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🇵🇸 AUGUST 15 - WE HONOR ALL OUR MARTYRS - RALLY OUTSIDE OF WISCONSIN STATE FAIR 🐮

Today marks one year since Anas al-Sharif’s martyrdom and his final message — “I entrust you with Palestine… I entrust you not to be silenced by chains, nor held back by borders.” In response, the PYM announced a global week of action and Milwaukee is responding with a rally outside of Wisconsin State Fair.

📆 Saturday, August 15
🕦 11:30AM - 1:00PM
📍 Meeting location at West Allis City Hall: 7525 W Greenfield Ave, West Allis, WI 53214
📣 Rally location: at the corner of 76th & Greenfield Ave.
🚎 Bus routes 18 & 33 get you directly to our meeting spot.
💧Water and some snacks will be available.
🚗🚗 TRANSPORTATION: State Fair opens at 10AM and we expect parking to be difficult to find. Please plan ahead to allow enough time to arrive, find parking, and walk to the meeting location. We strongly encourage carpooling and/or taking the bus. If you're interested in carpooling with other attendees, please DM us and we'll do our best to connect you with a carpool.

We will gather outside the fair grounds to raise the voice of Palestine, to educate our neighbors about the zionist practice of targeting journalists, and to expose Western media complicity in the genocide.

Join us as we honor Anas and all of the 309+ martyred journalists in Palestine, Lebanon and the region.

The murder of journalists is an intentional attempt to silence the voices of truth who expose the continued crimes of the Zionist entity. In the face of this reality, the ongoing genocide, escalations against Palestinians in the West Bank and the silence of Western press, it is our responsibility to carry Anas’ call forward and be the voices of truth, fighting for Palestine until total liberation.

For these reasons, Milwaukee4Palestine has continued pressuring the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and the Shepherd Express to end their genocide denial and complicity in these war crimes through their biased, zionist-first reporting.

We encourage you to sign our petition to the Shepherd today at bit.ly/shepherdexpress, and to visit entrustedwithpalestine.com to send a pre-drafted letter to fifty-six newsroom editors at mainstream media outlets.

🇵🇸🔍 PART 2: MPD SURVEILS PRO-PALESTINE RESIDENTS ON BEHALF OF LOCKHEED MARTIN 🔍🇵🇸

We are not intimidated.

We encourage everyone to attend the July 2 Fire & Police Commission Meeting with M4P to share our demands for the Common Council & city officials. The FPC is an important committee of the Council and our best opportunity to make our voices and outrage heard.

📅 Thursday, July 2
🕒 4:30pm start time (end time is TBD)
📍 Milwaukee City Hall, 200 E Wells Street, Room 301-B
📣 Organizers will be there to offer support, including with public comments.
🗣 Please plan to give public comments, even brief remarks. You can also submit remarks online ahead of time.
🚨 Whether you give public comments or not, please show up to pack the room!
🫐 M4P will provide snacks and signs to hold.

🇵🇸🔍 MPD SURVEILS PRO-PALESTINE RESIDENTS ON BEHALF OF LOCKHEED MARTIN - PART 1 OF 2 🔍🇵🇸

A recent FOIA request and article by local journalist reveals months of collaboration between MPD and Derco Aerospace, Lockheed Martin, to surveil and criminalize residents protesting the ongoing genocide in Palestine. This surveillance of residents, and specifically those pushing for an arms embargo through the Disarm Derco campaign, signals that we are putting pressure on the correct artery of the local war machine - and we won't be intimidated to stop now.

We encourage everyone to attend the July 2 Fire & Police Commission Meeting with M4P to share our demands for the Common Council & city officials. The FPC is an important committee of the Council and our best opportunity to make our voices and outrage heard.

📅 Thursday, July 2
🕒 4:30pm start time (end time is TBD)
📍 Milwaukee City Hall, 200 E Wells Street, Room 301-B
📣 Organizers will be there to offer support, including with public comments.
🗣 Please plan to give public comments, even brief remarks. You can also submit remarks online ahead of time.
🚨 Whether you give public comments or not, please show up to pack the room!
🫐 M4P will provide snacks and signs to hold.

🚨 EMERGENCY COURT SUPPORT RALLY IN MILWAUKEE, WI 🚨

This morning, the FBI executed arrest warrants at several locations across several states targeting pro-Palestine activism in southeast Michigan. Show up for a RALLY AND COURT SUPPORT at 1:30PM for our comrade in Milwaukee who was part of Michigan activism and was kidnapped as part of the FBI raids. Show your solidarity at the indictment hearing‼️ Details below

517 E Wisconsin Ave
Milwaukee, WI 53202
United States
Courtroom of Judge Stephen Dries, Room 296

1:30PM June 10

🇵🇸☀️ THIS SUNDAY: NAKBA COMMEMORATION WEEKEND FAMILY DAY

Milwaukee4Palestine and our community partners are proud to present to you a weekend of events to commemorate 78 years of the ongoing Nakba. Please join us for our final event of the weekend: a family fun day focused on fighting for future generations.

This will be an afternoon of outdoor community time, rooted in future liberation. Get ready to learn about seeds - including Palestinian seeds - and how to preserve what we can for future generations. Bring yard games, lawn chairs, sunscreen, kites, anything fun for the outdoors! Stay for the 6:00pm community barbecue provided by Bint Jamila’s Table - you are encouraged to bring a dish to share!

