Hosted by Voces de la Frontera
Join us for our next West Bend membership meeting! We’ll begin planning for May 1st!
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Acompáñanos para la próxima junta de membresia de West Bend! Miércoles, 28 de marzo, 6pm en 2295 Continental Drive en West Bend.
Hosted by Voces de la Frontera
1221 Bellevue Street, Green Bay, 4 P.M.
We’re opening our new office in Green Bay, come celebrate with us! Friday, 4pm, 1221 Bellevue St in Green Bay.
¡Estamos abriendo nuestra nueva oficina en Green Bay, acompáñanos para celebrar! Viernes, 23 de marzo, 4pm, 1221 Bellevue St en Green Bay.
Hosted by Milwaukee General Defense Committee
1428 N Farwell, Milwaukee, Affiliated Medical Services, 2-4 P.M.
The Milwaukee General Defense Committee is calling for a counter-demonstration of the right-wing anti-abortion organization 40 Days for Life. 40 Days for Life “is a focused pro-life campaign with a vision to access God’s power…to end abortion.” They attempt to steer patients away from accessing safe and legal healthcare with messages of shame, and divert them to non-medical religious “counseling” across the street. Traditionally, Good Friday is their largest event of the year.
Last fall, we turned out twice to show them that Milwaukee supports abortion access. They responded with racism and misogyny. We showed up again at the start of Lent. We successfully reclaimed space in front of the clinic, showed support for AMS, shared our stories, and had a sidewalk dance party. Since our February event, protester numbers have been low, but increasing in size and intensity in recent weeks, including violating federal laws. They’ll likely be back in large numbers for Good Friday, and we need to show that Milwaukee still supports abortion access and will show up for AMS.
We typically do not confront these people at clinics to reduce the stress level for patients who are attempting to enter the clinic. On Good Friday, the clinic will be closed and we’ll be taking a stand for free, safe, on-demand abortion in our community. Join us to show that Milwaukee won’t accept for their messages of shame. Our bodies are our own!
Logistics:
– Details coming soon.
– Anti-abortion protesters and hostile media frequently film counter-protesters, and edit and publicize the footage in an attempt to intimidate, harass, and threaten us and our families and friends. Please consider covering your face with a scarf, bandana, hat, and/or sunglasses if you do not want to be filmed and publicly identified to your employer, family, hostile groups, or the general public.
– Anti-abortion protesters may attempt to press charges for anything they perceive as a threat. We recommend not initiating or escalating confrontations with anti-abortion protesters. They will likely attempt to initiate confrontations and discussions with us, including placing hands on people without our consent, blowing incense smoke at us, and shoving crosses and signs in our faces. If they put you in a situation where you feel threatened or uncomfortable, marshals are available to help support you.
– If driving, consider parking several blocks away and walking with a friend or two. In the past, anti-abortion protesters have tracked people through their license plates and harassed them at their homes.
– We’ll have some signs available. If you’re bringing your own, avoid trans-exclusionary language, i.e. referring to all abortion patients as women, equating gender with genitals, etc. There are many people who aren’t women who need to access abortion care, and womanhood isn’t tied to reproductive organs or genitals. **Please leave the pink pussy hats at home for this event.**
– Abortion clinics are subject to threats and acts of violence from the far right. AMS maintains a working relationship with the Milwaukee Police Department. Please respect their desire to maintain that. AMS also has friendly relationships with most neighboring businesses. Please respect their desire to maintain those.
– Purpose: We are showing up to counter the anti-abortion protesters who are intensifying their push to close clinics in February and March. Our goal is to demonstrate to them and to the public that Wisconsin supports our last independent abortion clinic, and that there’s no space for shame or guilt here.
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The Milwaukee General Defense Committee is not affiliated with or sponsored by Affiliated Medical Services.
The General Defense Committee is the community self-defense arm of the Industrial Workers of the World. The Milwaukee IWW is a member-run union for all workers, a union dedicated to organizing on the job, in our industries. and in our communities.
