Hosted by Chicago Workers World Party

7-8:30 P.M. 

ML STUDY GROUP: CHE EDITION!
**Invite Friends and Comrades**

Marxist-Leninist Study Group is a discussion series for people hoping to learn more about socialism.

It is held the first Monday and third Wednesday of every month, light snacks and beverages provided.

If you are not available in person, tune in using Facebook Live to participate!
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“People in our country know that the glorious period in which they happen to live is one of sacrifice; they are familiar with sacrifice… Cuba is the vanguard of America and must make sacrifices because it occupies the post of advance guard, because it shows the masses of Latin America the road to full freedom. Within the country the leadership has to carry out its vanguard role. It must be said with all sincerity that in a real revolution, to which one gives his or her all and from which one expects no material reward, the task of the vanguard revolutionary is both magnificent and agonizing.” – Guevara in “Socialism and Man in Cuba”
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For the 7th Marxist-Leninist Study Group, we will be reading a few works from Che Guevara:
-Socialism and Man in Cuba
-The Cadres: Backbone of the Revolution
~Total: 22 pages

All readings can be found for free at this link below:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/guevara/works.htm

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January 1, 2018 Mao Edition: Chicago Workers World Party

Hosted by Milwaukee Area Labor Council

633 S Hawley Rd., Milwaukee, 2-4 P.M. 

The Young Workers Committee of the Milwaukee Area Labor Council presents: How to Win a Discipline Defense

This free workshop is open to all and will take an up-to-date look at union discipline principles, expanding on the “seven tests of just cause”. Joe Sexuaer, organizer with UFCW 1473 will lead us through topics such as disparate treatment, due process, off-duty misconduct, presenting grievances, and more.

Saturday January 13th at 2pm in the Milwaukee Area Labor Council hall, 633 S. Hawley Rd.

A limited quantity of books will be available for purchase including Robert Schwartz’s essential “Just Cause, A union guide to winning discipline cases” and “The legal rights of union stewards”.

Hosted by Milwaukee Area Labor Council

633 S Hawley, Milwaukee, 12 NOON – 4 P.M. 

An afternoon of socializing as we welcome the holiday season. We hope to see many of our supporters, partners and members at our holiday open house! Stop by to say hi and stay for good food & beverage. We look forward to seeing you!

Hosted by Young People’s Resistance Committee

920 N Water Street, Red Arrow Park, 6:30 P.M. 

Join us on December 20th at 6:30pm at Red Arrow Park as Young People’s Resistance Committee Community Chapter stands up for TPS and DACA!

We demand for the legalization for all, to put a stop to the terrorizing of our communities, and to put a stop to tearing families apart!

The Trump administration continues to viciously attack immigrants; his last strike was ending DACA, and TPS for Haiti and Nicaragua.

*Temporary Protected Status (TPS) is a form of provisional relief granted to migrants escaping humanitarian crises. Congress established TPS through the Immigration Act of 1990 to offer humane protection to immigrants fleeing their countries due to national disaster, or wars and violence often brought by US imperialism. TPS is granted to over 300,00 immigrants from: El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Syria and Yemen, who work and live lawfully in the US. The Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Elaine Duke has officially ended TPS for Haiti and Nicaragua. Other countries are left in fear whether they’ll stay protected under TPS.

*Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), created under the Obama administration, provides relief from deportation. On September 5th, 2017, the Trump Administration shamefully ended DACA for over 800,000 immigrants.

The Trump Administration pushes it’s relentless attacks on families, on working people, and immigrants fleeing wars and violence often caused by US imperialism, or natural disaster. Come join us as we fight back against these attacks, and struggle against the administration!

Hosted by Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center

http://en.granma.cu/mundo/2017-12-06/blockade-of-cuba-denounced-in-the-united-states

A friend from the U.S. visiting the island recently as part of the “In the footsteps of Che International Brigade” commented: Cuba is an inspiration, because it teaches us that a revolution is possible.

“For us,” he said, “Cuba is an inspiration, because it teaches us that a revolution is possible. It shows us the possibility of uniting and building a powerful force to confront capitalism.” Peters denounced Donald Trump’s position on Cuba, saying, “The alleged sonic attacks on U.S. diplomats in Havana are a big lie, a pretext to damage the Revolution’s reputation. They want to scare off tourists, so they don’t have the opportunity to learn about the significant social advances made here.

“Cuba is my inspiration. I feel at home when I’m visiting because this is a society based on solidarity, far removed from capitalism.”

http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2017/12/11/545221/US-Trump-destroying-civil-rights-movement

US President Donald Trump’s support for white supremacists and other far-right groups is “insulting” to racial minorities and risks harming the civil rights movement, says an analyst in Detroit.

