2 E Main Street, State Capitol, Madison, 12:30 – 2 P.M.
Let’s keep the conversation going at the state and (inter)national level. This week is an assault on basic democracy. We demand that politicians respect our vote! The right wing actions in Wisconsin Tuesday won’t silence our dedication to the progress of the people!
814 W Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee Public Library, 5 – 6:30 P.M.
Two IWW members will be at Milwaukee Central Library, 814 W. Wisconsin, meeting room 2A, on Monday, December 17, 5:00-6:30 PM. They will be working on some of the activity they regularly do for the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee, supporting the campaign against arbitrary regulations at Columbia Correctional, coalition efforts to shutdown the Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility, and connecting different networks inside prison walls. Our work includes research, writing letters, data entry, and developing ideas for disrupting the horror that is the Wisconsin prison system. Come by if you want to see what’s involved with this organizing, ask questions, and maybe get involved in this. Free coffee and snacks are provided. Let us know if you need a ride to be able to attend. This gathering will be followed by our strategy meeting at 6:30, visitors are welcome to attend this as well.
If you are interested in this event and can’t make this time or location, please post in this event, message us or send an email at iwoc.milwaukee@gmail.com We will schedule the next event to work for your schedule, or followup one-on-one. Also contact us if you would need childcare, translation or other accommodations to be able to attend this event. You can also fill out this online survey to volunteer for specific tasks: https://bit.ly/2vyZam9 You can get more information on Wisconsin prison conditions and resistance to them at our website: https://wisconsinprisonvoices.org/
Racine: Licencias para Todxs / Driver Licenses for All
ENGLISH BELOW
Sabado, diciembre 8, 1pm
Racine Labor Temple
1840 Sycamore Ave, Racine, WI 53406
Seguimos en la lucha para pasar legislación para restaurar las licencias de conducir a los inmigrantes y gente de bajos ingresos. Daremos informes sobre nuestro progreso durante este foro y organizaremos nuestras próximas acciones. ¡Sí se puede!
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Saturday, December 8, 1pm
Racine Labor Temple
1840 Sycamore Ave, Racine, WI 53406
Join us as we continue our efforts to pass legislation to restore driver licenses to immigrants and low-income individuals. We’ll be sharing updates on our progress so far and planning our upcoming actions. ¡Sí se puede!
“The land is not separate from us. The land sustains us. And if we don’t take care of her, she won’t be able to sustain us, and we as a generation of people will die.” – Freda Huson, Unist’ot’en Hereditary Spokesperson.
2. WE ARE WATCHING across the province, country and internationally.
3. WE DENOUNCE any attempt by Coastal GasLink Pipeline, federal government, provincial government or RCMP to interfere in the rights of the Unist’ot’en to occupy, manage or maintain their lands.
4. WE DEMAND that any and all actions taken by the federal and provincial government, industry, and policing agencies must be consistent with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Anuk Nu’at’en (Wet’suwet’en laws) and collective Title.
5. WE PLEDGE support to the frontline land defenders of Unist’ot’en Camp and affirm the collective hereditary governance of the Wet’suwet’en who are enforcing Wet’suwet’en laws on their unceded lands.
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#UNISTOTEN #THETIMEISNOW #NOPIPELINES
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Jewish Voice for Peace – Milwaukee
5235 S 27th Street, Greenfield, Islamic Resource Center, 6:30 – 8 P.M.
Join us as we move towards the solstice and shortest days of the year to create light in these difficult times. We will light candles and join together in solidarity, against Islamophobia, racism, anti-Semitism, settler colonialism, and hate, and FOR love and justice. There will be words by Rabbi Michael Davis and others, as well as food** and joy. All welcome.
➢ We honor indigenous sovereignty on these lands.
➢ We refuse to be silent about anti-Muslim, anti-Arab, anti- Semitic, sexist and racist hate speech and hate crimes.
➢ We condemn U.S. and Israeli state surveillance of Muslim, Arab & Palestinian, and migrant communities.
➢ We join in solidarity with refugees and migrants; we honor the rights of all people to move.
➢ We fight anti-Muslim profiling and racial profiling in all its forms.
➢ We support the Palestinian Great March of Return.
➢ We call for an end to racist policing #SayHerName #BlackLivesMatter.
➢ We stand together with the LGBTQ community against violence.
➢ We protest the use of anti-Semitic hate crimes and anti-Arab racism to justify Israel’s repressive policies against Palestinians.
