Hosted by Milwaukee General Defense Committeeand Affiliated Medical Services

1428 N Farwell, Milwaukee, 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. They will be at Affiliated Medical Services from 2/14 until 3/30 (lent).

Last fall, we turned out twice to show them that Milwaukee supports abortion access. They responded with racism and misogyny. We successfully reclaimed space in front of the clinic, showed support for AMS, shared our stories, and had a sidewalk dance party. They’ll be back and re-energized for their spring campaign though, 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 Sunday, 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 & Accessibility Considerations:
Exact details will be posted prior to the event.

-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. 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.

– 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.

– Accessibility considerations: This event will begin with a very short march (1-2 blocks) and then is expected to be a mostly stationary gathering on sidewalks for approximately 60-90 minutes. No seating is available. There will be chanting, speaking, and music through megaphones and speakers. In the past antis have brought incense and fanned the smoke at us. With a topic as sensitive as abortion, there is potential for intense imagery, language, and tones from the anti-abortion protesters.
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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

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Hosted by Shorewood Solidarity Network and Voces de la Frontera

From civil liberties, healthcare, immigration, racial justice, women’s rights and those of our LGBT community this past year has been a time of challenge and change. Join us for an evening brought to you by the Shorewood Solidarity Network of personal stories of hope from members of our Greater Milwaukee Community.

Where:
Turner Ballroom, 1040 N 4th Street, Milwaukee
February 26, 2018 | 6:30 – 9:30 pm
6:30 – Registration and Donations
6:30-7:15 – Reception and Mingle
7:15 – Storyteller introductions
7:30 – Storytelling begins

Storytellers include:
Pardeep Kaleka: Author – The Gift of Our Wounds
Janice Harrell: Healthcare Advocate
Alejandra Gonzalez: Immigrant Rights Advocate
Darrin Madison Jr.: Racial and Juvenile Justice Advocate
James Katherine Carnell: Trans Rights Advocate
Steve Ohly and B.B.: A Refugee Story

This event will be emceed by Emilio de Torre of the ACLU and also features stories from those advocating for women’s rights, voting and justice and dignity.

Suggested donation of $10.00 will be used to cover event costs with remaining proceeds donated equally to:
Voces de la Frontera (www.vdlf.org)
Citizen Action Wisconsin (citizenactionwi.org)

Please note that no one will be turned away for lack of funds

A very special thanks to The Milwaukee Turners for their support of this event.

For more information email us at: beyondresistancemke@gmail.com

About the Shorewood Solidarity Network:
The Shorewood Solidarity Network is a community organization working to positively influence the Village of Shorewood, WI and surrounding communities through pro-immigrant legislation, protecting and making visible the rights of queer and trans people, ending racially discriminatory police behavior in our communities and schools, supporting worker’s rights, public education, and fostering a vision of economic development that meets social needs and respects environmental and labor conditions.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/african-americans-national-liberation-and-the-vietnamese-revolution-reject-the-pentagon-war-machine/5628095

Five decades ago global struggles against imperialism united peoples throughout the world

By Abayomi Azikiwe

During the height of the genocidal war waged by the United States against the people of Vietnam during the 1960s and early 1970s, African Americans were involved in a life and death campaign aimed at reclaiming their national identity, human rights and racial dignity.

Gwen Patton of SNCC speaking at the University of Havana in Cuba during the 1960s

Hosted by Moratorium NOW! Coalition and Organizing the National Conference to Defeat Austerity

St. Matthew’s – St. Joseph’s Church, 8850 Woodward Ave., Detroit, MI 48202, 10 A.M. – 5 P.M. 

We want to extend an invitation to all progressive activists and organizations to participate in the National Conference to Fight Austerity in Detroit on Saturday March 24. The purpose of the national conference is to map out a strategy for defeating the war being waged by the banks, corporations and government against the workers and oppressed. Capitalism cannot continue unchallenged while our very lives are being jeopardized by the ruling elites who are determined to grow richer and more powerful at our expense, whipping up white supremacy, an anti-immigrant offensive attacks on women and anti-LGBTQ bigotry to keep our class divided.

Detroit along with colonized Puerto Rico has been at the epicenter of bank imposed austerity against the workers and oppressed in this hemisphere. But every U.S. city from Chicago to Baltimore to Cleveland to Milwaukee, from New York City to Oakland and Seattle, has felt the brunt of this attack in the form of cutbacks, school closings, mass transit cuts, water shutoffs, gentrification and destruction of public service unions.

The Trump tax plan and Pentagon War build-up continues the massive transfer of wealth to the rich at the expense of the poor. This war by the banks and on the workers and poor is an international phenomenon spanning every continent. On March 24, we will hammer out a program on how to fight back against the war by the corporations, the banks and their lackeys in government at all levels on the workers and poor.

