*Tune in Friday, August 12 at 7pm PST/10pm EST to watch Monica & Lamont participate in the Peace and Freedom Party Convention debate live on Facebook*

July was a huge month for our campaign. We collected over 3,700 signatures to put Monica Moorehead and Lamont Lilly on the ballot in Wisconsin, meanwhile building for several historic demonstrations to take on Trump, Clinton and the two parties of racism, capitalism and war.

In Cleveland, Monica and Lamont carried the lead banner in the Shut Down Trump and the RNC march, which was organized by a broad coalition including our campaign. In Cleveland, Moorehead called for the abolition of the police as a repressive force while demanding justice for Tamir Rice and other victims of police terror along with solidarity with immigrant workers. In Philadelphia, Lamont spoke to a crowd of thousands on the need to build working class solidarity to defeat racism and capitalism as part of the Black Resistance to the DNC march.

In Baltimore, the city where Freddie Gray and Korryn Gaines were murdered by police, the Baltimore Campaign for People’s Power collected over 8,000 signatures to run Workers World Party candidates Andre Powell and Sharon Black for Mayor and President of City Council.

This weekend Monica and Lamont will be heading to California for the Peace and Freedom Party’s Nominating convention. We will be bringing our revolutionary socialist 10 point platform to the Steering Committee hopefully in order to win the Peace and Freedom nomination and to be on the ballot in California.

The momentum behind our genuinely revolutionary, anti-racist message has been growing. Every day we are getting more likes on Facebook, more followers on Twitter, and more hits to our website. We launched Vote4Socialism.org, where anyone can have their voice heard and vote for Monica and Lamont.

With fewer than 100 days before the November election, we need your support to continue to build this campaign. We want to travel to speak to tens of thousands of people to bring our uncompromising, revolutionary socialist message. Can you help us out with a quick donation?

Build a Workers World!

Teresa Gutierrez, Campaign Manager
Scott Williams, Press & Media Coordinator

CAST YOUR VOTE TODAY FOR A REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALIST FUTURE!

Monica Moorehead for President / Lamont Lilly for Vice President

Workers World Party – 2016 Election Campaign

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wwp2016@workers.org /917.740.2628

https://policy.m4bl.org/platform/

Black humanity and dignity requires Black political will and power. Despite constant exploitation and perpetual oppression, Black people have bravely and brilliantly been the driving force pushing the U.S. towards the ideals it articulates but has never achieved. In recent years we have taken to the streets, launched massive campaigns, and impacted elections, but our elected leaders have failed to address the legitimate demands of our Movement. We can no longer wait.

In response to the sustained and increasingly visible violence against Black communities in the U.S. and globally, a collective of more than 50 organizations representing thousands of Black people from across the country have come together with renewed energy and purpose to articulate a common vision and agenda. We are a collective that centers and is rooted in Black communities, but we recognize we have a shared struggle with all oppressed people; collective liberation will be a product of all of our work.

We believe in elevating the experiences and leadership of the most marginalized Black people, including but not limited to those who are women, queer, trans, femmes, gender nonconforming, Muslim, formerly and currently incarcerated, cash poor and working class, differently-abled, undocumented, and immigrant. We are intentional about amplifying the particular experience of state and gendered violence that Black queer, trans, gender nonconforming, women and intersex people face. There can be no liberation for all Black people if we do not center and fight for those who have been marginalized. It is our hope that by working together to create and amplify a shared agenda, we can continue to move towards a world in which the full humanity and dignity of all people is recognized.

While this platform is focused on domestic policies, we know that patriarchy, exploitative capitalism, militarism, and white supremacy know no borders. We stand in solidarity with our international family against the ravages of global capitalism and anti-Black racism, human-made climate change, war, and exploitation. We also stand with descendants of African people all over the world in an ongoing call and struggle for reparations for the historic and continuing harms of colonialism and slavery. We also recognize and honor the rights and struggle of our Indigenous family for land and self-determination.

We have created this platform to articulate and support the ambitions and work of Black people. We also seek to intervene in the current political climate and assert a clear vision, particularly for those who claim to be our allies, of the world we want them to help us create. We reject false solutions and believe we can achieve a complete transformation of the current systems, which place profit over people and make it impossible for many of us to breathe.

Together, we demand an end to the wars against Black people. We demand that the government repair the harms that have been done to Black communities in the form of reparations and targeted long-term investments. We also demand a defunding of the systems and institutions that criminalize and cage us. This document articulates our vision of a fundamentally different world. However, we recognize the need to include policies that address the immediate suffering of Black people. These policies, while less transformational, are necessary to address the current material conditions of our people and will better equip us to win the world we demand and deserve.

We recognize that not all of our collective needs and visions can be translated into policy, but we understand that policy change is one of many tactics necessary to move us towards the world we envision. We have come together now because we believe it is time to forge a new covenant. We are dreamers and doers and this platform is meant to articulate some of our vision. The links throughout the document provide the stepping-stones and roadmaps of how to get there. The policy briefs also elevate the brave and transformative work our people are already engaged in, and build on some of the best thinking in our history of struggle. This agenda continues the legacy of our ancestors who pushed for reparations, Black self-determination and community control; and also propels new iterations of movements such as efforts for reproductive justice, holistic healing and reconciliation, and ending violence against Black cis, queer, and trans people.

http://samidoun.net/2016/08/call-for-protest-september-22-rasmea-odeh-facing-new-government-attack/

From the very beginning, the Rasmea Defense Committee has pointed out that the legal proceedings against Rasmea are nothing but a pretext to intimidate those who fight hard to realize a free Palestine. Demonstrations in support of her have taken place across the U.S. since her arrest in 2013, and we are again going All Out for Detroit on September 22.

We will rally at the courthouse at
231 W. Lafayette Blvd., in downtown Detroit, Michigan,
on Thursday, September 22, 2016,
at 10 AM Eastern Time,
and then pack the courtroom at 11 AM, as Judge Drain decides whether to allow the government to “examine” Rasmea.

Continue to support #Justice4Rasmea by donating to the defense, organizing educational events in your communities, and staying in touch throughjustice4rasmea.org and justice4rasmea@uspcn.org.

We will not rest until the charges are dropped.

The Rasmea Defense Committee is led by the U.S. Palestinian Community Network and the Committee to Stop FBI Repression

Rasmea Yousef Odeh

via Black4Palestine

Anakbayan-USA

Filipino youth from all chapters of Anakbayan-USA send our solidarity to the Black community and all victims of police brutality.
‪#‎BlackLivesMatter‬ ‪#‎Filipinos4BlackLives‬ ‪#‎Filipinos4BlackResistance‬

AnakBayan Chicago
Anakbayan East Bay
Anakbayan Inland Empire
Anakbayan Long Beach
Anakbayan Los Angeles
Anakbayan Nj
Anakbayan Ny
AnakBayan San Diego
Anakbayan Seattle
Anakbayan Silicon Valley
League of Filipino Students – SFSU

http://anakbayanusa.org
http://facebook.com/anakbayanusa

Music: “Cops” by Power Struggle
Produced by Digital Martyrs
(Beatrock Music, 2016)
http://soundcloud.com/beatrockmusic/power-struggle-cops