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Statement of Respect to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and all Native Nations

Peace Action WI acknowledges that in Milwaukee we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland and Wisconsin is the home of  the sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican Nations. We affirm our solidarity and support for the rights of Wisconsin Indigenous Nations. 

  Response to Biden's apology for Indian Boarding Schools
 Friday, October 25th, U.S. President Joe Biden spoke on the Gila River Indian Community offering an apology on behalf of the U.S. Government to all boarding school survivors and their families.  Although an apology is the least a US President can do for over 150 years of taking our children away from our lands and communities, we deserve more. Meaningful apologies require actionable steps toward accountability, healing, and repair.
We Demand Action Not Just an Apology. Take these 5 steps toward accountability (and not just limited to these 5).
1.) Passing the U.S. Truth & Healing Commission Bill to ensure continued funding and support for the relatives who survived boarding schools.
2.) Grant immediate Executive Clemency for boarding school survivor Leonard Peltier, free him from his 50-year incarceration
3.) Immediately invest in and resource Indigenous language and cultural revitalization programs.
4.) Rescind all medals of honor awarded to US soldiers for the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee
5.) Instruct the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) to conduct a full-scale investigation into the Tuba City Boarding School’s failure to address egregious misconduct and support the nationwide reforms being demanded by parents and students to protect children at BIE run schools.
WAYS YOU CAN TAKE ACTION TO SUPPORT THESE DEMANDS:
• Read our Statement: https://ndnco.cc/psbanbs
• Sign our Sign-on Letter: https://ndnco.cc/letternoapologywithoutaction

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STAND FOR PEACE

Saturdays  Noon to 1 PM





Saturday, November 2, NOON to 1 PM 

Stand for Peace in Palestine

Martin Luther King Jr Dr and North Avenue

Not Another US Made Bomb! Israel- Ceasefire! Arms Embargo Now!  

There is no way that Israel could inflict such destruction without the weapons and political support of the United States.  Stop the $20 billion weapons sale to Israel!

A new report from Brown University found that 114,000 people have been killed by mass murder  since the start of Israel's war on Gaza, the majority are innocent civilians and mostly women and children. The destruction of Gaza's health-care infrastructure has led to outbreaks of cholera, measles, polio, and meningococcal meningitis. Nearly two million Gazans — over 90% of the population  have been displaced, their homes bombed to rubble, forced to flee repeatedly to escape Israel's relentless bombing. At least 345,000 are facing catastrophic levels of  starvation, lack of clean water and no access to hygiene.

A joint U.S.-Israeli plan to employ private security contractors, will reportedly include CIA-trained mercenaries, who are expected to manage aid distribution and set up internment camps for Palestinians.

Many Children Among Hundreds Killed, Wounded in Latest Israeli Bombings of Gaza




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STAND FOR PEACE

SATURDAY, Nov 2, 12:30 PM 

 Join us this Saturday for our weekly Stand for Palestine We meet on the corner of Hwys 20 and 31, which you get to by driving into the Kohl's parking lot and parking near the AT&T store (5502 Washington Ave, WI 53406.)

Fox Valley Peace Coalition

Vigil in Appleton First Saturdays

Nov 2, 2024 at 11 AM

College &  Appleton St

for info: [email protected]


Women in Black Weekly Peace Vigil

Women In Black – Women in black for justice, against war.

Thurs, Oct 31 NOON-12:30 PM

La Crosse, WI at Main St  & 4th St

Contact Deborah Buffton  [email protected]


 
Saturday, November 2nd
"Origin" Film Screening & Talkback

Rid Racism Milwaukee and the Milwaukee Turners invite you to an in-person or online free film screening of "Origin" written and directed by Ava DuVernay. The film is based on the life of Isabel Wilkerson, author of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. The event is being held on Saturday, November 2nd from Noon to 3:30 p.m. There will be a talkback panel discussion after the film. The in-person film screening will be held at

Turner Hall located at 1040 N. Vel R. Phillips Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53203.

Registration is required for this free event. Please click here to register.


Join Voces de la Frontera in Milwaukee as we prepare for Election Day by bringing together music, community, and civic education. 

 OtoñoFest  Sunday, November 3, 11AM- 7 PM

The festival is sponsored by Lake Beat Music Academy and will feature several Latin music artists. The program will take place from 11 am to 7 pm at Arlington Heights Park (3429 W Pierce St, Milwaukee). RSVP on Facebook here

You can also find us on Monday, November 4th from 12pm-5pm at Hmong Town Market (8340 W Appleton Ave) and/or Metcalfe Park Rising (3401 W Center Street).


