John, join us this Friday for our next Bank Protest.

And more importantly, if you can afford a few dollars, please chip in to help defray the cost of fines for the eleven people arrested on December 6, 2019 at Wells Fargo Bank.  Several are students for whom the fine is significant.  Chip in here.  Please, they could really use your help!

Stand for a Livable Climate
Friday March 13, 2020
12:00 - 1:00 pm

Chase & Wells Fargo
Wisconsin Ave. at Water St.

We believe there can be a future for the next generations!
 

Chase & Wells Fargo banks are the 1st & 2nd LARGEST funders of fossil fuel (coal-mining operations (like the mountain top removal project above), oil and gas companies, fracking firms, pipelines, and arctic exploration) companies in the WORLD!

In 2020 climate activists around the world are focusing their efforts on big banks to slow the money pipeline that flows to fossil fuel companies.  Will you help do something for the future?

You can't join us on Fridays, but you do want to do something? Read Bill McKibben's article linked below, then, if you bank with Chase, Wells Fargo, BMO, BofA, Capital One, etc., make a plan to move your accounts to institutions that don't fund fossil fuels.  Yeah, it's a headache, I know from experience...

Want to Do Something About Climate Change? Follow the Money - Bill McKibben, New Yorker

For tips on moving your bank, scroll down to the Moving Your Money section at 350MKE.

Please join us - rain, snow or shine. (Unless it's a serious blizzard or seriously cold!)  Dress in layers for the weather.  There are many pedestrians over the noon hour and we talk to lots of folks.  There's a lot of positive feedback - 10x more than negative.

Climate Justice Resolution
Thursday March 12, 6:30 PM
Auditorium of the Central Services Building
5225 West Vliet Street, Milwaukee

Dear friends (of the Earth),

The Climate Justice Resolution will be considered by the MPS School Board's SASI committee at 6:30 PM on Thursday March 12.

Please come and support it. Invite your friends and family and members of any organization you belong to.  I hope students, educators, parents and members of climate/environmental organizations come and speak up.

We need people to testify. Plan to speak between 2 and 2 1/2 minutes. No longer than 2 1/2. (Please let me know if you’ll be able to come.)

If you don’t wish to testify, still come and be supportive. Fill out a slip saying you support the resolution but don’t wish to testify. 

I want to thank the dozens of people who have been working on this resolution for several months at our meetings at the MTEA office. Teachers, administrators, para professionals, students, climate activists, representatives of environmental organizations, and parents have all helped. 

Please show up at 6:30 PM on March 12. Our planet is on fire.

Sincerely,
Bob Peterson
Milwaukee Board of School Directors, At-large Representative

2020 Wisconsin Elections
PLEASE VOTE

Tuesday, April 7, 2020
Wisconsin Spring Election

• Supreme Court
• Wisconsin Court of Appeals
• Wisconsin Marsy's Law Crime Victims Rights Amendment

and

350 Milwaukee Meeting
Tuesday, April 14, 7 - 8:30pm
First Unitarian Society (Ogden & Astor)



Due to scheduling changes at the Urban Ecology Center, we will be meeting again at the First Unitarian Society in April

Next Court Date
Monday, April 20, 2020
8:30am
Milwaukee City Municipal Court
951 N James Lovell St

The date is two days before
Earth Day
 

Here are recent developments in the court cases of the eleven people arrested during the December 6, 2019 Global Climate Strike/Wells Fargo Bank sit-in in Milwaukee.  When they were arrested, the women and men were separated by gender and taken in police vans to two different precincts for “processing” on December 6. 

Because of time conflicts between their school or work commitments, three of the women paid the $187 fine before the February 3, 2020 court date, so their cases are closed.
 
At the February 3, 2020 court appearance, Emily Bell, the attorney, representing the remaining eight defendants (pro-bono) learned that the paperwork for the four male defendants had been “lost in the system.” The males were given letters indicating that they would not be charged unless the records appeared within two years. During the court appearance, because a representative of the City Attorney was not available to bargain with, the attorney entered a plea of Not Guilty and the case was rescheduled for February 21 for the four remaining women defendants.
 
At the February 21, 2020 court appearance, the charges for the four women were changed from trespassing to disorderly conduct and the fine was reduced to $90.
 
That same day, at least one of the men received a letter with a new court date of April 20 – Earth Week!
 
The total fines for these eleven people will be between about $1300 and $1700 depending on the eventual fines for the men.  Please help defray the personal cost to them by contributing - please see below.
 
Note also that this group agreed they would not promise to forego engaging in another non-violent direct action in the next year, which could have been a bargaining chip. If anything, they want to step up their action.

 Future Local Actions: