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Category Archives: Section
August Issue Front Cover
AGAINST GENOCIDE, FOR ISRAEL DIVESTMENT
Posted in Front Cover, Gaza, Israel/Palestine, Middle East, Peace movement, Section
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State Treasurer Frerich’s Investments are Unpopular and Immoral
In March, community organizers from Champaign-Urbana launched a local campaign to demand an end to Illinois’s investments in corporations supporting Israel’s genocide against the people of Palestine, including Illinois’s direct purchase of Israel Bonds. The local effort joins a statewide … Continue reading
Posted in divestment, Gaza, International, Israel/Palestine, Middle East, military, Peace movement, Section, War
Tagged divestment, Gaza, Illinois state politics, Israel divestment, peace activism
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Unions and Immigrants: The Past and the Present
This article is the first of a two-part analysis of the relation between unions and immigrant workers. In an upcoming issue, the focus will be on campus unions at UIUC and their efforts to protect international students and undocumented workers. … Continue reading
Posted in Immigrants, Immigration, labor, labor history, Labor/Economics, Racism, Section, union soldarity, Xenophobia
Tagged Immigrants, Labor, labor history, racism, union solidarity
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UIUC Engineering Open House
This year the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s Engineering Open House 2025 was expecting 40,000 visitors April 4 and 5. Designed to showcase the talents and research of students in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) fields, the theme this year … Continue reading
Posted in AI, Big Tech, Gaza, Israel/Palestine, Middle East, military, Music, Section, University of Illinois, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Tagged academia and the military, AI, Big Tech, IDF, Israel/Palestine, STEM, UIUC, university-industrial complex
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Nuclear Power in the Trumpian Deregulatory Era
With the Trump-era onslaught and so many problematic circumstances to deal with in the power-production and -distribution system, the nuclear-power issue perhaps seems not necessarily top of many people’s and organizations’ concerns. Both at the national and the local level, … Continue reading
Posted in Climate crisis, Environment, Environment, Nuclear Power, Section, University of Illinois, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Tagged climate crisis, energy, environment, nuclear power, UIUC
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Our National Melting Point: Far Past Time to Abolish ICE
The roaming marauders of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), with masked faces, gallivanting around in armored vehicles and unmarked cars, are terrorizing communities across the United States. Los Angeles, a California city with sanctuary laws meant to protect immigrant … Continue reading
Posted in ICE, Immigrants, Immigration, Section, Violence
Tagged federal repression, ICE, Immigrants, violence
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Bombing Iran Might Bring on Regime Change—Just Not in Iran — Print Version
For decades Iran has been the gremlin in the American global imagination. US officials claim that Iran is the main source of instability in the Middle East, allowing them to dismiss any opposition to US or US allies’ policies as … Continue reading
Posted in International, International, International law, Iran, Middle East, military, Section, War
Tagged bombing, democracy, international law, Iran, nuclear non-proliferation, US militarism, war
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Bombing Iran Might Bring on Regime Change—Just Not in Iran — Full Version
For decades Iran has been the gremlin in the American global imagination. US officials claim that Iran is the main source of instability in the Middle East, allowing them to dismiss any opposition to US or US allies’ policies as … Continue reading
Posted in International, International, International law, Iran, Middle East, military, Section, War, Yemen
Tagged bombing, democracy, international law, Iran, nuclear non-proliferation, US militarism, war, Yemen
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ICE Strikes in East Urbana: Roofing Crew Disappeared with Barely a Trace
This article appeared on the author’s Substack on June 24, 2025. It has been lightly edited for style. At least eight men were taken by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in East Urbana in the early morning hours of Tuesday, … Continue reading
Posted in Community, ICE, Immigrants, Immigration, labor, Section
Tagged community resistance, ICE, immigrant labor, US immigration policy
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Should Urbana Get License Plate Readers?
Objection! Question is irrelevant. We ask the wrong question, and we are being given the wrong answer. We still haven’t answered the question the Champaign County jail consultant, the late Dr. Alan Kolmonoff, posed to us back in 2013: “What … Continue reading
The Sangamon River Anthology of Champaign County Poetry
This summer Reger completed editing and publishing the Sangamon River Anthology of Champaign County Poetry. Here he shares the foreword from that volume to introduce the project and offer a glimpse into the collection’s themes. Poetry in Champaign County has … Continue reading
Posted in Arts, Local Arts, Poetry, Section
Tagged local arts, Poetry
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America, I’m Writing You a Poem
America, I’m writing you a poem: All words I learned at your side,In these days of your decline, reaching Up to regain yourself, to get back To a state of reason and equanimity. Though your path is nearly severed, And … Continue reading
Posted in Arts, Local Arts, Poetry, Section
Tagged local arts, Poetry
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August Issue Back Cover
LOCAL PROTESTS
Posted in Back Cover, Gaza, Israel/Palestine, Middle East, Section, War
Tagged anti-war, back cover, Gaza protest, Iran, Israel/Palestine
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Belden Fields: Human Rights Scholar
Review Belden’s book Rethinking Human Rights for the New Millennium (2003), addresses a conflict among three human rights theories and provides a compelling synthesis of the three. According to The Declaration of Independence, “All men are created equal, . . … Continue reading
Posted in Human Rights, human rights, In Memoriam, Section
Tagged Belden Fields, human rights, In Memoriam, Marxism
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A Belden Fields Memory
It’s February 8, 1990. The U of I Board of Trustees are meeting. The Coalition Against State Sponsored Terrorism (CASST) is protesting against CIA recruitment on campus. We have members inside the meeting planning to disrupt, but not get arrested. … Continue reading
Posted in In Memoriam, Section, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Tagged Belden Fields, campus activism, In Memoriam
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Belden’s Work in the Union of Professional Employees and Campus Faculty Association
I worked closely with Belden in the Union of Professional Employees (UPE) and later in the Campus Faculty Association (CFA). UPE voted to change its name to CFA in 2007. This article is an attempt to reconstruct Belden’s work in … Continue reading
Posted in Academy on Capitalism and Limited Government, In Memoriam, labor, Labor/Economics, Section, union soldarity, University of Illinois, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Tagged Belden Fields, Campus organizing, CFA, In Memoriam, labor organizing, UPE
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In Celebration of My Political Advisor-Turned-Surrogate Father: Belden Fields
In 2025, in my eleventh year serving Champaign-Urbana as state representative, the world seems to be coming apart at the seams. We have a madman in the White House, who is shredding the last remnants of dignity our country had … Continue reading
Posted in African Americans, In Memoriam, Politics, Politics, Section, Voices, Women
Tagged Belden Fields, Illinois state politics, In Memoriam, local politics
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Belden’s French Connection
I met Belden in 1963. We both were residents at the Cité Universitaire Internationale and attended the same seminar on the 1930s at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po). It was the start of a close friendship spanning … Continue reading
Posted in 1968, 1968 Revolt, France, In Memoriam, International, International, Politics, Section, Students
Tagged 1968 revolt, Belden Fields, France, In Memoriam, International, politics, students
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Summer Issue Back Cover
Community Memorial We hope you appreciate this special issue of the Public i remembering our colleague Belden Fields. It was gratifying for us to put it together. The IMC will be hosting a memorial at some point in the near … Continue reading
Posted in IMC, In Memoriam, UCIMC
Tagged back cover, Belden Fields, fourth of July, In Memoriam
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May Issue Front Cover
HANDS OFF! RESIST!
Posted in Democracy, Front Cover, Section
Tagged democracy, front cover, protest, resistance
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