Hosted by Derail the Jail

716 Langdon, Madison, 5-7 P.M.

Will be in Masley Media Room

Are you a student, faculty, campus worker at UW and want to get involved in fighting racist mass incarceration in your county? Join us for this teach-in with the Derail the Jail coalition(DerailtheJail.com), a growing group of activists and organizations that have been on the frontlines fighting against Dane County Board’s attempt to build yet another monument to racist mass incarceration.

County Board leadership and so called “progressives” want to spend $108 million dollars on new jail construction, the most expensive public works project in county history and it’s not going to much needed alternatives like affordable housing, mental health services and jail diversion programs.Derail the Jail Coalition is fighting to redirect the spending away from incarceration and towards those alternatives. We’ve shown up at multiple County Board meetings to testify against the jail project. We’re organizing a mass demonstration on Nov. 20th when the full County Board meets to vote on the budget which will include the jail funding.

Come learn about what’s happening and how you can join the fight and make an impact on the UW campus and in our broader community.

Panel includes following with more to be announced:
– Nino Rodriguez – Derail the Jail Coalition member, Free the 350 Bail Fund – Nino has extensive knowledge of the mass incarceration

– Teddy Shibabaw – Derail the Jail Coalition member, Organizer with Socialist Alternative

Derail the Jail Coalition includes the following organizations:

Affordable Housing Action Alliance (AHAA)
Dane County Trans Health Group
Families for Justice (FFJ)
Madison Urban Ministries
Freedom Inc
Groundwork
Madison Industrial Workers of the World – General Defense Committee (IWW – GDC)
Operation Welcome Home (OWH)
Our Wisconsin Revolution – Dane County (OWR)
Progressive Dane (PD)
Racial Justice Tipping Point (RJTP)
Socialist Alternative (SA)
Student Coalition for Progress
Student Labor Action Coalition
Wisconsin Debate
Young Gifted and Black (YGB)

See below for more background info:

Derail the Jail’s fact sheet:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SjGlpmoDJSOMdNZN9NCSMxr0IrG2U2ulZsdcfF501zM/edit

“Safe for Society” “Jail Pie” chart:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/11Ar58X2dyH7Rsht7TDWu3Z-mSyfq_5NC/view

“Questions for Sheriff Mahoney” — These questions get at the intersection of lack of housing and residential programs, racial disparities, and that Black folks don’t have equitable access to the Sheriff’s home detention program. The Sheriff has repeatedly said, most recently at a forum at Capitol Lakes in response to these questions, that he will not expand the home detention program:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VG0WoI6vLTU838t7vhIdfdp19Q4R913L7bCc86GFnV0/edit

“Why is Dane County Doubling Solitary Confinement Capacity?”: Documenting how the proposed jail plan would more than double the number of cells that could be used for solitary:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XBmP30JXQxQkGWuJj8jQPhZZKCIyubA3fym6uqijoD4/edit

Fact sheet put together by Our Wisconsin Revolution – Dane County:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/18wyBFrqZcZBnda_VcTFIfYPG2xbNulAolQ8p38cOmQA/edit

LACIS at UW-Madison will be hosting on Friday, November 17, from 10 am-noon, exact location TBD (on the UW-Madison campus). Henry Heredia of the Instituto Cubano de Investigación Cultural Juan Marinello, Martina Kunovic grad student at UW Madison, Michael Martin of UW-Milwaukee, and two professors from the University of Havana will be participating in this panel. https://lacis.wisc.edu/

Hosted by IWW at UWM

University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Student Union Room 191, 6:30 P.M.

The populist rhetoric of the 2016 election brought a number of movements into the public consciousness. Among them were various factions of the extreme right-wing of American politics. White supremacists and other bigots associated with the “alt-right” saw in the candidacy of Donald Trump an opportunity to spread their message to a wider audience. Antifascist groups mobilized in response to these public displays of fascism, which brought these conflicts out of the underground and into the streets. This talk will provide an overview of contemporary fascist and antifascist movements with a focus on the key differences between them.

