Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association
Thousands picket Milwaukee Public Schools April 24, 2018 to say NO to cuts to the classroom!
#DefeatAusterity
Hosted by Stop the Takeover of MPS
Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association
5225 W Vliet, Milwaukee Public Schools, 4:30 P.M.
The current MPS budget proposal is unacceptable for our students, schools, or classrooms! Join us on Tuesday, April 24 for a Picket To Defend Our Schools at MPS Central Office.
We will continue to fight to demand our students & educators have the resources they deserve:
• Keep budget cuts away from schools!
• Time for teachers and educational assistants to meet the needs of their students.
• Quality affordable healthcare for ALL full-time education workers – including subs!
• Raises to attract and retain the education workers our students deserve.
RSVP here: http://mtea.weac.org/event/mtea-members-report-to-mps-central-office/
#fightforfunding #fundourfuture
“I used to be able to come early to class and work with my teachers. I can’t do that any more…It is because you have made my teachers attend daily meetings instead of preparing for their classes. Students are standing outside the classroom waiting while they’re running to the classroom instead of welcoming us.”
Ammishaddai Jackson, North Division High School student and president of Youth Rising Up-North Division High School.
Hosted by SWS Chicago
412 West Chicago Avenue, Chicago, Jesse White Community Center
$250,000 was spent by the federal government in 2009 to maintain Chicago’s Confederate monument. We envision a world where that money is spent improving school conditions, paving roads, and providing affordable housing and childcare to all. We demand that not ONE MORE CENT of OUR tax dollars be spent on this pillar to white supremacy.
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Come to this meeting to find out how to get more involved with our campaign to get this racist monument removed and get more funding for our communities. Bring your ideas and bring your friends!
This event is kid-friendly, open to the public, and wheelchair accessible.
We will discuss
-what public figures to pressure for the monument’s removal and how to contact them
-opportunities for action against Confederate apologists who defend the monument
-outreach events to raise awareness of this campaign
-and MORE!
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Text or call (312) 620-2305 to get an interview with one of our lead organizers or if your organization wants to endorse this campaign.
http://www.lucasvilleamnesty.org/
Contact: Ben Turk
Phone: 614-704-4699 (leave text or voicemail, please)
Email: insurgent.ben@gmail.com
Website: http://www.lucasvilleamnesty.org/
Lucasville Survivors on Hunger Strike over communication access
Three prisoners sentenced to death and held in solitary confinement since the Lucasville uprising of April 11-21, 1993 are on hunger strike. Late afternoon on Friday April 20 the prison administration restricted phone and JPay email access for Siddique Abdullah Hasan, Keith LaMar, Jason Robb, Namir Mateen (James Were) and Greg Curry.
Over the weekend, staff admitted that the restriction was made to prevent them from telling their story about uprising during the 25th anniversary of it’s conclusion. They promised the restriction would be lifted Monday morning. As of Monday night, only Greg’s phone access was restored.
Thanks to an in person visit with supporters, and with the help of other prisoners calling on their behalf, Siddique, Keith and Jason have communicated that they will refuse food until their access is restored. In 2011 these same three prisoners refused food for 13 days to gain access to phones, contact visits, and legal resources.
The current restrictions turn back the communication access they had won in 2011. This access has allowed these prisoners to expose injustices and retaliation they’ve experienced since the uprising 25 years ago, as well as the horrors of solitary confinement, prison slavery, death row and prosecutorial misconduct experienced by many behind bars in the US today.
Supporters have organized a call-in campaign to pressure the administration to return phone and email access to the prisoners, who have filed complaints and contacted their lawyers, including those who are suing the State of Ohio for consistently denying on-camera interviews with the Lucasville Uprising prisoners, in violation of the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause.
More information can be found at: http://www.lucasvilleamnesty.org/
Full text of the call to solidarity call ins:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1773815042661544/
Call to Action! Defend Survivors of the Lucasville Uprising
In clear retaliation during the 25th anniversary of the 1993 uprising, the Ohio State Penitentiary administration rolled back communication access and possibly other conditions exclusively for the survivors of the Lucasville Uprising.
Please call Ohio State Penitentiary between 9am and 5pm EST. Dial 330-743-0700 and press 0 then ask to speak with Warden Bowen.
639 N 25th Street, Milwaukee, Central United Methodist Church
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/
Please RSVP to support public education NOW!
http://bit.ly/April262018
http://bit.ly/April272018
Youth Against War and Racism (YAWR) is an organization for youth and students to struggle against the US war machine. US Imperialism is not just the soldiers massacring people abroad, but the racist police and injustice system here. We aim to connect the struggle against racism here with the struggle to end US Imperialism abroad.
Hosted by TAA – Graduate Worker Union of UW-Madison
Sign-Making for Work-In Against Mandatory Fees
Come join us in the TAA office on 520 University Ave., Madison, to help us prepare for the mandatory fee work-in on Thursday, 4/26. We will have snacks! 5:30- 7:30 P.M.
Mostly, we plan to make signs, work on ideas for chants, and generally prepare for the event in whatever way necessary. If you can’t make the work-in on Thursday, this is a great way to help contribute. Or consider attending both!
Sign-Making for Work-In Against Mandatory Fees
Hosted by Peace Action Wisconsin
819 E Silver Spring Drive, Whitefish Bay, 12 P.M. – 3 P.M.
Support the Korean peace process
12 noon: Potluck for Peace (with Korean Food & other international dishes)
1–3pm: Teach-In on Korea, featuring UWM History Prof. Nan Kim
Prof. Kim is an internationally recognized expert on Korea and inter-Korean developments and serves on the steering committee of the international peace organization Women Cross DMZ. At UWM, she directs the Public History Program and has taught courses on modern Korea and the global history of the Korean War. An alumna of Princeton and UC-Berkeley, she recently published a timely book, Memory, Reconciliation, and Reunions in South Korea: Crossing the Divide (2017), about meetings between family members separated by the Korean divide and the role of public memory in the Korean peace process.
The teach-in panel will also include Rev. PyungAhn “Pastor Peace” Kim, Associate Pastor at Whitefish Bay United Methodist Church; Jim Carpenter and Pam Richard of Peace Action Wisconsin; and others.
Please bring an international/ethnic dish & enjoy food from around the world to celebrate peace.
Sat., April 28, 2018, 12 Noon potluck, 1pm Teach-In
United Methodist Church of Whitefish Bay,
819 E. Silver Spring Drive, Whitefish Bay, WI 53217
Free and open to all interested.
Contact Peace Action (414) 269-9525
Picture credit:
North Korea’s Hwang Chung Gum and South Korea’s Won Yun-jong hold the flag. Picture: AP Photo/Petr David Josek.Source:AP
