Monthly Archives: February 2014

Mandela Remembered by Historian Teresa Barnes

Posted on 02/01/2014 by Teresa Barnes

Appeared originally at U of I News Bureau, 12/6/2013 Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s first black president and an icon in the struggle that ended the country’s system of racial apartheid, died Dec. 5. He was 95. Teresa Barnes is a … Continue reading →

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Voices from the No More Jails Campaign

Posted on 02/01/2014 by James Kilgore

In early 2012 the powers that be in Champaign County criminal justice brought forward a plan to close the downtown jail and build a massive extension onto the satellite facility in East Urbana. When the proposal came before the County … Continue reading →

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One of The Core Union Values is Solidarity!

Posted on 02/01/2014 by Stephanie Seawell

Recently the Graduate Employees Organization (GEO), the union for graduate student teaching assistants and research assistants at the University of Illinois, made a few changes to the union’s organizational structure. More specifically, the GEO added an elected Solidarity Officer to … Continue reading →

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