Posted on 08/06/2026 6:38:38 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
MADISON, Wis.— Wisconsin non-profit Freedom Inc. bailed out over 30 protesters out of jail after they were arrested for taking over the intersection of Williamson and Baldwin streets before moving to the intersection of East Washington Avenue and Baldwin on Tuesday.
As of 4:45 p.m., Freedom Inc. bailed out 32 protesters and said the goal is to bail out 50.
News 3 Now spoke to a protester who said the city has wrongfully imprisoned these individuals and they are here to welcome them out with food and other resources.
Police said protesters emptied dumpsters and trash cans in the intersection and set five fires in the middle of streets. The Madison Fire Department said three fires were set on Williamson Street and two were set on Baldwin Street.
The fires were set in metal dumpsters and a City-issued trash can.
The protester said the event is a direct connection to the death of Corey Ruiz because of what they call the over policing and over surveillance of people of color.
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https://freedom-inc.org/index.php?page=about-us
same organizations probabaly wanted the death penalty for J6 protestors!
Chinese Communist Party ,LOL
How much GOVERNMENT FUNDING do they get and should that even be legal?
Almost as if this outfit is connected to the rioters going in.
“nonprofit” these days means taxpayer money handed out by crooked democraps...
They’ll never go back to jail and probably won’t even face trial. I’ve seen this too often.
Swarms of purpley haired Madstn-Leftists pretending there is a Constitutional right to Riot and Protest contained in the "Umbra" of "Peacefully to assemble and seek redress for wrongs". One of those slippery-greasy "Left Speak / Media Speak" re-definitions directed towards the sad publicly educated/conditioned masses.
Radical chic and pretending to Speak "for the people" who seek nothing but removal of this leftist EnCrapment from their neighborhood streets. No, "Peacefully Assemble" does not include pallets of bricks, unloaded and converted into barracades, groady sofas stolen from the front porches of nearby frat houses, using the street as a latrine, having smores and meatless hot dogs cooked over a fire in your obstructive encampment, but they will pretend it is.
I know someone who used to work for “Freedom Inc”.
Walked around a midwest town carrying $250M in a briefcase.
They resigned once the bribes and corruption stories came out.
Forget it, Pete. It’s Madistan. ;)
I’m just surprised that the cops arrested so many of them in the first place.
Those ‘Revolving Doors’ at the Dane County Jail are really getting a workout this week!
12” water cannons!
Washem away!
Not charging these jerks will only get more of same. They may likely get cash settlements as well, as did the George Floyd protesters:
“1,500 people were arrested over J6 and were sentenced to an average of 2 years. By contrast 98% of arrests during the George Floyd protests were dismissed with no charges despite 200X the property damage of J6 and over 2,000 Law Enforcement Officers injured during the riots.
PLUS the GF rioters were retrospectively paid for rioting: ‘major U.S. cities have collectively paid out well over $100 million in civil settlements tied to the policing of these protests....A least 19 U.S. cities had agreed to more than $80 million total in settlement.’”
I don’t see a problem as long as they paid the bail, which is set by a judge.
A much bigger problem would be if the judge(s) set the bail at $1.00.
Many of these clowns are from out of state.
Founded by Obama administration veteran Kabzuag Vaj:
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https://freedom-inc.org/index.php?page=key-leadership
Kabzuag Vaj, a social justice movement leader with over 26 years of experience in
nonprofit development and executive leadership who has helped create some of the
most trailblazing work and promising practices. Kabzuag is a non-profit infrastructure
expert cultivating sustainable, transformative partnerships and establishing/co-creating
powerful, sustainable, healthy movement organizations. In the last decade, she has built
a collective movement in Wisconsin amongst Southeast Asian and Black organizations
to increase civic engagement within these communities.
Kabzuag’s journey into social justice movement work began at a young age. At 16, she
started assisting and housing at-risk teens, an experience that ignited her passion for
challenging abusive gender norms within her community. This personal connection to
the issues she advocates for underscores her belief that those most deeply impacted
must lead the movement. Her ability to convene diverse stakeholders, centering victims
and survivors, and her talent for unifying and mobilizing people across ethnic and racial
groups have established her as a global movement leader. She is an accomplished
movement leader revered as a thought leader and North Star within movement spaces.
Currently, Kabzuag is the interim executive director of Freedom Inc. and Freedom
Action Now. Kabzuag is also a proud mother of 4 kids and an artist.
