Madison School Board Meeting

 545 W Dayton Street, 6 – 8 P.M.

Come Join FYS in Demanding No Cops In Schools at the School Board Meeting!

Superior: Budget Listening Session/Sesión Sobre Presupuesto

Tenemos una oportunidad excepcional para hablar directamente con el gobernador electo Tony Evers y el vicegobernador electo Mandela Barnes, quienes anunciaron su gira estatal “Construyendo el Presupuesto Popular.”

Cada sesión está abierta al público y dará a los participantes la capacidad de compartir sus prioridades para el presupuesto estatal directamente con el gobernador electo Evers, el vicegobernador electo Barnes, y el personal del equipo de transición.

Estamos instando al gobernador electo Evers que incluya medidas en el presupuesto estatal de 2019 para restablecer el acceso a las licencias de conducir para todos, independientemente del estado de inmigración, y para poner fin a la práctica de suspender las licencias únicamente debido a la imposibilidad de pagar multas.

La sesión en Superior se llevará a cabo el 17 de diciembre de 4:30 a 6pm en Superior Middle School (3625 Hammond Avenue)

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Governor-elect Tony Evers and Lt. Governor-elect Mandela Barnes have announced their statewide Building the People’s Budget tour. Each session is open to the public and will give participants the ability to share their budget priorities directly with Governor-elect Evers, Lt. Governor-elect Barnes, and transition policy staff.

We are urging Governor-elect Evers and leadership in the Wisconsin state legislature to include provisions int he 2019 state budget to restore access to driver’s licenses for all regardless of immigration status, and to end the practice of suspending licenses solely due to inability to pay fines.

The listening session in Superior will be held on December 17 from 4:30 to 6pm at Superior Middle School (3625 Hammond Avenue).

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Cyntoia Brown has been serving time in prison since 2004 for surviving sex trafficking at the age of 16. Last week, the court announced that Cyntoia must serve 51 years in prison before her release. This unjust and grotesque punishment of Cyntoia Brown must end now! Please sign the petition demanding clemency for Cyntoia! Also, if you are willing and able, call Governor Bill Haslam and demand clemency for Cyntoia: call info

Alejandra Pablos, a nationally known reproductive and immigrant rights activist, has been given a deportation order by Federal Immigration Courts. Her life could very well be in danger if deported because of her recognition as a leader in social justice. Alejandra’s only option to stop her deportation is a Governor’s pardon. Please, sign this petition NOW to tell AZ Gov. Ducey to pardon Alejandra!

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https://www.unacpeace.org/

The United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) is the major antiwar and social justice coalition in the U.S. today.  As the New Year is approaching, we are preparing for another critical year of action and solidarity to build a vibrant antiwar movement in the U.S. that those under the gun from U.S. imperialism at home and abroad are desperately looking for.  It is ever more urgent that the evils of war, racism, poverty, and climate destruction are understood to be connected and rooted in the same source.

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2018 was another big year for UNAC:

Action

We initiated and played the central role in organizing spring antiwar actions to protest the wars at home and abroad, which took place in 40 cities in the U.S.  We organized actions in many cities on the anniversary of the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan.  We opposed Trump’s projected military parade in DC, and when it was called off, we organized a People’s Congress with others and participated in the march and rally called by Veterans’ peace organizations in DC.  We organized solidarity actions on May 2nd in support of activists and family members of those killed by a fascist gang in Odessa, Ukraine.  UNAC leaders traveled to Europe to protest at a NATO meeting in Brussels and at the gates of the Ramstein U.S. base in Germany.

Solidarity

Additionally, we expressed solidarity and participated in meetings and actions for the migrant families forcibly separated by the U.S. government and the migrant caravan trying to escape intolerable conditions in Central America, largely caused by U.S. policies in the region.  We attended and organized meetings and actions against the Saudi/UAE/US war on the people of Yemen and in opposition to the Israeli attack on the Flotilla to Gaza and in support of those being shot down by Israel as they protest at the border wall in Gaza. We supported the Poor People’s Campaign and those organizing against arrests and attack of activists from the Afro-Columbian community fighting for their rights in Columbia and we supported the very important campaign of the people of Okinawa against the building of yet another U.S. military base on their territory, and much more.

