Coalition for Justice in Palestine (CJP)-Chicago
Rally and March to Protest Israeli Aggression Against Palestine
WHERE: Michigan & Congress, downtown Chicago
WHEN: Sunday, October 18, 2015, at 3 PM
Bring your Palestinian flags!
Buses will leave Mosque Foundation, ICCI, Orland Park Prayer Center, Islamic Center of Wheaton, and 87th & Harlem (PAC) at 1:30 PM.
CLICK HERE TO SEE THE LIST OF OTHER ACTIONS TAKING PLACE AROUND THE WORLD THIS WEEKEND
http://fightfor15.org/s-petition/november-10-rsvp/
We’re standing together on November 10 to say, “We need a raise!” People across the country will be standing up with fast-food workers, child care workers and all 64 million underpaid workers making less than $15, because it’s TIME for $15. Together we’re turning the tide in favor of working people and our families. And we’ll need everyone’s help — including yours — to make this a reality.
Sign up now to let us know you’ll be there on November 10 and be one of millions demanding the fair pay, respect, and the future we deserve!
http://fightfor15.org/s-petition/november-10-rsvp/
October Resistance Skillshare, organized by the Milwaukee branch of the Industrial Workers of the World. Each session is free, open to the public and participatory, designed to build organizing skills that strengthen concrete resistance to the capitalist system and white supremacy, and increase solidarity. Each session can stand alone, please make it to however many you are able. Free food and drink is available across the day. The day’s event is a co-project with the Milwaukee Free School.
1:00-1:30 PM. Introduction, ice-breaker.
1:30-2:55 PM. “Accessibility of Anti-Capitalist Language.” Session facilitated by Michael Grochowski. (IWW, Milwaukee Free School)
3:00-3:30 PM. “Building Alternative Communities.” Session facilitated by Laura Goldblatt (University of Virginia teacher, call-in)
3:30-4:45 PM. “Solidarity and Support With Prisoners: Letter Writing, Coalition-Building and Next Steps”.* Session facilitated by Emiliano Soza and Jacob Glicklich (IWW)
*This session will include stamps, letters, pens, paper and contacts for letter-writing to people incarcerated in Wisconsin, as well as discussion of the IWW’s current prisoner organizing effort, and other recent prisoner rebellions in the U.S.A.
This event is located at Alpha & Omega Ministries, 4386 N. 27th Street, located near intersection of Atkinson & 27th Street. This venue is wheelchair acessible. To arrange childcare or setup any other logistical details, please contact us at iww.milwaukee@gmail.com
In response to the justified uprising of the Palestinian people, Zionist activists have chosen to organize a ‘Jewish Lives Matter’ rally in Times Square this Sunday, October 18th at 5:00pm. They will be wearing blue and white to represent Israel, as well as IDF t-shirts. Besides the fact that they are appropriating the black liberation movement by hijacking the slogan Black Lives Matter, they are holding a moment of silence for murdered israelis without regard for the disproportionate violence and death experienced by the Palestinians every day.
They are glorifying the terrorist organization of the IDF, who are responsible for the torture and murder of Palestinian civilians. In the past week, over 20 Palestinian youth have been murdered by settlers, many of which have graphic video evidence being taunted by and mutilated by israeli settlers during and after death. Where is their moment of silence? This Sunday, we stand against outrageous number Palestinian children and civilians that have been murdered by those belonging to the same Zionist group as those gathering in Times Square on this day. We stand against ‘Israels right to defend’ itself against innocent children and civilians who clearly pose no threat. We stand in solidarity with the movement for Palestinian liberation from 60+ years of Zionist occupation, violence, and settler-colonialism. We stand in retaliation to the appropriation of the black liberation movement. We stand against Zionist repression, and racist Zionist ideology that weighs israeli deaths as warranting more outrage than that of Palestinians, when Palestinian deaths are greater in number and weaker in justification. Bring keffiyehs, flags, signs and join us on this day.
Join us loudly in proclaiming that Resistance is not Terrorism, Occupation and Colonialism are Terrorism!
Endorsed by (List in Formation):
NYC Students for Justice in Palestine
As workers and oppressed peoples are being inundated with the likes of Donald Trump, Carly Fiorina, Ted Cruz, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and others running for president, Workers World Party will be countering all the early election hoopla with its annual national conference Nov. 7-8 in New York City.
Join a coalition of Milwaukee progressive organizations as we say NO to the Republican agenda.
– No more wars!
– End US aid to Israel!
– Stop attacks on workers, women, immigrants, Black, Brown, and LGBTQ people!
Come out this Sunday, October 18th at 6:30pm, location TBA, for a vigil for Tony Robinson. It is his birthday this Sunday, come remember his name and make it shine. Make sure this city remembers who they stole.
Dear Sisters and Brothers,
The headlong rush to pass the Walker-backed assault on state civil service has hit a speed bump, with key GOP insiders disagreeing among themselves over details.
A Senate committee vote scheduled for yesterday has been delayed for at least a couple days.
But a state Assembly committee has scheduled a hearing on the bill tomorrow Oct. 15 starting at 9:30 in Room 412 East of the State Capitol.
Now is the time to make your voice heard!
If you can get to this hearing on short notice, please go register against the bill and stick around to testify if you have the time.
You can also click here to ask your own legislators to stop this assault on civil service.
Senate leaders may have hit the pause button while they talk amongst themselves. But they still aren’t listening to front-line employees.
Fortunately, Rep. Mandela Barnes has introduced a bill that would undo some of the damage already done to an impartial state hiring process in the last budget. His bill truly merits support.
Rep. Barnes agrees with us that public employment decisions should be based on what you know, not who you know.
AFSCME has been pushing hard to convince legislators to go back to the drawing board on the Walker-backed bill and come up with a more comprehensive approach to solving the state’s hiring crisis.
They should start by listening to state employees. If you haven’t already done so, please click here to send a message to your own legislators.
Solidarity!
Rick Badger, Executive Director
AFSCME Council 32
you know, not who you know.
Panel and community discussion on Violence against Black women, Queer and Trans folks.
This will be a panel of Black survivors of different forms of violence, from domestic violence, to rape, to poverty. We will be hearing the stories of our unsung heroes and having a community discussion about healthy ways of survival . There will be light refreshments provided.
