United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) statement: http://tinyurl.com/pqo3q4u

What can be done?  Marches and rallies around the country must continue and demand an end to police militarization and the legalized human rights abuses against millions of citizens.

There are groups organizing to send people to Ferguson to show solidarity. Black Life Matters (blacklifematters.org) is organizing buses of Black supporters to go to Ferguson for actions scheduled over Labor Day weekend. They are asking white allies and others who are not able to travel to Ferguson to hold solidarity actions in their communities on Sunday, August 31. Email blacklifematters@gmail.com for more information.

Stand with the people of Ferguson to demand:

Cops, state troopers and National Guard out of Ferguson!

No to racist murders! Justice for Michael Brown!

End police militarization!

Milwaukee, August 22, 2014. [Photo: WI BOPM]

http://www.handsupunited.org

“…Monday Aug. 25 Mike would have been a college freshman attending class for the first time.  Instead, that very day his mother will be burying him. This is why we are calling on all college students to walk out of class at 1PM EST and congregate publicly in solidarity with Mike Brown and other victims of police brutality. If you cannot stage a walk out, consider having another public event on campus at another time Monday.

“Tuesday Aug 26^th, and throughout the entire week, we are asking for everyone to convene at 5PM your time at police stations, federal buildings and US embassies everywhere to call for the Department of Justice and US Government to enact concrete policies to forever end police violence in Black and Brown communities…”

You can view an event near you HERE

You can submit an event of your own HERE 

For more information on this week’s actions text HANDSUP to 90975 or visit http://handsupunited.org

Milwaukee, August 22, 2014. [Photo: WI BOPM]

PETITION: http://tinyurl.com/q9zjtlg

The Red Sea Jazz Festival is a bi-yearly event in Israel’s city of Eilat. The festival could have been a festival to celebrate the free spirit of Jazz music, and this beautiful tradition of oppressed minorities. Instead, it is a government event of propaganda, which uses Jazz music as a tool for whitewashing military occupation, apartheid and oppression of the Palestinian people…

UFCW STATEMENT: http://tinyurl.com/q8rbal3

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Joe Hansen, International President of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW), today released the following statement regarding UFCW member Lesley McSpadden whose son Michael Brown was shot and killed by police in Ferguson, Missouri.

“At the UFCW, we are a family.  When tragedy strikes one of us, it is felt by all of us.

Our sister Lesley McSpadden, a member of UFCW Local 88, is dealing with the loss of her son Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.

We have watched the unfolding events in Ferguson—from Michael Brown’s death to the police response that has targeted peaceful protestors and journalists for exercising their first amendment rights. This entire episode highlights systemic problems that still plague our nation—abject poverty, the lack of good jobs, an absence of racial diversity in the halls of power.

We need to address these challenges head on—and labor has a role to play by offering workers the opportunity for a better life.  In the meantime, we stand in solidarity with our sister Lesley McSpadden and join her calls for a fair investigation and justice under the law.”

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The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) represents more than 1.3 million workers, primarily in the retail and meatpacking, food processing and poultry industries. The UFCW protects the rights of workers and strengthens America’s middle class by fighting for health care reform, living wages, retirement security, safe working conditions and the right to unionize so that working men and women and their families can realize the American Dream. For more information about the UFCW’s effort to protect workers’ rights and strengthen America’s middle class, visit www.ufcw.org, or join our online community at www.facebook.com/UFCWinternational and www.twitter.com/ufcw.

In Memory of Our Slain Brothers and Sisters, We Unite In Solidarity With You. We Mourn With You. We Struggle With You. And Together We Will Win Justice!

Our Demands:

1. Obama to come to Ferguson to meet with the people whose human rights have been violated by aggressive and militarized policing, including the family of the victim – Michael Brown.

2. Eric Holder to use the full resources and power of the Department of Justices to implement a nationwide investigation of systemic police brutality and harassment in black and brown communities

3. Ensure transparency, accountability, and safety of our communities by requiring front facing cameras in police departments with records of racial disparities in stops, arrests, killings, and excessive force complaints

4. Immediate suspension without pay of law enforcement officers that have used or approved excessive use of force. Additionally, their names and policing history should be made available to the public.

What: March for Justice
When: Monday, August 25, 2014
Where: US Federal Courthouse
Time: 4:00PM

NO JUSTICE NO PEACE
#handsup
#blacklivesmatter

Red Arrow Park, Milwaukee, August 22, 2014.

More photos: https://www.facebook.com/wibailoutpeople.org

Support occupiers of Municipal Building & for updates: http://tinyurl.com/kxzlxjs

More photos: https://www.facebook.com/wibailoutpeople.org

Support occupiers of Municipal Building and for updates: http://tinyurl.com/kxzlxjs

http://www.guatemalasolidarityproject.org

The GSP urgently requests solidarity after violent attacks targeting indigenous peasant communities and leaders who have organized against the destruction of Mother Earth for the profit of multinational energy companies. One of the central targets was Monte Olivo, one of the communities the GSP is seeking to build long term solidarity with.  Click here for more info and to take action

EVENT: http://tinyurl.com/kxzlxjs

4 p.m., Protest @ Red Arrow Park, (Water & E State Street) Milwaukee & March to Safety Building 

In Memory of Our Slain Brothers and Sisters, We Unite In Solidarity With You. We Mourn With You. We Struggle With You. And Together We Will Win Justice!

Our Demands:

A special prosecutor should be appointed to conduct the investigation of the killing of Mike Brown

An expanded Department of Justice investigation should be conducted into patterns of civil rights violations across North St. Louis County

A civilian review should be conducted in ALL police-related deaths and misconduct

Police departments need to reflect the demographic of the community that they police

What: March for Justice
When: Friday, August 22, 2014
Where: Red Arrow Park…then march to the Milwaukee County Safety Building
Time: 4 PM

NO JUSTICE NO PEACE
#handsup
#blacklivesmatter

Milwaukee, August 17, 2014