From the Committee to Stop FBI Repression, http://www.stopfbi.net/:

Ever since her unjust conviction on November 10th, Rasmea has been detained in St. Clair County Jail in Port Huron, Michigan. Three days later, her attorneys filed a motion calling on Judge Gershwin Drain to release her pending sentencing scheduled for March 10, 2015. Since our most recent update, the prosecution has filed a response to the motion, Rasmea’s lawyers have answered that filing, the National Lawyers Guild has filed its own friend of the court brief supporting Rasmea’s freedom, and hundreds of individuals and organizations from across the country have sent letters to the judge urging him to send Rasmea home.

We expect that Judge Drain will be deciding if Rasmea will be freed very soon, but are still calling on supporters to keep up the fight to #FreeRasmeaNow!

What you can do:

— Many of you have already submitted letters urging the judge to release Rasmea. We are still collecting individual and organizational letters to him. Use the sample letter and send your letters to justice4rasmea@uspcn.org right away.

— You have also sent letters to Rasmea, and this continues to be important. She has called her Chicago colleagues from jail a number of times, written letters, and has received a few visitors as well. Her spirits are high and she is looking forward to the next step in the fight for justice in her case. We encourage you to continue to send letters of support to Rasmea. (Please remember that prison authorities will read all of your letters.)
Rasmieh Odeh #144979
St. Clair County Jail
1170 Michigan
Port Huron, MI. 48060

— Fundraise and contribute to Rasmea’s commissary fund and to her ongoing defense. Donate at www.stopfbi.net/donate. Commissary funds allow Rasmea to purchase food, blankets, writing materials, and other items to make her more comfortable in the jail. Expenses continue to mount for Rasmea’s legal defense and ongoing community organizing. We will file an appeal of this unjust verdict, and that will take resources.

— Spread the word! When publicizing on social media, use the hashtags #Justice4Rasmea and #FreeRasmeaNow.

Activists lock themselves to the doors of a federal building in Oakland, CA November 12, 2014 to demand the immediate freedom of Rasmea Odeh. [Photo: Workers World]

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WORT-FM is a non-commercial, listener-sponsored, member controlled community radio station broadcasting to South-Central Wisconsin. WORT volunteers and staff shall provide quality programming and services to a broad spectrum of the community through:

• promotion of communication, education, entertainment, and understanding by providing a forum for both the discussion of public issues and the expansion of musical and cultural experience;
• facilitation of community expression and provision of community access to the airwaves for the purpose of sharing music, culture, news, and information;
• challenge of the cultural and intellectual assumptions of our listeners through unique and diverse programming;
• orientation towards the audience with concern for those under-represented by other media.

WORT shall be committed to radio programming with a human perspective—respecting all peoples and their environments.

SIGN PETITION: http://www.notonemoredeportation.com/portfolio/mannylopezwi/

Two days after the raid his children spoke at a rally in front of ICE demanding his release. On June 19, Manuel’s brother Ruben, his niece Amari, and his daughter Briana participated in civil disobedience at the ICE office in Milwaukee.

Manny’s family is organizing to stay together. Join them by taking a moment to send an e-mail to the Chicago ICE office asking them to release Manny from detention and reunite him with his family.

SIGN PETITION: http://www.notonemoredeportation.com/portfolio/mannylopezwi/

Manuel Lope and family in Milwaukee.

EVENT: http://tinyurl.com/lk8s7yh

As we mourn the injustice of Mike Brown’s murder, we’re reminded that our economic voice is instrumental in our racial justice struggle. Join us at Macy’s HERALD SQUARE in NYC at 3 pm on BLACK FRIDAY as we fight for justice through unity and solidarity (other actions nationally are encouraged). We will proudly stand alongside members of Million Hoodies Movement for Justice.

ALSO: 2014 Walmart Black Friday protests: http://blackfridayprotests.org/

Ongoing events, updates, photos, videos: http://tinyurl.com/morz9ke

See also: https://www.facebook.com/PeoplesPowerAssemblies

http://fergusonresponse.tumblr.com/

The day after a grand jury decided not to indict Darren Wilson in the murder of Mike Brown, thousands of protesters marched through Lower Manhattan, eventually taking over FDR Drive, a major roadway in NYC. [Photo: JennaPope.com]

Message from Rodrigo Starz: My brother Gonzalo Rebel Diaz got arrested tonite in #Ferguson. He was reporting for the people in the streets for our TV show #ÑDontStop on TelesurEnglish. He was singled out and snatched up by the police. He will not be silenced. #FreeG1ofRebelDiaz #TodosSomosFerguson

American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) National Vice President of Women’s and Fair Practices Augusta Y. Thomas has released the following statement (http://tinyurl.com/nzw44d8): 

“The events in Ferguson, Mo. have shown us that challenges we’ve faced in the past still endure – that the struggles of communities of color and other marginalized groups are based on systematic injustices that are woven into the fabric of our nation. Across the country and around the world, our communities are angered, saddened and frustrated by the case of Michael Brown and many others whose lives ended much too early.

“The outpouring of anger, grief and pain isn’t just in Ferguson. It’s shown up in the streets of L.A., New York, Washington D.C. and many other communities across our nation. The hurt around the grand jury’s decision is shared by activists, protestors and anyone who has been worried their child won’t get equal treatment because of the color of their skin.

“Many institutions and systems that govern our society are wrought with racism, classism, sexism, ableism and other characteristics that are designed to marginalize and disenfranchise specific groups of people. That imbalance yields power to the privileged and at best, an unequal playing field for the rest of us.

“Having been a civil rights activist for more than 50 years, I am reminded of the words and actions of Bayard Rustin, Martin Luther King Jr., and Rosa Parks. Looking back, I am given hope that even in the darkest moments we can create a new reality for our country. It is time again to march and to protest and most of all, to raise our voices. It has been through organizing – from those who marched on Selma to the Dream Defenders today – that have declared ‘black lives matter.’

“Through labor organizations and workers’ rights groups we must continue to advance issues of equality and justice on the workroom floor. We will work with policy makers at every level of government to change the inequalities that are a blight on the promise of our democracy.

“AFGE and the Women’s and Fair Practices Departments will continue our goal of fair and equal treatment. We stand in solidarity with the Brown family and with those who have the passion, courage and strategies to continue to change the world.”

AFGE: https://www.afge.org/

Hundreds march in Milwaukee November 25, 2014 protesting Ferguson Grand Jury decision. [Photo: Joe Brusky Photography]

AUDIO: http://tinyurl.com/l494y2t

“…The name “Ferguson” joins an ancient line of place names of pain, loss and black death. Places like Birmingham, Philadelphia, and now, Ferguson. It will have a meaning on its own…”

For more audio recordings from political prisoners in the United States: http://www.prisonradio.org/

Mr. Mumia Abu-Jamal.

http://pflp.ps/english/

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine stands with the people of Ferguson, and throughout the streets of the cities of the United States, who have taken to the streets once more after the prosecution and the U.S. legal injustice system as a whole failed to indict Darren Wilson, the police officer who killed Michael Brown in cold blood, meaning that he will not face trial or prosecution for this state-sanctioned murder of a young Black man by the police.

This comes as no surprise; the United States’ legal system is historically and at present a perpetrator of massive violence and imprisonment against Black people, just as U.S. imperialism is such a perpetrator against people and nations around the world.

As Palestinians, we are familiar with the injustice of colonial, racist courtrooms, mechanisms of a racist state, that sentence our people to prison en masse while wrapping the perpetrators of crimes, murders and genocide against our people in a cloak of “legality.”

And this system which we recognize all too well from the occupation regime in Palestine has learned well from this same system and structure which has existed for centuries in the United States, the key ally and strategic partner of the occupier.

We see the police forces in the United States, long a mechanism of state terror against Black people and other oppressed communities, escalating their oppression and impunity with massive militarization and military equipment – and we know that the occupation state is working hand in hand with US security agencies to provide training in yet more aggressive “security” tactics, tested in Palestine on our people for export around the world, particularly the United States, to be used against oppressed peoples and movements in struggle.

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine salutes the family of Mike Brown and all of the countless Black martyrs whose lives are taken by police in the United States, including Tamir Rice, 12 years old, and Akai Gurley, 28, in the past week. And we stand with the resistance of all of the people taking to the streets, in Ferguson and across the United States, demanding justice, and with the Black liberation movement and its long struggle, and urge all Palestinians and their friends and supporters to join these demonstrations and build stronger and deeper links of mutual struggle with these critically important movements.

We reaffirm and repost below our statement on the struggle in Ferguson and the Black movement for liberation.

NO INDICTMENT? WE WILL FIGHT BACK!
http://fergusonaction.com/
Ferguson Action Demands: http://tinyurl.com/oj44yoq

Protesters shut down I-580 in Oakland November 24, 2014 after Ferguson Grand Jury Decision is announced. [Photo: Workers World]