1/25 Emergency Action Against US Coup in Venezuela, Copley Square 5:30 p.m.

Charlie Welch<cwelch@tecschange.org>

1/24/2019 11:00 PM

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Emergency Solidarity Action for Venezuela!
We are supporting the emergency call--issued by a left organization--for
a demonstration on Friday at 5:30 p.m. Please see below for the Facebook
event and check there for updates on times and locations.

Background: There is a right-wing coup attempt underway in Venezuela
orchestrated by the Trump White House and the CIA along with its junior
partners — the so-called Lima Group. The democratically-elected
government of Nicolás Maduro has broken relations with the U.S.
government and ordered the U.S. embassy in Caracas closed and all its
agents to leave the country within 72 hours. We are witnessing once
again a classic example of U.S. imperialism and its proxies attempting
to carry out an illegal regime change operation against a legitimate
government. People all over the world need to stand in solidarity with
Venezuela in this critical moment.

The Trump administration’s rhetoric about human rights and democracy is
completely hollow. Venezuela is in fact being targeted because it has a
socialist government that challenges corporate power and resists
Washington's diktat.

We call on all progressive people and opponents of U.S. wars and the
military industrial complex to rally in defense of Venezuela’s
sovereignty and the Bolivarian Revolution.

Say NO to US intervention in Venezuela!
End the Sanctions!
Respect Venezuelan Sovereignty!
Imperialists Hands OFF Venezuela!

https://www.facebook.com/events/365442034270323/


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Why are farmworkers embarking on the 4 for Fair Food Tour? Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Why are farmworkers embarking on the 4 for Fair Food Tour?