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https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/champions/working-to-end-domestic-violence/kabzuag-vaj
Kabzuag Vaj
Kabzuag Vaj was born in Laos and came to this country as a refugee child with her mother and siblings. She is co-founder and co-executive director of Freedom Inc. She has been working to end violence against women and girls since she was 16 years old. Freedom Inc. engages low- to no-income communities of color in Dane County, WI, to end violence against women and youth and to promote healthier living. They organize around the root causes of violence, creating new definitions and solutions, and empowering all community members as agents of change. Their vision for ending violence is to inspire and empower women and youths through leadership development and community organizing in ways that are language-gender and culture-specific to women and youth, in predominantly Hmong, Cambodian, Black and queer families and that bring about deep social, political, cultural, and economic change. In the past 4 years, Kabzuag has been part of a Statewide Hmong women’s movement (Wisconsin Hmong Women’s Collective), a collective which consist of Hmong women leaders throughout Wisconsin, all working to address both interpersonal violence and system violence. She is a strong advocate for victims and survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault but most importantly a champion at holding her community as well as mainstream communities accountable for creating social change and system change that directly addresses root causes of violence. Kabzuag is also a consultant with the Wisconsin State Coalition Against Domestic Violence (WCADV), where she works with other Hmong advocates to coordinate State wide shared analysis, strategies, solutions and community accountability. She is a strong believer that those who are most deeply impacted must be at the forefront of the movement. Those who are most impacted must have opportunities and resources to advocate for themselves and tell their own stories.
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https://movingmountains.org/our-story-and-values/
Moving Mountain, Inc. was established in 2022 by Kabzuag Vaj, the founder and former Co-Executive Director of Freedom Inc. and Freedom Action Now. After 25 years in the movement, she created MM as an organization for longtime movement leaders to continue their work/love projects to achieve gender justice and equity. The concept of moving mountains comes from the understanding that people worldwide have changed and continue to change these oppressive systems through collective organizing and mobilization.
Mountains form over hundreds of thousands of years. They are often seen as enduring, unyielding, and unmovable, much like patriarchy and other systems of oppression. However, with vigor, collective organizing, and mobilization, mountains can be moved and transformed one spoon of sand at a time.
Our work at MM is to align our values, analysis, and collective power to create a world where women, girls, Queer, Trans, gender nonconforming (QT/GNC), and gender expansive folx are valued, loved, and leading. Investing in BIPOC women, QT/GNC leaders, and organizations is crucial to shifting and building people’s power, creating a new feminist moral compass and people-centered systems, and elevating those most impacted.
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https://keywiki.org/Kabzuag_Vaj
Kabzuag Vaj
Kabzuag Vaj
Kabzuag Vaj was born in Laos and came to this country as a refugee child with her mother and siblings. She is co-founder and co-executive director of Freedom Inc. She has been working to end violence against women and girls since she was 16 years old. Freedom Inc. engages low- to no-income communities of color in Dane County, WI, to end violence against women and youth and to promote healthier living. They organize around the root causes of violence, creating new definitions and solutions, and empowering all community members as agents of change. Their vision for ending violence is to inspire and empower women and youths through leadership development and community organizing in ways that are language-gender and culture-specific to women and youth, in predominantly Hmong, Cambodian, Black and queer families and that bring about deep social, political, cultural, and economic change.
In the past 4 years, Kabzuag has been part of a Statewide Hmong women’s movement (Wisconsin Hmong Women’s Collective), a collective which consist of Hmong women leaders throughout Wisconsin, all working to address both interpersonal violence and system violence. She is a strong advocate for victims and survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault but most importantly a champion at holding her community as well as mainstream communities accountable for creating social change and system change that directly addresses root causes of violence. Kabzuag is also a consultant with the Wisconsin State Coalition Against Domestic Violence (WCADV), where she works with other Hmong advocates to coordinate State wide shared analysis, strategies, solutions and community accountability. She is a strong believer that those who are most deeply impacted must be at the forefront of the movement.[1]
Contents
1 Freedom, Inc comrades
2 Madison comrades
3 A Townhall On Anti-Asian Racism
4 Asian American Racial Justice Toolkit
5 Black Lives Matter Madison conference
6 References
Freedom, Inc comrades
Kabzuag Vaj August 5, 2019 ·
Freedom Inc moved.
Shyra Adams, Nyiaj Muas, Hope Son, Bianca Gomez, Sheesenphooyw Moua, Mahnker Dahnweih, Ntxhais Chai Moua, Tais Zon, Houa Yang, Jessica Williams, Nancy Vue, Morathi Adams.
Can’t believe it. In 1999 I was alone in a 10 x 10 office and now in 6,000 sq ft office with a damn kick ass team. Never thought by creating a world I wanted to live in others would also want the same.
Madison comrades
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Kabzuag Vaj June 12 ·
— with Mimee Xiong, Pangiee Yang, Abmos Zong Yang.
A Townhall On Anti-Asian Racism
AAPIs for Civic Empowerment Education Fund March 25 at 9:13 AM ·
Tune into this webinar on Anti-Asian Racism, featuring AAPI FORCE-EF executive director Timmy Lu, along with other organizers and scholars!
Peoples Collective for Justice & Liberation Presents
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A Townhall On Anti-Asian Racism: Race, Struggle & Solidarity in The Time of A Global Pandemic
DATE: Saturday, March 28, 2020 TIME: 3:00-5PM PST / 6:00-8PM EST
We are living in unprecedented times with COVID—19 or the Coronavirus. There has been a rise in anti-Chinese and anti-Asian discrimination and many efforts to combat it during this public health crisis.
Asian American organizers, and other people of color we are in community with, will facilitate a conversation on race, struggle and solidarity in the time of a global pandemic.
