For centuries, police forces have been employed to maintain the status quo of white supremacy in our neighborhoods. The community of Hartland, a place that is over 97% White, has been able veil their racism for too long. Even worse news— they aren’t hiding anymore. They are coming to us, to our community, to insist to us how much we need them. We reject their propaganda.
Join us for a mutual aid event to drown out the hate the RPWC plans to bring to Nixon park. At this event, we will have food, first aid, water, sign making, clothes, schools supplies, and more. Our goal is not to be confrontational to the other rally, but to show them how powerful our love truly is. Let us be an example of the community care that we call for when demanding our lawmakers defund the police. Let’s show Hartland how much Black Lives Matter.
If you can not attend the event, please consider donating $ via PayPal/venmo/cashapp AND/OR donating books, food, clothing, or supplies. Please DM the organizer on Facebook to get involved this way. Masks and social distancing required. This event is open to folks of all ages. https://bit.ly/3ig5Nyj
Join us virtually. Next week we are reading Chapter 5 of Walter Rodney’s book “The Russian Revolution.” The title of the Chapter is: On the “In-evitability” of the Russian Revolution. Here’s the link to Chapter 5 on Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aseh-ibsUWNJwAygPoTDcXVto__algu_/view?usp=sharing During this current period of economic and public health crises along with the eruption of mass demonstrations, urban rebellions and sharpening debates around the objective nature of the state and the capitalist-imperialist system, the work of Dr. Rodney becomes even more relevant. Before Walter Rodney was assassinated he was a renowned Pan-African and socialist theorist on the Bolshevik Revolution and its relationship to Africa’s post-colonial legacy. Abayomi Azikiwe will lead the discussion. His scholarly approach will allow us to find insights and create a deeper understanding of this extraordinary work. ABOUT WALTER RODNEY In his short life, Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the foremost thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, Africa, and the Caribbean. Wherever he was, Rodney was a lightning rod for working-class Black Power organizing. His deportation sparked Jamaica’s Rodney Riots in 1968, and his scholarship trained a generation how to approach politics on an international scale. In 1980, shortly after founding the Working People’s Alliance in Guyana, the thirty-eight-year-old Rodney was assassinated. This class is presented by the Communist Workers League of Detroit. Register for the virtual meeting, which will be held on Tuesday September 15, 2020 at 7 PM EST Register in advance for this meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0kcemhqzwqHNWJcKZcIYyxLkUwwlREhTtR After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Employees from across all four of the Carnegie Museums have come together to create a more equitable and transparent workplace. The United Museum Workers consists of professional scientists, curatorial/collection specialists, technicians, technologists, web developers, archivists, educators, publishers, marketers, visitor services frontline staff, gift shop clerks, event ushers, and grant writers. They are diverse in age, experience, gender and social background, but they are unified in their dedication to the Carnegie Museums and their visitors.
The United Museum Workers are fighting for the health and safety of our staff and our visitors and investments in the careers of all workers at the Carnegie Museums. Above all, they seek accountability regarding pay, benefits, and working conditions, and a collective voice to promote respect, equity, and inclusion across our beloved museums.
During this unprecedented time it is imperative that CMP marshal its considerable resources to support their workforce. In March, CMP management decided to close the museums, reduce pay, and furlough more than 600 workers. The museums reopened in late June with little to no consultation with the workers those decisions affected the most. CMP must prioritize the health of employees and visitors in response to the complex challenges of COVID-19. Recent events have made it all the more clear that a union is the best way to protect workers’ rights.
Already the United Museum Workers have helped hundreds of coworkers file for unemployment, provided personal protective equipment to staff when CMP neglected to do so, and vastly improved communication and solidarity across the entire workforce.
It is overtly in conflict with the museums’ institutional image and mission of promoting humanistic values to disregard the voices and needs of the very people whose tireless dedication upholds that mission.
I STAND WITH THE UNITED MUSEUM WORKERS
As a concerned community member, I unequivocally support the right of the workers of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh to form a union, so they have a collective voice and the autonomy to determine their own working conditions. I call upon CMP to respect the United Museum Workers and remain neutral in their efforts to form a union.
