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This new video from the Wisconsin Anti-Violence Effort Educational Fund, a WNPJ member, on why we need background checks on all gun sales, is done simply. But it makes its point. Take action.
WNPJ Board member, Al Gedicks, LaCrosse, is one of the presenters at the Third Annual Protect the Earth Community Gathering, Baraga, MI on Saturday, July 31. Al is part of a panel discussing Mining in the UP and resistance at Eagle Rock. Winona LaDuke is also presenting at this event, and there will be music and more. All welcome to this annual gathering, this year called: “Protecting Our Water, Environment and Sacred Places”, July 30– Aug. 1 at Baraga, MI To see the three-day schedule of event and to learn more about accomodations, go to "Read more" (car-pool options from Madison - contact: info@wnpj.org)
Approximately 450 people in our state are killed by guns each year. Families and neighborhoods are devastated daily by these tragic, violent deaths.
Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce, key players in the attack on public services and public workers, is meeting in Madison on Wednesday the 23rd just blocks from thousands of protesters encamped at the Capitol. The WMC annual convention, to be held at Monona Terrace Convention Center, will be met by a 4:30pm rally organized by Wisconsin Wave, a new organization dedicated to opposing the cuts and austerity measures being imposed by corporate interests and their servants in government. Details here...
The House of Representatives is expected to vote in the next two weeks on a bill for $33 billion to fund President Obama's decision to send 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan. Usually, when war-funding bills come to a vote, members of Congress hide behind the false claim that they can't vote against funding, because doing so would "leave the troops in the field without any support." This time, because the funding is for an escalation that has not happened yet, it's clearer than ever that a vote against funding is a vote to protect our troops rather than to endanger them. The last time a war-funding bill came before the House, in December of 2009, Wisconsin Representatives Tammy Baldwin and Steve Kagen both voted "no."
From WNPJ member group Voces de la Frontera: Wisconsin is Not Arizona! Join us this Saturday, May 22, at noon at the Frontier Airline Center (formerly Midwest Express Center), 3rd and Wisconsin, for a press conference in front of the State Republican Convention to condemn gubernatorial candidate Scott Walker's recent reversal on Arizona SB1070 law; now proclaiming, "If I were governor of Arizona, I too would sign the Arizona immigration bill"
Members from several Wisconsin chapters of Veterans for Peace will be in Madison on Friday to take part in the rally at the state capitol and support Wisconsin workers and their famillies. Many have been there individually since the protests began 10 days ago. Full statement below...
Veterans For Peace has urged its chapters to demonstrate opposition to the war in Afghanistan and Pakistan by doing two things:
(1) Take actions listed below within the next several days, before President Obama decides to escalate the war in Afghanistan, and (2) Plan acts of even greater resistance during the two days following such a decision.
Arizona's harsh new anti-immigrant law, SB 1070, requires the police to investigate and detain anyone who could "reasonably be suspected" of being an undocumented immigrant, and even makes it a crime for legal immigrants not to have papers proving their immigration status. The bill is a clear violation of 4th Amendment protections against unreasonable government search and seizure, and, just as in the 1960's, federal action is needed to protect civil rights in a state where the governor and legislature are writing racial discrimination into the law. Click here to sign an online petition urging Attorney General Holder to enforce the Constitution by blocking the enforcement of Arizona's anti-immigrant racial-profiling bill.
March 25, 2011: UFPJ has issued the following statement on U.S./NATO bombing of Libya:
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