Africans On The Move FLIER: http://tinyurl.com/kjgnst7
2-4 P.M. / 3020 W Vliet, Milwaukee, WI (African American Women’s Center) / FREE
History of African Liberation Day: http://tinyurl.com/ms3ks27
Milwaukee, May 23: African Liberation Day
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Madison, May 9: Mother’s Day Action Against Police Brutality and State Violence
As we watch the protests in Baltimore and remember Tony Robinson in Madison, we are reminded of the many mothers who mourn the deaths of their children to police brutality and racial injustice. This Mother’s Day weekend take action to remember and demand an end to state violence in our community.
Join us on Saturday, May 9, on the State St steps of the capitol, 10am-noon for sign making, political education and art as protest. As mothers and supporters gather in Washington, D.C. for the Million Moms March against police violence and racial injustice, we will gather in Madison in a family-friendly action for justice. #blacklivesmatter #justicefortony #millionmomsmarch #mothersforjustice
“Until the killing of black men & black women, black mother’s sons and daughters, become as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother’s son, we who believe in freedom cannot rest until this happens.” — Ms. Ella Baker
Milwaukee, May 14: Show Up & Show Out For Our Students
We continue to make our voices heard when shaping the 2015 MPS district budget. We need to make sure that administration understands that our working conditions are our students learning conditions and that scrapping the salary schedule will increase teacher turnover and destabilize our students’ learning environment.
Join us on Thursday, May 14 for the final public hearing on the budget. We need to make sure educators are present to make sure our students’ needs are met. Join us.
We will meet at the MTEA office at 5:30pm for dinner and time to write up testimony (public testimony will be accepted) and make signs before heading over to MPS Central Office at 6:30 pm.
***There is also a school board budget meeting on Tuesday, May 12 that we are also looking for speakers for so please contact us if this could be you.*** http://mtea.weac.org/
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National and International Call for Medical Intervention for Political Prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal: Diagnosis and Immediate Treatment by Outside Physicians
FREE MUMIA ABU-JAMAL COALITION (NYC)
P.O. BOX 16, COLLEGE STATION
NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10030
Hotline: 212 330-8029
http://www.freemumia.com/ | https://www.facebook.com/OfficialMumiaAbuJamal
May 6, 2015
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
What: Press Conference with Dr. Cornel West and others re: Mumia Abu-Jamal Health Crisis
When: Thursday, May 7 at 9:30 am
Where: Madiba Restaurant, 46 West 116th St. (between Fifth Ave. & Malcolm X Blvd.)
Contact: Dr. Suzanne Ross (917) 584-2135
National and International Call for Medical Intervention for Political Prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal: Diagnosis and Immediate Treatment by Outside Physicians
The need for independent medical diagnosis and treatment for renowned political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal is urgent. An open letter was delivered on April 29 to Pennsylvania Governor Thomas Wolf and Department of Corrections Secretary John Wetzel in Harrisburg documenting the medical neglect and malpractice that has characterized Abu-Jamal’s treatment. Over a period of four months, Abu-Jamal’s initial skin problem, diagnosed by the prison doctors as eczema, deteriorated drastically, and his health condition became life threatening from undiagnosed diabetes as he went into diabetic shock in the prison. This open letter was signed by, among many others, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Minister Louis Farrakhan, former president of the UN General Assembly Father Miguel d’Escoto, former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, Danny Glover, and Alice Walker.
Participants in the press conference will reiterate the call to Governor Wolf and Secretary Wetzel to immediately allow outside doctors of Abu-Jamal’s choosing to conduct the proper diagnosis and treatment to save his life. Supporters of Abu-Jamal note that the horrific medical care he has received at SCI Mahanoy with serious consequences is by no means unique to him. They call for an independent investigation of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections medical system. They note that this investigation must focus in particular on profit-making organizations hired by the Department of Corrections that place priority on cost cutting rather than the quality of care provided to prisoners. Fewer referrals to hospitals are made, and deaths increase. Finally, given the extensive evidence of Abu-Jamal’s innocence, long prevented from being addressed fairly in the courts, and now the evidence that his very life is in danger while in the prison system, the letter calls for Abu-Jamal’s immediate release from prison.
