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The Grass Is Greener on Riverwest Radio: Ricardo Vaz on Venezuela
Ricardo is back from Venezuela and back on our show! We get to hear about the problems with the economy, both from domestic mistakes and foreign hostility, the elections, the status of democracy, grassroots actions in support of Chavismo.
Milwaukee, June 23, 2018: Young Workers Gathering & Happy Hour
Hosted by Milwaukee Area Labor Council
The Young Workers Committee of the Milwaukee Area Labor Council is hosting a family friendly gathering and happy hour.
Come enjoy FREE food, games, beverages, and fun. Open to all under-40 workers and families.
Washington Park Picnic site #2
4420 W Vliet St, Milwaukee
Saturday June 23rd, 2-5pm
Solidarity With Midwest Communication Workers On Strike Against AT&T, Join The Picket Lines!
https://www.facebook.com/cwamilwaukee/
Cwa Milwaukee
The Unfair Labor Practice Strike against AT&T continues. Discussions continue but there is nothing new to report. Members should report for strike duty as scheduled on this website starting on Monday, June 4, 2018.
Official bargaining reports can be viewed by clicking HERE.
Picket Locations are as follows:
Click on the underlined location name for a map/directions
Adler = 425 S 95th Street / West Allis 53214
Bluemound CO = 6812 Aetna Court /Wauwatosa 53213
Broadway = 722 N Broadway / Milwaukee 53202
Calumet = 9016 W Calumet / Milwaukee 53224
Carpenter = 4876 S 6th / Milwaukee 53221
Curtis Road = 313 S. Curtis Road / West Allis 53214
Executive Drive = 440 S Executive Drive / Brookfield 53005
Fond Du Lac = 7721 W Fond Du Lac Avenue / Milwaukee 53218
Grange = 3045 W Grange Avenue / Milwaukee 53221
Hwy J / Pewaukee Road = 2004 Pewaukee Road / Waukesha 53188
Saylesville = W277S4747 Saylesville Road / Waukesha 53189
26th Street = 918 N 26th Street / Milwaukee 53233
37th Street = 3601 W Wells Street
111th = 2356 S 111th Street / West Allis 53227
220 Wisconsin = 220 Wisconsin Avenue / Waukesha 53186
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Cwa Milwaukee
Address: 6511 W Bluemound Rd, Milwaukee, WI 53213
Milwaukee, June 5, 2018: Protest Israel’s Ambassador of Apartheid Ron Dermer
Protest Israel’s Ambassador in Milwaukee
Since March 30th, Israeli snipers and military have killed at least 113 unarmed Palestinian in Gaza, and wounded more than 12,000. On May 14 alone, 19 medics were shot. Now one of Netanyahu’s closest allies, Ron Dermer, is coming to Milwaukee! Dermer is also close to Trump relative Jared Kushner, who withheld his role in funding illegal settlements on the West Bank, while Trump has put him in charge of bringing “peace” to the Middle East. Our taxes are paying for these murders. We cannot be silent.
750 N Lincoln Memorial Drive, Milwaukee (War Memorial), 11: 15 A.M. June 5, 2018
WI AFL-CIO Endorses Mr. Mahlon Mitchell For Governor
ICYMI: The Wisconsin State AFL-CIO has endorsed fire fighter Mahlon Mitchell for Wisconsin Governor!
Wisconsinites are ready for change in November. After 8 years of Gov. Scott Walker pushing partisan policies that reward campaign donors at the expense of the rest of us, it is time for a new Governor who will put the people first.
Mahon Mitchell, a fire fighter and union leader, is a champion of the people and the best candidate for Governor. Mahlon Mitchell is devoted to improving Wisconsin for all families instead of doing the bidding of out-of-state campaign donors. As a fire fighter for over 20 years, Mahlon puts his life on the line to keep families and communities safe.
Mahlon Mitchell will support union freedoms and uplift working people by repealing Act 10 in full. He supports raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour and strongly opposes Wisconsin’s Right to Work law. Mahlon Mitchell is the best gubernatorial candidate to inspire, excite and energize voters from every corner of Wisconsin.
You know Mahlon from standing in solidarity with teachers, laborers, snow plow drivers, researchers, and Wisconsin workers during the Act 10 rallies in Madison. Now, it’s time to stand with Mahlon on August 14in the democratic primary for Governor as we get ready to unseat Scott Walker this November.
In Solidarity,
Phil Neuenfeldt, President
Stephanie Bloomingdale, Secretary-Treasurer
USPCN Relaunches Palestine Delegation Project!
http://uspcn.org/donate-to-support-uspcn/
From 2000 until 2010, the U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) and its precursor organizations sent almost 100 people—Arab American and solidarity activists, organizers, students, artists, nurses, lawyers, and more—on educational trips to Palestine, and today, we proudly announce that we have officially relaunched our delegation project!
The current delegates are all leading members of USPCN, and we hope to publish a daily report of their journey in their own words. This is the first.
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The morning began with a visit to one of the Palestinian villages destroyed in 1948 by the white European settler-colonialists who later called themselves Israelis. We took on off-road drive to get there, through forest trails on the periphery of a kibbutz built on stolen land. With the help of the iNakba app and a tour guide friend of the delegates who lives in the area, we found indications of the village we were looking for, as well as others that had also been destroyed.
We found olive groves, bunches of sabar (cactus) plants, and eventually, the remains of buildings destroyed by zionist gangs during the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. This visit set the stage for our delegation, to ground us in the history of the Nakba, and also to remind us that we are bearing witness that the true owners of this land are the Palestinian people, our people.
