucial that every single one of us participate in that strike….

Officers and Executive Director of UTLA

#strikeready #UTLAStrong

UTLA

Women’s March in Wisconsin (Official Chapter)

10 A.M. – 4 P.M.

We are outraged. We are organized. They forgot that millions of women and allies lit the world on fire two years ago and again this past January. This past midterm women won in record numbers.

On January 19, 2019, we will be back on the steps of the Capitol – with a legislative agenda – to remind our legislators we have had ENOUGH of sexist, racist, xenophobic, anti-Semitic, ableist, homophobic and transphobic policies and actions! We will continue to resist and put an end to oppression and white supremacy in all its forms.

#WOMENSWAVE

Madison Organizing Against Far Right Hate – Meeting #2

201 W Mifflin Street, Madison, 2 – 3:30 P.M.

On January 12, far-right groups are planning a “We the People” rally to be held at the Wisconsin State Capitol. The organizers of this rally include the 3% United Patriots and The Free Men Report.

The 3% United Patriots is a right-wing militia group that has been organizing armed vigilante squads at the US-Mexico border for years. They detain people crossing the border, handcuffing them and delivering them to US Border Patrol. They’ve since spread across the country.

The Free Men Report is a Madison-based far-right group. They organize against the rights of immigrants and against women. They harassed a group of UW students marching against the Kavanaugh appointment, screaming at people as they walked past.

The far right has been exploding in growth since the election of Donald Trump. The murder in Charlottesville at the “Unite the Right” rally and the shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue are two of the most visible attacks, but they are not the only ones. Hate crimes have skyrocketed, pipe bombs were sent through the mail, and others were stabbed to death on a train in Portland and at a bus stop in Boston. Far right groups like Patriot Prayer, the Proud Boys, and the 3%ers have grown in membership and influence.

On Dec 29, dozens of us, from many different political organizations and backgrounds, met to discuss the rise of fascism across the world and in Wisconsin and to organize a response to it. At that meeting, we agreed to hold a counter-rally at the time and location of the far-right rally, where we will gather in large numbers to show that anti-immigrant, racist, and sexist groups have no place in Madison. We will be meeting for this rally at the State Capitol on Jan 12 at 11:30am, on the State Street side, to counter this far-right rally.

On Jan 5, we are having another public organizing meeting to continue to discuss and organize. This organizing meeting is open to all who oppose far-right groups like the Proud Boys, the 3%ers, the Free Men Report, and others, whether you are a political activist or not.

If you are a part of an organization or group that would like to sponsor, endorse, or help organize, please reach out to the hosts to get in touch.

Find the Facebook event for the rally here: https://www.facebook.com/events/488318554908626/.

Hosted by Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition – Bay Area

Twitter Storm for Mumia: #KrasnerDoRightByMumia

Join in to pressure so-called “progressive” Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner not to appeal a judicial decision just won by Mumia Abu-Jamal, so that he can finally proceed with his appeals.

Anyone with a twitter account just has to click on these links and it will take you to your own Twitter account with the wording already there, all you have to do is click Tweet. Both of these linked Tweets have a picture linked to them as well. The first has a pic of Mumia, the 2nd has a pic of a flyer for a rally to pressure Krasner in Philly on the 5th.

Please do this on Friday, January 4th. We need the numbers all on the same day to create the Twitter storm. These links can also be posted on your Facebook pages, web sites, etc. Just headline it “Twitter Storm for Mumia on Friday, January 4 – Click To Tweet”

Click to Tweet link #1: https://ctt.ac/cY4TC
#KrasnerDoRightByMumia @philaDAO Don’t stand in the way of justice. Don’t appeal Judge’s decision allowing ex Panther Abu-Jamal to re-appeal! Judge says re-arguing Mumia’s appeals “would best serve the appearance of justice”

Click to Tweet link #2: https://ctt.ac/cY4TC
#KrasnerDoRightByMumia @philaDAO Don’t appeal Judge’s decision allowing ex Panther Abu-Jamal to re-appeal. You campaigned on freeing the wrongfully convicted. Mumia’s case Is Philly’s most notorious Wrongful Conviction!

Dec 28, 2018

The destruction of Libya by the Pentagon and NATO in 2011 illustrates the mortal dangers of the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM). Libya, the most advanced country in Africa under the former martyred leader Col. Muammar Gaddafi, in 2018 is continuing as a major source of instability and reaction where Africans are sold into human bondage, often facing death in the Mediterranean while seeking an elusive “better life” in Europe, further institutionalizing the theft of national sovereign wealth which has rendered the North African state destitute.

Pentagon bombs are being dropped on a weekly basis in the Horn of Africa nation of Somalia while AFRICOM military bases are utilized as spring boards to carry out the genocidal war against neighboring Yemen, a Washington-led war which utilizes Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to carry out the imperialist biddings of Wall Street and the White House.

Pan-Africanism in the 21st century must be built from the ranks of the proletariat and the popular stratums of the continent. The stability and defense of Africa will be secured when the masses take control of the resources and labor of the people, guaranteeing socialism on a regional scale.

By Abayomi Azikiwe
Editor, Pan-African News Wire

3020 W Vliet Street, African American Women’s Center, Milwaukee, 5 – 8 P.M.

Join us for this special event that will include a presentation on Columbia University Justice Lab’s paper on mass supervision in Wisconsin and a panel discussion featuring people who have been directly impacted by Wisconsin’s horrific, racist system of mass supervision.

The community forum will be followed by a state budget advocacy training led by organizers with WISDOM, EXPO, JustLeadershipUSA, and the ACLU of Wisconsin.

Supper will be served after the community forum.

https://bit.ly/2ER6ZZa

By Abayomi Azikiwe

The minimum wage law, the land question and the economics of imperialism are to shape the character of the coming electoral period in South Africa.

In a matter of a few months the ruling African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa will test its political support through national elections. It has been a quarter-century since the national liberation movement turned political party won a substantial majority in the first non-racial democratic poll during April 1994, which overturned the apartheid system setting the stage for the implementation of an inclusive constitutional dispensation that recognised the rights of the majority African population.

https://bit.ly/2Ah94tb