Abayomi Azikiwe, an editor at the Pan-African News Wire, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV about the controversies surrounding the opening of a civil rights museum in the state of Mississippi.

The event, attended by Trump, had been boycotted by several African-American leaders in protest of the president’s policies and record on race relations.

Black congressman John Lewis, a civil rights icon who marched with Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s, said on Thursday that he would not go to the museum opening because of Trump’s presence.

The Democratic lawmaker from Georgia had also skipped Trump’s presidential inauguration in January.

Calling Trump’s attendance a “stain” on the event, Azikiwe said the president had done “everything in his power to destroy the legacy and the gains of the civil rights movement.”

https://www.globalresearch.ca/united-states-coordinated-war-in-yemen-intensifies-after-saleh-assassination/5622468

“…the support for the war being waged in Yemen must be halted in order for genuine stability to occur in the nation. Nonetheless, this goal is unlikely to be realized as long as the status-quo related to U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East remains intact.

Trump’s visit earlier this year to Saudi Arabia was largely centered-around a major multi-billion dollar arms deal. Additional indications were that increased hostility towards the Islamic Republic of Iran would continue to characterize Washington’s foreign policy in the region.

The situation in Yemen is often framed as a proxy war between Riyadh and Tehran due to the political support provided to the Ansurallah by the Islamic Republic. Yet the Trump administration is stoking the crisis by providing military technology and diplomatic cover to Saudi Arabia at the expense of the Yemeni people.”

http://www.nationalnursesunited.org/nurses-around-world-denounce-violent-repression-and-call-restoration-democracy-honduras

Hosted by MLK Day Detroit

Rally and March for “Jobs, Peace & Justice”

Central United Methodist Church
23 E. Adams and Woodward, Detroit

Special Guest Speaker: Rev. Dr. Bernard Lafayette, Special
Assistant to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Schedule:

Noon – Rally at Central United Methodist Church
1:30 pm – Freedom March through downtown Detroit
3:00 pm – Community meal, poetry and music, at St. John’s Episcopal Church, I-75 & Woodward Avenue, Detroit

St. John’s Episcopal Church is located north of the parking lot that is next to the Central United Methodist Church.

This year’s 15th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Rally & March comes at a time of rising hatred, bigotry and military conflict both inside the United States and around the world. The Detroit MLK Day Committee is once again requesting your financial support to continue this tradition which mobilizes the largest social justice gathering in the whole of southeastern Michigan.

On Monday, January 15, 2018, the Detroit MLK Day Program/Rally and March will commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the assassination of Dr. King. This year’s program will feature keynote speaker Rev. Dr. Bernard Lafayette of Emory University, who served as a special assistant to Dr. King for several years.

Just one year prior to his assassination, Dr. King had come out solidly against military intervention in Vietnam. The speech which was delivered on April 4, 1967 by Dr. King linked the struggle against racism, war and poverty in the United States. Dr. King had been under pressure to do so by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) which had taken a firm position against the war in early January 1966.

In addition, 2018 represents the 50th anniversary of the Memphis sanitation workers’ strike as well as the Poor Peoples’ Campaign. These events prefigured the ongoing struggle on behalf of low-wage workers and the imperative of eliminating poverty in this country. The Civil Rights and Peace advocate visited the city of Detroit just three weeks prior to his death, speaking at Grosse Pointe High School and Central United Methodist Church on March 14-15.

Dr. King, who remained a proponent of nonviolence until his death, did not condemn the rebellions which struck over 160 cities during 1967-68. He stated that the “riots were the voices of the unheard.” Noting that the federal government needed to heed the calls of African Americans and other oppressed masses for social justice in order to avoid a much more profound social calamity. Today, some five decades later, the problems of institutional racism, police brutality, poverty and the Pentagon budget remain impediments to the U.S. becoming a genuinely democratic society.

You are cordially invited to attend this 15th Annual Detroit MLK Day event at Central United Methodist Church, 23 E. Adams (at Woodward Ave.) in Detroit. The program begins at 12 noon in the sanctuary and will include music and brief messages from cultural workers and activists from throughout the region.

At about 1:30 p.m., the Detroit MLK Day March for Jobs, Peace and Justice will begin. At 3:00 p.m., a special cultural program of poetry and music will take place at the neighboring St. John’s Episcopal Church located on Woodward at the Fisher I-75 service drive, just one block north of Central. A light meal will be served.

The Detroit MLK Day Committee is comprised of a small, dedicated group of volunteers. Due to the significance of the January 15, 2018, Detroit MLK Day Program & March, we are seeking contributions now to assure a successful event.

Please send your contribution and enclosed donor response form to: Detroit MLK Day Committee, 5920 Second Ave., Detroit, MI 48202. Please make checks payable to: “Detroit MLK Day”. You may donate onlinehttps://mlkdetroit.org/donate/.