Monthly Archives: November 2009

On November 6, 2009, we returned from a ten-day visit to Palestine and Israel. Our trip was organized by John Setterlund, a retired campus minister from Urbana who had recently spent two years working at a Lutheran complex in Beit … Continue reading →

In the August 2009 issue of the Public i, we published an article that was very critical of the Chinese government’s treatment of the Uygur (or Uighur, as it is usually spelled in the U.S.) minority. This article was read … Continue reading →

”The reason Jack Johnson was so beset by his own country, a country ironically which had only recently reaffirmed that all men were created equal, was because of his Unforgivable Blackness.” —W.E.B. DuBois Jack Johnson was an African American boxer … Continue reading →

LOS ANGELES 11/21—Just after midnight in the early hours of Thursday November 19th a group of about 30 students seized Campbell Hall on the UCLA campus and began their occupation of the building. The building was renamed Carter Higgins Hall … Continue reading →

I have lived in Urbana since I was six years old. However, I never understood the homeless situation in Urbana-Champaign. My journey began with my decision to spend this past summer volunteering locally in my hometown. Although I had done … Continue reading →

This semester, I conducted a course, Fine and Applied Arts 391: Making Change Through Homelessness Research (FAA 391), to upper-level undergraduate students. Over the course of the semester, students had the opportunity to engage a number of different social change … Continue reading →

In need of completing a senior workshop before graduation in May, I was drawn to a class titled Action Research Seminar (FAA 391), taught by Abbilyn Harmon. The fact that the course title contained both action and research left me … Continue reading →

On Monday, November 16th my union – the Graduate Employees’ Organization (GEO), IFT/AFT local 6300, AFL-CIO, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign – began an open-ended strike over the University administration’s refusal to sufficiently protect graduate tuition waivers. Over 1,000 union … Continue reading →

Last Saturday, the second annual Chambana Cranksgiving collected 888 pounds of food for Eastern Illinois Food Bank. 34 riders (and several others who didn’t participate in the event, but donated food) crisscrossed Champaign and Urbana, visiting local grocery stores and … Continue reading →

The poor progress made by the G20 in St. Andrews, echoes a week of negotiations in UN climate talks in Barcelona where Industrialised World Intransigence on CO2 emission Targets has probably doomed signing a legally binding treaty at the crucial … Continue reading →

About 25 people, including several youth and their parents, showed up at the Champaign County courthouse on November 12, 2009 for a juvenile hearing of the other 15-year old involved in the police shooting of Kiwane Carrington. Police had originally … Continue reading →