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SURJ MKE @surjmke.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Hey hey Milwaukee! New Book Club Event!!! 👻 Join SURJ MKE BC and HOK-Hands Off Kenosha Mondays in October from 7-8:30pm over zoom as we discuss Dean Spade's book, Mutual Aid Please register with this link or scan the QR code in the flyer: www.eventbrite.com/e/mutual-aid...

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SURJ MKE @surjmke.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

At the the No Kings rally in Cathedral Square and need snacks, water, sunscreen or basic first aid? Stop by and say hello at the SURJ MKE table! We’re on the west side edge of the park ☀️

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SURJ MKE @surjmke.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Next opportunities in WI for Bystander Intervention Deescalation trainings: FRANKLIN/GREENDALE ✨✨✨ SUNDAY, JUNE 8TH 4:00-6:00PM @ GREENDALE COMMUNITY CHURCH 6015 Clover Ln ‼️RSVP Required for 6/8. Sign up using the link: www.greendalecommunitychurch.org/events-1/bys...

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SURJ MKE @surjmke.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Next opportunities in WI for Bystander Intervention Deescalation trainings: KENOSHA ✨✨✨ SATURDAY, MAY 31ST 9:30-11:30AM @ NORTHSIDE KENOSHA LIBRARY 1500 27th Ave

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SURJ MKE @surjmke.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Planning and strategy session for May. This meeting is for community orgs collaboration items and SURJ-MKE members to contribute to leadership spaces with ideas, questions, and strategies. Find the zoom link in the events tab of our FB page, email surjmke@gmail or DM for the link.

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SURJ MKE @surjmke.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Come out this Thurs, April 24th to hear Reggie Jackson preview his book “Midwest Nice Racism”. Please arrive at 6pm, talk starts promptly at 6:30pm. Wauwatosa Public Library. Following we’ll head a few blocks away to Lion’s Tail Brewing Co. for a hangout mini SURJ MKE SOCIAL. 8520 W North Ave.

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SURJ MKE @surjmke.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Looking to show up with SURJ MKE tomorrow? - Weekly #TeslaTakedown 12011 West Silver Spring, 12-12:45pm - #50501 & Indivisible Highway Overpass Demonstration, 12-2:00pm Starting at Tesla then head over to participate in the Highway Overpass action, Vienna Ave footbridge. Hope to see you there!🔥

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Quite literally whitewashing the purpose of the Underground Railroad www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

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SURJ MKE @surjmke.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Next chapter meeting, Sunday April 13, 12:00-2:00pm at The Sugar Maple 441 E Lincoln Ave. Hear about and connect with our spring campaigns and summer plans. Location is accessible and located 1 block from several MCTS bus lines.

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Stephanie @supasuga.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Two great turnouts in a row for #TeslaTakeDown in #Milwaukee! Each week the crowd has doubled, we had over 100 people for the 3/29 #teslatakedownglobaldayofaction - it was quite a party come out every Saturday for 45 minutes at the #TeslaTakeDownMilwaukee

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Charlene A. Carruthers @charlenecarruthers.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

This reminds me of the time on the bird app when people attempted to drag Angela Davis because she shares ancestry with Mayflower settlers. Most people didn’t stop and ask…”how?”

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SURJ MKE @surjmke.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

March Planning & Strategy Session invite is up for SURJ MKE members and community orgs to discuss collaboration items and contribute ideas, input, questions, and strategies for future team meetings and events. This is NOT the monthlychapter meeting. Register on FB or DM for zoom link.

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Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

This is white supremacy. Many people ask why working-class people "vote against their interests." But if their interest is preserving white supremacy, they aren't voting against that. Lots & lots of white people will put up with a lot—as long as BIPOC have it worse.

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Stephanie @supasuga.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

In these comments about DEI practices being banned we are NOT referring to these folks as WHITE SUPREMACISTS enough

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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Another clip with former NFL Player Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social arrested for civil disobedience this week in the face of his MAGA city council. HERE he talks about why, in the ensuing publicity he rejected an interview ask from the New York Times (he says exception for @jamellebouie.net)

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SURJ MKE @surjmke.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

We are amidst a lead emergency in MPS. We invite all community members to come to our first community assembly. It’ll be an opportunity to voice concerns & ask your questions. We will share the information and provide resources. We will begin laying the groundwork for solutions @leadsafeschoolsmke

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19/02/2025

NEW: Georgia’s governor promotes his Medicaid work requirement as a national model for reform. Yet the program has cost taxpayers $86M, three-quarters of which has gone to consultants, and enrolled less than 3% of the quarter-million Georgians eligible.

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Georgia Touts Its Medicaid Experiment as a Success. The Numbers Tell a Different Story.

Only 6,500 participants have enrolled in a program that has cost taxpayers more than $86 million — a warning for other states looking to impose restrictions on Medicaid in a second Trump presidency.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 18/02/2025

BREAKING: Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier released from prison after nearly 50 years

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Yassmin Abdel-Magied @yassmin.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Feel like you know nothing about Sudan? I sat down with the team at Prospect Magazine to talk about the conflict, and why it’s NOT a forgotten war, but an invisibilised one: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/pro...

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Sudan’s ‘war of opportunity’, with Yassmin Abdel-Magied

Is Sudan really the “forgotten war”? Former broadcaster Yassmin Abdel-Magied breaks down the situation and explains which countries are positioning th...

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SURJ MKE @surjmke.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

SURJ National is running a new virtual series on Wednesday nights from now until April 23rd: Protect and Resist. Tonight’s webinar is about the racist roots of defunding the social safety net with Dr. Robin DG Kelley. You can register for all the links here: www.mobilize.us/surj/event/7...

