Break Free Midwest – Buses from Milwaukee to protest at BP’s Chicago oil refinery!

Join us to BREAK FREE from fossil fuels in 2016! Through coordinated protests and acts of civil disobedience around the globe, Break Free will target critical points in the global fossil fuel infrastructure and call for a just transition to clean energy.

On May 15, the Midwest converges on BP’s lakeside oil refinery, just south of Chicago to take on tar sands infrastructure. 350 Milwaukee and Casa Maria are organizing a bus and carpool to the protest.

Two Bus Options
Saturday May 14 Bus- (overnight, free housing provided) $30
https://mn350.yapsody.com/event/index/36215/bus-from-mnwi-to-break-free-midwest
1:00- Gather at Milwaukee Intermodal Station
1:30-Bus Departs Milwaukee
Arrive to housing in Whiting, IN around 3:30pm. There will be a non violent direct action training in the evening if you wish to go, and kayaktivism training in the morning. Rest of schedule follows as below. This is a great opprotunity to connect with fellow activists.

Sunday May 15 Bus- (day trip) $30
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2533863
Schedule:
9am- Gather at Milwaukee Intermodal Station
9:30am- Bus Departs
12pm Kayaktivism
1pm Rally
2pm March
4:30pm- Gather at bus pick up location TBA
5:00pm- Bus Departs for Milwaukee, returning around dinner time

Bring: lunch, water, walking shoes, sunscreen/hat, and cell phone if you have one! No Drugs or Alchohol on the bus please.

If you are not up for the March there will be a vigil that stays behind at the Rally location.

For questions, concerns, or to participate in Kayaktivism or non-violent civil disobedience at this event, message 350 Milwaukee’s facebook, give Mikel a call at 414-344-5745 or text Aimee at 262-719-9044.

Event organizers ask everyone going to please sign up at http://act.350.org/event/break-free-world/12233/

http://action.wisconsinjobsnow.org/page/s/shareholders

May 25, ride with us to Oakbrook, Illinois, to protest McDonald’s annual shareholders’ meeting. Thousands of fast food workers and their supporters from all over the country will converge on the meeting to protest the obscene gap between McDonald’s profits and the wages of its workers. Be a part of this historic fight!

Busses will leave from Wisconsin Jobs Now (WJN) at 9am and return no later than 8pm.

Meet at WJN – 1862 W Fond du Lac Ave, Milwaukee, WI
Wednesday, May 25 at 9:00am 

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http://peoplespowerassemblies.org/stand-with-verizon-workers/

This strike is a part of an upsurge in working class & oppressed peoples’ actions & movements: Shut down Trump, Stand against Islamophobia & immigrant bashing, Black Lives Matter, No to anti-trans laws, last year’s USW oil workers strike, the UAW Kohler strike, Wisconsin’s “Day Without Latinos,” the Chicago Teachers Union strike, the incredible Boston school bus drivers’ victory, the Fight-for-$15-&-a-union movement of low-wage workers, to name a few. A victory for the CWA and IBEW will be yet another boost that helps all workers that are fighting for justice in the workplace & society. Onward to victory! Our greatest weapon is Solidarity. This strike is about all of us!

Join a picket line: See standuptoverizon.com/ ;

-All out May 5, 2016 National Day of Action

-Honk when you pass striking workers

-Verizon Strike Fact Sheet

-Background: Workers Fight Back ; Garner Solidarity ; Stay Strong as solidarity Grows ;

-Conversation with strikers on WRFG Labor Forum ;

-Sample Solidarity Statements:  Southern Workers Assembly ; Appalachian Workers Alliance ; Boston School Bus Drivers UWS Local 8751

The Root: http://bit.ly/24xrzAU