SPEAKERS
Pam Africa, International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal, MOVE
Charles Barron, State Assemblyman, East New York
Noelle Hanrahan, Executive Director, Prison Radio
Joseph Harris, MD, MD’s for Mumia
Larry Holmes, People’s Power Assembly
Jamal Joseph, Professor of Film , Columbia University
Bill Perkins, State Senator, Harlem, NY
Juliette Seydi, Assistant for International Affairs for Mayor of Saint-Denis, Didier Paillard, Comite Mumia Saint-Denis
Estela Vasquez, Executive Vice President, Local 1199
Cornel West, Professor, Union Theological Seminary, Professor Emeritus, Princeton University
National Lawyer’s Guild Protest Arrests Of Legal Observers In Baltimore
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 3, 2015
Colin Starger
National Lawyers Guild, Maryland Chapter
Colinstarger@gmail.com
917-749-7867
BALTIMORE—The Maryland Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) decries the arrests of twelve NLG Legal Observers on Saturday night. Wearing clearly identifiable green hats with the words “National Lawyers Guild Legal Observer” printed on them, these neutral observers were documenting police behavior during the enforcement of Baltimore’s curfew. It is well known that NLG observers do not participate in protests and are trained to never interfere with the police. The harsh and unjustified action of the police in arresting neutral observers directly illustrates the counterproductive and unconstitutional nature of curfews generally.
National Lawyers Guild Mass Defense Coordinator, Abi Hassen explained, “the events of Saturday night vividly illustrate how the curfew itself created the very problems it purported to solve. Curfews are an unacceptable exercise of police force and violence that promise to provoke rather than quell further resentment and unrest.”
“The Constitution does not have office hours. No city should be in the practice of revoking its peoples’ First Amendment and other constitutional rights,” says NLG Maryland Mass Defense Committee member and University of Baltimore Assistant Professor of Law Colin Starger.
Contacts:
Colin Starger (See above)
Abi Hassen, NLG Mass Defense Coordinator
abi@nlg.org, (347) 470-5859
Milwaukee, May 7: NO Cuts to UW! YES To Funds For Badger Care!
Citizen Action of Wisconsin and UWSAEC are holding a press conference at UWGB to show how the UW System budget does not need to be cut in order to fix the budget deficit. The budget deficit is a manufactured crisis, and there are other solutions that do not involve gutting valuable public institutions. Please join us this Thursday, May 7, to be a part of that!
UNAC Conference, Secaucus, NJ, May 8 – 10
Join Hatem Abudayyeh, Susan Abulhawa, Pam Africa, Abayomi Azikiwe, Ajamu Baraka, Medea Benjamin, The Cuban 5, Lamis Deek, Steve Downs, Bernadette Ellorin, Glen Ford, Sara Flounders, Bruce Gagnon, Teresa Gutierrez, Lawrence Hamm, Chris Hedges, Joe Iosbaker, Charles Jenkins, Antonia Juhasz, Chuck Kaufman, Kathy Kelly, Jeff Mackler, Christine Marie, Ray McGovern, Cynthia McKinney, Michael McPhearson, Malik Mujahid, Lucy Pagoada, Lynne Stewart, David Swanson, Clarence Thomas, Ann Wright, Kevin Zeese & many more at …
At the UNAC Conference, May 8 – 10, Secaucus, NJ. Register now at the UNAC conference website: http://UNACconference2015.org.
Join the conference Facebook event, click here
Garifuna Community Radio Stations Under Threat In Honduras
Garifuna community radio stations along the Caribbean coast of Honduras are facing harassment from National Telecommunications Commission officials. Garifuna organizers fear the radio stations may face closure.