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Donations of the following will be accepted at the event:
-New underwear (adult- any size)
-New socks
-Sweatpants/yoga pants (adult- any size)
-Winter coats (adult/child- any size)
-Hoodies (any size)
-Longer t-shirts (adult- any size)
-Throw blankets
-Apple juice
-7-up
-Pretzels
-Animal crackers
https://www.facebook.com/WWPTwinCities/
Have you ever thought of joining a working-class party that fights for socialism? For 55 years, Workers World Party has been that party. Workers World Party unites Black, Latino/a, Native, Asian, Arab and white in the struggle against racism. It brings together women and men, lesbian, gay, bi, trans and straight, youth and seniors, workers, employed and unemployed, U.S.-born and immigrants, other working-class people of varying abilities to fight for better conditions for all. Members of WWP have worked hard and long to build many of the most important progressive actions of the last five decades. But you can’t just patch up this racist, sexist society. Capitalism rests on the exploitation of the many by the few.
The monopoly of economic and political power by a small ruling class becomes more concentrated every day with mega-billion-dollar mergers and mass layoffs. That’s why capitalist democracy produces nothing but misery for the workers and oppressed. The power of the workers and the oppressed is in our unity and solidarity, in the streets, not in Washington. Workers World Party fights for a socialist society—where the wealth is socially owned and production is planned to satisfy human need. That’s also what workers around the world, from Cuba to China, have been struggling for. The U.S. rulers have spent trillions of our tax dollars trying to stop them in a global class struggle. WWP promotes international working-class solidarity, the right of every nation to sovereignty and self-determination, and militant resistance at home to imperialist interventions and wars. Do you belong in such a party? Then contact us!
@WWPTwinCities
Striking Frontier Communications workers will continue picketing this week, despite being slapped with a temporary restraining order last week as the company requested an injunction — something CWA member Kyla Clark considers “a major scare tactic.” “We are strong, we
are united, and we are committed to the fight for good jobs and quality service in West Virginia,” saidCWA District 2-13 Vice President Ed Mooney. The strike is now in its third week, with “tremendous support” from residents and business owners across West Virginia and as far away as Frontier headquarters in Connecticut, Mooney added. The order, limiting the size and location of picket lines, was only in effect until 5pm yesterday, and pickets continue this week (see Calendar). Read more here, and check the CWA District 2-13 website for regular updates.
Photo: CWA Local 1298 holds a solidarity picket at a Frontier location in Meriden, Connecticut, with signs that read: “Just Practicing”; courtesy WV CWA
The time is now to return to the street to make our voices heard. Join us on April 14-15 for united, nationally coordinated regional mobilizations to challenge the war makers and defend humanity. The future is in our hands.
We, the undersigned, support the decision of the Puerto Rican Teachers Federation (FMPR), EDUCAMOS and allied teachers’ organizations in the Broad Front in Defense of Public Education (FADEP) to call a national teachers’ work stoppage in Puerto Rico for March 19. The strike is in response to the Puerto Rican House of Representatives passing an education reform bill this week that would introduce charter schools and private school vouchers and that would close hundreds of public schools. This bill, now before the Senate, is just one of the effects of colonial austerity directed by banks and vulture capitalists from the United States and Spain.
Long before the tragic destruction by Hurricanes Irma and Maria, these forces began ripping apart the public school system on the island. The PROMESA law passed by the U.S. Congress in 2016 established a board or Junta of outsiders to direct Puerto Rico’s affairs in such a way that debt service happens even as public service suffers.
From afar, in our respective communities and unions, we will promote the cause and demands that the FADEP see fit to put forward.
We are not surprised that at this time, teachers in West Virginia, Jersey City NJ, Arizona, Oklahoma, Puerto Rico and throughout the Americas are either striking or planning strikes in a collective effort to stop privatization, school closings, and cuts to the living standards of dedicated educators. We know that union teachers have more genuine concern about the rights of children and youth–particularly those impacted by poverty, racism, and disabilities–than do the ‘one percent’ who will accuse these workers of causing problems for students with the strike. Sometimes you have to take one step back to take two steps forward.
We look forward to increased active solidarity between organized labor and the rest of the community in the fight for free public education accessible to all youngsters, worldwide.
