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We will unite with hundreds of school districts across the nation on Thursday, October 6 to demand publicly funded, equitable, and democratically controlled public schools.
This national action will help shift the public debate and build a national movement for strong public schools for every child.

Here in Milwaukee, we will be organizing one of two powerful actions at each school around public education funding. Each school will hold either a morning walk-in or an afternoon neighborhood walk with parents, students, community members, and educators.

These actions will help us build our movement to expose and reverse the funding inequities that exist in Wisconsin’s public schools.

Begin organizing your school community’s Oct. 6 action today! Talk with your MTEA building leaders and register at mtea.org.

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Community Conversation with Monica Moorehead, Presidential Candidate for Workers World Party

Monica Moorehead has been an activist and organizer for more than four decades. Moorehead has long been a supporter of people’s struggles in Wisconsin including the 2011 people’s occupation of the state capitol in Madison to fight for union rights, the struggle for justice for Tony Robinson and Dontre Hamilton and others killed by cops, joining protests against the right-wing Bradley Foundation, supporting the latest Milwaukee rebellion by Black youth and defending Black Lives Matter organizations such as the Coalition For Justice and Young Gifted and Black. Moorehead and her Vice Presidential candidate Lamont Lilly are on the 2016 presidential ballot in Wisconsin.

A member of Workers World Party since 1975, Moorehead now sits on the Party’s national secretariat and is a managing editor of Workers World newspaper. She was WWP’s candidate for president of the United States in 1996 and 2000; in 1996 and 2016 she sought the nomination of the Peace & Freedom Party in California.

Born in Alabama during segregation, Moorehead became politically active as a teenager in Hampton, Va., distributing the Black Panther Party newspaper. She was banned from her high school band for refusing to play the racist song “Dixie.” A graduate of Hampton Institute [now University], Moorehead is a former kindergarten teacher.

She is a founding member of Millions for Mumia of the International Action Center—an anti-death-penalty project—and she co-chaired the historic May 7, 2000 rally of 6,000 people in Madison Square Garden Theater demanding freedom for political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal.

Moorehead has written extensively on the prison-industrial complex and anti-racist issues. She co-authored “Mumia Speaks– An Interview with Mumia Abu-Jamal.” She wrote the pamphlet “South Africa—Which Road to Liberation?” and the essay “What Is a Nation?” in the book “A Voice from Harper’s Ferry.” She edited the 2007 book “Marxism, Reparations and the Black Freedom Struggle.”

She is a co-coordinator of the International Working Women’s Day Coalition in New York City. She is also an executive board member of the International Women’s Alliance—a global network of women organizers and women’s organizations that fight imperialism, racism, sexism and all forms of oppression.

Moorehead has represented Workers World Party on many international solidarity trips including South Africa, Iraq, Cuba, Nicaragua, North Korea, South Korea, France the Dominican Republic, the Philippines and the U.S. internal colonies of Puerto Rico and Hawai’i. From the movements against racism, police killings and mass incarceration; to the struggle against imperialist war and neocolonialism; to solidarity with Cuba, Palestine, Zimbabwe, the Philippines, the DPRK, and all peoples struggling for self-determination and sovereignty; to the struggles for women’s and LGBTQ liberation; to battles for union rights, disability rights, environmental justice—from local struggles to international movements, Monica Moorehead has devoted her entire life to the great cause of building a better world.

Myrna De los Santos was my friend. We worked together for years.

Then, last week, she passed away. She was 49.

She struggled with health issues for years – but she simply could not afford the health care she needed on McDonald’s pay.

It’s heartbreaking. And in her honor, we need to make sure it never happens again.

Tell McDonald’s: Every person who works hard should be able to afford the basic health care they need to live. It’s time for $15 an hour and union rights.

Myrna worked at fast-food restaurants for over a decade. For the past 4 and a half years, she worked at McDonald’s – until low pay and deteriorating health drove her to quit 4 months ago.

Today, we are rallying in 20 state capitals across the nation. We are standing with Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II and the Moral Monday movement to say: ENOUGH!

Myrna was from Kansas City, where we are protesting today. McDonald’s failed her with pay too little to afford a doctor – and Missouri’s broken safety net was never there to catch her when she needed it.

We are tired of a system that leaves millions with too little to live. We are tired of unaffordable health care and rent. We are tired of hearing tragic stories like Myrna’s.

Sign the petition. McDonald’s, we call on you to pay every worker enough to afford the health care they need to live.

Myrna was so full of warmth and joy. She worked harder than anybody – even without a car, without transportation, she would make herself walk to work through snow and rain to pick up a shift.

She was a #FightFor15 leader. I stood with her on the strike line – her passion for a better world was crystal clear.

She’s the reason we fight, the reason we must keep fighting. The reason we are taking the fight to 20 state capitals right now as you read this.

Stand with us. Sign the petition to McDonald’s.

Thank you,

Fran Marion
Fast-Food Worker
Kansas City, MO

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