Next was Haifa, where we were met by Urweh, a local activist and PhD candidate in urban planning. He took us through the history of Haifa from the Ottoman era through the present day, explaining more of the story of the Nakba, plus the ongoing drive by Israel to push as many of the remaining Palestinians as possible out of the city. Our tour looped through Wadi-Nisnasand Wadi-Saleeb, the two remaining major Palestinian neighborhoods that are facing immense pressure from the state’s attempts to displace its residents.
Urweh contextualized the history of zionist colonization in Haifa by describing three major phases: the ethnic cleansing of the city; the seizure of all Palestinian assets (property, land, physical documents, etc.) through Israel’s Absentees’ Property Law; and the current privatization, which includes the state’s wholesale selling off—to real estate developers—of hundreds of property units that have laid empty since 1948.
We then continued to Mada al-Carmel, the Arab Center for Applied Social Research in Haifa, where we met with representatives from Mada, Irfud (a Druze anti-recruitment organization), the Association for the Defense of the Rights of the Internally Displaced, and Aswat – Palestinian Feminist Queer Movement for Sexual and Gender Freedoms. Through a lively discussion, we learned about the important work happening today on the ground in many sectors, including fighting against pinkwashing (which is Israel’s attempt to “exaggerate its record on LGBT+ rights…to fend off international condemnation of its violations of the rights of the Palestinians,” according to Columbia professor Joseph Massad), and organizing to ensure the Right of Return and encourage and support Druze community members’ refusal to serve in the Israeli armed forces, respectively.
Lastly, we ended the day with a tour of the old city of Yaffa, led by our guide Rami, a member of the Arab Theatre of Jaffa (Israelis call it Jaff
a, Palestinians Yaffa). We learned the thousands of years of history of Yaffa, as well as the more recent historical importance of the city and its role as the political and cultural center of the Palestinian revolt of 1936. The old city of Yaffa has many parallels to Haifa, from the seizure of Palestinian assets under the aforementioned Absentees’ Property Law to the ongoing Nakba and displacement of the remaining Palestinians in the city.
We are indebted to our gracious hosts and guides, who not only took time out of their days to enrich us with knowledge, but who also continue the struggle for Palestinian rights on so many fronts inside of historical Palestine.
These incredible compatriots in Haifa, Yaffa, and other parts of 1948 Palestine specifically asked us to send much love and warmth to USPCN members, friends, and supporters in the U.S.
Until Liberation & Return,
USPCN
June 2, 2018
In the Face of Janus, AFL-CIO Launches Nationwide Ad Campaign Calling on Working People to Organize
Major ad buy seizes on wave of collective action.
See the ad HERE.
The AFL-CIO today announced a major, national print and digital ad campaign calling on workers to join together in the face of continued corporate assaults on the freedom to join together in union.
An open letter to working people, penned by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, will run in USA Today, the Washington Post and regional newspapers in nine states, including Florida, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Massachusetts.
Trumka’s letter offers an urgent call to action: “If you want a raise, better benefits and the dignity of having a voice on the job, we’re saving a seat for you. Join us—be a part of the fight to build a brighter future for you, your family and working people everywhere.”
An accompanying digital ad campaign will target workers online and direct them to FreedomToJoin.org, a new website that outlines efforts by wealthy corporate interests to take away the freedoms of working people.
Additionally, the website offers background on Janus v. AFSCME, Council 31, an upcoming Supreme Court case funded by the Koch brothers to deprive teachers, firefighters and other public-sector workers of their freedom to join together. It also offers resources for forming a union and information about ongoing organizing campaigns.
This comes as a wave of collective action has continued to sweep the country. As striking teachers march and secure raises even in anti-labor states, working people from all backgrounds are embracing the power of solidarity. Unions’ approval rating has broken above 60%, while dissatisfaction with corporations has risen to similarly high levels.
Young people, who are disproportionately impacted by corporate-driven policy decisions, have been leading the most recent surge in unionization. Of the 262,000 new union members last year, more than three-quarters were under the age of 35.
This trend has continued steadily into 2018. Last month, nearly 15,000 workers organized unions in a single week, ranging from nurses and flight attendants to Harvard graduate workers.
“From the boardroom to the steps of the Supreme Court, a dark web of corporate interests is trying to stop us with everything it has,” writes Trumka. “But no matter what any CEO or lobbyist does, we’re standing up for the freedom to join together in a union.”
Contact: John Weber (202) 637-5018
June 5, 2018: Youth Empowered in the Struggle (YES) Racine Leadership Meetings
Youth Empowered in the Struggle (YES)
You think that you have what it takes to be a core leader and want to be one?
Join us for Tuesday Leadership meetings 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Core Leaders: this is a great opportunity to develop relationships and friendships with those from different schools!
There’s always pizza :)\
Contact your organizer!
Address: 2100 Layard Ave
Milwaukee, June 23, 2018: The Cuba Caravan is Coming to Town
The Cuba Caravan is Coming to Town
Progress had been made…Let’s keep it rolling!
Demand freedom to travel an end to the embargo!
[There’s still time to join this year’s caravan to Cuba! DEADLINE TO APPLY: May 1ST 2018 See https://ifconews.org/cuba-caravan2018/ or call 212-926-5757 ext. 6]
Join us Saturday, June 23, 2018. At Central United Methodist Church, 639 N. 25th St. Milwaukee, 53233
5:00 pm Pot Luck Dinner, 6:30 pm Program
Caravan Speaker: Gail Walker, Executive Director, IFCO/Pastors for Peace
Also: Dare to Dream: A 30-minute documentary about Cuba’s Latin American Medical School
Sponsored by Pastors for Peace, https://ifconews.org/ 212-926-5757; Wisconsin Coalition to Normalize Relations with Cuba, www.wicuba.wordpress.com; 273-1040
Like us on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/WICNRC/
