Calling all Community Members, activists, friends, and family to stand with us against injustice on our streets and in our communities.

April 30th will mark the 1 year anniversary since Dontre Hamilton was murdered by a Milwaukee Police Officer, for resting in a public park. This case has galvanized our city and allowed us to push for changes that will make our community’s safer, but the work is not done yet. Please join us for this event as we come together to honor the life of our fallen brother(s), but also gear up for a spring and summer of action in the name of justice. We are lifting up the names of our other brothers in Milwaukee/Madison as well (Derek Williams, Corey Stingley, Brandon Johnson, Darius Simmions, Tony Robinson, James Perry, etc) and paying tribute to their sacrifice.

They wanted us to go away. They wanted us to stop. They wanted us to be satisfied. But we are not, and we wont be until Black life is valued and respected in our city. We won’t be satisfied until the stigmas around mental health, and homeless are lifted from the veils or our city officials and community members. We won’t be satisfied until justice is synonymous with Milwaukee, and we have shaped this city to be a place where equality and equity are they way of life, not a unique experience for a select group of people. We will get justice! Please join us.

More details about the order of the event will come as we draw closer toward the event. Please help us out and invite your friends, your family, your organizations, and your community. We want the whole city to come out and stand with us. This is our fight for our city! Lets make some noise.

*If you would like to endorse this event, please message the coalition for justice on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/justicefordontre

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Underpaid workers from fast food, retail, home care, child care, and even adjunct professors are standing up this Wednesday, April 15 and demanding a fair and just wage. Go to April15.org and see how you can get involved in the making of history.

“We’re going to see actions in Wausau, in Milwaukee and in Madison on the April 15,” says Jennifer Epps-Addison of Wisconsin Jobs Now. “At 4:30 p.m. in Milwaukee we’re going to see a massive action; folks from all over the state are driving down to Milwaukee to participate.” https://www.facebook.com/wisconsinjobsnow

Wisconsin Jobs Now:http://wisconsinjobsnow.org/

Public News Service: “Huge Protests Planned For Wisconsin…” http://tinyurl.com/k5o56lt

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Tuesday April 14th is a national day of action against police violence. YGB will be supporting a student walk out. Students will be walking out at 10:30 am on Tuesday, April 14th to protest the epidemic of police violence against Black people all over the country and to demand justice for Tony Robinson.

We know that Tony Robinson, Mike Brown, and Ayiana Jones were not isolated incidents.A Black person is killed by the police every 21 hours. In Madison, Black people are 11 times as likely to be arrested as a white person.

Come stand in solidarity with our youth speaking out against police violence!

Rise Up! Justice4tony merges with Coalition For Justice and WisconsinJobsNow on a National Day of Action to fight social injustice in March 2015. Young, Gifted and Black Coalition brought everyone together at Department of Corrections to shut down major throughway E. Washington Ave before marching to the Governors Mansion [Photo: Leslie Amsterdam]

A diverse array of Mumia Abu-Jamal supporters held a protest in the pouring rain at the Federal Courthouse in Milwaukee April 10. Chaired by longtime community and anti-police brutality activist Brian Verdin, protesters demanded Abu-Jamal be freed, or alternatively, to be allowed to receive family visits, medical records, and private health care at his own expense. The Milwaukee protest was part of an international day of action in response to Abu-Jamal’s medical neglect and torture by the state of Pennsylvania. In addition, protesters demanded that health care for prisoners be improved nationwide.

Babette Grunow of the Latin American Solidarity Committee, prisoner rights attorney Gary Grass and Minister Sean Muhammad of Milwaukee Mosque No. 3 of the Nation of Islam, also spoke. Maria Hamilton, mother of Dontre Hamilton, also participated. The protest was sponsored by the Wisconsin Bail Out the People Movement. Members of the Coalition For Justice, Committee to Stop FBI Repression, Fight For $15, International Action Center, the Progressive Students of Milwaukee, UW Milwaukee Resists Cuts, Wisconsin Jobs Now, Workers World Party and Youth Empowered in the Struggle (YES) attended and the action was supported by other labor-community organizations such as Africans on the Move, #BlackLivesMatter, Ferguson Response Network, Rockford Fight Imperialism Stand Together (FIST), Occupy the Hood MKE and the Young, Gifted and Black Coalition in Madison.

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Milwaukee April 10 [Photo: Ben Herrenbruck]

Training for Solidarity and Mobilization: Workshops on tenant organizing, mental health and building safety nets. Free lunch.

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