June 10: 16th/Greenfield 

June 17: 35th/Fond du Lac/Burleigh

June 24: Farwell/North

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The United Nations of Greater Milwaukee invites you to hear…

"Three First-Hand Perspectives on The Most Important Issues for The United Nations and the UNA of Greater Milwaukee"

Saturday – June 10^th, 2023 from 10 – 11:30 AM

Attend In-Person at Zao MKE Church – 2319 E. Kenwood Blvd, Milwaukee, WI

or Virtually Through the Following Zoom Link

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85784621419?pwd=Z2V4UEFENmtNS29hV3FlcFBQOUdVdz09

 

These Three Chapter Leaders Represented the UNA of Greater Milwaukee at the 2023 UNA-USA Leadership Summit “United for Impact” / June 4^th - 6^th, 2023,  in Washington, DC:

 Steve Watrous (UNA-GM President), Martha Collins (UNA-GM Vice-President), Annette Robertson (UNA-GM Secretary)

The three UNA-GM chapter officers who attended the 2023 UNA-USA Leadership Summit, will share the best of their interactions with UN and U.S. government officials and with members of other UNA chapters.  2023  Summit speakers included Catherine Russell (Executive Director of UNICEF) and Ambassador Michele J. Sison (Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, U.S. Department of State).

 

The Second Part of the Forum Will Focus On "Collaborating for Greater Community Impact"

The second part of the forum will provide participants with an opportunity to share ideas for planning future forums, how to develop relationships with other community groups and organizations concerned with global issues, and how the UNA of Greater Milwaukee can be more effective in supporting the sustainable development goals of the UN and UNA-USA.

For more information, contact Jack Murtaugh

[email protected] (email) / 414.635.9879 (Phone)

 

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Family Pride Event at Zao Church June 10 at Noon

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Women's Earth and Climate Network

Indigenous leaders urge Biden to shut down Line 5 pipeline due to ‘imminent’ threat. Peace Action WI has signed on.

CALL
President Biden has the authority to make the call to Shut down Line 5

• Phone: 1-202-456-1111

• Online: https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

• Governor Evers may have the authority to make an emergency/crisis call

  • Phone: 608-266-1212

  • Online: https://evers.wi.gov/pages/connect.aspx

 

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Milwaukee Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild

Action Alert: Peace Action - WI supporters are urged to attend the

Milwaukee Common Council Judicial and Legislation Committee hearing on Monday, June 12, 11:00 AM, City Hall, Room 301B of Milwaukee City Hall. 

We also ask you to contact your MKE alderperson at 414 286-2221 or by email to ask the Common Council to act to save JusticePoint's Municipal Court Alternatives Program before June 12 or if you can't attend in person. Find Common Council contact information here: https://city.milwaukee.gov/CommonCouncil. Find out who your MKE alderperson is here: https://myvote.wi.gov/en-us/My-Elected-Officials.

On the agenda of the Judicial and Legislation Committee will be a request by a coalition of 24 community groups, including MICAH, ACLU, Rid Racism, PeaceAction, National Lawyers Guild, and Milwaukee Turners (see May 31st letter attached).  The Coalition to Save JusticePoint's Municipal Court Alternatives Program is demanding that the Milwaukee Municipal Court renew its contract with Justice Point to continue their services of Alternative Programming for particularly vulnerable persons coming through the city's Municipal Court system, including mentally challenged, houseless, and those affected by drug addiction.  Justice Point was simply informed that the contract that expires July 11, 2023, would not be renewed, with no cause given for the cancellation.  Justice Point has served over 62,000 people over the past 20 years.

Following this appeal by 24 civic and rights organizations, Ald. Michael Borkowski scheduled a committee hearing on Monday, June 12 at 11am, to consider the essentially unexplained decision by the Milwaukee Municipal court, to terminate this 40 year program of assistance which had been authorized and funded by the common council.

The original decision gave no reason other than it was a “termination for convenience.” Just this week, the Court Administrator has stated that:  "Milwaukee Municipal Court's intervention/alternatives program will continue, just not with the current vendor." So far there is still no explanation, who or what will supposedly provide the services, their qualifications if any, nor even when they would begin to do so.

We need to advocate for renewal of the Justice Point Alternative Program because it is the moral, humane, and just way to treat  our neighbors. It is a way to make our city safer.  It holds people accountable and at the same time gives them an opportunity to find the resources that people need to overcome their barriers and challenges.

Attached is the letter sent to members of the Milwaukee Common Council and the Mayor of Milwaukee by the Milwaukee Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, MICAH, and other members of the coalition.

For more information contact Atty. Art Heitzer, [email protected].

