We want to keep the momentum going and invite you all to the next Mass Meeting and DOJ Listening session for Youth (see photo below).

At our next mass meeting March 3, we will be discussing youth event, Dontre Day April 30 at Red Arrow Park, and our next steps forward. Please see information/details regarding the mass meeting and the youth event.

If you’re connected to youth organizations we hope you invite them and bring them to the upcoming events. They are a POWERFUL voice in this movement and we need to hear from them and so do the so called leaders in this community.

Please see the details below and share the event page link below.

Coalition for Justice Mass Meeting 

Thursday, March 3, 2016

All Peoples Church, 5975 N. 40th Street, Milwaukee

6 p.m. – 8 p.m. 

https://www.facebook.com/events/1288956731131122/

We will also continue the conversations and movements around awakening, strategizing, and mobilizing those around us.

For Immediate Release

Media Advisory
Free and Open to the Public

Event: African American History Month Annual Public Meeting
Date: Saturday, February 27, 5:00-8:00pm
Topic: Black Power/White Backlash–150 Years of Struggle for National Liberation and Socialism,
Keynote Address: Abayomi Azikiwe, Editor of the Pan-African News Wire and Contributing Editor for Workers World
Guest Speaker: Clarence Thomas ILWU Local 10
Location: 5920 Second Ave. at Antoinettee, Detroit, MI
Video: Black Power/White Backlash: CBS News Report From September 27, 1966
Dinner Served: African American Cuisine
Sponsor: Workers World Party Detroit Branch
Contact: (313) 671-3715

Please attend this year’s Annual African American History Month public meeting on Sat. Feb. 27 to assist us in celebrating and reflecting upon the galliant history of the African people in the United States who have fought against slavery, Jim Crow, national oppression, economic exploitation and other forms of discrimination and state repression. This is an annual event sponsored by Workers World Party and Workers World newspaper which is distributed in the city of Detroit.

Our keynote speaker will be Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire and a Contributing Editor for Workers World newspaper published in New York City. Azikwe will give an historical overview of the African American movement for national liberation, full equality and socialism.

Special Guest Speaker: Clarence Thomas, leader of ILWU Local 10, the militant longshore workers union in Oakland, CA, which has led numerous political strikes against police brutality, in support of Mumia Abu-Jamal, and against the importation of goods from apartheid South African and zionist Israel.

Some aspects of the post Civil War period and the passage of a series of Civil Rights measures such as General Sherman’s Order No. 15; the 13th Amendment and the Civil Rights Act of 1866; the 14th and 15th Amendments; will be placed in their social and political context. The African American struggle against institutional racism has continued through the 20th Century with the anti-segregation and women’s movements of the 1950s through the 1970s up until the anti-racist struggles today against police terrorism and for self-determination in public service, education and cultural affairs.

We are honored to have a special guest speaker in the personage of progressive trade unionist Clarence Thomas of the ILWU Local 10. The ILWU, and in particular Local 10, has been in the vanguard of many important struggles from the fight against apartheid in the 1980s, to demanding freedom for Mumia Abu-Jamal in the 1990s, as well as other issues.

We will also feature a classic CBS News documentary from September 27, 1966 aired nationally on the African American struggle for self-determination, full equality and housing rights. The video features lumnaries of the period inlcuding SNCC Chairman Stokely Carmichael, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. leader of SCLC, the-then Congressional representative from Harlem Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., and others.

The struggle for African American liberation has different dimensions today but harbors many similarities to the movement five decades ago extending back to the period after the Civil War. Join us in this discussion and analysis.
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Monica Moorehead & Lamont Lilly 2016

http://www.workersworldparty.org

Workers World Party is participating in the 2016 presidential election. Not because we believe the election means anything. We are running to expose the election.

The WWP candidates will be talking about the real issues facing workers and oppressed people—and organizing for the real solutions. Revolutionary solutions. We believe that the kind of socialism Bernie Sanders talks about only provides more cosmetic changes, a softer kinder of capitalism. But Sanders change means the capitalist system still stands.

Mass struggle, not elections, is the way forward.

The elections that take place every four years bring only cosmetic change: different faces administering the government on behalf of the same billionaire masters. Who really runs
society? It is the capitalist class that exploits the working class and the oppressed. The great mass of people have no real representation because the government, whether headed by Democrats or Republicans, exists to serve the interests of the bosses and warmakers.

The Workers World Moorehead-Lilly campaign declares: Elections will matter when Black Lives matter.

