https://prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com/

http://solitarytorture.blogspot.com/

Heal the Hood Fest 2016
Saturday 8/27 & Sunday 8/28
Parklawn YMCA
12-5pm both days.

‪#‎healTheHoodFest2016‬ !

teleSUR English one of the best. Covering ‪#‎BlackAugust‬

https://csw-pdx.org/2016/08/19/painters-drywall-finishers-say-break-with-the-democrats-for-a-workers-party/

The following resolution was introduced by CSWP supporters and adopted
unanimously by IUPAT Local 10 members at their meeting on 17 August
2016. CSWP fights to unchain the power of the working class by breaking
our unions away from the parties of capital. Join us!

No Support to the Democrats, Republicans,
or Any Party of the Bosses

Whereas the bosses have two parties to represent their class while the
millions of working people have none, and

Whereas the Democratic president Barack Obama sent the U.S. Coast Guard
to enforce scabbing against the International Longshore and Warehouse
Union during the 2013-14 lock-out of northwest dock workers, and

Whereas the Democratic governor Kate Brown opposed and undercut the
movement for a $15 minimum wage across Oregon, and

Whereas in 2014 Democrats in Congress joined with Republicans to pass a
disastrous pension “reform,” allowing the bosses to escape their
obligations and cheat our retirees, and

Whereas the two presidencies of the Democrat Barack Obama have been
eight years of unending war in the Middle East,North Africa and Asia,
causing untold human suffering, millions of refugees, and attacks on our
democratic rights at home, and

Whereas the Democratic Party in power has deported some 5 million
immigrants, a record, and

Whereas across the country, from Oakland to Baltimore, police under
Democratic mayors regularly murder black men and women with impunity,
and

Whereas the 2016 presidential election offers us the “choice” between a
raving, bigoted clown and a career representative of Wall Street, and

Whereas the Democratic vice-presidential candidate, Virginia governor
Tim Kaine, supports union- busting “right to work” laws, and

Whereas Democrats and Republicans are and have always been
strike-breaking, war-making parties of the bosses, and

Whereas so long as the labor movement supports one or another party of
the bosses, we will be playing a losing game, therefore be it

Resolved that IUPAT Local 10 does not support the Democrats,
Republicans, or any bosses’ parties or politicians, and

Resolved that we call on the International Union to repudiate its
endorsement of Hillary Clinton for president, and

Resolved that we call on the labor movement to break from the Democratic
Party, and build a class- struggle workers party.

By Milwaukee IWW, https://www.facebook.com/milwaukeeiww

August 22, Waupun WI – According to a letter from hunger striker LaRon McKinley, the Dying to Live hunger strike has reached a crisis.

On August 15, the Wisconsin Department of Corrections (WI DOC) decided to suspend the force feeding they had subjected the prisoners to since June 17. They allowed McKinley and Cesar DeLeon, the two most committed hunger strikers, to go without food or water for 72 hours, until they were severely dehydrated. Then they tube fed them again.

“Presently, and for most of this week, we have been under retaliatory attack by our warden as a direct consequence of our political efforts… to force an end to prolonged Administrative Confinement,” the letter from McKinley reads.

On Saturday August 13, a coalition of prisoner supporters from across the state gathered in Waupun to protest DOC practices and show solidarity with the hunger strike. They were greeted by offensive gestures, threats and insults by local residents, some of whom likely work at the prison.

“We believe Warden Foster has changed the force feeding regimen in response to our protest, unfortunately, the changes are retaliatory: increasing the pain, harm and danger these men are experiencing in an effort to break their will,” says Chance Zombor, who led the march on August 13.

A sudden intake of calories by a starved and dehydrated person causes violent metabolic shifts, leading to a potentially fatal condition called refeeding syndrome. WI DOC has begun a regimen that is very likely to cause refeeding syndrome. According to wikipedia, “the shifting of electrolytes and fluid balance increases cardiac workload and heart rate. This can lead to acute heart failure. Oxygen consumption is also decreased which strains the respiratory system.”

In Waupun, the DOC only allows the prisoners to drink lead-polluted water from the 165 year old institution, which causes diarrhea and exacerbates their dehydration.

McKinley suspects the DOC is intentionally keeping them on the brink of death.

According to his letter, after 42 hours without food or water—because they refused to drink Waupun’s polluted water, he and Cesar DeLeon, “were diagnosed as seriously dehydrated, and the tube feeding was then recommended, but this time they made us both go exactly 30 more hours, to exactly 72 hours each. Seventy Two hours without water is a well known and medically held time limit that would and is generally believed to kill most people.”

The hunger strikers believe Waupun staff will continue force feeding them every 72 hours in an effort to make the hunger strike as unbearable as possible. McKinley’s letter goes on to describe his body’s response, which mirrors the symptoms of refeeding syndrome: “due to the stress and ordeal that our bodies had gone through, they kind of reacted as if they had been poisoned when said fluids were eventually forced into the stomach.”

Outside supporters are demanding that the DOC allow LaRon McKinley and Cesar DeLeon to drink bottled water, and that Wisconsin meet the striker’s central demand: a one-year cap on any form of solitary confinement. They are asking people to contact Warden Foster, DOC Secretary Jon Litscher, and Governor Scott Walker.

More information, including phone numbers and email addresses can be found at SolitaryTorture.blogspot.com

Protest at Waupun prison August 13, 2016

The Annual Chairman Fred Streetz Party #ForwardToThe50th

Every year on August 30th, Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. and the PrisonersOf ConscienceCommittee /Black Panther Party Cubs in coalition with the December 4th Committee, and the community in general organize a free BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION for Deputy Chairman of the Illinois chapter of the The Black Panther Party, Fred Hampton, whom was assassinated by the FBI via the Chicago Police Department in a pre-dawn rain on December 4th 1969 along with Defense Captain Mark Clark.

The ANNUAL CHAIRMAN FRED STREETZ PARTY will kick off at NOON at 2337 W. Monroe Street Chicago, IL 60612.

We will reconvene with FOOD, VENDORS, SOLIDARITY STATEMENTS, SPOKEN WORD, HIP HOP PERFORMANCES, AND REVOLUTIONARY POLITICS at 3PM at the WALL (mural of Chairman Fred) at 2744 W. Madison Street Chicago, IL 60612

The POCC can be reached at:
Snail mail: P.O. Box 368255 Chicago IL 60636
Email: We_RIDE@aol.com
Blogspot: http://chairmanfredjr.blogspot.com/
Donations: https://fundrazr.com/ChairmanFredStreetzParty2016?ref=ab 15qQ1c

For more information on the Black Panther Party:

#ForwardToThe50th
Black Panther Party 50th
Black Panther Party Cubs

Community Teach-In Sponsored by Workers World Party

WWP teach-in

Join Workers World Party for a teach-in on the state, police terror, and the upcoming elections. Racist cops are murdering Black and Brown people in cold blood; workers and oppressed people are being forced to choose between the lesser of two evils while the rich get richer and poor get poorer! The people share a common enemy: this capitalist system that prioritizes profit over human needs. Only a movement can defeat the cops, the politicians, and the bosses!

Washington Park Library – 2121 N. Sherman Blvd. Milwaukee, WI 53208

Meet out front | 6:00pm-8:00pm

WWP teach-in