Milwaukee, June 9: Wisconsin Prisoner Hunger Strike: Information Session

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IWW Milwaukee: Please join us for a discussion on the hunger strike being planned by prisoners in Wisconsin starting June 10, and what we can do to support them. At least six prisoners in Waupun and Columbia Correctional Institute will be initiating a food refusal, challenging the abusive policies of solitary confinement by Wisconsin Department of Corrections. We will read letters and “Declarations of Dissent” from these prisoners, give updates on upcoming activity happening on the inside and outside, and talk about what we can do to strengthen organizing to support prisoner resistance.

This will not be running according to “activist time”, session will start at listed time. Please come whenever you can, if possible be here at 6. If you’re unable to attend this session, you can still participate in the phone zap beginning on Friday, June 10, see event page:
https://www.facebook.com/events/237354093311429/

If you have specific questions and are unable to attend this event, please contact us through our FB page or by email at iww.milwaukee@gmail.com

Wherever there is exploitation let’s grind it to a halt.

Milwaukee, June 14: Hear Luisa Campos, Director of Cuba’s famed Museum of Literacy, along with the inspiring film “Maestra”

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Hear Luisa Campos, Director of Cuba’s famed Museum of Literacy, along with the inspiring film “Maestra”

Hear Luisa Campos, Director of Cuba’s famed Museum of Literacy, along with the inspiring film “Maestra,” a short documentary on how young women participating in Cuba’s successful campaign against illiteracy not only made Cuba one of the most literate nations, but also were empowered in terms of their own expectations and self-image. Luisa Campos will speak on Cuba’s “Yo Si Puedo” program, which has been used around the world to successfully combat illiteracy, not only throughout Latin America, but as far away as Australia, where it has also been credited with helping to keep marginalized aboriginal people out of jail (see
http://www.smh.com.au/national/from-cuba-with-love-20140713-3bvp5.html).

Open to the Public, free admission with donations accepted.
This will be a bilingual program.

NOTE: The film is also showing as part of a program with Luisa in Spanish at 4pm — at MATC at Walkers Square 816 W. National Ave. in Room 488.

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Rockford, IL, June 4: March For Justice

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Saturday, June 4, 4:00pm. Gathering @ 401 N. Main St.

Continuing the struggle to win justice for Valentia Fresco (aka Jovan Blake) we will gather at Beattie Park and march to the courthouse in downtown Rockford to demand:
– Press charges against the Metro Enforcement officers involved in murdering Valentia Fresco. Killers should not patrol our neighborhoods!
– Release the names of those involved!
– Release the autopsy report! How many times was Valentia Fresco shot & where on his body??

The fight for justice in this case is part of the struggle to win justice for all those killed or mistreated by the Metro Enforcement or police department!

Organized by:
Hear The ROCK Cry & Workers World Party
For more info or to list your organization as a supporter contact us on Facebook or by
Email: rockford@workers.org
Phone: 424-262-3478

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Detroit Eviction Defense: Emergency – Help Jennette Shannon fight for home & justice

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http://www.detroitevictiondefense.org/
A woman who did nothing wrong now scheduled for eviction Friday, June 3

On May 17 a court ordered that Shannon will face eviction. The bailiff arrived Thurs. June 2 and said the eviction could be expected the next day, Friday. DED is helping her resist eviction at 17127 Stansbury, Detroit.

Shannon purchased her Detroit home in 2010 from Thor Real Estate LLC for $15,000 on a land contract — with an understanding that the company was responsible for paying the property taxes, and that the amount for taxes was added into her monthly payment.

But the year after she moved in with her daughter and son, she was shocked to be told by Thor’s attorney that her house payment was being jacked up by almost $100 a month to pay the property taxes.

Shannon discovered that Thor LLC hadn’t paid any property taxes since 2008. Then she found out that Thor has diverted over 400 unpaid waters bills to California, unknown to homeowners.

Read her amazing story — and how you can help, with a couple of phone calls & more.

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Milwaukee, June 9: Coalition For Justice Mass Meeting

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We HOPE to see you next Thursday, June 9! It’s time to focus in on the work we want to attack leading into the fall and what we’ll do over the summer. Time for serious base building/community engagement. 
 
All Peoples Church
5975 N. 40th Street
6-8p

We are still looking for concrete ways to engage youth in our community and indviduals to help make this happen.

We would love to get as many community members, organizations, unions, and churches in this space as possible so please invite your friends, family, and colleagues. Students and children are also welcomed.

The meeting will last approximately two hours (6:00p-8:00p). Please join us, and let your voice be heard.

We will continue the fight for justice! Change is coming!

African Americans Locked Out…’For change to be effective it must take on an anti-capitalist character’

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https://www.newsghana.com.gh/african-americans-remains-locked-out-urban-league/

By Abayomi Azikiwe
Editor, Pan-African News Wire

“…In an article published as part of the State of Black America report, Joy-Ann Reid, a national correspondent for MSNBC, predicts that “Whether the next president is a Democrat or Republican, Black leadership will likely be pressed as never before to deliver on the ‘hope floor’ laid by the election of the first Black president…In short, the Age of Hope is poised to give way to the Era of Radical Demands for Change.”

For this era of radical demands for change to be effective it must take on an anti-capitalist character. There is most of all a dramatic need for the redistribution of wealth from the ruling class to the working class and the nationally oppressed. This transferal of wealth can only occur under a socialist system which would guarantee full employment, income equality, housing and education for everyone along with the total liberation of the African American people and all oppressed nations.” https://www.newsghana.com.gh/african-americans-remains-locked-out-urban-league/