Initial signers:
Parents to Improve School Transportation, New York City
Sara Catalinotto, member, United Federation of Teachers Local 2, Movement of Rank-and-File Educators Caucus*
Johnnie Stevens, member UFT Local 2, Child Care Providers’ Division*
Milagros Cancel, Comite Timon, Capitulo Nueva York
Labor Against Racist Terror
United School Bus Union Workers, USW Local 8751
Community-Labor United for Postal Jobs & Services
Joe Piette. member, National Association of Letter Carriers, Branch 157*, Philadelphia
Pam Africa, Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Philadelphia/Camden Boricua Committee
Gloria Rubac, Steward, American Federation of Teachers, Local 2415, Retired
Aurelia Gómez Unamuno (Professor at Haverford College)
Fermín Morales, IBEW Local 98* (Electricians Union)
Cheryl LaBash, City of Detroit AFSCME retiree
Brad Sigal, Secretary, AFSCME Local 3800
David Sole, past president UAW Local 2334, Detroit Michigan
Shesheena Bray, The Campaign to Bring Mumia Home
Julie Strahan, DCUE, District 196 MN
Judy Bjorke, Retired School Social Worker, Minneapolis Federation of Teachers, Local 59
Caroline Hooper, Teacher, Minneapolis Federation of Teachers Local 59
Margaret Witham Faculty, Bunker Hill Community College, MTA union member, Boston
David Gilbert-Pederson, member Teamster 120
Aisha Chughtai, Member Campaign Workers Guild
Dan Engelhart, Opeiu local 12 chief steward and MAPE senior business agent
Bruny Muñoz, Self-employed artist
Jill Jacobson, Member, Minneapolis Federation of Teachers local 59, IWW local 14
Pia PayneShannon, Member, Minneapolis Federation of Teachers Local 59
Melinda McGowan, Member, AFSCME Local 3141
Manuel E. Meléndez Lavandero Colectivos de la Resistencia Boricua
Comité Boricua Filadelfia-Camden
Eva Nelson, MFT 59
Megan Troyer Me, nationally certified school psychologist, MFT59
Julie Strahan, DCUE, District 196 MN
Judy Bjorke, Retired School Social Worker, Minneapolis Federation of Teachers, Local 59
Black & Brown Workers Cooperative
Brionna Harder, Member, Minneapolis Federation of Teachers, Local 59
Food Not Bombs Solidarity, Phila, PA
Wisconsin Bail Out The People Movement
By Abayomi Azikiwe
Editor, Pan-African News Wire, http://panafricannews.blogspot.com/
Despite the claims of prosperity and full employment, millions are living in poverty and distress
March 24 will be an important date for the Moratorium NOW! Coalition and more than 50 other organizations and individuals who have endorsed the National Conference to Defeat Austerity (NCDA) in Detroit. The gathering is being held at the Historic St. Matthews-St. Joseph’s Church located on Woodward Avenue in the North End section of town.
This event is an outcome of several local developments in the city where hundreds of thousands of residents have seen their standards of living dropped precipitously amid massive layoffs in retail and service sectors along with the ongoing property tax foreclosure epidemic and the rising rents across broad sections of the municipality. A corporate media narrative which promotes the city as making significant progress after emerging from what was in actuality an illegal bankruptcy during 2013-14, often overlooks the plight of the majority African American working class population, many of whom are mired in poverty.
The NCDA concept arose after the Moratorium NOW! Coalition mobilized people surrounding the World Conference of Mayors held at the MGM Grand Casino Hotel from October 23-27 last year. This same propaganda fostered by the billionaire ruling class headed by Quicken Loans owner Dan Gilbert and the Illitch Companies, sought to utilize the World Conference of Mayors to spread blatant misrepresentation of the social and economic situation in Detroit.
A facebook page with registration information and other resources can be reached at: Defeat Austerity Although registration is free the conference will accept donations for printed materials and food. Hosted by Moratorium NOW! Coalition and Defeat Austerity
Hosted by Youth Empowered in the Struggle (YES)and Voces de la Frontera
Junta para planear el 1ro de mayo
sábado 17 de marzo, 2pm
Voces de la Frontera, 1027 S 5th St
Info: 414-643-1620
Acompáñanos para platicar sobre preparaciones importantes para la marcha del 1ro mayo para los derechos de los inmigrantes, trabajadores y estudiantes. Exigimos al Sheriff Severson de Waukesha que no convierta sus sheriffs en agentes de Inmigración por 287g, al gobernador Walker que devuelva las licencias de conducir a los inmigrantes y que se ponga un alto a las deportaciones. ¡Ven!
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May 1st Planning Meeting
Saturday, March 17th, 2pm
Voces de la Frontera, 1027 S 5th St
Info: 414-643-1620
Join us to talk about important preparations for the May 1st March for Immigrant, Worker & Student Rights. We demand Waukesha County Sheriff Severson not turn his deputies into ICE agents through 287g; that Governor Walker return drivers’ licenses to Wisconsin immigrant community members; and not one more deportation! Join us!