The conference will take up topics such as:
* The Destruction of our Communities by the Banks.
* Tax giveaways to Dan Gilbert and the Ilitch business empire and gentrifiers everywhere.
* The Trump Tax plan — A declaration of war by and for the rich on the workers and the poor.
* The Pentagon War Buildup — funded by destruction of social services.* Continuing Water Shutoffs and Mass foreclosures.
*The Destruction of public educations through defunding and privatization.
* Mass layoffs at retail stores, restaurants, business offices and plant closings* Fighting for a real living wage for all workers.
* Challenging racism, sexism and LGBTQ oppression.
* Defending Immigrant Rights.
* Challenging mass incarceration and prison slave labor.
* Defending Puerto Rico where much the population remains without electricity because of mass robbery by the banks.
* The need for a universal healthcare program* Public transportation and accessibility for all within the urban and rural areas.
*The growth in extreme poverty and homelessness.
* Environmental Justice and the end to the poisoning of the poor.
*Full rights for persons with disabilities.

The Conference will discuss these issues in depth from the perspective of how they all are products of a capitalist system where profits are everything and people mean nothing. We will mobilize support for making May Day 2018 an anti-Austerity Day, as well as lending solidarity to the Poor Peoples Campaign. We will outline a program of action in solidarity with all movements working for social change and transformation.

Initiated by the Moratorium Now! Coalition.
For information or to endorse: contact 313-680-5508 – moratorium-mi.org – moratorium@moratorium-mi.org

The National Black Lives Matter Week of Action in Our Schools

Last year, Seattle and Philadelphia educators organized Black Lives Matter actions in their schools. This year, many more cities like New York, Chicago, Boston, DC, Baltimore and many more are joining their efforts to organize a Black Lives Matter Week of Action in our Schools the week of February 5th. If you want to organize a Black Lives Matter Week/Day of Action in your city/town/state, message our page and we will connect you to the national organizing committee. We are in the process of updating and creating new resources to use locally and nationally, including national demands and a national curriculum guide. Here are resources used by Philadelphia Educators during last years (2017) Black Lives Matter Week of Action in Schools.

https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/marcy/biography/index.html

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MU7iqv-zlENoXRJ2c8V0_q2m3opLrkPH/view

Feb. 1, 2018 marks the 20th anniversary of the death of Marxist-Leninist fighter Sam Marcy. 

“Marxists don’t look at history in the same way bourgeois historians do: as an aimless succession of events propelled by “Great Men.” Society evolves not because of kings or presidents, but because of broad changes in the way the masses of people interact with each other and with the material world in their daily struggle for existence.

In writing about the death of Sam Marcy, the founder of Workers World Party, and trying to summarize his contributions to the world communist movement, it is important to view him in the perspectives of space and time. How can one really appreciate his impact otherwise?

He was a thoroughgoing internationalist who spent all but his early childhood years in just two cities in the United States: New York and Buffalo, N.Y. Yet Marcy came to be respected by revolutionaries all over the world.

The span of his life—1911 to 1998—encompassed all the great revolutions of the 20th century. He studied these revolutions intently. Yet most of his political energy was spent upholding revolutionary Marxism in an environment of deep reaction…”

Sam Marcy, 1911 – Feb. 1, 1918

Do it Like Durham! Black Liberation Month w/ Takiyah Thompson

37 S Ashland, UE Hall, Chicago, 6-8 P.M. 

Co-sponsored by Workers World Party Chicago, Black Lives Matter Chicago, & BYP100 Chicago.

Takiyah Thompson was the first of eight activists arrested in 2017 by Durham, N.C. police after organizing with the community to remove a racist confederate statue. Join us to hear from Takiyah along with local Chicago activists from Black Lives Matter, BYP100, & WWP Chicago about how they are continuing to fight white supremacy, both symbolically and practically. Come share your community’s struggles and discuss how we can work toward liberation together. Takiyah is a member of Workers World Party, a nation-wide revolutionary socialist organization.

Event is free & open to the public. Free snacks & drinks provided. Location is at Ashland and Monroe. 1/4 mile south of the Ashland Green/Pink Line stop, 3/4 mile north-east of Medical District Blue Line stop.

Do it Like Durham! Black Liberation Month w/ Takiyah Thompson

Do it Like Durham! Black Liberation Month w/ Takiyah Thompson

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Pack the Court for Mumia Feb 26 & Mar 27

 Mobilization4Mumia

PRESS RELEASE PR February 1- NYC FINAL (1-31-18)

No to the PROMESA bill and its financial control board!
No to the privatization of public services!
Independence for Puerto Rico!
No to the Colony!