Coalition for Justice

Please save the date Wednesday March 23rd at 7 p.m. for a night of reading and sharing pieces from Cries for Justice at Woodland Pattern, 720 East Locust. We have invited poets who wrote pieces for this book to come their poems. Books will be available onsite for purchase. Meet us there.

Voces de la Frontera

¡ALERTA! ¡Walker puede firmar S533 (la propuesta de ley para bloquear los IDs locales) en cualquier momento! ¡INVITAMOS A TODXS MIEMBRXS DE LA COMUNIDAD QUE LLAMEN A WALKER AL 608-266-1212 Y QUE ORGANICEN PROTESTAS AFUERA DE OFICINAS REPUBLICANAS EN SU ÁREA LO MÁS PRONTO POSIBLE! ¡SI SB533 O AB450 PASEN, LLAMAREMOS PARA UN BOICOT NACIONAL E INTERNACIONAL DE LAS COMPAÑÍAS QUE HAN DONADO DINERO A WALKER PARA SUS CAMPAÑAS ELECTORALES! Llame al 414-828-2692 o 414-469-9206 para recibir apoyo en organizando su acción. ‪#‎WisconsinIsNotArizona‬ ‪#‎daywithoutlatinos‬ ‪#‎AltoSB533‬
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URGENT! Governor Walker could sign SB 533 (the bill blocking local IDs) at any time! WE CALL ON COMMUNITY MEMBERS ACROSS WISCONSIN TO CALL WALKER AT 608-266-1212 AND TO ORGANIZE PROTESTS BEFORE THURSDAY AT REPUBLICAN PARTY OFFICES IN YOUR AREA AS SOON AS POSSIBLE! IF SB533 OR AB450 PASSES, WE WILL CALL FOR A NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL BOYCOTT OF COMPANIES THAT HAVE DONATED MONEY TO WALKER’S CAMPAIGNS! Please call 414-469-9206 or 414-828-2692 for support in organizing your action.

[Photo: Day Without Latinos in Madison where 50 K marched and rallied to protest racist anti-immigrant attacks. / Credit: Joe Brusky]

Detroit FIST – Fight Imperialism, Stand Together

On March 6 the two Democratic Party presidential candidates and nominee hopefuls, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Senator Bernie Sanders, will take part in a televised debate in Flint, Michigan. Flint has been the subject of global media attention after it was revealed that the city’s residents have been continually poisoned by the water coming from their faucets.

Flint, along with many other cities in the so-called U.S. “Rust Belt,” has been absolutely decimated by deindustrialization. These cities, primarily in the Midwest and especially in Michigan, were built from the ground up by the working class tied directly to the auto industry. Once hotbeds of militant trade unionism and a burgeoning revolutionary movement, they have been nearly destroyed by the closing of the vast majority of production facilities. Capitalism’s robotization, offshoring and union-busting have left these cities devastated. Flint has a 40% poverty rate, official unemployment close to 10% (which is an underestimate) and 20,000 vacant homes caused by bank and tax foreclosures.

The decision by the Democratic National Committee to host its debate in Flint is the height of shameless opportunism. Neither the Democratic Party as a whole and certainly neither Sanders or Clinton have pointed fingers at the source of the crisis: the major banking institutions and the auto manufacturers. Sanders has called for the resignation of Gov. Rick Snyder and Clinton has complained of his not requesting federal aid to the city. Neither would dare demand reparations from GM and finance capital for those who have been lead poisoned, particularly the 8,000+ children who will be permanently damaged. They are not calling for criminal charges against those involved in the poisoning and cover-up.

Many in the Democratic Party rightly call for Snyder’s resignation, albeit for political gain, to regain the governor’s office. But if the criminal, anti-people Snyder were to step down and face jail time, would his successor, presumably a Democrat, be any less callous towards the working class? Would they enact a jobs program to put people back to work with good wages to fix the roads, feed the hungry and educate our next generation? Democratic Gov. Jim Blanchard presided over GM’s mass plant closings and Gov. Jennifer Granholm did nothing about the racist banks’ mass home foreclosures.

The disaster of Flint and other cities like it is not an issue of Republican versus Democrat, but rather a fight between the multinational working class and the capitalist class which profits directly from its attacks against us. We need an independent and militant movement, based among the working class and oppressed, separate from the two major imperialist parties and capable of challenging capitalist class rule and their ability to exploit us and put our very lives in danger. Our goal must be a revolutionary movement with the power to overthrow those who deprive us of homes, decent jobs, food, healthcare, education and clean water. The resources exist and it is the task of the majority to seize what we’ve built from the hands of the minority of exploiters who own it!

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