Conferences

UNAC co-sponsored a well-attended panel on opposing the wars at home and abroad at the Left Forum with the Black Alliance for Peace. We played a leading role in organizing a major conference in Baltimore to launch a campaign against U.S./NATO foreign military bases and then a similar international conference in Dublin, Ireland attended by activists from 35 countries.

Information and Analysis

The UNAC Blog continues to publish important articles and commentary from our members and friends (https://unac.notowar.net/).  As events and crises call for action, we issued statements that analyzed the current situation and call for necessary action (No. Korea, Venezuela, Syria, Palestine, Yemen and more).  (https://www.unacpeace.org/)

2019 This coming year will be pivotal in building a strong antiwar movement in the U.S.

On April 4 2018, Trump will gather the leaders of the NATO countries to Washington, DC to “celebrate” the 70th anniversary of NATO.  April 4 is also the date of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., exactly one year after his famous antiwar speech at Riverside Church in New York City.  UNAC is playing a central role in organizing protests around that date, as we did the last time that NATO came to the U.S. in Chicago, 2012.  The fact that they chose April 4th for this meeting gives us the opportunity to organize with civil rights and Black liberation organizations to further the building of an all-inclusive antiwar movement that we know is necessary.  We will be organizing a Mass Anti-NATO March and Rally in Washington, DC on March 30, the weekend prior to the April 4th NATO meeting, and also supporting actions being organized by the Black Alliance for peace and others leading up to April 4.

All this costs money.  The social cost of not acting to combat the wars at home and abroad is far higher.  UNAC is solely supported by contributions from our supporters.  Please make a generous contribution and help to build the strong antiwar movement that these times demand.

Socialism, Resistance Movements and the Arab World

This will be an analysis of the modern political history of the Arab World and its anti-colonial movements, from a socialist/Marxist Leninist lens. This discussion will take a historical analysis of Arab politics, and the Arab World’s role as an neocolonial economic “periphery”, in the eyes of Arab economists Samir Amin and Mahdi Amel, and how political and social factors shaped the ascent and eventual decline of Arab socialism in the age of neoliberalism. We will also discuss Arab resistance post-80s to today as the philosophical and ideological undercurrents of the movements changed, but the contradictions of imperialism and conditions of popular resistance stayed the same.

Readings (tentative):
Samir Amin, “Imperialism and Unequal Development”
Translated Excerpts from Mahdi Amel
Leila Khaled, “My People Shall Live”
Gamal Abdel Nasser, selected speeches on Socialism and Imperialism
Manifestos of various resistance movements (just 2 pages each)

The Madison General Defense Committee Of The IWW Has Been Hosting Free Meals On State St. For Months.

December 22, 2018: Help Madison GDC With Doing A Free Meal

Folks Down There Have Expressed Need For Hats, Gloves, Coats and Blankets.

👉🏼👉🏼PLEASE GIVE To Our Fund👈🏼👈🏼

Solidarity Rally For Locked Out National Grid Workers

Massachusetts AFL CIO State Fed

1,250 National Grid Steelworkers have been locked out of their jobs for nearly six months. Company executives are feeling increasing pressure to end the lockout from the legislature and need to hear that we as a labor movement are standing strong with our brothers and sisters in USW Locals 12003 and 12012-04. As USW gas workers and National Grid executives come to the table for a week of negotiations, let’s show our brothers and sisters that we are behind them in solidarity.

There’s nothing locked out workers want more for the holidays than their own jobs back.

Meet outside the Boston Tea Party Museum on the Harbor Walk adjacent to the Intercontinental Hotel, 306 Congress St., Boston