By L.T. Pham posted on September 22, 2016, http://www.workers.org/

Join Workers World Party and hundreds of activists from around the country and the world for the annual WWP National Conference on Nov. 11-13 in New York.

2016 has seen nothing short of an assault on the movement for justice, liberation and self-determination. But it has also been an incredible year of struggle, where the most militant people have risen up to say no more to exploitation, violence and repression, all facilitated by capitalism.

The conference will come only days after the presidential elections. Working and oppressed people will, without a doubt, be disappointed by the results. But where will we go from there? How will we channel our righteous rage and frustration into action? These are the questions we will take up as we honor the brave young people, communities and organizers who have confronted power and are claiming the future.

Regardless of who becomes the next president of the United States, we know that the truth remains: So long as the U.S. has the ability to terrorize Black and Brown people at home and abroad, so long as workers can barely afford to live, so long as LGBTQ people and women are under attack, so long as the politicians, bosses and bankers rule our lives, we must fight, fight, fight!

If you are interested in learning about and discussing why we must keep fighting for socialism, join Workers World Party at the Malcolm X & Betty Shabazz Center in New York City — the historical site of the Audubon Ballroom, where Malcolm X was assassinated on Feb. 21, 1965.

The annual WWP National Conference will convene revolutionaries and organizers from the frontlines of struggles, from Black Lives Matter to Palestine Solidarity, from anti-war to Fight for $15, from the LGBTQ struggle to women’s liberation and immigrants’ rights.

We lift up the struggles that need solidarity, not only here in the U.S. but also around the world — to end the blockade still on Cuba, end U.S. war aggression in Syria, stop the subversion of Venezuela, and show solidarity with migrants to the U.S. and the European Union. We lift up the banners of internationalism and socialist unity to build toward a revolution that will liberate all workers and oppressed people.

We choose ourselves — not the warmonger Hillary Clinton who called Black youths “predators,” not the hate-mongering billionaire Donald Trump who nurtures Klan and Nazi types. We choose solidarity — not the state’s tools of division, not the comfort of isolation.

We choose the movement — not the lies of the election, not the idea that the powers that be will fall on their own. We choose a path to revolution — not the lure of a softer, kinder capitalism, not another day of chains and cages. Let us continue to build the movement against capitalism, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, Islamophobia and more!

Black Lives Matter! Defend Native sovereignty! Abolish the police! Smash capitalism! LGBTQ liberation now! End women’s oppression! Free Palestine! The working class has no borders! http://www.workers.org/wwp/vote-for-socialism/

UBLAC Milwaukee

For Immediate Release

September 22, 2016
Milwaukee, WI

Message in Italics from Workers World Party Durham Branch

In light of the developments in Charlotte in the aftermath of the murder of #KeithLamontScott, conference organizers are having an emergency meeting to figure out how to approach this Saturday’s conference. In the meantime – please circulate this announcement from folks on the ground in Charlotte:
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As you know, Charlotte has been rocked in recent days by a police occupation following the police murder of Keith Lamont Scott, an unarmed Black man. As the governor escalates action against protesters on the ground, the uprising is gaining steam — this is a movement moment, and we need all hands on deck.

SHOW UP IN CHARLOTTE!
A call to mobilize 1,000s against police violence
Saturday, September 24th
1pm
March starting from Marshall Park in Uptown Charlotte, NC
800 East 3rd St.
All ages, rain or shine
Invitation from The Tribe CLT and Charlotte Trans and Queer People of Color Collective

Come to Charlotte this Saturday to stand with us and gather together.

On Tuesday, our brother and neighbor Keith Lamont Scott was killed by Charlotte police. He was sitting in his car, reading a book, and waiting for his son to come home on the school bus. We believe he was profiled and killed by police, and that CMPD is not telling the truth about his murder. Show Up For Charlotte

Tuesday night, Charlotte police attacked a grieving community with riot police and tear gas. Wednesday night, Charlotte police fired into a crowd, seriously injuring a protestor and inflaming our grief. Show Up For Charlotte

Today, our city is occupied by the National Guard and we are in a State of Emergency! Show Up For Charlotte

Charlotte, the latest city to be wrecked by police violence against Black people and violence against Black people, is a national crisis. We need to end this epidemic now! Let’s show the nation that we stand against police violence that targets Black people and our communities. Let’s show that Charlotte, and the nation, will no longer tolerate the routine murders of Black people by an unaccountable system of policing. Show Up For Charlotte

Come to Charlotte to make a historic stand and to demand dignity and respect for Black lives. Show Up For Charlotte

We are: Charlotte Tribe, Charlotte Trans and Queer People of Color Collective, Charlotte SURJ, Ignite NC, Black Youth Project-Durham Chapter, Beloved Community Center, Youth Organizing Institute , Southern Vision Alliance, Durham Solidarity Center, Workers World Party, Queer People Of Color Collective GSO, NC TROUBLMakers, Million Hoodies, Black University. Show Up For Charlotte

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https://intercontinentalcry.org/mining-leaves-a-wisconsin-tribes-hallowed-sites-at-risk/

“…There is a palpable change in the tribe as it gathers its voice against the mine, Reiter says. Speaking events, fliers, websites and new partnerships proliferate, but that’s only half the story: Tribal members have taken to days-long walks from the reservation to the Menominee River, tracing their ancestors’ steps. They’ve re-seeded the river’s mouth with wild rice—Menominee is Algonkian for “People of the wild rice,” and other tribes in the region said that when the Menominee appeared, wild rice followed. When they left, the rice passed.