Honduras Solidarity Network: http://www.hondurassolidarity.org/
United National Antiwar Coalition Statement in Support of Baltimore Protests
In the United States every Black man, woman and child risks becoming the victim of an extra judicial killing. Because the government does not record these inconvenient facts, activists are left to determine that police kill at least 1,000 people every year. While chattel slavery ended 150 years ago, the U.S. still has a very active slave patrol system and it is carried out by police officers around the country. When they injure and kill they do so with impunity.
The medical examiner in Baltimore, Maryland ruled Freddie Gray’s death in police custody a homicide. The filing of charges against six officers by the State Attorney is a necessary step but by no means assures justice in this case or a change in regard to a deep and systemic problem.
The system of mass incarceration began to take shape as a direct reaction to the liberation movement of the 1960s and 1970s. It results not just in imprisonment but police brutality and murder and not just in Baltimore but across the country.
The death toll from police violence went unnoticed until people rose up as they did in Ferguson, Missouri, Baltimore, New York and in countless other cities. The inspiration from the people of Ferguson led to thousands of protests and the Black Lives Matter movement. However that movement has yet to lead to the successful prosecution in a case of police brutality.
The United National Antiwar Coalition supports the right to protest against police murder. Calls for non-violence cannot be used as a smoke screen to silence the right to demand redress. People in the U.S. are encouraged to support uprisings around the world if they are sanctioned by our government, yet are told to condemn any protest taking place in their own country. There will be no end to police violence if there is not a loud and unified cry for justice. That cry is only heard when thousands of people march in the streets.
The Obama justice department has declined to pursue federal prosecution in the killings of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, John Crawford or any of the hundreds of other cases of Black homicide at the hands of police. While the president claimed a previously unknown right to assassinate American citizens, and did so, the justice department also claims that the legal bar is “too high” to bring police to justice when they assassinate at will.
The mass movement spawned in Ferguson and now taking shape in Baltimore must be clear in its demands. The federal government must prosecute killer police and every community, particularly those of color which are disproportionately victimized, must have direct control of their local police departments.
Politicians can no longer be allowed to hide behind useless “police/community relations” gimmicks which provide no protection from police brutality. Black faces in high places as mayors, district attorneys and police chiefs are also not a means of ending the criminalization of Black life. Reform is just another word for inaction and for maintenance of the status quo which grants the right to kill without fear of punishment. Any call for yet another panel or blue ribbon commission is useless if it does not also discuss community control, and with it the right to hire, fire and if need be prosecute local law enforcement.
The United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) stands with the people of Ferguson, Baltimore, Chicago, Staten Island, North Charleston and every other locale where a Black person has been killed by police.
Black lives matter!
End mass incarceration!
Community control of police!
Prosecute police brutality!
5/3/15
Mothers For Justice United May 8-10 Marching on D.C., Milwaukee Information & Resources
http://www.mothersforjusticeunited.org/
Registering for the Million Moms March
You may register for the Million Moms March here.
Hotels and Accommodations
Blocks of hotel rooms have been arranged. Click here to see hotels where Milwaukee people have booked rooms. An additional list of hotel rooms available to attendees from around the country can be found here. When booking a hotel, be sure to mention that you are with Mothers for Justice United.
You can also use this link to access a Google Map search which shows facilities within 15 minutes of Mt. Vernon Square (where events will be held), sorted by price.
Travel Information
We have arranged for two buses for those traveling from Milwaukee. We will be leaving Milwaukee at 8 a.m. on Thursday, May 7, 2015 from All Peoples Church, 2600 N. 2nd St., and leaving Washington, D.C. on Sunday, May 10, at 3 p.m. to return to Milwaukee.
Mothers for Justice is providing travel costs for mothers of victims, thanks to a generous grant from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation. The charge for others to travel with us is $160. There are some free seats available, contact: mothersforjusticeunited@gmail.com.
