It's important to know who you are in relation to the world around you. Abolition reminds us that a better world is possible, and our understanding of it can help us build a better world! Join AART on Saturday, February 25 at 11 AM, via our FB Livestream or register to join in person, as we study and discuss the world we deserve and want to build through an abolition lens.

Register Here: bit.ly/BLACKHISTORYPE

Milwaukee's American Rescue Plan Act Task Force is hosting three community meetings to hear input on how the city should spend its ARPA funding starting February 4. Join us in our demand for participatory budgeting at one of these meetings.

You can register for the final virtual meeting here: bit.ly/ARPA2023

Join AART's first evening meeting of the year on February 21 at 6 pm CST. In this virtual, Black-only space, a session called AART 2023: Get In Where You Fit In, we'll share ways for our members and supporters to take action! Opportunities include joining our fight for a participatory budgeting process, community leadership of LiberateMKE, our asset mapping and other Northwest Side projects, expanded membership, youth engagement, and base building! We know where we fit in. Why don't you come to find out where you do too?!

Register for the Zoom session here:  bit.ly/GETINFITIN

As we continue to fight for participatory budgeting in Milwaukee, join us for a webinar where we talk to organizers across the country about how they were able to win participatory budgeting on a local level, and provide an update about where they are in the process.

Register here: bit.ly/PBONTHEGROUND

Milwaukee's American Rescue Plan Act Task Force is hosting three community meetings to hear input on how the city should spend its ARPA funding starting February 4. Join us in our demand for participatory budgeting at one of these meetings.

You can register for the final virtual meeting here: bit.ly/ARPA2023

Residents throughout the city are currently unrepresented as our local government makes bold decisions about our future. Join the African American Roundtable (AART), Darrin Madison, former Democracy Organizer, and Alderwoman Milele Coggs as they discuss city government changes, the Common Council's responsibilities, and how to create change at this level of government. This presentation will be a hybrid model. Join us in person or online via Facebook Live! Location details will be provided via the registration link below: bit.ly/HYPOCRISYDEMOCRACY

Come join AART's Executive Director, Markasa Tucker-Harris and AART's Membership and Coalition Manager, Devin Anderson, in a space to learn about Milwaukee's Budget, LiberateMKE, and ask questions!

Residents throughout the city are currently unrepresented as our local government makes bold decisions about our future. Join the African American Roundtable (AART), Darrin Madison, former Democracy Organizer, and Alderwoman Milele Coggs as they discuss city government changes, the Common Council's responsibilities, and how to create change at this level of government. This presentation will be a hybrid model. Join us in person or online via Facebook Live! Location details will be provided via the registration link below: bit.ly/HYPOCRISYDEMOCRACY

Do you want to learn the skills to advocate for yourself and those in your community in preparation for the City of Milwaukee's budget hearing? Join us at our next AART community evening meeting that will focus on how to share your story and give public testimony. This is the space for you!

Do you live, work, or spend time on Milwaukee's Far Northwest side? If so, join our Saturday, September 25 training, where you can shape your opinion into a powerful, two-minute testimony ahead of a public hearing of the city's budget proposal on October 4th. In this training, there will be a brief presentation of the city's 2021 budget and 2022 budget proposals. Then, we'll develop a collective vision for investment on Milwaukee's Far Northwest side, write our testimonies, and go over additional ways to share our stories with the mayor and city council alderpersons.
Register here: bit.ly/OCT4PE

Join AART Monday, October 4th at 6:30pm CST to testify at the Public Budget Hearing. Milwaukee is facing a financial crisis due bloated police pensions. Tom Barret wants to use ARPA funds to recruit 195 new police officers, with no plans for long-term sustainability! Milwaukee literally CANNOT afford anymore police!
Join our #DefundthePolice demands, pledge to testify here: bit.ly/Pledge2Testify

Join African American Roundtable, Milwaukee Freedom Fund, Black and Pink: Milwaukee, and Milwaukee DSA for an interactive session on why we must defund the police in Milwaukee, and collectively imagine the community we can build.
Register here: https://bit.ly/DefundPE

Join African American Roundtable and DSA of Milwaukee for a phone bank to talk to community members about why divesting from police and investing in community safety is important.

Join us Tuesday August 24th from 6:00pm-7:00pm for a conversation with Brave Green Wave on housing cooperatives and how that connects to community safety and defunding police.

“Brave Green Wave is a trybe of Queer, Trans, Non Binary folx with a mission to support QTNB and other marginalized folx to obtain stable housing while taking action against displacement and housing insecurity. We provide readily information, resources + mutual aid for immediate housing needs of folx based in Milwaukee. Our trybe has an immediate goal to create a QTNB centered and owned housing co-op.Our vision is to grow radical loving and safe black spaces that includes Queer, Trans, Non Binary identified folx by creating self sustaining black owned housing and work co-operatives in Milwaukee, WI .” - BGW

In celebration of #BlackAugust, AART is offering limited edition swag! Make a donation, and we will gift you an Abolish the Police t-shirt! Donations will be used to sustain AART’s work to develop leaders, defund police, investment into communities and fight to #LiberateMKE!

Come grab your t-shirt and a FREE BOOK on Friday, August 20 at Sherman Phoenix.

Reserve your free book here: https://forms.gle/g7H8QFVmjzLq9k3G7

Reserve your T-Shirt here: https://forms.gle/b8pbB2dpGAJfjKGH8

Please note t-shirts have a limited availability and Donations will only be accepted in person via AART’s Paypal donation link.

No donation? No worries! We will be offering a cost-free way to nab your swag. Stay tuned!

What is Black August? It's a month of standing with political prisoners and prisoners of war. The core tenets of Black August are to FAST, STUDY, TRAIN and FIGHT 🔥.

Please join us Thursday, August 19 at 6 p.m. CST for a political education event with our comrade Hiram Rivera about Black August and how it connects to our current fights.

Hiram Rivera is the Executive Director of the @CommResourceHub, providing data, research and technical assistance to police reform organizations across the country. Prior to the hub he spent 14 years as a community organizer and former executive director of the Philadelphia Student Union working on the issues of Education Justice and Juvenile Incarceration.

Black August began in California prisons in 1979 and it began being practiced by Black freedom fighters throughout the country.

August covers a vast history of the Black struggle against America, with each day recalling a pivotal moment in the history of Black existence. Pivotal moments such as the first Africans arrival in Jamestown on August 20, 1619, the beginning of The Haitian Revolution on August 22, 1791, the murder of 14 year-old Emmett Till on August 28, 1955 and death of unarmed teen, Mike Brown on August 9, 2014 are just a few events tied to Black history in the month of August.