The following 3 speech’s were given at the steps on the Capitol building in Madison on May 7th at the Stand Up For Abortion rally. Around a thousand people gathered to protest the linked Supreme Court draft statement to overturn abortion access on a federal level. Continue reading Speeches from Stand up for Abortion
Reproductive Justice is also Economic Justice, Speech Written by Ellen LaLuzerne I’m here today in my role as vice president elect of the South-Central Federation of Labor. But first, I wanted to share a little about myself. I have two … Continue reading Speech from Bans Off Our Bodies march on October 2nd
Speech by Ashley H Given at the Mobilize Against Militarism rally on 9/11/2021 I’m not going to talk about where I was or what I was doing on this day, 20 years ago, because, frankly, it’s irrelevant. Today I’m going … Continue reading Speech from Mobilize Against Militarism
Collection of pieces from Palestine Can’t Breathe – Save Sheikh Jarrah Protest at the Madison Capitol building on 5/15/21 Rally Report By Scot McCullough Approximately 150 people gathered in Madison on Saturday, May 15 in solidarity with Palestinians for a … Continue reading From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will be Free
We’re now in the midst of what we can definitively say is the biggest wave of mass protests in the United States since the 1960’s. Protests have emerged in all fifty states, in every major city. The character of these uprisings has been less like protests and more like a rebellion with tens of thousands of people taking to the streets, blocking highways, burning and destroying police cars, tearing down confederate monuments and every symbol they could think of economic and racial oppression. Continue reading Racism, Capitalism and Rebellion
by Haley Pessin This is a talk given to Madison Area Democratic Socialists by Haley Pessin (Queens DSA, Afrosocialists & Socialists of Color Caucus), “Racism, Capitalism and Rebellion” about the political moment around the George Floyd protests and uprising. Continue reading Racism, Capitalism and Rebellion
Protestors expressed their shock, dismay and anger in response to the U.S. assassination of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani. On Saturday, January 4th at noon, at least a hundred activists representing a cross section of anti-war and political groups gathered on … Continue reading No War With Iran
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