UWM Popular University for Palestine
Monday, November 4 @ 4 pm | UWM Bolton Hall B52
Join the UWM for Paliestine Coalition for a screening of Al-Jazeera's new documentary, Investigating War Crimes in Gaza. This eye-opening film offers a detailed look at the on-the-ground reality in Gaza over the past year. We welcome all students, faculty, staff, and community members to attend. Whether you’re well-versed in the issue or new to it, this is a chance to witness what is happening in Gaza firsthand. This event is open to the public. 


 


Live from Palestine: Ongoing Israeli Genocide and Nakba

Sat November 16 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm EST

Register

As the Israeli Genocide surpasses the 1-year mark, and the ongoing Nakba 76 years, it is more crucial than ever to recognize the root causes of the Palestinian question: that the Israeli regime is founded on the pillars forced displacement and transfer, colonization and apartheid. These pillars are essential for the Israeli regime in perpetrating the Ongoing Nakba, the genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the escalation of suppression in the West Bank and 1948 Palestine, and for maintenance of the colonial-apartheid regime.

Speakers

  1. Lubnah Shomali, Advocacy Manager, BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights
  2. Mejd Azzah, 1for3, Field Director for Palestine
  3. Hazim Al Madhoun, researcher, Palestinian refugee in the Gaza Strip
  4. Ala’ Srouji, Al Awda Center, Director, Palestinian Refugee in Tulkarem Refugee Camp (West Bank)

Moderator: Julie Jolin, MAPA

Sponsored by MAPA Education Fund and BADIL.  BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights is a an independent, non-profit, human rights organization that is dedicated to promoting and defending the rights of Palestinian refugees and internally displaced persons in line with international law and grounded in the Palestinian people’s national aspirations.


2024 ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING AND CHILI SUPPER

 Tuesday, Nov, 19, 5:30 PM (Doors open at 5 PM)

Zao Church Family Room, 2319 E Kenwood Blvd, Milwaukee, WI 53211

Music by Julianne Lovely Thompson

 Rachel Ida Buff, Jewish Voice for Peace, on the Genocide in Gaza

Jamie Kellicut ​will introduce the Daughters of Tradition, Native American youth group.​They will be selling baked goods as a fundraiser to travel to the United Nations in New York.

Election of 2025 Steering Committee. See our website for candidate’s bios.

Wheelchair accessible


WISDOM

 WISDOM FOR JUSTICE! 

Campaign Against Torture to End Solitary Confinement

 NOV 23rd at 11 AM

Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility (MSDF) 1015 N. 10th St. Milwaukee, WI 53233. 

Directly impacted leaders and religious leaders will call for an end to the torture of solitary confinement. There is an urgent need to completely depopulate Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility and close the state's two oldest prisons in Waupun and Green Bay. 

We will stand in solidarity with the National Religious Campaign Against Torture's Together to End Solitary Campaign that raises attention on the 23rd of each month.

You can visit https://www.nrcat.org/torture-in-us-prisons/take-action/together-campaign for details about the campaign. 


It's Time for Congress to Challenge Years of Failed Pentagon Audits

 Greg Williams, Director of the Center for Defense Information
Project On Government Oversight

 "A closer look at a few concerning Pentagon programs offers a clear example of where we’re going wrong and highlights the pressing need for acquisition reform.

  • The Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) program: This $141 billion program, designed to replace our current ICBMs, has seen costs soar over 81% through its program cycle. Yet even absent reliable financial data, Congress’s support for this program seems unwavering.
  • The Constellation frigate program: This $22 billion program is running three years behind schedule, a delay the Government Accountability Office (GAO) attributes at least in part to “the Navy’s decision to begin construction before the design was complete.” As my colleague Dylan Hedtler-Gaudette recently testified, “Agreeing to a contract for a critical program like Constellation without first having a design for that program seems like, at best, acquisition and procurement malpractice.”
  • The F-35 Lightning II fighter program: At an investment of nearly $2 trillion, the F-35 program has been so plagued by cost overruns, delays, and performance problems that there is not space to list them all here.10 At the same time, the Department of Defense inspector general identified the Joint Strike Fighter Program (the F-35) as one of 10 “weaknesses” in the FY 2022 audit:

The [Joint Strike Fighter, or] JSF Program Office was unable to verify the completeness and value of the JSF Program assets, and the assets were not in an accountable property system of record. Not only were the auditors unable to perform the necessary procedures to conclude on the JSF property balances, but they also could not quantify the extent of the misstatement.


Hiroshima survivor Hideko Tamura

Hideko with her mother who perished in the blast

Video link for Hiroshima survivor Hideko Tamura's Story

A moving recount on video, by Hideko Tamura, was 10 years old living in Hiroshima, when atomic bombs wrought terrible destruction on the Japanese cities and citizens of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. She describes her experiences before, during and after the Hiroshima bomb.

She appeals to us all, "I depend on all of your energy, please continue what you are doing to rule out violent means, especially this inhumane, horrible weapon.... We are not barbarians, we are humans, and let us be truly and fully human...."

