Malcolm X’s Speech Addressing Police Brutality
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August 9, 2020: Port Washington/Saukville: Racial Justice Discussion
Port Washington/Saukville: Racial Justice Discussion
Join us for a discussion on racial justice. We believe these conversations are necessary to move forward in positive ways for our community. This is an educational based event created to give our community a way to come together and listen to others experiences and discuss topics of racial justice. Come with an open mind to discuss various talking points in both small and large discussion groups.
LOCATION: Quade Park Saukville, WI
Please fill out this quick and easy forum if you’re interested in attending. This event is FREE! Everyone is welcome.
https://forms.gle/qSmheso2vy7pAEd57
How this event is going to work:
We will begin by having a speaker shortly discuss the importance of having these conversations in our community. Then we will break into small discussion groups with about four to five people. There are many picnic tables at the park, but you are welcome to bring your own chair to a social distance. At the tables there will be sheets of paper that will have discussion topic points, which you are welcome to choose from to get the conversations started. After about 15-20 minutes we will form a large (socially distanced) discussion circle with everyone. At this time we will have a moderator who will ask questions, and everyone is welcome to share their responses or stories as well as ask questions. We believe this event will create a welcoming and informative environment. We are excited to see you there!
We will be having two small give away baskets; one for adults and one for children. We encourage this event to be family friendly, so feel free to bring your children because there will be coloring sheets available as well as a playground at the park.
Ground Rules:
– Wear a mask!
– Think before you speak
– Beware of judging yourself and others harshly and unfairly
– Own your thoughts and beliefs by using “I” statements
– Listen with a compassionate and curious heart to others especially when their experience and views are different
– Don’t interrupt; allow others to express themselves respectfully
August 30, 2020: Black Lives United – Green Bay, 4th Annual Celebration & Education Supplies Drive
Come celebrate 4 Years of Black Lives United – Green Bay and support the Annual Education Supplies Drive‼
We will rally, march, have music 🎶 and good company 👥🗣 along with a facilitated visioning/input session for the next year of BLU initiatives‼
1pm – Rally
2pm – March
3pm – Families pick-up supplies
4pm – Visioning Session & Closing
Over the past 4 years, Black Lives United has donated over 500 book bags filled with back to school supplies to Green Bay students in need. This year, we recognize the need to continue this educational support, especially with the increased time kids are spending at home. The goal is to give away 300 book bags filled with education supplies to be used in an at-home or school environment.
BLU is asking for a suggested donation of $40 (to cover the cost of a backpack and supplies; any amount monetary donations is GREATLY appreciated) OR to purchase a backpack and fill it with supplies from the district’s supplies list. All donations can be dropped off directly at Stephanie’s house – 520 Pine Terrace – any Sunday from 1-3pm leading up to the event.
Can we count on your support? If so, respond YES below!
Online donations can be made directly on our GoFundMe:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/black-lives-united-back-to-school-supplies-drive?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=p_cf+share-flow-1
Kids, family and friends are all welcome‼
Every Monday from Madison (Online): Viv Ncaus Dance Troup
Hosted by Viv Ncaus Dance Troupe and Freedom Inc
Madison Virtual Membership Meeting for Voces de la Frontera August 8, 2020
Madison: Reunión de membresía / Membership Meeting
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Únase a la reunión de membresía virtual para el área de Madison de Voces y Voces de la Frontera Action este sábado a las 2pm.
Hablaremos de las elecciones, planificaremos distribución de volantes con información [el domingo 9 de agosto a las 3 pm], actualizaciones sobre DACA y más.
¡Todos son bienvenidos! Si desea involucrarse más en la comunidad y disfrutar ayudando a otros, ¡únase a nosotros!
Unirse a la reunión Zoom
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85416702349
Frank Nitty II and Friends Marching From Milwaukee to Washington D.C.
August 7, 2020
Frank Nitty II
Black lives matter vs kkk country💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿
Pray for us on this journey….🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Black Lives matter Day 70 of marching!!!✊🏿✊🏽
We just left gary indiana yall✊🏾✊🏼✊🏻
March from milwaukee wisconsin to washington dc…
750 miles…
Day 4 of 24…
This is the revolution..
