Wisconsin town hall erupts over starvation of Palestinians. Republican Rep Bryan Steil faces his constituents in Elkhorn, WI, July 31, 2025. Done with Birds on a Wire, in collaboration with Milwaukee4Palestine.

Thousands of residents gathered and marched through Milwaukee in solidarity with Minneapolis, immigrant communities, and the people of Turtle Island demanding that ICE get out.

This was organized by the ICE Out of Milwaukee Coalition, which includes: @milwaukeealliance @comitesinfronteras@vocesdelafrontera @mke.labor @milwaukeeturners @frso_wi@nokingsmke MICAH |southwest wisconsin indivisible | milwaukee teachers education association.

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The Police Chief went to Israel to receive “counterterrorism” training. 

Hear from local Palestinians about the impact of the chief’s training and warnings from the Palestinian experience about what comes next if these deadly exchanges aren’t banned now.

Milwaukee shared how they felt about this on 1/22/2026 at the Fire & Police Commission. 

Residents implored MPD to not cooperate with ICE but to prepare for their invasion and protect the people in Milwaukee, to bring an end to the police chase protocol, to end MPD use of facial recognition technology, and to never work with the occupying apartheid state of Israel and their genocidal regime.

@milwaukee4palestine @blocbyblocmke
@milwaukeealliance @wibopm @milwaukeealliance@codepinkmke @uspcnmke @uspcn @comitesinfronteras@wearthepeace @williamryanfritchmusic

A.I. Data Center Construction Site: Port Washington, WI. 

Vantage’s monstrosity on the coast of Lake Michigan just ~30 miles north of Milwaukee is set to house Oracle & OpenAI. 

The very controversial - Nobody Wants This - data center is allowed to be built 24/7 by the Port Washington Common Council and Mayor. A recall effort of the Mayor is well underway with over half of necessary signatures signed. 

Learn more about the resistance to it and how you can support at @greatlakesneighborsunited and www.SavePortWashington.com

The annual meeting video. Made for their event and in different formats on socials. For outreach and bringing people to join.

The Milwaukee Police Dept met with the Equal Rights Commission to discuss MPD’s plans to acquire their own facial recognition technology (FRT) from private company Biometrica. In return, Biometrica would receive all images from MPD booking data. 

06/18/2025
Milw City Hall
Equal Rights Commission

"Artists in a place like Milwaukee help remind people how to dream."

Photographer and videographer Samer Ghani reflects on the opportunities alive within Milwaukee's artistic scene, and how Cactus Club and Cactus +'s diverse and inclusive programming embodies community care, and represents the future of what Milwaukee's larger arts and culture can look like. (editor, broll Cactus Club footage)

Thousands of people showed up to @berniesanders’ “Fight Oligarchy” rally in #Kenosha, Wisconsin. Done with Laura Flanders and Friends. 3/10/25

“We know that resistance is our duty, and we will not let history repeat itself. That we will stand united, and we will beat back fascism and we’re gonna come out of this better than when we started!” Christine Neumann-Ortiz, Executive Director of Voces de la Frontera, delivers an emphatic speech on the steps of the federal building in Milwaukee. On April 5th a collective of local orgs and thousands of Wisconsinites joined in solidarity against Trump, Elon Musk, the billionaire class, and fascism. Christine and Voces invite you to join them on May Day (May first) in a national day of protest and strike. All workers unite. Part 5/8

“My worry is that we are repeating history here”. The granddaughter of Japanese-American citizens and their families who were all put in the Japanese internment camps speaks to Republican Congressman Bryan Steil at his listening session in Elkhorn, WI.

Rep Steil: I don’t see the parallel that you are sharing."

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ICE is using a former Japanese internment camp as a detention center. This camp - Fort Bliss - was once used to imprison people of Japanese descent. The horrors of the past are now the present.

“Alligator Alcatraz is a concentration camp. The difference between a concentration camp and a prison or detention center is due process”

Made with LuAnn Bird and Birds on a Wire bowresist.com

Done with Luann Bird and Birds on a Wire. "Remember the days when childbirth was a preexisting condition? We don't want to go back to that." Julie with the breast cancer mutation. Tiffany takes care of her 24 year old daughter. "These services aren't nice to have. They are a necessity." Chloe said, "...everyone cannot afford healthcare. I know I can't. I can barely afford rent."
This is what will happen if that Big Bad Budget bill passes. Call your US Senator! Stop the cuts!

