December 4: Nationwide Strikes (Including Madison and Milwaukee) & Other Actions To Demand: $15 & A Union

http://strikefastfood.org/

https://www.facebook.com/RaiseUpMKE

WI Jobs Now, “Four Ways To Show Your Support For Fast Food Workers:” http://tinyurl.com/nez5pgy

Fast food workers in more than 160 cities have voted again to go on strike for $15/hour on Thursday, December 4! And in Wisconsin, home care workers are joining once again to stand with fast food workers as they all work to expand their Fight for $15. Come support underpaid workers as they continue winning the fight for the right to be paid decent wages for honest work.

Thursday, December 4

Milwaukee: Meet at 10:30am at WJN office: 1862 W Fond du Lac Ave.

Madison: Gather at 11:30am at 4020 Milwaukee Street.

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WI Legislator, On Behalf of Big Business & The Banks, Declares War On Organized Labor & Our Communities By Announcing His Intent To Introduce “Right-To-Be-A-Slave” Legislation

ARTICLE: “Legislator to introduce right-to-work legislation:” http://tinyurl.com/l39u6zf

AFL-CIO Fights so-called “Right To Work:” http://tinyurl.com/laxkkla

“In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as ‘right to work.’ It is a law to rob us of our civil rights and job rights.
Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining by which unions have improved wages and working conditions of everyone…Wherever these laws have been passed, wages are lower, job opportunities are fewer and there are no civil rights. We do not intend to let them do this to us. We demand this fraud be stopped…” — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., speaking about right-to-work laws in 1961

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Milwaukee, December 3: Dontre Hamilton Family To Be Awarded Andy Werlein Advocate of the Year Award

EVENT: http://tinyurl.com/prwvepc

Andy Werlein Advocate of the Year Award & Open House

You are cordially invited to the 2014 Andy Werlein Advocate of the Year Award Presentation and Open House

Mental Health America of Wisconsin will recognize the family of Dontre Hamilton for their mental health advocacy at the 2nd Annual Andy Werlein Advocate of the Year Award ceremony.

Date/Time: Wednesday, December 3, 2014 – 5:30 p.m.

Location:   MHA Office, 600 W. Virginia St., Suite 502, Milwaukee WI
(located in the Tannery Business Center, Atlas Building)

MHA Board of Directors and staff will honor the Dontre Hamilton family for their extraordinary advocacy work on behalf of Dontre with the Andy Werlein Advocate of the Year Award. This award is given in honor of Andy Werlein who made it his mission to fight the stigma surrounding mental illnesses and encouraged other people to seek help.

MHA will recognize members of the Hamilton family during a short awards ceremony and honor their advocacy efforts and support the conviction that the service delivery system for those with mental illness must change to ensure other community members get the needed services and additional lives are not lost.

Please RSVP by emailing info@mhawisconsin.org  or by calling our office at (414) 276-3122.

Light appetizers will be served.

Hundreds rally at Red Arrow Park in Milwaukee August 22, 2014  to demand justice for Michael Brown, Dontre Hamilton & other Victims of police terror. [Photo: WI BOPM]

Hundreds rally at Red Arrow Park in Milwaukee August 22, 2014 to demand justice for Michael Brown, Dontre Hamilton & other victims of police terror. [Photo: WI BOPM]