Coalition of Immokalee Workers<workers@ciw-online.org>

1/25/2019 9:05 AM

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Why are farmworkers embarking on the 4 for Fair Food Tour? By now, you know that farmworkers will be embarking on the 4 for Fair Food Tour from March 2-14, traveling across the nation to four of the country’s top public universities – the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Ohio State University in Columbus, and the University of Florida in Gainesville – to join students and community members in calling on these institutions to end their relationships with Wendy’s until the fast-food giant joins the award-winning Fair Food Program. Beyond the tour itself, young people, community leaders, and farmworkers are calling for a national boycott of the hamburger chain, demanding that, instead of cheap “4 for $4” deals, Wendy’s put human rights on the menu. You know what the tour is, where it’s headed, and when it’s happening. Today, we want to lay out the why. Why are farmworkers taking 12 days away from work and family to travel across the country to major universities? Why is cutting business ties with Wendy’s so important for these institutions? And, perhaps most importantly, why is it so critical that you do everything you can to support the tour? We will start with the question of why universities. Perhaps the schools themselves can answer that question best. From the University of Michigan’s website: Principles for Community and Civic Engagement U-M is a public institution with a deep public ethos. Our mission to serve the people of Michigan and the world is deeply rooted in our ethos and identity as a public institution. Through our engagement we can directly benefit the society that supports us by combining our expertise with that of people who live in communities, both around us and around the world, to build on their own capacities and to maximize and realize their opportunities. By learning from communities, we develop connections with new ideas that challenge us and confront us with the new questions that allow us to create, communicate, preserve and apply knowledge, art and academic values to the challenges of the world. And through the opportunities that communities provide to help educate our students, we create the leaders and citizens who will challenge the present and enrich the future. “Through engagement we can directly benefit the society that supports us…” “By learning from communities, we develop connections with new ideas that challenge us…” “And through the opportunities that communities provide to help educate our students, we create the leaders and citizens who will challenge the present and enrich the future.” These are good and noble values. And the University of Michigan is not alone in espousing them. All four schools have their own versions of this bold mission statement, clearly worded values and principles that they profess — to their students and to the world — are central to their missions as public universities. But they are little more than empty words if those who swear to uphold them fail to act when presented with a stark moral choice like that posed by the national student-led “Boot the Braids Campaign” to end contracts with Wendy’s on campuses.  It’s time to put principles into action. The four flagship state universities that farmworkers will visit on the 4 for Fair Food Tour have a responsibility to send a clear and unequivocal message to Wendy’s: Until you put human rights on the menu, you cannot sell food on our campus. Farmworkers, who themselves have confronted first-hand the abuses that take place in the absence of responsibility and leadership from corporations like Wendy’s, will join with students and community allies at each university to call for an end to any business relationship with Wendy’s until the fast-food giant joins the Fair Food Program. The human rights crisis in agriculture today is as widespread as it is well-documented. Instances of sexual violence, forced labor, and children as young as 10 laboring to harvest tomatoes and other vegetables are prevalent, both in the U.S. agricultural industry and abroad. Yet for the past five years, Wendy’s has turned its back on the one solution proven to end those abuses. The Coalition of Immokalee Workers’ Fair Food Program, a unique partnership among farmworkers, growers and major food retailers, has been able to eliminate those same human rights abuses for tens of thousands of farmworkers in the U.S, and has won universal recognition for its unique success, including a Presidential Medal in 2015. Fourteen of the world’s largest corporations – including all of Wendy’s major competitors, like Burger King and McDonald’s, as well as Whole Foods and other supermarkets – have already signed onto the Program, committing to use their market power to ensure that farmworkers are treated with dignity and respect. Wendy’s, on the other hand, has gone out of its way to avoid purchasing from Fair Food Program farms, abandoning Fair Food growers in Florida and instead bouncing from the Mexican agricultural industry to the emerging U.S. greenhouse industry, apparently unconcerned by the conditions of abuse that continue, each day, to plague farmworkers beyond the Fair Food Program. Wendy’s has long attempted to hide behind a toothless Supplier Code of Conduct and a superficial auditing scheme – a strategy that experts in the field of social responsibility have unequivocally declared a failure. But farmworkers and consumers are not fooled. Nothing less than the proven model of the Fair Food Program will be able to truly combat sexual assault, modern slavery and other human rights violations in Wendy’s supply chain. In light of Wendy’s unconscionable refusal to follow its competitor’s lead and join the award-winning Fair Food Program, farmworkers and their allies are calling for these four universities to cut all business ties with Wendy’s. President Folt of UNC Chapel Hill, President Drake of OSU, President Schlissel of UM, and President Fuchs of UF have an important decision to make. As leaders of top U.S. academic institutions, they can choose to ignore their own covenants and remain on the wrong side of history. Or they can seize this opportunity to show real leadership, breathe new life into their institutions’ stated values, and cut their relationship with Wendy’s until the fast-food giant honors farmworkers’ human rights in its supply chain.  Farmworkers, community leaders, and their own students are waiting for their answers. Beyond the values outlined in the University of Michigan’s mission statement that all four schools hold in common, each of these universities has its own story, its own particular angle when it comes this critical decision of what to do about Wendy’s. In the weeks ahead, as we countdown to the launch of the 4 for Fair Food Tour, make sure to stay tuned for a “Tour Preview,” a series of posts taking a closer look at the particular context of this call to action on each campus community. We’ll also be providing updates from the advance organizing teams at each school as they ramp up education and mobilization efforts for the big actions in March. If you’re ready to take action right now to support the tour, here’s what you can do: Make plans to join the tour yourself in North Carolina, Ohio, Michigan or Florida. Donate to support the farmworker bus! Sign and share the Wendy’s Boycott petition as a way to spread the word about the 4 for Fair Food Tour. ‌ Coalition of Immokalee Workers (239) 657 8311 | workers@ciw-online.org | www.ciw-online.org Connect with us  ‌  ‌  ‌  ‌

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Protest Raytheon Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia at Campus Career Fairs

Protest Raytheon Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia at Campus Career Fairs

Northeastern University: 1/29/19 6PM-7PM           bit.ly/neraytheon

409 Dana Research Center, 100 Forsyth St, Boston, Massachusetts 02115

MIT: 2/4/19 12PM-2PM                                              bit.ly/mitraython

Johnson Athletic Center, 120 Vassar Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

Boston University: 2/6/19 12PM-2PM                     bit.ly/buraytheon

Metcalf Hall, George Sherman Union, 775 Comm Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02215

Tufts University: 2/8/19 12PM-2PM                         bit.ly/tuftsraytheon

Gantcher Center, 161 College Ave, Medford, Massachusetts 02155

Northeastern University: 2/14/19 12PM-2PM         bit.ly/neratheonvalentines

Employer Engagement and Career Design, 101 Stearns Center, 420 Huntington Ave., Boston, Massachusetts 02115

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Take Action: Tell your Reps to Create a GAO Investigation Before Another Base Is Built in Okinawa

Take Action: Tell your Reps to Create a GAO Investigation Before Another Base Is Built in Okinawa

Okinawa is moving toward crisis. Their vigil at the gate has continued for more that 5000 days; their actual sit-in (blocking construction vehicles) more than 1000.  A move by GAO could have an impact.  Please take a few minutes to send this letter off.

It is written as an appeal to the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) to launch an investigation of that project.  Last year’s GAO report on the Marines in the Asia-Pacific contained veiled criticisms of the Henoko project, so there is a real possibility that they might take this up big time.

But to do that they need a nudge from Congress. The letter form below makes it very easy to send the text of this resolution to your congresspeople.

If you have already signed, can you forward to a friend?

It's so important that we get as many letters sent as possible!

Send the Letter!

Join in the Resistance - Organizing in 2019 - Sunday, 3:30 PM John 1/25/2019 3:26 PM To bmdc@lists.riseup.net, mayday@lists.riseup.net Quick reply allReplyForwardDelete Join in the Resistance – Organizing in 2019 www.facebook.com/bostonmdc https://www.facebook.com/events/540374559799529/ Sunday, January 27, 3:30 PM Encuentro 5 9A Hamilton Place, Boston, MA 02108 Join with the Boston May Day Coalition as we gather together to look back and evaluate our work in 2018 and discuss our vision for resisting deportations and defending the rights of working people and youth. We will be discussing our short and long term goals as well as the upcoming May Day mobilization which is less than 4 months away. Join us in discussing our tasks, demands, and perspectives. This event will feature pot luck food and beverages. Agenda for 1/27 gathering: Welcome – Brief history of BMDC – Serve food and have Introductions Looking back at 2018 – political developments and our response Current government assault and existing fightback – what is the leading edge of assault and why? Our long-term vision for migrants, workers and youth. Policies needed and our demands. Strategy – discuss mass action, openness, democracy, and transparency Role of Democrats, role of the left and labor movement currently What must change? What are we asking folks to do? Plans for May Day 2019 What are our next steps/activities? What are our priorities? Elect an interim committee and schedule next meeting

 Join in the Resistance - Organizing in 2019 - Sunday, 3:30 PM

John<john.r.harris@verizon.net>

1/25/2019 3:26 PM

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Join in the Resistance – Organizing in 2019

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Sunday, January 27, 3:30 PM

Encuentro 5

9A Hamilton Place, Boston, MA 02108

Join with the Boston May Day Coalition as we gather together to look back and evaluate our work in 2018 and discuss our vision for resisting deportations and defending the rights of working people and youth. We will be discussing our short and long term goals as well as the upcoming May Day mobilization which is less than 4 months away. Join us in discussing our tasks, demands, and perspectives. This event will feature pot luck food and beverages.  

Agenda for 1/27 gathering:

1. Welcome – Brief history of BMDC – Serve food and have Introductions

2. Looking back at 2018 – political developments and our response

3. Current government assault and existing fightback – what is the leading edge of assault and why?

4. Our long-term vision for migrants, workers and youth. Policies needed and our demands.

5. Strategy – discuss mass action, openness, democracy, and transparency

Role of Democrats, role of the left and labor movement currently

What must change? What are we asking folks to do?

6. Plans for May Day 2019

7. What are our next steps/activities? What are our priorities?

8. Elect an interim committee and schedule next meeting

If Trump Shuts Down-Again-Built The United Front Resistance-General Strike: Fierce Urgency of Now January 20, 2019 — AFA International President Sara Nelson accepted the 2019 AFL-CIO MLK Drum Major for Justice Award, with a call to conference activists from across the Labor Movement to talk with their union leadership about conducting a General Strike to end the Government Shutdown.

General Strike: Fierce Urgency of Now

January 20, 2019 — AFA International President Sara Nelson accepted the 2019 AFL-CIO MLK Drum Major for Justice Award, with a call to conference activists from across the Labor Movement to talk with their union leadership about conducting a General Strike to end the Government Shutdown.

Introduction video > 

2019 AFL-CIO Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Civil and Human Rights Awards Dinner
Washington, DC

Thank you. I am proud to represent my union tonight, the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA. We are aviation’s first responders and last line of defense. It’s wonderful to be joined by my family, my fellow officers Debora Sutor and Kevin Creighan, and Flight Attendant activists who are here participating in our MLK Conference and doing the work daily on our Human Rights committees. Kia Carroll, Melinda Jorge, Trina Johnson, and Jennifer Kraakevik – stand up and thank you for working to make our union stronger!

Receiving this award is an honor that I can’t begin to properly express. Thank you to the AFL-CIO Civil and Human Rights Committee, President Trumka, Secretary-Treasurer Shuler and Executive Vice President Gebre for this extraordinary award.

But, This award is not about me. This award was created to honor the legacy of Dr. King. This award is about all of us. We are together here tonight because he called us together. He called on us to come together with the “fierce urgency of now” to fight for justice.

Our calling is now. There is a humanitarian crisis unfolding right now for our 800,000 federal sector sisters and brothers who are either locked out of work or forced to come to work without pay due to the government shutdown.

These are real people who are facing real consequences of being dragged into the longest shutdown in history. No money to pay for rent, for childcare, or a tank of gas to get to work. The federal worker stretching insulin through the night and wondering if she will wake up in the morning. The transportation security officer in her third trimester with no certainty for her unborn child. The corrections officer who tried to take his own life because he saw no other way out. The air traffic controller who whispered to his union leader, “I just don’t know how long I can hang on.”

The situation is changing rapidly. Major airports are already seeing security checkpoints closing. Many more will follow. Safety inspectors and federal cybersecurity staff are on furlough, not working. The layers of safety and security that keep us safe are not in place due to the shutdown.

I have a growing concern for our members’ safety and security.

In addition, it is likely days – no more than a week – until the aviation system begins to unravel and massive flight cancellations ensue. When that happens, private jets won’t take off either, and no one will get to Atlanta for the Superbowl.

At best, our members will lose work, at worst ..

As I have said many times in recent days, safety and security is non-negotiable.

The TSA was created for the same reason my friends’ names, along with 3000 others, are engraved in bronze at the 9/11 memorial in New York.

If they can’t do their job, I can’t do mine. Dr. King said, “their destiny is tied up with our destiny. We cannot walk alone.”

Federal workers here tonight - Stand Up.

Flight Attendants and aviation workers - Stand Up.

Nurses who count on the medicine we deliver on our planes - Stand Up.

Everyone who flew to this conference - Stand Up.

Anyone who believes it is a crime to make people work without pay - Stand Up.

Federal workers, We’ve got your back!

The country sees no solution in sight, but Labor can lead the way. Dr. King rallied us by reaching for the mountain top. He didn’t seek integration of just ONE school, he sought freedom in our schools for ALL children. He didn’t seek integration of just ONE lunch counter, he aspired to have us ALL “sit down together at the table of brotherhood.” And sisterhood, Dr. King!

Today, people are starving for this kind of leadership. They are hungry for answers where some would say there are none. Through our Labor Movement, we have the answers for them and together we can lead the way.

We need to follow Dr. King’s lead and think big. Think big like the hotel workers who took on the largest hotel chain the world and won. Think BIG, like the teachers in Los Angeles who this very minute are taking on powerful hedge funds to save public education for our children.

Dr. King said that “With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together.”

Now listen to me… We can end this Shutdown together.

Federal sector unions have their hands full caring for the 800,000 federal workers who are at the tip of the spear. Some would say the answer is for them to walk off the job. I say, “what are you willing to do? Their destiny IS tied up with our destiny – and they don’t even have time to ask us for help. Don’t wait for an invitation. Get engaged, join or plan a rally, get on a picket line, organize sit-ins at lawmakers’ offices.

Almost a million workers are locked out or being forced to work without pay. Others are going to work when our workspace is increasingly unsafe. What is the Labor Movement waiting for?

Go back with the Fierce Urgency of NOW to talk with your Locals and International unions about all workers joining together - To End this Shutdown with a General Strike.

We can do this. Together. Si se puede. Every gender, race, culture, and creed. The American Labor Movement. We have the power.

And to all Americans – We’ve Got Your Back!