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310 W Locust Street, Milwaukee, 9 A.M.-5 P.M.

Juneteenth is a holiday celebrated in cities across the United States to commemorate the emancipation. The Milwaukee Juneteenth Day Celebration is a community-wide event organized as a street festival with various family-friendly activities taking place over the course of a day. The annual summer block party encourages anyone and everyone to attend and join in the festivities, which include live music, kids’ games, exhibits, soul food and more.

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Pilgrimage for Justice
Statewide Day of Action at the Capitol in Madison

Stop Anti-Immigrant Bill AB190
Yes to Driver’s Licenses
Gov. Walker: No 287g in Wisconsin! Appoint a Sheriff who respects human rights for Milwaukee!

Wednesday, June 28, 12pm
State Capitol in Madison
Buses from across the state
Info: 414-469-9206 • vdlf.org/nohate

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Peregrinación por la Justicia
Día de acción estatal en el Capitolio en Madison

¡No a la ley anti-inmigrante AB190!
¡Sí a licencias de conducir!
¡Walker, nombra un sheriff para Milwaukee que respeta los derechos humanos!

miercoles • 28 de junio • 12pm
Capitolio estatal en Madison
Buses de a través del estado
Info: 414-828-2692 • vdlf.org/nohate

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¡No a la ley anti-inmigrante AB190/SB275!
¡Sí a licencias de conducir!
¡No 287g en Wisconsin!

Foro Comunitario de Madison
sábado, 24 de junio, 10am
Centro Hispano
810 W Badger Rd, Madison
Info: 414-828-2692
vdlf.org/nohate

Legisladores republicanos estatales han presentado una propuesta de ley para hacer que la policía actúe como agentes de Inmigración.

Acompáña a Voces de la Frontera y líderes y aliados de la comunidad inmigrante del área de Madison para un foro comunitario para platicar de como podemos resistir a esta ley discriminatoria y los esfuerzos de traer 287g a Wisconsin.

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Stop the anti-immigrant bill AB190/SB275!
Return Driver’s Licenses to Immigrants!
No 287g in Wisconsin

Madison Community Forum
Saturday, June 24, 10am
Centro Hispano
810 W Badger Rd, Madison
Info: 414-828-2692
vdlf.org/nohate

Republican state legislators have introduced a bill to make police act like Immigration agents, racially profiling and separating immigrant families. Join us for a Madison community forum to discuss how we can defeat this discriminatory, anti-immigrant bill.

There is no substitute for being at the UNAC conference This weekend and interacting with the movement leaders and activists who will be there, but if you absolutely can not make it, you can still view a live stream of the conference here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist…. To see who is speaking and at what time, please see the program on the conference web site: http://UNACconference2017.org

People’s Coverage on teleSUR: http://www.telesurtv.net/english/index.html

Wisconsin Coalition to Normalize Relations with Cuba

633 West Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 1410, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53203  www.wicuba.wordpress.or g 

 

 

Media Release:                  Contact: Atty. Art Heitzer, 414-273-1040, ext. 12; or 414-628-2547 

June 15, 2017

MILWAUKEEANS RESPOND TO TRUMP’S ANNOUNCEMENTS ON CUBA & SUPPORT OUR RIGHT TO TRAVEL

        

  Friday, June 16, 2017, 3:30pm

  Central United Methodist Church, 639 North 25th Street, Milwaukee

The Wisconsin Coalition to Normalize Relations with Cuba is sponsoring a news conference to respond to this Friday’s announcement in Miami by President Trump of his new policies towards Cuba, and to support our right to travel and interact with the Cuban people.

The news conference will take place on Friday, June 16, 2017, 3:30 pm, at Central United Methodist Church (CUMC), 639 North 25th Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53233. CUMC has a sister church in Central Havana (La Trinidad), and when members of CUMC attended the centennial celebration of their sister church in 1999, were prosecuted by the U.S. government for under policies which have since been abandoned. The U.S. government eventually dropped all charges, in response to assertions that this attempted prosecution interfered with the members’ religious practice and was based on racial profiling. Members of the church delegation will be present on Friday.

The presenters will include: Dr. Raul Galvan, who has been in his native Cuba twice with groups this year, and produced a story for Milwaukee PBS which will air Friday evening at 7:30 on Channel 10.1; Dr. Tony Baez, a prominent leader in Milwaukee’s Latino community; Rebecca Skeeter and Alicia Skeeter, mother & sister of a Wisconsin medical student in Cuba;  Lupe Duenas, who recently returned from two church mission trips to Cuba; Paul Kinsley & possibly Bill Ferguson, members of CUMC who were prosecuted for visiting their sister church in 1999; and Ken Greening, who visited Cuba in recent years with Pastors for Peace.

A recent poll showed that 65% of Americans want to maintain the Obama policy changes and that a majority of Republicans favor dropping all travel and trade restrictions. “Some 55 members of the U.S. Senate have sponsored a bill to repeal entirely the restrictions on the right of U.S. people to travel to Cuba, and a recent study projected that if the limited relaxation in U.S. travel and trade restrictions under President Obama are reversed, it will cost the U.S. economy $6.6 billion, and destroy over 12,000 jobs. We need to have further exchange between the people of Cuba and the U.S., for our mutual interests,” stated Milwaukee attorney Arthur Heitzer, who represented the CUMC members and has advised U.S. travelers to Cuba nationally.

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Police Shooting in Milwaukee- June 11, 2017

Freedom, Inc. condemns the Milwaukee, WI police shooting of two people over a traffic stop on June 11, 2017. Our thoughts are with the family members of those shot and the community impacted by police and other state violence. We renew our call for Community Control over Police as a means of ending police violence.

Milwaukee police shot two people, killing one at this writing, during a traffic stop at Lake Drive and Lincoln Memorial near the North Point Water Tower. Eyewitnesses claim that after shooting ‘multiple times’ into the windshield of a moving car, the police prevented ambulances and paramedics from treating the injured on the scene.

The police shooting comes just as Milwaukee police officer Dominique Heaggan-Brown faces trial for the shooting death of Sylville Smith, killed on August 13, 2016 in the Sherman Park neighborhood of Milwaukee. The shooting led to several nights of urban rebellion.

The tragedy unfolded on a hot Sunday afternoon as people relaxed on the waterfront near the North Point Water Tower. Witnesses say police tried to pull over a car and then shot into the car multiple times as the car attempted to flee.

While in most states in the US, police are prohibited by departmental rules from engaging in car chases in heavily trafficked areas, Milwaukee police shot multiple times into a moving vehicle, apparently over an alleged traffic violation. This type of reckless behavior puts lives at risk and demonstrates that police are more interested in forcing the public to comply with their commands than in ensuring public safety. Whatever the infraction allegedly committed by the driver, it could not have possibly been worth shooting two people inside of a moving car.

Freedom, Inc. asserts that this sort of police behavior is not the work of a few bad apples or a ‘one off’ event, but rather a pattern and practice of multiple police departments across the country.

This type of police action is the best argument for real Community Control over Police, where the job of the police is to protect the community in the way they want to be protected. https://www.facebook.com/AboutFreedomInc/