Voces de la Frontera: Milwaukee community organizations respond to KKK-supporting city contractor

CONTACT: Sam Singleton-Freeman 414-469-9206 sfreeman@vdlf.org   MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN — On Friday, December 8th, a jogger disturbing images were posted to social media of a Confederate flag and KKK stickers on the lunchbox of a worker doing sewer repairs at the corner of 25th and Wells in Milwaukee. Following an outcry the Alderman for the neighborhood revealed that the workers were employed by a suburban contractor called American Sewer Services, which weeks ago was the target of a similar outcry after photos were taken of their employees working in inner city Milwaukee at 19th and Meineke openly carrying handguns. Milwaukee civil rights

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