Album 2: No Work! No School! No Shopping! Photos from today's massive Milwaukee #MayDay march where thousands hit the streets in support of immigrant, student, and working class power!
@vocesdelafronterawi #ICEfreeMKE
Album 1: No Work! No School! No Shopping! Photos from today's massive Milwaukee #MayDay march where thousands hit the streets in support of immigrant, student, and working class power!
@vocesdelafronterawi #ICEfreeMKE
No Work! No School! No Shopping! Thousands hit the streets of Milwaukee today in support of immigrant, student, and working class power!
@vocesdelafronterawi
#MayDay #ICEfreeMKE
We won't let Trump take us down the path of fascism. Milwaukee #MayDay march for immigrants, students, and the working-class.
@vocesdelafronterawi #ICEfreeMKE
What an amazing day two of the May Day / "Cut Contracts, Not Classrooms" Art Build! As these photos can clearly attest our MPS picket lines and the Milwaukee May Day march will be full of rad art in support of immigrant and refugee justice and an MPS budget that restores hours and positions of student-facing frontline workers while securing a full cost of living adjustment for all workers on July 1. Thanks to all the artists who designed work for the art build and to all who took time this weekend to share your artistic abilities and talents in support of these critical fights for justice. See you in the streets soon!
Tuesday: MTEA Town Hall for Parents and Families with School Board Directors
Thursday: ALL OUT for Mass Picket to “CUT CONTRACTS, NOT CLASSROOMS!!
Friday: Youth Empowered in the Struggle (YES) Student Day of Action
Hamilton High School Teacher and MTEA Executive Board Member Greg Lampark is holding a freshly screenprinted poster for our current budget fight in support of MPS workers getting a full cost of living adjustment (2.63%) on July 1. We can't wait to see these on the picket line on Thursday! There's still time to come and join us at the art build. We're here at the Voces de la Frontera office until 5pm. Come and help us and you can take a poster home with you today. No art experience necessary.
Image: @johnfleissner
Send a letter in support of MPS workers linked in our bio...
Tuesday: MTEA Town Hall for Parents and Families with School Board Directors
Thursday: ALL OUT for Mass Picket to “CUT CONTRACTS, NOT CLASSROOMS!!
Take a look at all the amazing art we produced for the first day of the May Day / "Cut Contracts, Not Classrooms" Art Build! We screen printed tons of member-designed posters, painted banners, and made paper mache puppets all in support of immigrant and refugee justice and the fight to secure MPS frontline workers a full cost of living adjustment (2.63%) on July 1. We need a Milwaukee Public Schools budget that cuts contracts, not classrooms
Join us for our final day 2 tomorrow from 10am - 5pm at the Voces de la Frontera office, next Thursday at MPS Central Office at 4:30, next Friday for the Student Day of Action at Cathedral Square, and for May Day in Milwaukee.
ALL OUT for Mass Picket to “CUT CONTRACTS, NOT CLASSROOMS!!
We painted this majestic banner on the first day of the May Day / "Cut Contracts, Not Classrooms" Art Build for Thursday's Mass MPS Central Office Picket in support of frontline workers and the students we service. Come and help us paint more banners and screenprint more posters tomorrow at the @vocesdelafronterawi office from 10am - 5pm. Standing together we will win MPS workers the cost of living adjustment they deserve!
#CutContractsNotClassrooms #FullCOLAJuly1
We can't wait to see Hamilton High School Art Teacher John Fleissner's poster at next Thursday's ALL OUT for Mass Picket to “CUT CONTRACTS, NOT CLASSROOMS!! We're screenprinting hundreds of them today and tomorrow at the May Day / "Cut Contracts, Not Classrooms Art Build. Come and join us tomorrow and you can take a poster home with you. We'll be back at it from 10am - 5pm as we continue to screenprint posters and paint banners for our fight to secure frontline MPS workers a full cost of living adjustment (2.63%) on July1.
Today and tomorrow, April 18 and 19, MTEA is taking part in a two-day art build at the Voces de la Frontera office (737 W. Mitchell St.) from 10am to 5pm both days. MTEA members and Youth Empowered in the Struggle (YES) students can make May Day signs supporting immigrant rights and economic justice as well as signs with messaging for our budget fight with the district, like "Cut Contracts, not Classrooms!" and "FULL 2.63% COLA July 1st!"
Poster designs #1 and #4 @johnfleissner
Poster designs #3 @paigebauske_art
ART BUILD FOR CARAVAN & SERENADE TO ADELANT0 ICE PRISON
Many hands from our communities came together on Wednesday to create art to visually serenade and honor the immigrants locked in Adelanto.
Out in the Mojave Desert, in Adelanto, Calif., about 100 miles from Los Angeles, sits a concentration camp for immigrants. A private company has the contract to keep more than 2,000 people caged there. The human beings inside the Adelanto ICE Processing Center are not there to be punished for any crimes. Most have never been charged with or convicted of any crimes.
They are victims of the Trump Administration’s brutally random campaign of mass arrests and mass deportation. They have been rounded up and sent to this privately run prison warehouse. There are others like it around the country, and there soon may be many more.
This brutality and inhumanity cannot stand. On Saturday, March 14, hundreds of allies of immigrant rights will gather outside the prison for a “serenata,” a serenade, to honor and support all the immigrants who have been unjustly locked away in Adelanto, some for years.
The National Day Laborer Organizing Network is among the organizations leading a caravan from Pasadena to Adelanto that day. Families of detained immigrants will speak.
A concert will begin at 4 p.m.
Join us and spread the word: bit.,ly/serenataadelanto
Thank you for hosting and organizing: @daylaborernetwork
Every Person is Sacred/Todo Persona es Sagrada: Artist @mugisalaverrytakei89
Neighbors Say: ICE OUT!: artist @dioishh
Screenprinting by Paul Kjelland: @Art_Build_Workers
