SDS MKE - Events in the past year

Speaker: Rosemary Williams: Fighting Foreclosures and Evictions

Speaker James Jordan: The War on Colombian Farmers
Movie: "Che" Part I

Celebration of International Worker's Day - May Day

March for Education, Not Deportation - MEChA and SDS join the Voces de la Frontera Immigrant Rights march.

A Forum on Education Rights - with the Education Rights Campaign and UW Administrators

Rally: Biden and Geithner: Fund Education, not Bailouts!

Play: Marx in SoHo by Howard Zinn

Movie: "Wounded Knee" on the AIM occupation of Wounded Knee, SD.

Milwaukee 16 Fundraiser/Concert

Protest: 7th anniversary of the Iraq war

Silent Vigil: For supporting the Milwaukee 16 - outside Chancellor's office.

Protest: Jeb Bush

Milwaukee 16 Fundraiser

Movie: Leila Khaled: Hijacker - for International Womens Day

Rally/Protest: March 4th National Day of Action to Defend Education

Speaker: On the Assassination of Fred Hampton

Movie: Walkout (with MEChA)

Midwest SDS Winter Skillshare

Movie: The Bader-Meinhof Complex

Protest: Karl Rove - War Criminal

Speaker: Richard Berg - President of Teamsters 743

Protest: Afghanistan troop surge

Speaker: Ashraf Casseim (Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign) - Fighting evictions in South Africa

Speaker: SDS member Natasha Morgan reports back from a labor rights delegation to Colombia

Rally: Education Rights Rally hosted by Education Rights Campaign - ft. Michael Parenti

Speaker: Michael Parenti: Author "Against Empire"

Speaker: Ala Jaradat: "Israel's Palestinian Prisoners: America's Other Guantanamo"

Protest: 8th anniversary of occupation of Afghanistan

Speaker: Father Simon Harak - Who Profits from War?

Speak-out for Education Rights - "they say cut back, we say fight back!"

4th of July Parade hopping

Protest Karl Rove at the MMAC

Midwest SDS convention in Miwlaukee

Friday: War on Colombian Farmers

James Jordan will be speaking at UWM on Friday, May 7th at 6pm. He is a member of the Alliance for Global Justice, and their project: Campaign for Labor Rights. He has been on, and led, delegations all over Latin America. He was in Haiti just before the earthquake, on his return to the states, he was detained by the Department of Homeland Security.

He has led a number of delegations to Colombia (he will be returning to Colombia in August), where he has met with rural farmers, labor union activists, and labor leaders. He will be speaking on the state of the labor struggle in Colombia, and his experiences in a country which has been at the center of the struggle against U.S. Imperialism.

James Jordan is being brought to UWM by Students for a Democratic Society.

Links:

http://www.fightbacknews.org/search/node/james%20jordan

clrlabor.org