The Police Chief went to Israel to receive “counter-terrorism” training. Milwaukee shared how they felt about this on 1/22/2026 at the Fire & Police Commission. Comments included imploring MPD to not cooperate with ICE but to prepare for their invasion and protect the people in Milwaukee, to bring an end to the police chase protocol, to end MPD use of facial recognition technology, and to never work with the occupying apartheid state of Israel and their genocidal regime.

@codepinkmke @milwaukee4palestine @milwaukeealliance@wibopm @reproductivejusticeaction @blocbyblocmke

Dec 2 - Published with More Perfect Union. Christine Lejeune was aggressively arrested by Port Washington Police after testifying against the Oracle (A.I.) and Open AI Data Center proposal in Port Washington, WI. This 15 billion dollar Vantage built facility will use more power than every household in Wisconsin combined, and is one of many proposed Data Centers in the cool state, located on flat land on the shores of Lake Michigan. 

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Much, and likely most, of the public oppose this controversial A.I. Data Center for a myriad of reasons yet it is supported by Mayor Ted Neitzke and the Common Council.

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Many in town and across the state have joined small grassroots organizations like Christine's Great Lakes Neighbors United. 

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Christine did not interrupt anyone, and said "Recall, Recall" of the Mayor as she sat down while the entire crowd applauded for her. The Police Chief Hingiss came over and said she needed to leave. She was calm and said "I left" (referring to the podium) She was then pulled from her chair, dragged on the ground, and arrested along with two others.

Get Involved: Stephanie Salgado of Comite Sin Fronteras delivers words at the Summit for Collective Liberation in Milwaukee, WI.

Wisconsin Town Hall erupts over Trump agenda and Republican policies at Congressman Bryan Steil’s (R) “Listening Session” in Elkhorn, July 31 2025. After months of his constituents’ requests for him to host a town hall, the people told him how it is. Done with Birds on a Wire, collaborated with Wisconsin Coalition for Justice in Palestine, Comite Sin Fronteras, Milwaukee Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression.

“Hands Off!” Milwaukee. Happy 414 day. Like the rest of the country, the people showed up here on April 5th in the thousands. This is what was said & seen. Part 1/7

Milwaukee Fire & Police Commissioners Krissie Fung & Bree Spencer deliver comments against MPD’s plans to acquire licenses to use their own facial recognition technology through the private company Biometrica.

Milwaukee City Hall
Equal Rights Commission
06/18/25

“I’m speaking in opposition to Milwaukee Police Department’s plans to acquire their own facial recognition technology. 630 people and counting have signed this statement addressed to you all at the Equal Rights Commission”, Heba Mohammad of Milwaukee4Palestine then reads a letter signed by now over 740 people opposing the use of facial rec tech by MPD. 

Milw City Hall
Equal Rights Commission
6/18/2025

Press Conference 2/2 - The UWM Popular University for Palestine. 5/13/2024. Falasteen Lawn, Milwaukee WI

The Nunnery performs ‘Night Dream Cloud’. “Sometimes your day is a little bit in the back of your mind. And this song is just kind of, I made it to release that, and just be, be present….thank you so much everyone for everything, I’m excited for the next thing,” Sarah Elstran closes out her set opening for Collection of Colonies of Bees album release show, along with Solid Gold at Vivarium in Milwaukee - 5/31/25

Karen Urrutia Polnitz, a writer, activist, and educator of Madison, WI testifies against proposed legislation (Assembly Bill 24 | Senate Bill 57) that would allow Sheriff assistance on federal immigration functions to the Wisconsin State Licensing, Regulatory Reform, State & Federal Affairs Committee on May 13, 2025, at the State Capitol. 

Collaboration with Families for Justice, Milwaukee Alliance, Comite Sin Fronteras

On the commemoration of the ongoing Nakba, the catastrophe, we hear from someone who was there 77 years ago - when the forced removal of Palestinians from their sovereign land began. Over a hundred people rallied outside Derco Aerospace, a company profiteering from the genocide in Palestine.

Derco is a Lockheed Martin company that has contracts to repair, store, and distribute engine parts that keep Zionist fighter jets in the air. 

Wisconsinites from a wide range of communities gathered and shared their stories, to bring an end to this ongoing massacre, and demand Derco to stop supplying weapons of genocide. Collaboration with Milwaukee4Palestine, CodePinkMilwaukee