We hope you will join us on Dec. 11th—together, our calls for justice will reverberate across the country.
http://www.wftucentral.org/france-the-wftu-on-the-side-of-the-french-workers/
The World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) expresses its solidarity with the workers and people of France who are fighting against the policy of high prices and excessive taxation of the French government and at the same time are protesting against the anti-labor policies of the European Union and the IMF. The international class-oriented trade union movement joins its voice to that of the working youth in France, with the homeless, the unemployed, the new-poor, immigrants for a world without capitalist exploitation.
The police state and state violence highlight the role of the state and the goals of the bourgeoisie. President Macron’s maneuvers to weaken protests through false and hypocritical social dialogues should not trap the working class and the people. The class unions, the class-oriented vanguard can significantly help the people masses, leaving their own mark, giving the orientation, the content and the appropriate forms of struggle, isolating the neo-fascist and racist elements, in order to strengthen the struggle and the anti-capitalist claims.
Long live internationalist solidarity!
The WFTU Secretariat
CTU educators at UNO/Acero charter schools continue their strike this morning at 15 campuses across the city. Picket lines start at 6:30 a.m., followed by a rally at the Chicago Board of Ed at 9:30.
The TAA-AFT Executive Board at UW Madison stands in solidarity with UNC educators in their grading strike against a racist monument on campus.
http://silencesam.com/
Below is the call to strike by anti-racist protestors in light of Carol Folt’s despicable proposal to UNC’s Board of Governors:
The UNC Board of Trustees (BOT) and Chancellor Carol Folt took several liberties today, both overt and covert. The overt: The BOT and Folt proposed that the University re-erect a Confederate Monument on a public university campus in 2018—155 years after enslaved people forced the passage of the Emancipation Proclamation and 153 years after the defeat of the Confederate States of America. They’ve proposed to spend $5.3 million dollars out of the University budget to house the Confederate Monument, Silent Sam, even as the administration is planning to hike student fees in order to make up a Facilities Maintenance deficit. Sadly, these outrageous proposals are in keeping with the University’s legacy of exploiting enslaved black people to build this campus and its history of racial segregation that lasted until 1955.
The covert: the BOT and Folt proposed that the University spend millions of dollars annually to increase the policing and surveillance of student and community protesters. This also fits with the University’s and Chapel Hill’s legacy of policing antiracist activists and its disregard for black bodies. This history is exemplified in the case of black Chapel Hill resident James Lewis Cates’ murder in 1970 by a white motorcycle gang in the Pit, and the University’s repression of black student protests that followed. http://silencesam.com/
This is an urgent and time-sensitive situation. Please sign and share widely among your networks to ensure Susan’s immediate and unconditional release from Israeli detention!
Susan Abulhawa, the Palestinian novelist, has been denied entry at Tel Aviv Airport on her way to the Kalimat Palestinian Literature Festival sponsored in part by the British Council. Despite the help of a lawyer from the British Council, the US Embassy and the festival organizers who have been on hand to assist, she was been detained by border forces upon her arrival.
She is one of the most commercially successful Arab authors of all time. Abulhawa’s 2010 debut novel Mornings in Jenin, a multigenerational family epic spanning five countries and more than sixty years, looks unflinchingly at the Palestinian question – and became an international bestseller translated into twenty-eight languages. Susan was also a juror among a panel of internationally recognized human rights activists at the recent International People’s Tribunal on US Colonial Crimes in Puerto Rico.
At this point, Susan is in detention awaiting a judicial decision regarding her appeal to allow her entry. Festival organizers and the British Council have stated that her participation is a cornerstone of the festival and very much needed.
We demand the immediate release of Susan Abulhawa and a guarantee that she will be able to travel and participate in the Kalimat Palestinian Literature Festival without any further incident. As a prominent Palestinian author, she deserves to be allowed to attend the Kalimat Palestinian Literature Festival in her birthright county.
Below is the contact info for the US Embassy of Israel to ask that she be allowed entry to participate. (https://www.science.co.il/Embassy.php)
In addition to signing this petition, please contact these US officials to demand they assist in assuring Abulhawa’s speedy release and permission to travel to the festival.
Ron Dermer, Israeli Ambassador to the United States
202-364-5500
David Friedman, US Ambassdor to Israel
Sen. Robert Casey, PA
202-224-6324
Sen. Patrick Toomey, PA
202-224-4254
Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick
202-225-4257