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Our next webinar will be Monday, June 12, 8 pm EDT. Hope you can join us! See announcement below and register here: https://masspeaceaction.org/event/imf-and-world-bank-tools-of-imperialism-a-war-industry-resisters-network-webinar/

IMF and World Bank: Tools of Empire

Mon June 12 @ 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm EDT

 

The International Monetary Fund and World Bank were created after World War II by the victors at the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference. Dominated by the US, both institutions were from the beginning meant to further imperialism. While the IMF became the world’s monetary police and financial gatekeeper from the get go, the World Bank’s early years mainly focused on reconstructing war-torn Western Europe and Japan. A few years later, the World Bank shifted its focus to “developing” the Global South. By the 1970s the Bank proclaimed its mission was to reduce poverty.

Driven by Reagan-Thatcher neoliberalism, both institutions launched structural adjustment loans that required borrower countries to adopt austerity measures such as downsizing and privatizing public services, making them unaffordable to the poor. Both international financial institutions plunged countries, especially in the Global South, into debt crises and extracted wealth for the global capitalist class. They complement US/NATO military interventions in enacting modern-day colonialism.

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https://www.codepink.org/offthelist

Hear from a panel of 4 collectively chosen by the larger group of BAP members who went on the 2023 May Day Brigade to Cuba. They will give a multimedia report reflecting on the seminars and forums we attended, connections we made with the Cuban people, our experience participating in May Day celebrations, and connections we made with people from other countries who also came to Cuba. Also hear about how solidarity with Cuba fits into BAP's campaign for Our Americas to be recognized and respected as a Zone of Peace.

7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. ET, Thursday, June 15 2023

Presenters:

• Gus Griffin, BAP Africa Team and Ujima People's Progress Party
• Shaquille Fontenot, Lowcountry Action Committee (invited)
• Damion Scott, BAP Atlanta
• Kim Clark, Lowcountry Action Committee

Moderator: Erica Caines, Co-Coordinator, BAP Haiti/Americas Team

REGISTER HERE

This event will be livestreamed on Twitter and YouTube, where it can be played back later (that is the recording).

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Peace Action Wisconsin and the United Nations Association of Greater Milwaukee

invite you to our…

2023 Annual Picnic 

Come and meet with old friends, meet new friends, and enjoy some good food, beverage, and conversation! 

Saturday–June 24^th, 2023 from 2–5 PM 

Zao MKE Church – 2319 East Kenwood Blvd. – Milwaukee, WI 53211

 

The picnic will be held outdoors in front of Zao Church or inside the church in case of rain

Free bratwurst, veggie burgers, and potato salad.

Please bring your favorite potluck dish to share.

Desserts will be for sale by  Daughters of Tradition (DOT) all Indigenous girls youth group. They are planning a trip  to the UN in New York next year, let's help raise some funds!

Music will by the Raging Grannies, Harvey and Susan Taylor and David HB Drake.

Parking- The Zao MKE Church parking lot. When it’s filled there is free parking on the street, or pay to park at the Zelazo Center.

For more information, contact Pam Richard: 414-269-9525 or [email protected]

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Peace Action WI is at a new location! Thanks to everyone who made our move possible.

  Zao Church Milwaukee

2319 E Kenwood Blvd

  Milwaukee, WI 53211

Our Office # is the same: 414-269-9525

We are across the street from the UW-Milwaukee Union, at  Zao Church, once known as the United Methodist Church, on Kenwood boulevard, between Farwell and Prospect. Call if you would like to visit. When attending events here, you can park in the parking lot, just put a note that you're visiting Peace Action WI.

Mailing address:

P O Box 11126

 Shorewood, WI 53211

Contact for information: Pam Richard  [email protected]

DONATE to Peace Action

THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO CONTRIBUTED TO MAKE THIS MOVE POSSIBLE!

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Antiwar Activists Publish Ceasefire Petition in Washington, DC newspaper on Wednesday, May 24, 2023 

Peace Action WI delivered the Peace in Ukraine appeal letter to Gwen Moore's office, Ron Johnson's Office and Tammy Baldwin's office.

To Presidents Biden, Putin and Zelensky:

IT’S TIME TO STOP THE KILLING AND DEVASTATION. CEASEFIRE & PEACE NEGOTIATIONS NOW!

The war in Ukraine has taken hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian and Russian lives, uprooted millions, contaminated land, air and water and worsened the climate crisis.

The longer the war goes on, the greater the danger of spiraling escalation which can lead to a wider war, environmental devastation and nuclear annihilation.

The war diverts billions that could be addressing urgent human needs.

Total military victory cannot be achieved by either Russia or Ukraine. It is time to support the calls by Pope Francis, United Nations Secretary-General Guterres, Presidents Lula de Silva of Brazil, Erdoğan of Turkey, Xi of China, and others for a ceasefire and a negotiated end to this calamitous war.

Stop the killing, agree to a ceasefire and begin negotiations!

