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Hey hey Milwaukee! New Book Club Event!!! 👻

Join SURJ MKE BC and HOK-Hands Off Kenosha Mondays in October from 7-8:30pm over zoom as we discuss Dean Spade's book, Mutual Aid

Please register with this link or scan the QR code in the flyer:
www.eventbrite.com/e/mutual-aid...

At the the No Kings rally in Cathedral Square and need snacks, water, sunscreen or basic first aid? Stop by and say hello at the SURJ MKE table! We’re on the west side edge of the park ☀️

Next opportunities in WI for Bystander Intervention Deescalation trainings:

FRANKLIN/GREENDALE ✨✨✨
SUNDAY, JUNE 8TH
4:00-6:00PM
@ GREENDALE COMMUNITY CHURCH
6015 Clover Ln

‼️RSVP Required for 6/8. Sign up using the link:
www.greendalecommunitychurch.org/events-1/bys...

Next opportunities in WI for Bystander Intervention Deescalation trainings:

KENOSHA ✨✨✨
SATURDAY, MAY 31ST
9:30-11:30AM
@ NORTHSIDE KENOSHA LIBRARY
1500 27th Ave

Planning and strategy session for May. This meeting is for community orgs collaboration items and SURJ-MKE members to contribute to leadership spaces with ideas, questions, and strategies.

Find the zoom link in the events tab of our FB page, email surjmke@gmail or DM for the link.

Come out this Thurs, April 24th to hear Reggie Jackson preview his book “Midwest Nice Racism”. Please arrive at 6pm, talk starts promptly at 6:30pm. Wauwatosa Public Library.

Following we’ll head a few blocks away to Lion’s Tail Brewing Co. for a hangout mini SURJ MKE SOCIAL. 8520 W North Ave.

Looking to show up with SURJ MKE tomorrow?

- Weekly #TeslaTakedown 12011 West Silver Spring, 12-12:45pm

- #50501 & Indivisible Highway Overpass Demonstration, 12-2:00pm

Starting at Tesla then head over to participate in the Highway Overpass action, Vienna Ave footbridge. Hope to see you there!🔥

Quite literally whitewashing the purpose of the Underground Railroad www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Next chapter meeting, Sunday April 13, 12:00-2:00pm at The Sugar Maple 441 E Lincoln Ave. Hear about and connect with our spring campaigns and summer plans.

Location is accessible and located 1 block from several MCTS bus lines.

Two great turnouts in a row for #TeslaTakeDown in #Milwaukee! Each week the crowd has doubled, we had over 100 people for the 3/29 #teslatakedownglobaldayofaction - it was quite a party come out every Saturday for 45 minutes at the
#TeslaTakeDownMilwaukee

This reminds me of the time on the bird app when people attempted to drag Angela Davis because she shares ancestry with Mayflower settlers. Most people didn’t stop and ask…”how?”

March Planning & Strategy Session invite is up for SURJ MKE members and community orgs to discuss collaboration items and contribute ideas, input, questions, and strategies for future team meetings and events. This is NOT the monthlychapter meeting. Register on FB or DM for zoom link.

This is white supremacy. Many people ask why working-class people "vote against their interests." But if their interest is preserving white supremacy, they aren't voting against that. Lots & lots of white people will put up with a lot—as long as BIPOC have it worse.

In these comments about DEI practices being banned we are NOT referring to these folks as WHITE SUPREMACISTS enough

Another clip with former NFL Player Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social arrested for civil disobedience this week in the face of his MAGA city council.
HERE he talks about why, in the ensuing publicity he rejected an interview ask from the New York Times (he says exception for @jamellebouie.net)

We are amidst a lead emergency in MPS. We invite all community members to come to our first community assembly.
It’ll be an opportunity to voice concerns & ask your questions.
We will share the information and provide resources. We will begin laying the groundwork for solutions @leadsafeschoolsmke

Georgia Touts Its Medicaid Experiment as a Success. The Numbers Tell a Different Story. Only 6,500 participants have enrolled in a program that has cost taxpayers more than $86 million — a warning for other states looking to impose restrictions on Medicaid in a second Trump presidency.

NEW: Georgia’s governor promotes his Medicaid work requirement as a national model for reform.

Yet the program has cost taxpayers $86M, three-quarters of which has gone to consultants, and enrolled less than 3% of the quarter-million Georgians eligible.

BREAKING: Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier released from prison after nearly 50 years

Sudan’s ‘war of opportunity’, with Yassmin Abdel-Magied Is Sudan really the “forgotten war”? Former broadcaster Yassmin Abdel-Magied breaks down the situation and explains which countries are positioning th...

Feel like you know nothing about Sudan? I sat down with the team at Prospect Magazine to talk about the conflict, and why it’s NOT a forgotten war, but an invisibilised one: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/pro...

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SURJ National is running a new virtual series on Wednesday nights from now until April 23rd: Protect and Resist.

Tonight’s webinar is about the racist roots of defunding the social safety net with Dr. Robin DG Kelley.

You can register for all the links here: www.mobilize.us/surj/event/7...

This Is the Way to Stop Elon Musk Senate Democrats have the power to block federal contracts to Tesla and SpaceX. It’s the path to pushing Musk out of politics.

Senate Democrats have the power to block federal contracts to Tesla and SpaceX. It’s the path to pushing Musk out of politics.

The Corporate Coup in Global Context: An Emergency Town Hall YouTube video by Haymarket Books

Inspirational, strategic and grounded conversation from @chenjerai.bsky.social @naomiaklein.bsky.social @keeanga.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social

Thanks @haymarketbooks.org you're the best 💖

more and more these days, I find myself thinking that you can accept the discipline of your political goals or you can accept the discipline of your resentments.

Facilitated tonight's @surjmke.bsky.social Let This Radicalize You Reflection Roundtable discussion with a pair of word clouds inspired by Ch 4: Think Like a Geographer. RE: Milwaukee — what we want to address and change, and features of our shared vision.

Interested in becoming a Legal Observer? Register here: bit.ly/lo-training-25

Legal Observers are trained volunteers who monitor and document interactions between law enforcement and the public.

Join the Milwaukee Turners Saturday, February 22, 11AM-1PM at Turner Hall. Registration is required