📆 Sunday, May 17
🕘 3:00 -7:00pm; Seed Sovereignty program at 5:00pm, and BBQ dinner at 6:00pm
📍 Lions Pavillion at Legend Park: 8030 S Legend Drive, Franklin, WI 53132 (this address is slightly updated from previous posts to help you find our meeting spot more easily!)
🫒 BBQ dinner provided, and you're encouraged to bring a dish to share!

Please comment with any questions, and we'll see you in one week! 

🇵🇸🫒 SATURDAY DAY OF ACTION - NAKBA COMMEMORATION WEEKEND

✨Saturday, May 16: A series of diverse events to give everyone an opportunity to take action to support Palestinian liberation. Whether you prefer to rally with us, learn new information to share, or ride bikes in solidarity with the Gaza Sunbirds, there's something for everyone. 

💐 For the morning rally: You are encouraged to bring flowers with you, or to buy them from vendors at the market, to include in a memorial we'll create. The rally will be followed by a short nature walk nearby to decompress and be in community.

☕ For the teach-in at Al Wadi: We encourage folks to arrive early to order drinks & snacks to get settled in before the programming begins. 

🚲 For the bike ride: Arrive early to decorate your bike! We'll have flags, stickers, and other items you can use and keep.

Please comment with any questions, and we'll see you there!

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3️⃣ DAYS AWAY - NAKBA COMMEMORATION WEEKEND KICKS OFF

🇵🇸 Join us at Oak Creek High School for our first event, "Remembering Roots, Resisting Erasure." This event will feature personal stories from local Palestinians who've lived through the consequences of zionist settler-colonialism throughout the decades. We hope you'll join us for this important, moving presentation.

📆 Friday, May 15
🕕 6:00 - 8:00pm
📍Oak Creek High School: 340 E Puetz Rd, Oak Creek, WI 53154
🚍 Bus Line 82
🫒 Water & some snacks provided

Please comment with any questions, and we'll see you there!

🇵🇸 IN ONE WEEK: NAKBA COMMEMORATION WEEKEND 🇵🇸

Milwaukee4Palestine and our community partners are proud to present a weekend of events to commemorate 78 years of the ongoing Nakba. Please join us for as many events as you'd like...hopefully all of them! 

✨Friday, May 15: A storytelling event featuring local Palestinians sharing their experiences surviving Zionist violence, how we keep the movement going, and how we resist erasure of our people and culture. 

✨Saturday, May 16: A series of diverse events to give everyone an opportunity to take action to support Palestinian liberation. Whether you prefer to rally with us, learn new information to share, or ride bikes in solidarity with the Gaza Sunbirds, there's something for everyone. 

💐 For the morning rally: You are encouraged to bring flowers with you, or to buy them from vendors at the market, to include in a memorial we'll create. The rally will be followed by a short nature walk nearby to decompress and be in community.

☕ For the teach-in at Al Wadi: We encourage folks to arrive early to order drinks & snacks to get settled in before the programming begins. 

🚲 For the bike ride: Arrive early to decorate your bike! We'll have flags, stickers, and other items you can use and keep.

✨Sunday, May 17: An afternoon of outdoor community time, rooted in future liberation. Get ready to learn about seeds - including Palestinian seeds - and how to preserve what we can for future generations. Bring yard games, lawn chairs, sunscreen, kites, anything fun for the outdoors! Stay for the 6:00pm community barbecue provided by Bint Jamila’s Table - you are encouraged to bring a dish to share!

Please comment with any questions, and we'll see you in one week! 

💐 Volunteer Spotlight: Jim Carpenter 💐

This is a long overdue thank you to our favorite peace activist, Jim Carpenter. Jim is a longtime member of Peace Action that our M4P Community got to know through the pro-Palestine coalition work that sprung up after Al Aqsa Flood in 2023. Jim has been a dependable, fierce advocate for Palestine, especially in political spaces across Milwaukee - from confronting Gwen Moore on her support for genocide, to introducing a ceasefire resolution at the Milwaukee County Democratic Party and getting it passed as the State Convention, to giving public testimony to stop the anti-Palestinian AB 446 & SB 445 (IHRA Bill). Beyond the political, Jim always makes sure to uplift and center Palestinian voices when he's given a platform (or when he takes the platform!).

We are grateful for Jim's example, his willingness to learn & grow as an ally in the struggle, and his relentless optimism that liberation is near. Thank you for all you do, Jim, and see you at the next bike ride for Palestine!

🇵🇸 🌵SNEAK PEEK: NAKBA DAY WEEKEND OF EVENTS🌵 🇵🇸

More details to come verrrrrrry soon, but please mark your calendars for May 15-17 and plan to join us for one, two, or all these events! We are hosting this weekend of commemoration and action events for everyone, and especially for YOU, our Palestinian siblings, to be in inter-generational community spaces to share our stories, grief, and hopes with one another.

🔥 You can still get involved! If you are interested in supporting this weekend of events - as an individual or as an organization - please DM us. No prior event or planning experience is necessary, and we especially want Palestinian & Arab voices involved in planning these events. These commemorations are for us and should be led by us, unapologetically! 🇵🇸❤️