We wont stop until we get chamge!!!✊🏿✊🏽✊🏻
Black Agenda Radio for Week of August 3, 2020
Legacies of C.T. Vivian and John Lewis Secured While Ruling Class Promotes Revisionist History
Nashville Mayor West With C T Vivian And Diane Nash
Democratic Party establishment distorts the actual developments of the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements
Two luminaries in the African American struggle which emerged during the 1950s and 1960s, Rev. C.T. Vivian and Congressman John Lewis, passed away on July 17.
Both figures played a prominent role in the efforts to destroy legalized segregation, commonly referred to as Jim Crow, through nonviolent direct action, mass mobilizations and electoral politics.
Nonetheless, since the 1960s, the corporate media and other elements within the capitalist ruling class including the leaderships of the Democratic and Republican parties have never been able to come to grips with the rapid social changes brought about by the political intervention of oppressed peoples. Many contend that the victories surrounding the desegregation of retail outlets, educational institutions, residential areas and access to the franchise would have never occurred if not for the benevolent and perhaps enlightened support of liberals within the Democratic Party.
Former United States Senator and two-time unsuccessful presidential candidate in 2008 and 2016, Hillary Clinton, said as much during her first race to win the nomination when the-then Democratic Senator Barack Obama decisively won the primaries to go on to be elected for two terms. Clinton asserted that if former President Lyndon B. Johnson had not been in office, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 would not have passed in the Congress.
Advancing such notions is tantamount to robbing the masses of their own history. It was the African American people themselves who initiated the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955-56, representing a turning point in the quest for equality and self-determination since the conclusion of the Civil War.
The Montgomery Women’s Political Council under the leadership of organizers such as Mary Fair Burks, Jo Ann Robinson, Irene West, Thelma Glass, and Uretta Adair, printed flyers and made telephone calls leading up to the beginning of the boycott on December 1955. The boycott was prompted by the arrest of Mrs. Rosa L. Parks, a seamstress and veteran activist in various struggles involving civil rights and labor organizing. Parks was arrested on December 1 after refusing to give up her seat in the segregated section of a city bus to a white man. Parks was charged with violating the segregation laws of Alabama. (https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/womens-political-council-wpc-montgomery)
In a matter of days, a young minister recently out of graduate school in Boston, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was catapulted into national and international prominence after the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) unanimously selected him as the spokesperson for the Black community during the boycott. The homes of King and a neighbor of Parks, Lutheran Minister Rev. Robert Graetz (a white pastor sympathetic to civil rights), were bombed by racists during the boycott, signaling the intransigent resistance to the advancement of African Americans which has continued well into the 21st century. (https://www.alabamawx.com/?p=170388)
From Freedom Now to Black Power ….
Rockford, August 9, 2020: Vigil For Black Trans Women & Femmes
Vigil For Black Trans Women & Femmes
The LGBTQIA community is organizing an event to publicly address the killings of those within our community.
Bring a candle and wear your mask
One of the goals of this event is to establish relationships with artists, organizers, or anyone who would like to get involved in creating a permanent mural in Rockford dedicated to the loss of life, beauty, and liberation that’s constantly being taken too soon.
We look to address the different ways the LGBTQIA community is being attacked and how we can move forward in combatting the injustice.
Rockford, August 8, 2020: ACAB TEACH IN: A Black August Event
We’ll be meeting at the Gazebo in Fairgrounds Park, Rockford, IL. 3 P.M.
We’ll be doing another teach in with a number of different community members around policing in the spirit of Black August revolutionary learning and education. This is not a protest. We will have food.
We encourage people to bring tables, canopies, chairs to borrow (will be returned). We wants donations of abolitionist, black history, anti-racist books, radical history, queer theory, revolutionary history (with intersectional, radical black focus). Bring banners, rbg flags, bug spray, sunscreen, sidewalk chalk, hand sanitizer, blankets/lawn chairs. Please wear a mask! Covid is still going on!
Please print and bring zines! Email us if you want a list of zines we’d like to be printed. We are preferable to topics around direct action, feminism, abolition, black anarchism, mutual aid and health during covid.
We’re asking that people bring donations for free store: toilet paper, water, masks, sanitizer, soap, school supplies, backpacks in excellent condition, clothes in excellent condition, transit cards, diapers, tampons, contraceptives, laundry detergent, fresh fruit, canned/dry goods, etc
