Right after President Trump’s inauguration, a student group (Madison American Freedom Party) has surfaced on campus claiming themselves to be the voice of the Alt-Right at UW. For those unfamiliar with the alt-right, it is a racist ideological group that believes in white supremacy, among other extreme nationalist positions.

The organization claims “to provide support and general direction, for UW-Madison students aspiring to understand, organize and lobby in defense against college practices, policies and climate which are hostile to students and faculty of European ethnic background and traditional values.”

This thinly veiled white nationalism and blatant racism has no place on the diverse UW-Madison campus or in the city as a whole.

WE WILL NOT ALLOW HATE TO THRIVE AT UW-MADISON AS IT HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO THRIVE ACROSS THE COUNTRY BECAUSE THE ELECTION HAS MADE IT ACCEPTABLE. THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE.

We need to make this campus a safe space for ALL, including people of color, sexual assault survivors, Muslims, Jews, LGBTQIA+ people, people with low income, people with disabilities, undocumented immigrants, refugees, and anyone else that is systematically targeted along identity lines.

We are gathering at Library Mall at 5pm and will march up Bascom to deliver a list of demands to Chancellor Blank and Dean of Students Lori Berquam in order to initiate response to many of the troubling events that have occurred since the election.

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Collaborating Organizations:
Student Coalition for Progress
College Democrats of UW-Madison
UW BlackOut
Teaching Assistants’ Association
Socialist Alternative
International Socialist Organization
Black Liberation Action Coalition
Student Labor Action Coalition
Industrial Workers of the World – Madison GMB
Union de Trabajadores Immigrantes
Guerrilla Feminism
Working Class Student Union
Groundwork
Our Revolution UW
Ten Percent Society
Wisconsin Speech and Debate Team
Autonomous Solidarity Organization
National Organization for Women – Madison chapter
National Organization for Women – UW chapter
Discord Collective
Degenderettes
Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice
Four Lakes Green Party
Madison Rafah Sister City Project
Cocks Not Glocks
No Trump No Bigotry
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Please reach out if you wish to speak or want your organization to collaborate!

The Republican Congressional Retreat is in Philadelphia Jan 25-27 to make plans on how to steal our healthcare! Over 500 LGBTQ and straight people gathered in the street outside the Loews Hotel to resist! / Photo: Joe Piette, https://www.facebook.com/WWPhilly/

Madison, WI

We have three guests from the Menominee nation on the Grass is Greener this week on Riverwest Radio 104.1FM, speaking on the threat to the Great Lakes by the Enbridge Line 5 Oil Pipeline through the Chequamegon National Forest and Bad River Indian Reservation. Anahkwet (Guy Reiter) is a traditional Menominee who resides on the Menominee Reservation. He’s a Community organizer, activist, author, lecturer. He also is a member of the Menominee Conservation Committee and Menominee Constitutional Taskforce. Burton Warrington is a lawyer and has been heavily involved in the Back Forty Mine. Wade Fernandez is an award winning international touring artist from the Menominee Nation and hopefully will be gracing us with a bit of his music. Give a listen this Sat. Jan 28 at 8 pm CST on 104.1FM or riverwestradio.com online.

From the WI AFL-CIO:

http://www.wisaflcio.org/

Great news! Federal judges have just ordered Gov. Walker and the legislature to redraw Assembly districts for the state of Wisconsin. A panel of three judges previously ruled that the 2011 maps drawn by Walker & Republicans were unconstitutional because their hyper-partisan nature trampled on the rights of voters to have a fair say in our democracy. Now, the courts have ordered that new, less partisan Assembly maps be drawn. Redrawing Assembly maps will also impact Senate maps as there are 3 Assembly district in each Senate district.

The new maps must be drawn by November 1, 2017 and be in place for the November 2018 elections.

We’ve seen Scott Walker and his Republican allies attempt every dirty trick in the book to silence voters, consolidate power and retain control. We’ve seen hyper partisan districts (now ruled unconstitutional), early voting locations and hours restricted (partly restored by the court), photo ID laws that disenfranchise voters, campaign finance rules changed so dark money can flow in and even our government watchdog ethics board dismantled.

CALL TO ACTION:  Right now, with the new court decision, the momentum is shifting! We need qualified candidates to step up and run for office. Candidates who share our working-class values and are ready to fight special interests in order to raise wages, restore collective bargaining rights and fight for safe work places. We need union members and union supporters to consider a run for office.

Our democracy works best when all people have an equal say in who represents them. Scott Walker and Republicans are starting to be held accountable for rigging the rules and stacking the deck against the people. Let’s continue to hold them accountable to working families.

In Solidarity,

Phil Neuenfeldt, President

Stephanie Bloomingdale, Secretary-Treasurer

http://www.wisaflcio.org/

Midwest WWP Fight For National Liberation and Socialism Conference

Join Workers World Party in Detroit, Michigan along with other Midwest WWP branches for a fightback conference on the resistance against racism and capitalism, and the struggle for socialism where we’ll discuss:

*Ending the police war on Black & Brown people & defending the Black Lives Matter movement

*Stopping the raids & deportations & disarming ICE & the police

*Defending queer and trans people, fighting for LGBTQ liberation  and women’s rights now

*Fighting imperialism from Syria to Africa, for a free Palestine, and building international solidarity

*Abolishing capitalism and fighting for revolutionary socialism

*The struggle in the Midwest against powerful reactionary state apparatuses and a direct ruling class offensive

*The economic, political, and social war waged against Detroit, a former stronghold of workers’ power and black liberation

*Combating the emboldened right wing and rising fascist movement

*Fight For Standing Rock and other indigenous struggles

Racist police repression, raids and deportations, and the attacks on working class and oppressed people cannot be ended, once and for all, until the decaying capitalist system, which is becoming more and more desperately dependent on state repression, is ended. Capitalism must be replaced with a system that is based on meeting human needs, not exploitation to make profits: socialism.

These and other pressing struggles of the day — along with the experiences, observations, and questions of those in attendance — will be the basis of the conference.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/

After just seven days of the administration of President Donald Trump, a host of measures have been enacted which threaten a myriad of constituencies throughout the country and internationally.

Abayomi Azikiwe: “…The ascendancy of Trump provides an important opportunity for the building of a broad-based united front of democratic forces including African Americans, Latin Americans, Native peoples, immigrants, women, LGBTQ communities, environmentalists and other working class constituencies. However, this alliance which represents the majority of the population within the U.S. must be based on sound political principles and not opportunism. The rights and demands of the oppressed must by upheld including foreign policy questions such as the dismantling of the military industrial complex, the liberation of Palestine, and the elimination of racist violence and institutionalized discrimination against the people of color communities.

Philly Coalition for REAL Justice

http://phillyrealjustice.com/

@PhillyforREALjustice

The Republican Congressional Retreat is in Philadelphia Jan 25-27 to make plans on how to steal our healthcare! Over 500 LGBTQ and straight people gathered in the street outside the Loews Hotel to resist! / Photo: Joe Piette, https://www.facebook.com/WWPhilly/

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