https://wicuba.wordpress.com/

http://colombiasupport.net/

https://www.facebook.com/ColombiaSupportNetwork

June 5-6, 2015
Edgewood College
Regina Hall, Room R24
Madison, Wisconsin

Program: http://tinyurl.com/qcs9559

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http://stopmpstakeover.com/2015/06/02/attend-an-mps-no-takeover-information-night/

Student protest information: https://www.facebook.com/YESstudents

A citywide walkout against the undemocratic takeover of Milwaukee Public Schools converges on South Division High School June 1 [Photo: Joe Brusky].

http://www.ygbcoalition.org/

https://www.facebook.com/fergusontomadison

The Young Gifted and Black Coalition is a circle of young leaders determined to end state violence and raise the voice of communities of color. We are young Black women, queer folks, straight folks and feminist men who are fighting for Black Liberation. Our focus is on the low income Black communities that our core members call home. Our strategy is centered on direct action and community organizing.

We use direct actions to interrupt the status quo and bring awareness to key issues and different forms of state violence affecting the root causes of the plight of Black and Brown people around the world. Our strategy for change shakes the norm, demanding not only a seat at the table of decision-making for those most impacted by the many forms of state violence, but also a hand in setting that table in the first place.

This coalition is a grassroots organization led and founded by grassroots organizations: Freedom Inc, Operation Welcome Home, Madtown Community Response Team, and Justice and Equity in Dane. We use community organizing to build the knowledge base of those most impacted and our allies. Our commitment is to building and empowering the people to take effective and collective action toward change thus we host teach-ins, discussions, forums, debates, and lectures to help educate and organize communities.

We are here to stand in solidarity with the efforts of Ferguson, New York, Milwaukee, and all of the cities currently dealing with the hurt that state violence perpetrates. This is about justice for Michael Brown, Erik Garner, Tamir Rice, Dontre Hamilton, Tony Robinson and all of the black lives taken by the hands of police every 28 hours.

This is also more broadly about the issues of state violence against Black communities. In Madison it looks like mass incarceration and the murder of Tony Robinson. In Milwaukee it looks like the police killing of Dontrae Hamilton and mass incarceration, and in Detroit it looks like poverty and a host of other issues. Ferguson teaches us that there will be no change unless youth take to the streets.

We are Young Gifted and Black, and we will take to the streets until we get liberation.

http://www.iacenter.org/racism/shakur010215/

“My name is Assata Shakur, and I am a 20th century escaped slave. Because of government persecution, I was left with no other choice than to flee from the political repression, racism and violence that dominate the U.S. government’s policy towards people of color. I am an ex-political prisoner, and I have been living in exile in Cuba since 1984.

I have been a political activist most of my life, and although the U.S. government has done everything in its power to criminalize me, I am not a criminal, nor have I ever been one. In the 1960s, I participated in various struggles: the Black liberation movement, the student rights movement and the movement to end the war in Vietnam. I joined the Black Panther Party. By 1969, the Black Panther Party had become the number one organization targeted by the FBI’s Cointelpro program. Because the Black Panther Party demanded the total liberation of Black people, J. Edgar Hoover called it “the greatest threat to the internal security of the country” and vowed to destroy it and its leaders and activists…”

A Conversation with Pam Africa: The MOVE 9, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Political Prisoners & State Violence

FLIER: http://tinyurl.com/p6fj25m

Sister Pam Africa, Minister of Confrontation for MOVE (onamove.org) and Chairwoman of the uncompromising International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal (freemumia.com) will visit Madison and Milwaukee, Wisconsin June 26-28. Visit with and hear her speak at the following events:

Friday, June 26, 10 a.m.
Black Lives Matter panel @ NCOBRA Conference
African American Women’s Center
3020 W Vliet Street, Milwaukee
ncobra.org
If able, contribution requested

Friday, June 26, 6:30 p.m.
Conrad A Elevhjem Bldg.
@ UW Madison, 800 University Ave., Madison
Sponsored by Young Gifted and Black Coalition
facebook.com/fergusontomadison
Free and open to the public

Saturday, June 27, 11 a.m.
Political Prisoners panel @NCOBRA conference
African American Women’s Center
3020 W Vliet Street, Milwaukee
ncobra.org
If able, contribution requested

Saturday, June 27, 1-3 p.m.
Nation of Islam, Mosque No. 3
4202 North Teutonia Ave., Milwaukee
mosque3.org/home.html
Free and open to the public

Visit with and talk with her at the following event:
Saturday, June 27, 6 p.m. Potluck
Central United Methodist Church
639 N 25th Street, Milwaukee
WI Cuba Coalition, Cuba Caravan visit
wicuba.wordpress.com
Free and open to the public

Pam Africa marching in Philadelphia demanding justice for Mumia Abu-Jamal and all prisoners [Photo: Joe Piette]

FROM STOP THE TAKEOVER OF MPS Facebook site:

This coming week is a busy week in the struggle to defend our public schools in Milwaukee and statewide. Join us!

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JUNE 1: We are calling on everybody who cares about the future of our city to join Youth Empowered in the Struggle (YES) on June 1 at 2 pm for a rally outside their office. From there we will march to nearby schools that could be affected by privatization and show the state government that MPS is ours, and it cannot be taken from us. We Will Defend Our Public Schools! / ¡Defenderémos nuestras escuelas públicas!

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JUNE 1: Schools and Communities United General Meeting

Join us as we plan our next steps to fight back against the takeover of Milwaukee Public Schools. Parents, Community Members, Students, and Educators are encouraged to attend.

For more information about why we oppose the MPS takeover visit, http://www.schoolsandcommunitiesunited.org/567-2/

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We need 1,800 more signatures by next Thursday that we’ll be personally delivering to the co-author of the MPS Takeover, Senator Alberta Darling.

We won’t stand silent while Alberta and her minions in Madison legislate the hostile takeover of our elected school board and Milwaukee Public Schools.

Sign the petition here: http://bit.ly/1GxcDXB