Hosted by Freedom Youth Squad

545 W Dayton Street, 5 P.M. 

There will be another Ad Hoc ERO Meeting. Please Join Freedom Youth Squad in saying no to the police in schools.

What cops in schools ACTUALLY do:
�School Cops in Madison make arrests that are 4 times more likely to involve a Black person than a white person. In at least one Madison high school, MPD’s “school” cop intentionally targeted Black male youth for extra attention. The Madison school board pays the salaries of these MPD cops in our high schools, and then these cops feed information about certain students to other cops out in the community. MPD’s cops often use this information to criminalize these students (See https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6mdmc6M-4OJanptOGxpNGhZc1NIOG0zREt1SlJwdWs2ZXZr/view for more info).

What cops in schools DON’T do:

The idea of school districts paying to put armed cops in schools was popularized after Columbine–despite the fact that two cops were there, but did NOT stop the shooters. Cops in schools were supposed to act as a deterrent. But there is no evidence to suggest these armed cops have stopped any school shootings in the last 20 years (there were 4 cops at the Parkland, Florida school who never entered the building during the attack) or that they fulfill their imagined roles as disciplinarians and protectors. In Madison, MPD’s four high-school cops were NOT physically present during two-thirds of incidents they reported. In fact, these so-called “school” cops DON’T spend all their time at the schools: About half of the incidents the “school” cops reported didn’t even take place on school grounds, but out in the community instead.

In the name of imaginary “safety” with no evidence, the Madison school board is paying for MPD “school” cops to criminalize youth of color for behavior that doesn’t require armed police trained to treat everything like a law enforcement problem. We need real, youth-led and community-controlled solutions for school safety and discipline.

Instead of paying the salaries of four MPD cops, the Madison school board could spend that money to hire non-police crisis intervention specialists, school psychologists, counsellors and creating well rounded, culturally relevant programs and services for youth of color. We need to fight to empower students, parents and community members to have direct, democratic control over what kind of school safety and discipline measures we need.

JOIN THE FIGHT to stop racist policing in our schools!

For more information on how to get involved, contact Freedom Inc (bgomez@freedom-inc.org) OR Derail the Jail (derailthejailcoalition@gmail.com)

Wisconsin State Capitol, 1:30 – 5:30 P.M. 

It’s time for our leaders to lead.

SGA and UWSP student organizers will be taking a lobbying trip to Madison on April 18. Students are lobbying legislators to support funding of the UW system. Student organizers are there to support our students lobbying and will then march from the capitol to the Board of Regents office to hand deliver/read letters and postcards from students and faculty concerned about the budget crises we’re experiencing throughout the UW. Students and faculty from all UW schools are encouraged to attend.

Schools and Communities United

Stop the Takeover of MPS

Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association 

Schools and Communities United

Picket To Defend Our Schools

5225 W Vliet, Milwaukee Public Schools, 4:30 – 6:30 P.M. 

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.

Facebook event page: http://bit.ly/2qwQFmu

RSVP here: http://mtea.weac.org/event/mtea-members-report-to-mps-central-office/

Picket To Defend Our Schools

Hosted by United Action Oshkosh

315 N Main Street, Oshkosh, 11 AM – 12:30 PM

Join UAO in a celebration of the working class on the weekend before May Day. As the wave of teachers strikes washes across the country, workers are waking up to the fact that they have real power in the workplace. More details to come.

Hosted by Arab American Heritage Council

Flint Water Crisis: Invisible Immigrants

1026 E Kearsley Street, Flint Public Library, 5:30 – 7:30 PM

Please join Arab American Heritage Council (AAHC), City of Flint, Genesee County Hispanic Latino Collaborative (GCHLC), and International Center of Greater Flint (ICGF) for a townhall hearing and panel discussion on the impact of the Flint Water Crisis on immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers.

5:30PM Light Refreshments
6:00PM Program Start

This 2-hour event will provide knowledge and awareness for community members, non-profits, local community leaders, and those actively working in water relief services. Panelists will be presenting research on immigration populations as well as the challenges faced in the local and national level due to status in the United States. Experts, researchers, and activists have been invited to join immigrant Flint residents in discussions centering inaccessibility of resources, language barriers, and many more.

Panelists: (COMING SOON)

Student activists at JHU Baltimore organize a protest against CIA recruitment in schools. The Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Laboratory has received a $93 million contract to continue its engineering and research work with the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center.

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