Hosted by North Side Rising – 7-9 P.M. W Fond du Lac & W Center Street (Across from the WI Black Historical Society) – Join us in our campaign to “Support the Post Office and Keep the Lights On” were we will encourage the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin to “Keep the lights on in Wisconsin!” a.k.a extend the utilities moratorium! So far the moratorium has been extended to October 1st but the PSC is scheduled to vote whether to extend it on September 17th. They are only accepting public comment through mail, thus our letter writing campaign. We will have glow in the dark signs on site and a station with letter writing materials to encourage folks to get involved! Stop by with your flashlights/glow sticks to support North Side Rising and stay to help us hand out literature!
The Peoples Revolution / Day 104 (September 9, 2020) Michael Mattioli is a PUNK. He’s trying to run from what he did to Joel Acevedo. He’s a murderer who worked for MPD, a flawed department who cover up for killer cops. These cops have NO ACCOUNTABILITY. Now he think he can go find a job elsewhere (maybe Tosa might take him, they have a history of protecting killer cops too. Continue to demand the arrest and conviction of punk Mattioli and his accomplices. ” INDICT, CONVICT, SEND THEM KILLER COPS TO JAIL, THE WHOLE DAMN SYSTEM IS GUILTY AS HELL.”
Meet up at Jackson Park (43rd & Cleveland), 4pm, leaving at 5 pm
Last spring, as coronavirus swept through Connecticut and the state’s nursing homes became ground zero for deadly outbreaks, nursing aide Gloria Duquette pushed aside her fear and continued showing up for her shifts.
Duquette was working upward of 80 hours many weeks between her two jobs at Kimberly Hall South in Windsor and Saint Mary Home in West Hartford, stringing together enough hours to pay her bills despite concerns of catching the disease.
But in July, after occupancy at the homes dropped, rehabilitation services slowed down and a floor at one of the facilities was closed as part of a planned renovation, Duquette’s hours were drastically scaled back. She’s now working 48 hours a week, which nets her less than $500, and struggling to pay her rent and utility bills.
“I feel like we were used,” said Duquette, of Bloomfield, who has watched several of her colleagues at Saint Mary lose their jobs recently. “Nobody cares about us.”
The problem is playing out across the industry. As nursing home residents die and the facilities see far fewer short-term residents – people who need rehabilitation or other post-acute care – homes are left with more empty beds. Weakened by revenue loss and added expenses associated with the pandemic, nursing homes in Connecticut are now resorting to widespread layoffs and reductions in employee hours… https://bit.ly/35mknk7
Gloria Duquette works as a certified nursing assistant at two facilities in greater Hartford. “It’s a very tough time for nursing assistants,” she said. “We’re doing the job that family refuses to do a lot of times. By doing it, we should be recognized. We don’t want to be called heroes and then treated like garbage.” / Yehyun Kim :: ctmirror.org
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In the summer of 2020, we’ve been in Milwaukee, Kenosha, Sheboygan, Appleton, Waupacua, Green Bay, Manitowoc, Sheboygan, Fond du Lac, Oshkosh, Racine and many other cities supporting the people’s struggles from Black Lives Matter to workers rights and more. This is a continuation of our work since June of 2011 when we formed Wisconsin Bail Out The People Movement, an all-volunteer network of people’s fighters based in poor and working people’s communities.
Since our founding, we’ve promoted on our blog and Facebook page thousands of events in Wisconsin and beyond, supported events with logistical assistance including acquiring or providing sound for protests, providing thousands of signs and banners, assisted in raising ten of thousands of dollars for legal defense for protesters and much much more. This work has benefited dozens of people’s organizations in Wisconsin and beyond.(To make a contribution please click here)
We are entirely funded by poor and working people’s contributions. Due to the unprecedented nature of the protests that have and are taking place in Wisconsin, this is the first time we’ve issued a major fund appeal to all of our supporters. It’s our view the needs to keep the struggle in the streets are greater than ever and we want to do that this fall but we need your help to do so.
We are now asking our supporters, allies and friends to help us by making a contribution to continue our work. To make a donation to help support the peoples’ struggle in Wisconsin and the work of the Bail Out the People Movement, please click here. Whether your contribution is large or small, every cent collected will help to build the people’s struggle in Wisconsin – and (with our Facebook page and blog) to help provide you with real insight of what is happening on the front lines here.
We are continuing our work building – in the spirit of unity and solidarity – the network of freedom fighters across Wisconsin this fall to increase our organizing power statewide. Every cent donated will be used for this purpose.
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