DATE/LOCATION CHANGE: Antifascist Mutual Aid Action/Justice for Jacob Blake

UPDATE:

"This event has been moved to Monday, January 18, at 11:00am and will be at McPike Park.... Please join us Monday at 11:00am to celebrate MLK Jr. day and show our unified opposition to the rising far right threat."

media release: Community organizations including Urban Triage, South Central Wisconsin Food Not Bombs and the Madison General Defense Committee of the IWW will hold a mutual aid event on Sunday, January 17, in opposition to the fascist presence in our local community and across the country.

Last week, on the very same day, the powers that be showed that they condone and reward cops when they shoot Black men by refusing to press charges against the cop that shot Jacob Blake seven times in the back as he walked away, while simultaneously showing that they are okay with a group of majority white male fascists attempting a coup at the US Capitol. They showed this by shaking hands with fascists, taking selfies with them and opening the barricades so that they can gain access to the capitol grounds. These events are related in that they exhibit a condoning of white supremacism by those in charge and highlight the fact that the police and military may not be able to, nor willing to, stop any coming right wing coup running up to Joseph Biden’s inauguration on January 20. 

The mutual aid action on Sunday January 17, will be in the form of a free meal, hot drinks, and warm clothing distribution. The action has been called to demonstrate the importance of showing up and making space for antifascist, anti racist, anti police violence organizing and building grassroots community political power. Mutual aid is an effective way to thwart any coming far right uprisings by forming a broad oppositional political base in the community, united in the commitment to provide for one another in times of need while not being reliant on existing institutions. 

The groups are calling on community members to join them to make it known that there exists broad community-powered opposition to far right sieges and power grabs in Wisconsin.