Stanislav Vysotsky is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Wisconsin – Whitewater. Dr. Vysotsky’s research has focused on the conflict between supremacist groups in contemporary American society and their militant anti-fascist opposition through ethnographic and interview research with anti-fascist activists in order to understand the relationship between threat, space, subculture, and social movement activism. His current research is focused on understanding the process of leaving racist subcultures and the discourses of white supremacist groups in online forums and on social media.

“Family members of a 14-year-old boy fatally shot by a sheriff’s deputy on a northern Wisconsin reservation questioned on Thursday why the teen, who they describe as loving and kind, was gunned down. Holly Gauthier said authorities have provided few details about the death of her son, 14-year-old Jason Pero, an 8th grader who died on the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa’s reservation Wednesday.”

http://indianexpress.com/article/world/mother-questions-why-14-year-old-jason-peroson-fatally-shot-by-officer-4930854/

https://wicuba.wordpress.com/

7 P.M. Central United Methodist Church, 25th and Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Henry Heredia is the Director of International Relations and Exchange at the Juan Marinello Cuban Institute for Cultural Research. Heredia has a degree in education from the Pedagogical University in Havana and also studied at the Higher Institute of International Relations Raul Roa. He has more than 10 years’ experience with the environmental and community group Project Espiral, where is a founding member. Since 2011, he manages academic exchanges for Juan Marinello and previously served as the international relations coordinator for the Cuban Writers and Artists Association.

Attorney Art Heitzer will also speak to give an update on the new U.S. restrictions on travel.

Why is the US military in Niger? Join us on The Grass is Greener this Sat. Nov. 11 at 8 pm CST on 104.1FM, when our guest will be Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. Mr. Azikiwe will discuss the growing US involvement in Africa and the possible reasons behind it. You can also hear us on Riverwestradio.com online.

http://panafricannews.blogspot.com/

Mr. Abayomi Azikiwe of the Pan African Newswire and the Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice (MECAWI).

Hosted by Voces de la Frontera

oin us to plan next steps in the fight against AB190 and 287g.
Milwaukee: Saturday, November 11, 2pm, 1027 S 5th St.

Acompáñanos sábado para planear los próximos pasos en la lucha en contra de AB190 y 287g.
Milwaukee: sábado, 11 de noviembre, 2pm, 1027 S 5th St.

Hosted by Voces de la Frontera

Join us to plan next steps in the fight against AB190 and 287g.
Madison: Saturday, November 11, 11am, Centro Hispano (810 W Badger Rd)

Acompáñanos sábado para planear los próximos pasos en la lucha en contra de AB190 y 287g.
Madison: sábado, 11 de noviembre, 11am, Centro Hispano (810 W Badger Rd).

Hosted by Milwaukee IWW

901 N 9th Street, Milwaukee County Courthouse, 11:30 A.M. – 1:30 P.M. 

Come contribte to the continuous visible opposition to MSDF. We will be out front of the courthouse, and if we have enough people also the back door and MSDF enterence. Help us spread information to and collect petition signatures from people targeted by and doing business with Milwaukee’s criminal legal system.

If you haven’t signed the petition yet yourself, please do here:https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/its-time-to-close-milwaukee-secure-detention-facility-msdf

A coaltion of Milwaukee organizations have joined up to shut down MSDF. This facility is a building within a building, where captives have no access to fresh air or sunlight. They are triple bunked in lockdown cells for over 20 hours a day. There is no outdoor rec. The facility was built and is run using funds that should be used for diversionary programs to keep people out of jail, instead it’s being used to keep them on supervision under arbitrary and vindictive probation and parole officers.

We are organizing this protest twice a month. On every 23rd, and one day two weeks before. The National Religious Campaign Against Torture has called for actions on the 23rd of every month (to bring attention to 23 hour a day lockdowns). http://www.nrcat.org/about-us/take-action-current-legislation/563-together-to-end-solitary