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Category Archives: Section
How Privatization Destroyed Award-Winning Suicide Prevention Program in Champaign County Jail
Several years ago, while working at our local Books to Prisoners, I met a volunteer who had formerly worked as a mental health counselor in the local jail. This was just after there had been three jail suicides within a … Continue reading
Shooting the Messenger: Reflections on the Court Martial of Whistle Blower PFC Bradley Manning
I spent five days in and around Fort Meade military base in Maryland, attending the first two days of the court martial of the whistleblower, Bradley Manning. The trial started on June 3rd, after he had already spent three years … Continue reading
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Racism in the Land of Lincoln
From: Jim Allen <jimallen@consolidated.net> Sent: 06/18/13 10:59 PM To: dibendahl@mail.com Subject: 13th Congressional District reply Rodney Davis will win and the love child of the D.N.C. will be back in Shitcago by May of 2014 working for some law firm … Continue reading
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GMOs Are Not the Answer
This past Fourth of July, a nationwide coalition of concerned mothers and their supporters joined the fight for food freedom. Mothers across the country who have been struggling with the increase in food-related allergies, autism and other health problems that … Continue reading
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Update from Food and Water Watch
Food and Water Watch (FWW) is a national organization fighting for clean water issues ranging from contamination from hydraulic fracturing (fracking), to pollution caused by factory farms (CAFOs), to the bottled water industry. Our insidious and dangerous food system, which … Continue reading
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CU Immigration Forum Steps Up Push for Comprehensive Immigration Reform
(Compiled from material provided by CU Immigration Forum) Champaign-Urbana activists and other supporters of immigrants and a diverse and stable community have been working on a number of new initiatives to pressure legislators to make immigration reform a reality. During … Continue reading
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What is a nüz/böx?
What is a nüz/böx? First, it’s spelled with an X, a Z, two ümlaüts and a slash/. Even the name calls your attention. The pronunciation of nüz/böx is intentionally ambiguous. How do you pronounce it? Pronunciation, like many aspects of … Continue reading
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Summer Classes at Common Ground’s Flatlander Classroom
Visit Urban Bees! Led by Maggie Wachter $10 owners/$15 non-owners Saturday, July 27th, 1-3pm Min 4/Max 12 Local beekeeper Maggie Wachter will take you on a thrilling journey in her teaching apiary located just a few blocks from the Common … Continue reading
Posted in Community Forum, Education, Environment, Food, Uncategorized
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The New Civil Rights Campaign-Health Care is a Human Right!
DEMOCRACY AND JUSTICE DENIED In May of 2009 the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, chaired by Democratic Montana Senator Max Baucus, pressured by President Barack Obama, held hearings about healthcare reform in the U.S. Over the course of several weeks, only … Continue reading
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Trivializing the Not-So-Trivial: the News-Gazette and Mr. Khan
In its editorial of April 23, the News-Gazette took members of the U of I Senate to task. These members had challenged the decision to award an honorary degree to Mr. Shahid Khan. Mr. Khan, an engineering graduate of the … Continue reading
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Fight to Stop New Jail Coming to a Head
I’ve been involved in the No New Jails in Champaign County campaign for over a year. Likely sometime in June or July our efforts will come to a head. The County Board likely will take a vote on whether to … Continue reading
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A Poem by T’Aari D. Hunter, “ME”
ME by: T’Ari D. Hunter They said I wasn’t Pretty, They Lied. To be like them, I tried. But being like them wasn’t for me. Being like them, I didn’t feel pretty. I felt ashamed, Like I was a follower. … Continue reading
Posted in African Americans, Arts, Voices of Color, Women
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Newspoem by William Gillespie
Albatross: Newspoem May 2013 we don’t know how we don’t know you demapped: ignorance is scribbled across an ancient terrain by plutocrats rethinktanking ancient cartographies a two hundred year civilization rejects the sovereignty of a six thousand year one remember … Continue reading
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Poetry by Robin Arbiter
Adoption Stories By Robin Arbiter One mother is still convinced, And one is still assured, And I must deal with history, The dawn of which was painful, The end of which approaches. In the face of stories More certain than … Continue reading
Who’s the Bigger Scapegoat in Europe, Roma or Jew?
On October 24 of last year, the Memorial to the Sinti and Roma of Europe Murdered under the National Socialist Regime was unveiled and dedicated in Berlin, Germany, with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Joachim Gauck in attendance. Almost … Continue reading
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Jason Collins
“I’m a 34 year old NBA center. I’m black. And I’m gay.” With these simple words, Jason Collins made history as the first actively playing out athlete in the NBA, NHL, MLB or NFL. The overwhelming reaction to Collins’ important … Continue reading
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C-U Marches for Immigration Reform
(Compiled from C-U Immigration Forum materials) On Wednesday, April 10th, over 200 students and community members braved steady rain and cold to support comprehensive immigration reform (CIR). Families, students, community and church leaders marched in solidarity from the University Y … Continue reading
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Mobilization in Al Ma’sarah: “We Will Keep Coming Back”
“You must refuse to be in the army. Look into my eyes, we are all human,” declared Mahmoud Zwahre, popular committee leader in the West Bank Bethlehem district village of Al Ma’sarah, addressing dozens of M4 toting Israeli soldiers. “We … Continue reading
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U.S. Seeks to Get Rid of Left Governments in Latin America
By Mark Weisbrot This article was published in Folha de São Paulo, Brazil’s largest circulation newspaper, on April 20, 2013. Recent events indicate that the Obama administration has stepped up its strategy of “regime change” against the left-of-center governments in Latin America, … Continue reading
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Frances Friedman’s Passing; A Deep Loss to This Community
On February 28, this community lost a woman who made enormous contributions to the quality of life of so many in Champaign-Urbana. Originally from Chicago’s West Side, Frances came to Champaign-Urbana and graduated in nursing from Mercy Hospital School of … Continue reading
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