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 18/02/2025

Senate Democrats have the power to block federal contracts to Tesla and SpaceX. It’s the path to pushing Musk out of politics.

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This Is the Way to Stop Elon Musk

Senate Democrats have the power to block federal contracts to Tesla and SpaceX. It’s the path to pushing Musk out of politics.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

more and more these days, I find myself thinking that you can accept the discipline of your political goals or you can accept the discipline of your resentments.

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AJ @co-struggling.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Facilitated tonight's @surjmke.bsky.social Let This Radicalize You Reflection Roundtable discussion with a pair of word clouds inspired by Ch 4: Think Like a Geographer. RE: Milwaukee — what we want to address and change, and features of our shared vision.

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SURJ MKE @surjmke.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Interested in becoming a Legal Observer? Register here: bit.ly/lo-training-25 Legal Observers are trained volunteers who monitor and document interactions between law enforcement and the public. Join the Milwaukee Turners Saturday, February 22, 11AM-1PM at Turner Hall. Registration is required

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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Trump will be the NFL's special guest this Super Bowl Sunday. **Please** watch and share this 10 minute clip from my doc "Behind The Shield" to **remind** folks how Trump dragged anti-racist players like Kaepernick in 2016-2017. His smirking presence is a slap in the face. youtu.be/-WFsp2cfdMg?...

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CLIP FROM "BEHIND THE SHIELD: THE POWER & POLITICS OF THE NFL" | Featuring Dave Zirin

YouTube video by Media Education Foundation

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Crowd keeps growing outside Treasury as Members who were DENIED entry speak

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Jeff Hauser @jeffhauser.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

"Stop the Coup!" Scene at Treasury.

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Gwynn Ravenfire ♿ @gwynnravenfire.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Baldwin's staffer was cordial and said that the Senator has plans to speak publicly later today and resist going forward. We are going to hold her to it.

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Gwynn Ravenfire ♿ @gwynnravenfire.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Johnson's staffers insisted he is not avoiding us deliberately. We said we expect real answers to our concerns, not just form letters with MAGA talking points. This action was planned with only 12 hrs of public notice and we were able to get 44 citizens to show up and add their names to the letters.

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Gwynn Ravenfire ♿ @gwynnravenfire.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Today I and 43 fellow Wisconsinites visited Ron Johnson's and Tammy Baldwin's local Milwaukee offices to deliver the following letters. This was in response to a call to action from Indivisible and The Working Families Party about the coup currently taking place in D.C. 🧵

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SURJ MKE @surjmke.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

We Energies Gas Plant Proposal - This project threatens our air quality and adds to our energy burden. You can show up in person or testify virtually at 2 PM & 6 PM. Check the graphic with the QR code to learn more!

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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

We are members of Congress at the Treasury Department. We want to be let in to provide oversight on behalf of our constituents. @jasmineforus.bsky.social @sethmagaziner.bsky.social

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SURJ MKE @surjmke.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Next chapter meeting is 2/9 12:30-2:30pm at ZAO MKE church. The District 3 aldermanic common council candidates will be joining us for a roundtable discussion about how we’ll show up to protect the rights, safety and dignity of people in our community. Join us!

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SURJ MKE @surjmke.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

TONIGHT 1/27: SURJ MKE Book Club: Let This Radicalize You!1/30: Planning & Strategy 1/31: January Social 2/9 Monthly chapter meeting. Candidates for D3 Alder will join in a Roundtable discussion: how will we show up to protect the rights, safety and dignity of people in my community?

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SURJ MKE @surjmke.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

SURJ-MKE January SOCIAL! Friday 1/31 from 6:30pm-8:30pm at Qamaria Yemeni Coffee Co at 4818 S. 76th St in Greenfield. Come on out and meet and get to know fellow SURJ MKE members, bring a friend!!

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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Morning! CBS News 58 in Milwaukee fired their metrologist because she criticized Musk’s Nazi salute on her *private* IG page. The email to the station is newsdesk@cbs58.com They also have a Facebook page. Her name is Sam Kuffel. Don’t let them normalize this shit.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

This is a great piece. "As deportations ramp up again, we have a choice: We can watch as our neighbors disappear or we can build on these proven strategies to protect the diverse communities we've built together."

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How to Keep Tabs on ICE Agents Who May Be Surveilling Your Neighborhood

Here’s a step-by-step guide.

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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Who was pushing issues of trans identity, immigration, and the economy in 2024? Dudebro podcasts. Also this is a fantastic article and analysis and I'll be using it to teach the 2024 election in the future.

Bloomberg analysis of transcripts from 603 videos with over 1 million views, from nine YouTube channels showing increasing coverage of trans issues as 2024 election nears.

Bloomberg analysis of transcripts from 603 videos with over 1 million views, from nine YouTube channels showing increasing coverage of institutional medicine, the economy, and immigration as 2024 election nears.

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Davey Alba @davey.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

NEW: My colleagues & I analyzed nearly 1.3k hours of footage (>2k videos) from nine wildly popular podcasters and streamers on YouTube to understand how they helped lift Trump to power. Now that he's back in office, the broadcasters are well-positioned to help build support for his political agenda.

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How podcasters like Joe Rogan and Logan Paul turned young men, a once apolitical demographic, into a massively powerful voting bloc

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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Last post of the day. LOL at big phony Woody Harrelson who professes environmentalism but does AI commercials and if you haven’t noticed, AI’s energy demands are wrecking the planet. Woody, Snoop….remember when the word “sell-out” existed? Not even in the lexicon anymore.

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