Category Archives: Community Forum

The Negative Impact of the War on Drugs in Our Community

Posted on 02/24/2013 by Public i

Two Community Dialogues Thursday, Feb. 28, Levis Faculty Center (919 W. Illinois St., Urbana) Friday night, March 1, Salem Baptist Church (500 E. Park St., Champaign) 5:30-8:30 p.m. both nights Keynote Speakers: Neill Franklin, former narcotics officer and executive director … Continue reading →

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The Cheesemonger Spotlights Prairie Fruits Farm

Posted on 01/21/2013 by Billy LeGrand

by Billy LeGrand, Common Ground Food Co-op In a follow-up from the October issue of The Public i, this month, The Cheesemonger will focus on Champaign’s own award-winning Prairie Fruits Farm, just north of I-74 on N. Lincoln Ave. For … Continue reading →

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The Fruits of Our Labor: Champaign’s Summer Youth Jobs Program

Posted on 09/08/2012 by Jelani Saadiq

Jelani Saadiq is a senior at Piney Woods School in Mississippi. He participated in Champaign’s summer youth employment program this summer. This summer I was bamboozled; I thought that the summer employment program would be a boring 9am-1 pm job, … Continue reading →

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Announcements for September

Posted on 09/08/2012 by Public i

Campus YMCA Fall 2012 Lecture Series All lectures are on Fridays at 12:00pm.| University YMCA| 1001 South Wright Street | Champaign, IL Beyond the Rhetoric: Key Issues in the 2012 Elections.  The Fall 2012 Friday Forum Lecture Series will … Continue reading →

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Hollywood’s War on American Youth: “Dark Knight,” Aurora, Colorado, and America’s Culture of Violence

Posted on 09/08/2012 by John Reiman

Hollywood’s War on American Youth: “Dark Knight,” Aurora, Colorado, and America’s Culture of Violence by John Reimann [Editors’ Note: As part of the Public i‘s continuing commitment to political analysis of popular culture, we are publishing a critique of the … Continue reading →

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CUCPJ Public Forum on New Jail Proposal

Posted on 04/22/2012 by Public i

Champaign Urbana Citizens for Peace and Justice Present A Public Forum on: The County Board’s Proposal to Spend $20 Million on a New Jail Speakers: Carol Ammons, County Board member who opposes the jail proposal Members of Decarcerate Monroe County, … Continue reading →

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Sweet Corn Festival Brings Major Disappointment

Posted on 10/02/2011 by Safiya Noble

At a time when our community has been so significantly impacted by the death of a young African-American man at the hands of the Champaign Police, we continue to be mourning and healing. I teach courses on race, gender and … Continue reading →

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Last Call to Save Free Speech for People, Not Corporations.

Posted on 07/07/2011 by David Roknich

Start calling the White House while you read this, and I’ll explain why you need to keep that switchboard well lit. Few people fully understand the greatest threat to democracy today is the Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. … Continue reading →

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I Hate Malcolm X

Posted on 07/07/2011 by Ray Morales

“I Hate Malcolm X.” These are the words that circulated in my subconscious. And to be honest, the extent of my knowledge of his contribution was scant. But I knew that I hated him. So a week prior to his … Continue reading →

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We Went to Madison: Now Let’s Talk

Posted on 03/28/2011 by Will Adams

We went to Madison for our own reasons and had own experiences, but we want to speak less in terms of autobiography; our emphasis here is on the movement and all those present… What follows is a selection of a … Continue reading →

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Revisiting Women’s History Month

Posted on 03/28/2011 by KristinaWho

In late February, at the cusp of Women’s History Month, Stephen Colbert interviewed women’s studies author, Stephanie Coontz. In typical Colbert fashion, he cajoles Coontz as she discusses, A Strange Stirring, her new book about Betty Friedan’s, Feminine Mystique. Colbert … Continue reading →

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Letter from Madison, February 27, 2011

Posted on 03/28/2011 by Michael Veredame

This Sunday Zach Poppel and I traveled to Madison to support the occupation of the Wisconsin Capitol. I want to share some of my experiences. As we left for Madison, we knew we might not be able to get into … Continue reading →

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Just Say No to “Gay Marriage”

Posted on 10/05/2010 by Snow Leopard

Those who accept evil without protesting against it are really cooperating with it. —Martin Luther King, Jr. Many people in the United States, it seems, may not have been exposed to, and so don’t realize, the quality of hatred often … Continue reading →

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Letter to the Public i

Posted on 04/26/2007 by Michael Weissman

Dear PI, I was disappointed to see in your March issue an unbalanced and unscientific article by Ayanna Qadeem attacking the new HPV vaccine. Although Qadeem cites many statistics, most are simply irrelevant to her case that the costs would … Continue reading →

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The Charter School Proposal: Critical Issues, Wrong Answer

Posted on 03/02/2002 by Gene Vanderport

What follow are my own thoughts on the charter school proposal, which do not necessarily reflect the opinions or policies of my employer the Illinois Education Association, or its local Urbana and Champaign affiliates. Let me state at the outset … Continue reading →

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Challenging the Media Monopoly: Introducing the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center’s public i

Posted on 08/17/2001 by Sascha Meinrath

This inaugural issue of the public i represents the birth of the only news-focused, collectively-run, non-profit newspaper in Urbana-Champaign. Continue reading →

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