This Sunday, April 25, Milwaukee will join a rapidly spreading movement of car and bike caravans calling for an end to the US economic blockade of Cuba, beginning at the Mitchell Park domes at 1 PM. This movement was initiated by Cuban-Americans in Miami to end restrictions on their ability to see or assist their relatives, and has expanded throughout the US and Canada, Latin America, Africa and Europe, held on the last Sunday of each month.
On April 22, the Milwaukee County Board overwhelmingly adopted a resolution similarly calling for normal relations between the US and Cuba. County Board Chair
Steven Shea and others in sponsoring the resolution, and shared her personal story how a Cuban born schoolmate suffered because she could not visit her relatives in Cuba. Supervisor
• The Great Gatherings for Black Lives Matter
The diverse marches to end police violence brought together black, brown, white, old and young, gay and straight by the tens of thousands across the country and around the world to demand justice and respect for our Black brothers and sisters.
• The Great Frontline Heroes of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Doctors, nurses, technicians, service people, teachers, mail carriers, grocery clerks, firefighters – the list goes on and on of people who are risking their lives for the rest of us in the midst of this pandemic.
Words of Dr. King and music performed by local actors and musicians including Andre Lee Ellis, DiMonte Henning, Dorothy James, David Nunley, Juli Wood, Robin Pluer.