On April 30, 2014 Dontre Hamilton was shot 14 times by a Milwaukee Police Officer. We now use this day as a day to remember Dontres love and to spread love and educate the community on how important it’s to stay awake and engaged in the social movement. There will be food entertainment and beautiful people from this city to encourage and guide you in a positive direction. We want to do more for the kids of this city. So your blessing on donating will help encourage and inspire change.
The Hamilton Family thanks you in advance for all you have done and plan to do.
One Love!!
A very serious situation is unfolding in Jacksonville Florida. Yesterday activists holding an anti-war protest in Jacksonville, FL were attacked by far-right provocateurs and the Jacksonville Sheriffs Office (JSO) who appeared to be working in a coordinated effort.
The first activist targeted was a Black community leader and activist Connell Crooms, who is deaf. An accused Klan member named Gary Snow started a fight with Crooms while was on stage leading chants. The police intervened and threw Crooms to the ground, knocking his hearing aid out. Several cops beat him, chocked him, and tazed him until he went unconscious. His limp body was dragged and stuffed into the back of a police cruiser across the street. For several hours activists searched for Crooms’s location and condition, not knowing if he was alive. The Sheriff refused to tell his own mother what his condition was. We since heard from the laywers that he is now conscious and communicating.
At least four others were arrested, some were trying to intervene in the police brutality, others were arrested for just standing by in shock and outrage. An elderly member of Veterans for Peace was punched several times for no reason and a trans activist was targeted. A lead organizer of the protest, Dave Schneider, was arrested while walking away from the scene after being identified by the cops as a leader.
Crooms and Schnieder are being charged with felonies for allegedly “inciting a riot.” Crooms and Schnieder are among a group of activists that have been targeted by JSO with a modern day COINTELPRO program ( https://tinyurl.com/mnn4wqd ) that spied on activists from groups that organized a campaign against JSO for killing a 22-year old Black man in 2016. ( https://tinyurl.com/j3sad6k )
200 people protested the arrests of the “Hemming 5” today outside the JSO and activists were locked out of the courthouse while testimony from police supporters was taken about the events yesterday.
The JSO facebook page has posted slander against the arrested activists, saying they started a riot. JSO is trying to control the message, but we need your support to spread the truth and demand the sharges be dropped, and that JSO and their far-right allies be held accountable for attempting to violently stomp out free speech.
On April 8 in Madison, protesters came out to Library Mall to demand the U.S. stop its war on Syria. A diverse group of labor-community representatives participated.
“We uphold the right of Syria to self determination as they face ruthless attempts by the U.S. and other imperialists intent on ‘regime change’ and destabilization efforts. It’s not just Trump who is attacking Syria but the entire U.S. capitalist class with their racist imperialist ideology. We demand of the U.S. a complete ceasefire and withdrawal from Syria. We demand money for people’s needs including reparations for people of African descent right here in Wisconsin. We will remain in the streets until U.S. capitalism and imperialism are defeated,” said Zach Gevelinger of Wisconsin Bail Out the People.
On April 9 dozens of protesters held a rally at 3rd and Wisconsin and marched to the Federal Building in Milwaukee to demand no U.S. war in Syria and money for human needs not war. Youth and students and a variety members from many labor-community groups participated in the protest which was sponsored by the Iraq Veterans Against the War – Milwaukee, the Milwaukee Antiwar Committee and the Milwaukee Coalition Against Trump with support from the Wisconsin Bail Out The People Movement and other organizations.
Activists in the Movement for Black Lives strongly condemned the U.S. missile strikes on a Syrian government airfield Friday. In tweets sent after news of the strikes were confirmed in a statement from President Donald Trump, leaders within the Black Lives Matter Global Network and the Black Youth Project 100, among others, expressed dismay at the U.S. intervention in Syria.
“The people of #Syria are carrying the weight of American fascism. 206,500 pounds of missiles launched by #DFT today, to be exact,” the BLM Global Network tweeted early Friday morning.
Protesters will hit the streets Friday with an immediate rejection of the Trump Administration’s war escalation and the ongoing U.S.-backed war against the Syrian people.
In New York, protesters will converge on Union Square for a 6:30 rally and march, with other cities including Washington, DC; Baltimore; Philadelphia and others.
Protesters will reject this latest attack on a poor country coming on the heels of hundreds of civilian deaths at the hands of US airstrikes in Mosul, Yemen and Syria itself. The hypocrisy of Washington — whose military possesses the world’s largest stockpile of chemical, nuclear, biological and conventional weapons — launching more more airstrikes to stop the use of chemical weapons is staggering, and shows the true intent: regime change.
U.S. wars are always built on lies and claims that they are fought for humanitarian reasons. Whether it was the Gulf of Tonkin resolution in 1966 which launched the U.S. into the quagmire of Viet Nam; the 1990 incubator baby lie which launched a 42-day aerial assault of Iraq, killing tens of thousands; or 2003’s infamous weapons of mass destruction — the end result is always death and destruction, waged for Wall Street profits.
The Syrian Arab Army was winning the war against ISIS and the U.S.-backed “rebels” and had no strategic, political or military reason to stage a deadly chemical attack. The August 2013 chemical attack in Syria’s Ghouta — referred to now as if it was another example of the Syrian government’s brutality — was shown not to have come from the Assad government, according to UN investigators as well as establishment journalists like Seymour Hersh.
Neither political party can be relied on to stand up to the U.S. war machine. It is clear that only the people, whom Trump has outraged with his anti-immigrant racism, anti-Muslim bigotry and base misogyny, are capable of opposing this war — as Trump embraces the foreign policy goals and war strategies of Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Tomorrow those people will be in the streets — to reject Washington’s latest war and demand that the trillions spent for war abroad be used instead for people’s needs like jobs, housing, healthcare, reproductive rights and daycare.
The Federation of Cuban Workers (CTC) and national trade unions calls on the Cuban people to mobilize to celebrate May Day, in a joyful environment of unity and commitment in the defense of socialism, under the banner of “Unity is our strength”
The Federation of Cuban Workers (CTC) and national trade unions has a issued a call on the Cuban people to mobilize to celebrate May Day, in a joyfyl environment of unity and commitment in the defense of socialism, under the banner of “Unity is our strength.”
There are many reasons for us to make this celebration of the global proletariat the greatest demonstration of support for our Revolution, Raúl and the Communist Party of Cuba, as well as a tribute to our historic leader, Comandante en Jefe Fidel Castro Ruz. This will be an opportunity to reaffirm the sacred oath to fulfill his Concept of Revolution endorsed by our people.
We will dedicate this May Day to Cuban youth, who today, as never before, stand as the continuators of the work of those who, almost 60 years ago, changed the course of our homeland’s history to make Cuba a free and independent nation, an example of sovereignty, dignity and heroism for the world.
This day will be a propitious moment to recognize the value of work, to maximize efficiency in each collective, to promote conservation to fulfill production and service plans, as well as to recognize outstanding individuals and collectives in this endeavor.
On this occasion we are invited to celebrate important events that highlight our history and traditions of struggle, such as the 56th anniversary of the victory of Playa Girón and the proclamation of the socialist character of the Revolution, the 55th anniversary of the creation of the Young Communists League and the 50th anniversary of the death of the heroic guerrilla Ernesto Che Guevara, promoter of the struggle for the country’s industrialization, the drive to ensure daily fulfillment of our duties, labor discipline, the quality of production, voluntary work, and the innovators and rationalizers movement.
We will highlight the example and legacy of great labor leaders such as Lázaro Peña González, Jesús Menéndez Larrondo, José María Pérez Capote, and Aracelio Iglesias Díaz, as well as the example of others who identify the highest values of our different unions and workers.
This May Day we will ratify the firm conviction that through our own effort, victories, and proven ability to fight, we will continue to carry forward the process of updating the economic and social model that we have chosen, with the objective of developing the country and achieving the welfare of the people.
These activities will promote knowledge and support in each collective for the implementation of the Guidelines from the 7th Party Congress, aimed at building a sovereign, independent, socialist, democratic, prosperous, and sustainable nation.
Once again, during the huge, colorful marches in all our plazas and avenues, we will repeat the demand of our workers for an end to the criminal and genocidal economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States on Cuba, and the return of the territory illegally occupied by the Guantánamo Naval Base. At the same time we will reaffirm our solidarity with the peoples of the world who are fighting against the discriminatory policies that neoliberal capital applies in the labor sphere.
This year’s global workers’ celebration will be held in an international context in which the right is on the offensive in Latin America, attacking democratic processes and their leaders across the region.
Cuba reaffirms its support for the Bolivarian Revolution and the Venezuelan people in their struggle for sovereignty and self-determination, while at the same time expresses its decisive contribution to the consolidation of the economic, social, and cultural integration mechanisms of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), to successfully face the challenge of building a better world.
Compatriots
Nothing and no one will be able to stop us. The Cuban people will triumph.
Long live May Day!
Long live Fidel and Raúl!
Ever onward to victory!
