Passive acceptance or protest

Please read Michael Beschloss's The Fight of Our Lives:  Reflections on Martin Luther King, Jr. and the continuing struggle for a better America

“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.”

Walkout. Do it.

On Tuesday, January 20, participate in the national Womens March Walkout. Tune in to the national livestream at 1 p.m., then use the day to learn, call, email, write letters to the editor, and, if you can, donate. Below*, find links to a few Minnesota orgs raising funds to help and support communities under siege by the regime.

Join the League of Women Voters online Walkout at 2 p.m.

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/rUko3I_aRfm04KsFqRzqEQ#/registration

Join the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin for a one-hour virtual gathering in solidarity with the Free America Walkout. This event offers a powerful virtual option for those participating in the walkout who want to take collective action, reflect together, and ground themselves in purpose.

New linktree: MPLSMutualAid

Another great site to help us Stand With Minnesota.

Powderhorn Park neighborhood fundraiser to help families with rent help. This fund will  administer direct financial support to meet the urgent needs of families in crisis as a result of being targeted by the current federal immigration enforcement activities in our community.

Uptown/North Minneapolis restaurants and businesses are raising funds to help feed neighbors who can't get out to shop or work and supply community members working to keep their neighborhood safe. Several are noted in this Racket article.

More ways to help from The Solidarity List: If you buy a pizza at Wrecktangle and put in the notes that you won’t be picking it up with a message of solidarity, they will make two pizzas and donate them to local community members who need them. You can also make a donation to Joyce Uptown Foodshelf or directly to MN Ice Watch via their Venmo as well as MIRAC. MN Ice Watch also has a lot of GoFundMe’s linked in their Link Tree.

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On Friday, January 23, participate in solidarity with the MN Walkout. Here are notes from Jess Craven, political organizer and activist.

Friday, January 23rd will be a statewide day of non-violent moral action and reflection in MN: no work, no school, no shopping — only community, conscience, and collective action. Learn more at iceoutnowmn.com

We will be pressuring orgs like Target, The Home Depot, Enterprise Rentals, Delta, and Hilton to stop cooperating with 🧊 (meanwhile BOYCOTT)

We are pressuring Congress to block funding for DHS until 🧊 is constrained. We have huge leverage on this because they need seven Democratic votes in the Senate to pass anything.

We are demanding that the man who unalived Renee Good must be held accountable.

Learn more at http://iceoutnowmn.com/

Monday - celebrate Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

On Monday, La Crosse will celebrate the life of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Junior. Viterbo University is the hub of events with many student-centered and some community programs, ending with the annual Community Celebration at 7 p.m. at the Fine Arts Center, 9th & Jackson (accessible by MTU #1 and Circulator 2). 

Starting at 1 p.m. there are programs and presentations open to the public. 

Learn more about the details and the evening program at https://www.viterbo.edu/social-justice-and-equity/mlk-day-service-learning-and-celebration

Say NO to Republican Data Center Biill

From Wisconsin Conservation Voters

You’ve certainly seen data centers all over the news lately with new ones and new proposals popping up constantly across the state. These data centers need massive amounts of energy to operate and currently there are no requirements that data centers must pay 100 percent of their full energy costs.

 

TAKE action now: urge your state legislators to reject AB 840 >>>

 

Wisconsin residents should not have to pay for large tech companies to site data centers in their communities. Period. Data centers should have to pay the full costs of their energy load, including being connected to the electrical grid. 

 

A new Republican bill, AB 840, introduced last week, would increase costs and pollution for Wisconsin residents by limiting lower-cost renewables and not explicitly requiring that tech companies pay the full costs of their energy and connection to the energy grid. That bill is moving fast and is expected to be in the Assembly on Tuesday, Jan. 20.

 

TAKE action now: urge your state legislators to reject AB 840 >>>

Learn more here: https://conservationvoters.org/priority-campaigns/data-centers

Online training Monday & Tuesday

Red Wine & Blue presents Moms for Good: Joining Together to Stop ICE. Monday at 6 p.m. ONLINE.

Join Red Wine & Blue and other mom and caregiver groups as we come together to process what’s happening, support one another, and take concrete steps to protect our communities, stay safe, and demand accountability. We will fight together. Join us! See you there! https://redwine-blue.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MjyPvpTzQomLuiBI7-cECA

Tuesday, January 13 at 7:30 p.m. ONLINE

Join Chippewa Valley Indivisible's group leader, Cyndi Greening, for a training and presentation on their ICE rural rapid response tactics. Specifically, how did they create infrastructure from scratch in a rural community? What systems worked, what would they do differently next time, and what can you do now to prepare for ICE raids in your community?

Register here: https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/881507/

UPDATE: Toolit mentioned at trainibg

Cyndi.

Here is the recording from Tuesday night's call! Here are Cyndi's slides. The resources from Cyndi's slides are below: 

• ICE Plate Lookup (iPhone Friendly)

• Airtable Plate Lookup (Laptop)
  

• Airtable Activity Dashboard

• Airtable Plate Data

• ICE Detainee Lookup (find abductee)

• SALUTE form

• Activity Collection

• Plate Collection

• RR Sign Up

• Protect715

• ReadyNow app