She’s the author of "One Sunny Day, A Child’s Memories of Hiroshima" and "When A Peace Tree Blooms.”


 

 

Hind Rajab, six-year-old girl in Gaza, targeted by an Israeli army tank while trying to escape her neighborhood with her uncle and members of his family. Hind, six of her family, and two paramedics from the Red Crescent Society who came to their rescue were all killed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Hind_Rajab

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Opinion piece in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

by Janan Najeeb, Peace Action WI member and Founder and Executive Director of the Milwaukee Muslim Women's Coalition

Why do college students protest? They know truth about Israel's genocide in Gaza

"We are telling them that a bunch of tents on college campuses is more problematic than the ethnic cleansing of tens of thousands of Palestinians, including more than 70% of whom are women and children, done with our tax dollars and military support."

TBD: meet at 7:30am Weekday Coffee and Banner Drop for Palestine

  • Hosted by Milwaukee 4 Palestine, Jewish Voice for Peace Milwaukee

  • Location: Meet at Colectivo Lakefront, walk to bridge over Lincoln Memorial Parkway

  • Details: We start the new year with more energy and a louder voice. Please join JVP Milwaukee and Milwaukee4Palestine on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at 7:30 am for a morning coffee and then a banner drop at 8 am. We cannot stop. We will not stop.TBD

TAKE ACTION TO STOP US RETALIATION FOR ICJ RULING IN

SOUTH AFRICA v. ISRAEL 

Email and call your congressional reps.

Capitol Hill switchboard: 202-224-3121

Sample Script: Hello, my name is __________ and I am your constituent in zip code ___________. Please issue a statement (email, social media post) urging the Biden administration to restore funding to UNRWA, the UN relief agency providing the bulk of humanitarian relief–water and food– to the imprisoned Palestinian people under Israeli assault in Gaza.  To cut off funding for UNRWA at Israel’s request is to threaten 2.3 million Gazans with mass starvation and turn Gaza into an extermination camp. Demand the White House fund UNRWA and not undermine the World Court order demanding provision of humanitarian aid. The US must not commit genocide in my name. Thank you.

Summary of the UNWRA situation from the BBC News: 


The 2023 Nobel Peace Prize- awarded to jailed women's rights activist, Narges Mohammadi.

The Struggle for Freedom: Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi  advocates for 'Women, Life, and Freedom' from prison | George W. Bush  Presidential Center

She is an Iranian physicist/engineer who has been working for women's rights in Iran for several decades and for her outspoken leadership she is in prison with a sentence of 31 years and 150 lashes 

Her daughter and son accept the prize on her behalf, following several music pieces (some Iranian) and a speech by the chair of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee who outlines the reasons for Narges receiving the prize.
Her 17 year old twins give her lecture in French and you can read the English version here (they live in Paris with their father and have not seen their Mother in last 8 years):

PEACE ACTION WI

Demand that Gwen Moore call for an immediate ceasefire, no more weapons to Israel.

Office of WI Congressional Rep Gwen Moore, Phone: (414) 297-1140

The Wisconsin Coalition for Justice in Palestine

 Website: https://www.wiscoforpali.org


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URGENT! Call Congress: Stop the Gaza Genocide

Over 2 million Palestinian people trapped in Gaza are living through genocide in real time, as Israel bombs and starves them. Your solidarity is vital.

Representatives Cori Bush, Rashida Tlaib, Andre Carson, Summer Lee, and Delia Ramirez have just introduced a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire and for humanitarian assistance to be allowed to enter Gaza.  It is essential that we generate thousands of calls to elected officials asking them to support this life-saving resolution for a ceasefire.

TAKE ACTION: Call your members of Congress. It's extremely important to urge them to support this ceasefire.

Fill in your information and click "Call me.”

You'll receive a phone call on the number you provided and be patched through to your representatives' and senators' offices, one after the other. After you speak to one office, press * (star) to be connected to your next representative, until you've called all three. If you don't get through, leave a voicemail.

Note that we should be thanking Reps. Bush (MO-01), Tlaib (MI-12), Carson (IN-07), Lee (PA-12), Ramirez (IL-03), Bowman (NY-16), Watson Coleman (NJ-12), García (IL-04), Jackson (IL-01), Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14), Omar (MN-05), Pressley (MA-07), and Velázquez (NY-07) for their support of the resolution.

SCRIPT 1 FOR SENATORS:

My name is [YOUR FIRST & LAST NAME], and I'm a constituent of [SENATOR'S NAME]. I'm calling about Palestine and Israel. The senator must take immediate steps to deescalate, by calling for a ceasefire, pressuring Israel to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza, and refusing to send any additional weapons or funding to the Israeli military. I am asking the senator to publicly call for a ceasefire along the lines of the resolution in the House led by Cori Bush and Rashida Tlaib.

