SDS DESTROY RAPE CULTURE FILM SERIES PRESENTS: THE LINE

WHERE IS THE LINE OF CONSENT?

November 25th in the Union Fireside Lounge @ 7pm

Join Milwaukee Students for a Democratic Society for the final installment of our "Destroy Rape Culture" film series.  We will be showing "The Line: Where is the Line of Consent?"  

The Line (2009) is written and directed by filmmaker, media strategist, social justice activist, and survivor Nancy Schwartzman.  The film explores the issue of consent, the burden of blame, and the trouble society has distinguishing the two.  It chronicles the experience of a young Nancy Schwartzman who after a one-night stand gone terribly wrong decides to confront her attacker using a hidden camera to record the conversation.  Featuring interviews from sex workers, survivors, and activists about justice, accountability, and today's "rape culture," asks the question: where is the line defining consent? 

Sponsored by: Students for a Democratic Society, The Step by Step Collective, Youth Empowered in the Struggle, The Women's Resource Center and more. 

SDS DESTROY RAPE CULTURE MOVIE SERIES PRESENTS: THE INVISIBLE WAR

 

DESTROY RAPE CULTURE!  STOP BLAMING THE VICTIM!

Join Milwaukee Students for a Democratic Society as we kick off our Destroy Rape Culture film series. We will be showing "The Invisible War", the first in a series of documentaries SDS we are airing throughout the semester to educate students on the epidemic of blaming the victims of rape in America.

The Invisible War (2012) documents the ongoing crisis of rape within the US military. According to the Defense Department, in the year 2011 alone, 22,800 violent sex crimes occurred within the US military...

and 1 in 5 women and 1 in 4 men in the service had been sexually assaulted. Statistics like these are extremely low as most rape cases go unreported often because the survivor is discouraged from reporting the incident by their assailant, who tends to be a superior officer. The Invisible War exposes the laziness of the US government to bring justice to survivors of rape in the military and its failure to accurately report it.

Sponsored by: Students for a Democratic Society, The Step by Step Collective, the UWM Women's Resource Center, and more to come.

 

https://www.facebook.com/events/156657007865276/?fref=ts

  

End rape culture

    Hey everyone! SDS is proud to announce that our upcoming campaign is "End Rape Culture". If you are interested in being part of the campaign and Students for a Democratic Society, you are more than welcome to come to a meeting this summer. Starting June 24 we will be having weekly meetings on campus at 5pm! Location on campus will be posted soon! For more information contact tmstrong@uwm.edu or cmassimo@uwm.edu

We have an event coming up next Monday on 29th, here is the facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/events/456457341091859/

Join Students for a Democratic Society as we host a panel discussion on FBI repression and drone warfare. The panel will consist of Chicago anti-war and anti-FBI repression activists Joe Iosbaker and Kait McIntyre. Iosobaker is a member of the United National Anti-War Coalition, and one of 23 activists whose homes were raided and ransacked by the FBI back in 2010 for their work as anti-war and international solidarity activists. McIntyre is an anti-war and anti-drone activist and SDS alumni. In response to the FBI raids, the Committee to Stop FBI Repression was formed to defend targets of FBI grand juries and witch hunts. Iosobaker will be discussing the progress of the current CSFR campaign against FBI repression while McIntyre will speak on the Chicago anti-drone campaign against Boeing Industries. Sponsored by: Milwaukee SDS, Milwaukee Committee to Stop FBI Repression, Friends of Palestine, Students for Justice in Palestine, Fight Back News

We have an event coming up tomorrow!! Come and join us for a special screening in union room 280 at 7pm!

Upcoming Events

Hello, we are having a bunch of events coming up!

First up is the General Interest meeting on Monday March 4th 7pm in Union room 260, that is this coming Monday. If you are interested in learning more about us, please stop on by and join us.
check out our Facebook event page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/373994039364722/ 


Second up is our education rights rally on Thursday March 17th, this action is sponsored by the ERC. For more info on this event, please check out our event page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/604525596241004/

National day of action for Trayvon Martin

Justice for Trayvon Martin, a National Day of Action

Hello and welcome to the SDS Milwaukee website, Please come to our Trayvon Martin rally on February 26th to mark the anniversary of the tragic death of Trayvon. The action is taking place at 12:00pm in Spaight's Plaza, please wear a hoodie.

Here is the link to the facebook event:

https://www.facebook.com/events/543329932365515/

Palermo's Rally Wednesday Febuary 6th

 Hello fellow SDS Milwaukee members and people interested in us! it has been a while since our website was last posted in, but that is going to change!

I would like to let everybody know about this really cool rally that is taking place tomorrow to get administration  boot Palermo's pizza off of our UWM campus. The rally is taking place at 12:30pm in Spaits plaza on Wednesday February 6th, which is tomorrow! here is the facebook link for the event:

https://www.facebook.com/events/540671202623821/


If you have anymore questions about the event or just want to get in touch email me at MilwaukeeSDS [at] gmail.com .  There is now someone (me) reading the emails.