The tribe has also reinstituted language programs at schools. The mine debate, Reiter says, has rekindled the tribe’s river roots.

It’s a revival Reiter himself has lived. In rallying against the mine, he’s learned from elders of the obligation to watch over the river…”

Photo: Brian Bienkowski

Donate: http://bit.ly/2cVYbPE

On Tuesday, September 20, 2016, Keith Lamont Scott, a disabled Black man, was shot and killed by Charlotte police while he was sitting in his truck reading, waiting for his children to get off the school bus.

Charlotte community and organizers took to the streets all night and into the early morning to fight back against the continued police terror that criminalizes and murders Black people.

As the situation unfolds, organizers on the ground need support to get materials, supplies, and other needs met to continuing supporting folks as they connect their righteous rage to action.

All contributions collected on this page will go towards the CLT QTPOC Coalition, a group of organizers who have been taking action for Black Lives, against HB2, for Standing Rock, among other pressing front line issues.

Donations will go towards the following needs:

• banners and signs
• an altar at the site of the murder
• water
• camping supplies
• medical supplies
• cameras
• portable cellphone chargers

FREEDOM FIGHTER BOND FUND: http://durhamsolidaritycenter.org/bondfund/

Photo pulled from Al Jazeera 

Encuentro Fronterizo: Espacio para Personas de Color en Tucson, AZ el 8 de octubre

Para información en español sobre el Espacio para Personas de Color del Encuentro Fronterizo y el nuevo colectivo, Frente X, liderando su creación – horario, logística, declaración de principios, registración para participantes, avisos para viajar para personas de todos estatus migratorios, aplicación para presentar un taller en el Espacio en Tucson, y más – por favor visite http://soaw.org/border/espacio_frentex o mandenos un correo electronic a FrenteX@protonmail.com

Border Encuentro: People of Color Space in Tucson, Arizona on October 8

We are excited to anounce the creation of a People of Color (POC) Space at the Encuentro! We believe that the Encuentro provides a unique opportunity for those most directly impacted by state sanctioned violence in the U.S., Latin America, and beyond to learn from one another, and begin building networks of inter-racial, transnational solidarity among each other.

For more information on the POC Space and Frente X, the new collective leading its creation, please visit http://soaw.org/border/frentex or email us at FrenteX@protonmail.com

The moral necessity to make the Encuentro/Convergence accessible to our undocumented family led us to create the POC Space in Tucson, AZ, where people are not forced to traverse a Border Patrol checkpoint in order to arrive. A workshop and/or space to discuss solidarity for white allies is being organized in Nogales, stay tuned for more details.

• POC Space/Frente X Living Statement – A new collective of POC organizers, Frente X for International Liberation, or “Frente X”, has taken the lead in creating the POC Space. Frente X seeks to build upon the history of the SOA Watch movement by creating a Space at the Encuentro where Latinx, Black, Arab, South Asian, API, and other POC, can plant the seeds for an anti-imperialist network in which POC in the U.S. build solidarity with not just Latin Americans, but with each other. Gender justice is a founding principle of Frente X, and the leadership and inclusion of youth, womyn, gay, queer, trans & gender non-conforming POC in the Space/collective is of utmost importance. Click here to read the “living” statement of the principles, demands, and goals of Frente X, which will be finalized at or after the Encuentro.
• POC Space Schedule of Events – Participants in the POC Space are encouraged to attend the Encuentro’s opening event, the vigil/rally outside of the Eloy Detention Center on 10/7. A full day of POC Space programming will then take place in Tucson on Saturday 10/8. Please see the recommended schedule for the Encuentro for POC Space participants, and visit the POC Space webpage for updates, schedule, workshops, and other information for the POC Space.
• POC Space Registration – In order to be able to best finalize our preparations for the POC Space and keep in contact with those attending, considering attending, or simply interested in the POC Space/Frente X‘s work and/or donating to it, please fill out this form, which includes table registration for POC Space. We are also looking for POC interpreters, healers, peace-makers, and others familiar with restorative justice and/or conflict resolution. Please email FrenteX@protonmail.com if you are interested in supporting in this way.
• POC Space Workshop Applications (9/23 deadline) – We are accepting applications for workshops for the Saturday 10/8 POC Space program. The application deadline is this Friday, September 23 at 11:59 PM Pacific Time, but will continue accepting applications on a rolling basis. Either way, please submit an application ASAP. Existing workshops include: Trans women in immigration detention and the borderlands; U.S. governement surveillance of Black Muslim immigrant population; Social movements in Mexico (by Ayotzinapa school student). We are asking workshop applicants to address inter-racial, transnational solidarity, gender justice and/or that they be open to collaborating with other groups/individuals. Please fill out this form if you are interested in conducting a workshop.
• Travel Advisory & Know Your Rights in Arizona – Important information to help you prepare and know risks in traveling to Tucson and/or Nogales AZ, and/or Nogales MX: (English) (Spanish)
• Rideshare – If you are looking for rides, or can offer rides to the Encuentro, please visit this Facebook Community page.

For updates and more information on the POC Space or Frente X visit our page in English and Spanish. For more information on the overall Border Encuentro, visit http://soaw.org/border

And please forward this email to your friends, comrades, family members, and colleagues that may be interested in this ongoing initiative, whether or not they are able to atend this year’s POC Space at the Border Encuentro!

En Solidaridad,

SOA Watch POC Space/Frente X, FrenteX@protonmail.com

Confronting anti-immigrant racists in Milwaukee July 19. [Photo: Occupy Riverwest]