Anti-racism update 12.4.24

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From your Peace, Social & Earth Concerns Committee. 

AR QUIZ

  • Jefferson Middle School in Madison was recently renamed after which Wisconsinite?  

EDUCATION

ACTION

  • Join Voces de la Frontera as it prepares for possible mass deportations. Sunday, December 8th
    1:00 p.m. Centro Hispano Dane County, 2403 Cypress Way Madison. Voces de la Frontera is organizing to prepare for the new administration’s promise to carry out mass deportations. There is a meeting scheduled on Dec. 8  to discuss and plan next steps.
    Contact: Voces de la Frontera Madison Organizer stephaniejsa123@gmail.com
  • Showing Up for Racial Justice Abolition Action Hour, Thursday December 19th 2-3pm. Join SURJ’s monthly Abolition Action Hours to take collective action with SURJ and our partners in the fight for racial and economic justice! In our one-hour gatherings we make calls, sign petitions, send emails, and take online action to close jails, defund police, invest in communities, protect Indigenous rights to land and water, and more. https://www.mobilize.us/surj/event/617713/ 
  • Send Books to people who are incarcerated. Due to the policy changes, Wisconsin Books to Prisoners is now solely limited to sending new books to readers in prison. Tax-deductible donations can be made out to fiscal sponsor “PC Foundation” with “WI Books to Prisoners” in the memo line. Donations can be made here:   Checks or money orders can be mailed to: Wisconsin Books to Prisoners, 1202 Williamson St. # 1, Madison, WI 53703. Frequently requested books posted on the website of A Room of One’s Own bookstore here: https://roomofonesown.com/wishlist/swudraslabrip

$15 can buy two collegiate dictionaries, the most requested book

$150 can cover postage costs for one weekly work shift

$1500 can cover our rent for 3 months

AR QUIZ ANSWER

  • Ezekiel Gillespie: Born into slavery in Tennessee in 1818, Ezekiel Gillespie bought his own freedom and traveled north to Milwaukee in 1854. He quickly became a conductor on the Underground Railroad and helped open Wisconsin’s first Black church. After the Civil War, Gillespie tried to register to vote, but was denied because of his race. His challenge reached the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which ruled in 1866 that black men could vote in the state– a right that wasn’t enshrined in the US Constitution until 1870.
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