Monthly Archives: June 2008

Tired of only listening to what the herd thinks is best? Every 3rd Wednesday of the month from 7PM to 10PM your local Independent Media Center located at 202 S. Broadway Ave., Urbana, IL 61801 (the old downtown Post Office) … Continue reading →

May 1st marks International Workers’ Day, an official government holiday in most countries around the world, with mass demonstrations, rallies and marches held to express labor solidarity and celebrate workers’ rights. Here in the U.S., May Day is not a … Continue reading →

Upcoming at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library in June is Something So Horrible: Springfield Race Riot of 1908. Gathering photographs, news accounts, oral histories, artifacts and other materials, the library will present an exhibition exploring Springfield’s most violent racial confrontation. … Continue reading →

I discovered a dignified, ancient, elegant trade, one where I could own what I do and never have to have a boss again. –U. Utah Phillips Bruce Duncan Phillips, the man who went by U. Utah Phillips and whom others … Continue reading →

Common Ground Food Co-op has grown and thrived on these, the seven principles of the international cooperative movement, for 33 years. Now, about to enter into its 34th year, Common Ground is relocating for the first time in its history. … Continue reading →

Fuel prices are high, food prices are high, and the costs of both continue to rise while we look on, unable or unwilling to reconcile a lifetime of relatively cheap food and fuel with the current prices we’re seeing for … Continue reading →

…garden programs serve to further a vision of what should be in times when society is unclear about where the future is heading. —Laura J. Lawson, City Bountiful, A Century of Community Gardening in America (2005) As chronicled in City … Continue reading →

Food costs more. Fuel costs more. Metals and other raw materials cost more as well. But this is no traditional inflation. Labor doesn’t cost more; wage rates are not rising, at least not in the US, in the rest of … Continue reading →

The County Board passed in January a proposal for spending $6.81 million dollars on courthouse and tower renovations. Renovations have begun on the clock tower, but community concerns persist. Area residents, such as Chris Evans, still insist that “While we … Continue reading →

Nowhere is the “disconnect” of modern American life more apparent than in our relationship with water. We all know that water is necessary for life. We know that water is a precious resource and that our future requires the most … Continue reading →

Stories of those being exonerated are becoming increasingly common, with wrongly convicted men and women being released from prisons in the United States at a rate of approximately one each month. Many of these exonerations have come after the DNA … Continue reading →