presented to you by
Jay Anderson and Chauntee Ross as Primary Collaborators
with David Ravel and Tarik Moody as Co-Producers.

The mission of the Strange Fruit project is to inspire change in the community through live performance art and the subsequent creation of lasting media.

The idea is in response to back-to-back murders of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile. Chauntee Ross, of SistaStrings, invited friends to her house to discuss what they, as artists, can do by way of response. It became an impromptu Cooking and Clearing experience, a communal meal where the group not only broke bread as a family unit but joined creative forces. As Jay Anderson helped her sister and musical partner Monique Ross cook the greens, fry the chicken and bake the cornbread, they discussed the importance and responsibility of educating not only their community but neighboring communities as well who have even less of an understanding and true representation of who people of color are… Strange Fruit

After holding an annual vigil at the gates of Fort Benning, Georgia, the human rights group SOA Watch is moving its convergence to become bi-national at the U.S./Mexico border in Nogales, Arizona/ Sonora Mexico.

Activists throughout the U.S. and Mexico will gather on both sides of the US/Mexico border from October 7-10, 2016, in the lead-up to the November elections. Our goal is to

· Highlight US intervention in Latin America as one of the root causes of migration
· Stage protests, cultural events, and nonviolent direct action against racism, xenophobia and US militarization at home and abroad.

To make the Convergence at the Border a success, we need you to mobilize your communities to take a stand for justice and against militarization from October 7-10, 2016 at the border wall in Nogales, Sonora / Arizona.

If convicted of these bizarre “administrative offenses,” she is facing indefinite solitary confinement for the rest of her prison term (another 30 years).

Chelsea is being denied medical treatment for her gender dysphoria, which experts have stated is the only course of treatment through which she would no longer be suicidal.

Tell the Secretary of the Army:

Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee steering committee member Ben Turk, updating us on the expanding prison hunger strike to end administrative confinement.

Peoples Power Assemblies

http://fergusonresponse.tumblr.com/

http://portside.org/2016-07-28/labor-supports-blackslivesmatter-call-police-unions-accountability

AFL-CIO leaders have reached out to union members in support of actions that can be taken to stop and prevent police killings of people of color. Racism plays an insidious role in the daily lives of all working people of color. This is a labor issue because it is a workplace issue; it is a community issue, and unions are the community. Philando Castile was a union member, and so his family is our family. Ideas of what you can do from labor activists.

Sources: https://www.facebook.com/LeftLaborProject/

https://www.facebook.com/LaborAgainstWhiteSupremacy

Hard Times Are Fighting Times: Liberation, Revolution, & Socialism in the South

SAVE THE DATE! MORE DETAILS TBA

Hard Times Are Fighting Times: Liberation, Revolution, & Socialism in the South

Saturday, September 24 / Durham, NC

http://www.workers.org/wwp/vote-for-socialism/