Any more military funding to Israel will further fuel violence by actively arming the Israeli government. This is a genocide. The senator must take action now to stop Israel's genocide against Palestinian people in Gaza and end all U.S. complicity in Israel's violence,

SCRIPT 2 FOR HOUSE REPRESENTATIVES:

My name is [YOUR FIRST & LAST NAME], and I'm a constituent of [REPRESENTATIVE'S NAME]. I'm calling about Palestine and Israel. The representative must take immediate steps to deescalate, by calling for a ceasefire, pressuring Israel to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza, and refusing to send any additional weapons or funding to the Israeli military. I urge the Representative to add their name to to the ceasefire resolution introduced by Reps. Bush and Tlaib and co sponsored by 11 other Representatives.

This is a genocide. The representative must take action now to stop Israel's genocide against Palestinian people in Gaza and end all U.S. complicity in Israel's violence.


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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

 

National Priorities Project 

Bar chart showing the military getting an increase and non-military getting cut in FY 2024 budget deal

Report: The Warfare State: How Funding for Militarism Compromises Our Welfare

https://www.nationalpriorities.org/analysis/2023/warfare-state-how-funding-militarism-compromises-our-welfare/

In FY 2023, out of a $1.8 trillion federal discretionary budget, $1.1 trillion — or 62 percent— was for militarized programs. That includes war and weapons, law enforcement and mass incarceration, and detention and deportation. 

Less than $2 out of every $5 in federal discretionary spending was available to fund investment in people and communities, including primary and secondary public education, housing programs, child care programs, federal disaster relief, environmental programs, and scientific research. 

The U.S. spent $16 on the military and war for every $1 that was spent on diplomacy and humanitarian foreign aid. 

  • The vast majority of militarized spending was for weapons, war and the Pentagon, at $920 billion. 

  • Only $56 billion was spent for international affairs, diplomacy, and humanitarian foreign aid.



 

Antiwar Activists Publish Ceasefire in Ukraine 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!



Milwaukee Peace Rally

Milwaukee Peace Rally Sept 15, 2022

LOS ANGELES PROGRESSIVE

Peace Activists Hit the Streets from DC to San Francisco

Demanding a “Ceasefire now!” activists hosted anti-war events in DC, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Milwaukee, Madison, Boston, Rockville, Santa Cruz, San Mateo, San Pedro, Santa Barbara and Los Angeles. For the September Week of Action organized by the Peace in Ukraine Coalition.


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

Flash Mob performs "War What Is It Good For" by Edwin Starr
Amazingly choreographed 6 minute video of a demonstration outside the Nuclear Weapons site.
When the dance was completed, some people remained on the roadway holding two large banners that read "ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS" and "NUCLEAR WEAPONS ARE ILLEGAL: Get them out of Kitsap County" respectively. Eleven activists were removed from the roadway by Washington State Patrol Officers and cited for "Pedestrian on roadway illegally". The other two activists crossed the Blue Line onto the submarine base, were detained by Naval security personnel, and cited for "Trespassing" on Federal property.


  1. The carbon bootprint of the US military, larger than that of many countries. 
  2. The wars for oil and other resources – how they support the fossil fuel-based status quo.
  3. The unequal burden of both climate crisis and militarism on people of color, the poor, and future generations.
  4. The resources spent on militarism and war – redirect to respond to the existential threat of climate crisis.

 
Because it's 100 seconds to midnight,
 
The threat of nuclear war is now higher than it was during the Cold War.
That’s according to former Defense Secretary William Perry -- who is no peacenik.  
 
That’s why it’s more urgent than ever that our Representatives institute a policy of No First Use and No Sole Authority in order to reduce the grave peril posed by nuclear weapons. Ask your Senators and Representative and Congressional leadership to support legislation to institute a United States policy of No First Use of nuclear weapons.
 
It’s important that we act now. President Joe Biden's Nuclear Posture Review is underway, and it will determine his administration’s approach to nuclear policy. If we want to avoid a devastating nuclear war, we need to demonstrate broad public support for a policy of No First Use. Call and Email Congress to tell them to support a No First Use policy for nuclear weapons! 
 
There are two bills in Congress, the Markey-Lieu Bill (S.1148, HR.669) and the Warren-Smith Bill (S.1219, HR.2603), that would institute a No First Use Policy. These bills should be uncontroversial for anyone who wants to avoid a potentially disastrous nuclear war. Yet, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer haven’t used their leadership to make sure these bills get a vote. Call on your Representatives to institute a policy of No First Use and demand that Pelosi and Schumer bring the bills to a vote! 
 
 
The Midwest Nuclear Disarmament Working Group
(Chicago Area Peace Action, Peace Action Wisconsin, Union of Concerned Scientists, Buddhist Peace Fellowship, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Peace Action Michigan)
 
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