   Special Stand for “Daniel Ellsberg Week,” April 24-30. We celebrate the life’s work of Daniel Ellsberg, and to take action in support of whistleblowers and peacemakers, and to call on state and local governments around the country to honor the spirit of difficult truth-telling. His book, "Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner", reveals how Pentagon planning for nuclear war included sacrificing the lives of 100's of millions of people. He recently wrote a public letter disclosing that he has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, with only three to six months to live.

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WATCH the recording: IRAQ 20 YEARS — Anti-War Rally at the White House

March 17, 2023

 https://consortiumnews.com/2023/03/17/watch-anti-war-rally-at-the-white-house-live/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=991ab030-45c5-45b9-b4e9-9362df0026ce

Watch News2Share‘s broadcast of the anti-war rally at the White House on Saturday. More than 200 anti-war organizations signed up for the protest and march to The Washington Post headquarters.

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A time of unprecedented danger: It is 90 seconds to midnight

 Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS)

Socialist Education Project (SEP) presents its 4^th Monday Webinar

Recording: Vijay Prashad, “The Rise of ‘The Darker Nations’ in the 21^st Century: Responses to Crises of War, Poverty, and Environmental Disaster”

http://ouleft.org/wp-content/uploads/4th-monday-vijay.mp4

Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian, editor, and journalist. He is the chief editor of LeftWord Books and the director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. He is a senior non-resident fellow at Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China. He has written more than 20 books, including "The Darker Nations" and "The Poorer Nations." He recently published a revised version of his groundbreaking book, “The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World,” New Press, August, 2022 which he will discuss followed by questions and comments.

      Photo: March 4 Oakland and Capitol - 20 years of the Stand for Peace!

-------------------------------------------MADISON CHAPTER OF WORLD BEYOND WAR

FOX VALLEY PEACE COALITION

Monthly Vigil in Appleton

First Saturdays

Houdini Plaza, West Lawrence St, Appleton, WI 

for info: [email protected]

US congresswoman Betty McCollum (D) introduces bill

"Defending the Human Rights of Palestinian Children and Families Living Under Israeli Military Occupation Act"

https://mccollum.house.gov/media/press-releases/mccollum-reintroduces-defending-human-rights-palestinian-children-and-families

The measure, backed by 17 Democrats, would ban US assistance to Israel from contributing to detention of Palestinian children.

The legislation prohibits Israel’s government from using U.S. taxpayer dollars in the Occupied West Bank for the military detention, abuse, or ill treatment of Palestinian children in Israeli military detention; the seizure and destruction of Palestinian property and homes in violation of international humanitarian law; or any assistance or support for unilateral annexation of Palestinian lands in violation of international humanitarian law.

Animated Graphic of Military (red), Government (blue) and Humanitarian Expenditures (yellow) Tax dollars to Ukraine

Each dot represents $100,000 in US taxpayer dollars, according to the creator of this highly illustrative graphic. In 2022, the US is projected to send $60 Billion in military aid, $27 Billion in government aid, and last on the priority list, $15 Billion in humanitarian aid.

https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1602337689851858945

Military Spending: $87 Million-Per-Hour in 2023

Online Fall 2022 Newsletter

For Total Cost of War Since 2001, taxpayers in the state of Wisconsin are paying $127.25 billion.

Let's Defuse Nuclear War, Together

Thousands of women protesting at the RAF Greenham Common air base in 1982. The demonstrations continued until 1991 when the final American Cruise missiles were removed. Photograph: PA

Bangor Trident Nuclear Sub Base - Kitsap, WA - August 8, 2022

https://www.codepink.org/gaza2022?utm_campaign=gaza2022_4&utm_medium=email&utm_source=codepink

 Stand for World Peace

Peace in Ukraine

Peace Action WI Joins U.S. National Call in Support of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons 

In the face of widespread concern about the threat of nuclear weapons, World BEYOND War joins with organizations and individuals across the country in releasing the following statement:

STATEMENT ON THE EXISTENTIAL THREAT OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS
AND ON THE TREATY ON THE PROHIBITION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS

The power to initiate a global apocalypse lies in the hands of the leaders of nine nations. As 122 nations of the world indicated when they adopted the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in July, 2017, this is unacceptable.

As concerns about the threat of nuclear weapons re-enter the public consciousness, it is important to know that humankind is not without an answer to the nuclear threat. The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which entered into force on January 22, 2021, provides a clear pathway to the elimination of the nuclear threat.

We call on all nuclear armed states to take immediate steps to:

• engage the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons,
• attend the First Meeting of States Parties, and
• sign, ratify and implement the Treaty.

We also call on the U.S. media to recognize the existence of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and to include the Treaty in discussions, articles, and editorials regarding the nuclear threat and methods available to address it.

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The Statement has been endorsed by Peace Action WI and organizations representing hundreds of thousands of people in the United States as well as by a growing list of individuals. A list of signatories can be found at nuclearbantreaty.org.

Peace Action WI also encourages support for this  Global Appeal to Nine Nuclear Governments, and recommends participating in these events: