UPCOMING ACTIONS
Thursday, June 2nd in Madison
PROTEST JOINT FINANCE VOTE ON IN-STATE TUITION AND CUTS TO PUBLIC EDUCATION!
We urgently need people to come to the Capitol in Madison this Thursday, June 2nd at 12:45 PM in Room 412 (East) to protest the Joint Finance Committee vote to repeal instate tuition rights for Wisconsin’s immigrant youth and massive cuts to public education. Walker’s budget forces taxpayers to pay for the children of wealthy families to attend private schools while attacking the quality of education for working class families and the poor.
Come to Madison to hold legislators accountable for the hundreds of thousands of Wisconsin’s children whose futures will suffer if this budget is passed!
Bus Schedule
RACINE – Bus leaves from Pick n Save, 2210 Rapids Drive at 7:30 am
MILWAUKEE – Bus leaves from Voces de la Frontera Action (1027 S. 5th St.) at 10:30 am
All buses will return in the evening. To sign up, please call (414) 469-9206.
Thank you for standing with us to protect the educational future of all children! Education is a right, not a privilege!
Saturday, June 4th in Milwaukee
CIVIL RIGHTS MARCH & RALLY TO SUPPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION & INSTATE TUITION RIGHTS!
Voces de la Frontera Action and allied organizations will be sponsoring a civil rights march and rally to condemn Governor Walker’s proposed budget which robs our children of their basic civil rights and jeopardizes the future of our communities, our city and our state. All children have the right to schools that offer art, physical education, music, library, school nurses, a kindergarten program, school buses, and reasonable class sizes.
All children raised in WI deserve in-state tuition at public universities and technical colleges, including immigrant students!
Parents, teachers, students & community members: Defend your children’s right to public education!
• 11am gather at MacDowell Montessori (17th & Highland)
• March across the 16th Street Bridge (James E. Groppi Unity Bridge)
• Rally outside Forest Home Elementary (1516 W Forest Home Ave)
Tuesday, June 7th in Madison
PRESS CONFERENCE TO DENOUNCE ARIZONA-COPYCAT BILL
On May 23rd, Rep. Don Pridemore (R-Hartford) announced plans to introduce an Arizona-copycat bill in Wisconsin which will undermine the state’s economy and legalize racial profiling.
Voces de la Frontera Action and Wisconsin Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (WNIRR) will host a press conference on Tuesday, June 7th at 1:00PM at the State Capitol to protest the bill. We invite organizations to write press statements/statements and share them with Elena Lavarreda at statewideorganizer.voces@gmail.com, as well as joining us at this action.
For those that cannot attend the June 7th press conference in Madison please contact your legislator here and call Governor Walker at (608) 266-1212 to say, “We don’t want an Arizona-copycat bill in Wisconsin!”
Click here to view the current version of the Pridemore bill
http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/6226/t/0/blastContent.jsp?email_blast_KEY=101090
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