Featured Speakers:
Jason Oliver Chang, University of Connecticut Asian and Asian American Studies Institute
Jennifer K. Falcon, Indigenous Environmental Network
Timmy Lu, AAPIs for Civic Empowerment Education Fund
Scot Nakagawa, ChangeLab
Angela Peoples, Black Womxn For
Carmen Perez-Jordan, The Gathering for Justice
Lakshmi Sridaran, South Asian Americans Leading Together
Kabzuag Vaj, Freedom, Inc.
Helena Wong, Seeding Change
Co-Hosted by:
Gregory Cendana, Can’t Stop! Won’t Stop! Consulting and DJ Kuttin Kandi, Asian Solidarity Collective.
Cosponsored by Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop; Asian Solidarity Collective, University of Connecticut Asian And Asian American Studies Institute, 18 Million Rising, and Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA), AFL-CIO
Asian American Racial Justice Toolkit
This toolkit is a project of love from the grassroots, from and by Asian American communities.
As Asian Americans, we believe that our liberation is tied to Black liberation and we continue to dream about a world where all of our people will be free. The toolkit would not have been possible without the following organizations and individuals:
Project Coordinators
Lucia Lin and Timmy Lu
Writing Consultants
Janelle Ishida and Soya Jung
We thank Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund, Rosenberg Foundation, Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation, The California Endowment, The California Wellness Foundation, Unbound Philanthropy for their generous support of this project.
Special thanks to the Friends Doing Good giving circle, National CAPACD and Cathy Cha.
Thank you to the following racial justice organizers and fighters at the grassroots who have made this toolkit possible:
Alex T. Tom, Aiden Pham, Alvina Wong, Ashley Uyeda, Cathy Dang, Chhaya Chhoum, Christopher Cara, Dae Joong Yoon, Fahd Ahmed, InHe Choi, Joshua Fisher Lee, Kabzuag Vaj, Khamarin Nhann, Lai Wa Wu, Lillian Galedo, Mia-lia Kiernan, Minh Thanh Nguyen, Nancy Nguyen, Naved Husain, Rachel Aceberos, Rishi Singh, Sarath Suong, Steven Dy, Naroen Chhin, Sandy Saeteurn.[2]
Black Lives Matter Madison conference
Matt Nelson June 6, 2015 ·
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BlackLivesMatter movement-building conversation, #Wisconsin rising. Invest in community, no new jails, and community control of police. Leverage this moment AND build this movement! From outrage, to mobilization, to organization, vision, consciousness, power…forward! — with Tī S. Banks, Alix Shabazz, Jamala Rogers, Morathi Adams, Z. Lula Haukeness and Kabzuag Vaj.
References
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https://freedom-inc.org/index.php?page=board
Board of Directors
Nancy Vue Tran, President
Chaoya Yang, Member
Terrianna Bradley, Member
They’re linked to Ilhan Omar and the usual suspects:
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https://keywiki.org/Mahnker_Dahnweih
Mahnker Dahnweih is Co-Executive Director, Freedom Inc..
Mahnker Dahnweih has been a significant figure in civic engagement, youth organization, and gender justice. She recently joined the leadership team at Freedom Inc., bringing extensive experience in these areas. Mahnker was previously involved with Movement for Black Lives, a nationwide coalition advocating for policy and cultural changes.[1]
Racial Justice Has No Borders Town Hall
This coalition puts a focus on diaspora, refugee, veteran, Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities who bear the brunt of this country’s militarism to challenge the myth that more police, wars, and weapons have made any of us safer or more secure. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is imperative that we forge new avenues for global solidarity that can lead to real and lasting peace and security. On April 6, at 3 p.m. EST / 2 p.m. CST / 1 p.m. MST / 12 p.m. PST (the eve of the Wisconsin Democratic Primary), the coalition will host a virtual town hall examining U.S. military policy, defense spending, the ongoing ‘War on Terror,’ and militarization at home.
Moderated by Marc Lamont Hill, the Town Hall will launch a shared campaign demanding the immediate end to the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) that has been the pillar of escalated U.S. military intervention under the banner of the War on Terror.
Participants
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Ilhan Omar - opening remarks
Marc Lamont Hill - moderator
Poetry by: Naomi Shihab Nye
Khury Petersen-Smith - Institute for Policy Studies
Sanyoka Kindness - Indigenous Environmental Network
Ash-Lee Henderson - Highlander Research and Education Center
Melody McCurtis - Metcalfe Park Community Bridges
Munira Alimire - Dissenters
Mahnker Dahnweih - Freedom, Inc.
Krystal Two Bulls - Voices of the Sacred
Hoda Katebi
Kitzia Esteva - Causa Justa/Just Cause
Brittany DeBarros - About Face:Veterans Against the War]]
Reece Chenault - Justice Before Peace
Hyun Lee - Women Cross DMZ
Ramah Kudaimi - War Resisters League
Barbara Ransby - The Rising Majority
References
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It’s absolutely infuriating!
Thanks for adding all of that. It doesn’t cheer me UP any, but thanks. :)
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