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Outstanding Documents Obtained in Police Brutality Case

Posted on 09/08/2012 by Brian Dolinar

After months of stalling, the city of Champaign has finally released documents about the incident on June 5, 2011 when a 20 year-old African American man, Brandon Ward, was choked in the back of a squad car by white officer … Continue reading →

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Flex-n-Gate Disaster, Just the Latest Chapter in a Toxic Story

Posted on 09/08/2012 by Ricky Baldwin

By Ricky Baldwin When news broke this summer that a toxic cloud of sulfuric acid at a local plant had sent eleven local workers to the hospital, horrific as the story was, many in the area were not all that … Continue reading →

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GEO Holds Rally For Fair Contract

Posted on 09/08/2012 by Public i

On Sept. 20, the Graduate Employees’ Union held a rally outside of Leavis Faculty Center where inside negotiations were taking place over a new contract.

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Champaign Housing Authority Considers Demolishing Third Black Neighborhood

Posted on 09/08/2012 by Brian Dolinar

A protest was held before the board meeting of the Housing Authority of Champaign County (HACC) on Thursday, August 23, 2012 by those questioning plans to demolish Bristol Place, a largely African American neighborhood on the North End in Champaign. … Continue reading →

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My Experiences with Worker-Owned Businesses

Posted on 09/08/2012 by Belden Fields

Walter Matherly       (Bio–After six years working in Africa and Latin America for the International Division of The Borden Company in 1954, Walter Matherly got a graduate degree in Economics from Duke and began a career in economic … 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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Coal Mine Proposed for Vermilion and Champaign County

Posted on 09/08/2012 by Alice Englebretsen

Alice Englebretsen lives in Urbana and has been active in the local environmental and social issues for many years. She is currently Political Chair of the local Prairie Group of the Sierra Club, but is tracking the Sunrise Coal/Bulldog Mine … Continue reading →

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Community Radio Broadcasters and Builders Converged at GRC 2012

Posted on 09/08/2012 by Paul Riismandel

Community radio broadcasters and builders converged at GRC 2012 Originally posted at Radio Survivor on July 31, 2012 by Paul Riismandel   Jennifer Waits and I attended the Grassroots Radio Conference this past weekend in Urbana, IL. These are my … 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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Chicago Teachers Union Forum in Urbana

Posted on 09/08/2012 by Belden Fields

On Saturday, August 25, approximately fifty people attended a forum in support of the struggles of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) against the actions of the mayor and the Board of Education that he appoints.  They are fighting against the … Continue reading →

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MY EXPERIENCE IN CUBA: INSTALLMENT I

Posted on 08/15/2012 by David Johnson

  By DAVID JOHNSON This is part one of a two-part series reflecting on my travels in Cuba IMPRESSIONS ON THE STREET   In many ways it seemed like things have been frozen in time since the 1950s or the 1970s—with the … Continue reading →

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Part Two on the Proposed Keystone XL Pipeline: Environmental Considerations

Posted on 08/15/2012 by admin

By Marilyn Leger After successful careers in such divergent fields as biochemistry & immunology (at UIUC and UT-Austin) and organizational development in corporate America, Marilyn Leger now travels the U.S., Caribbean and Europe by sailboat soaking up history, exploring cultures, … Continue reading →

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New Program for Donations to Illinois Prison Libraries in Makes Progress

Posted on 07/10/2012 by Liz Abraham

The 3 R’s Program (Reading Reduces Recidivism) was established in the 2010 as a direct service to recycle books from peoples’ homes to state prison libraries. Providing books to people in prison appeals as prisoners generally have the time and … Continue reading →

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Poetry from the Experimental Writing Laboratory

Posted on 07/10/2012 by Austin McCann

The Experimental Writing Laboratory is an out-there zone where writers & non-writers are invited to explore the outer limits of language & writing using a variety of rich, challenging, unsettling, and funny experiments. In using these experiments, we invite the … Continue reading →

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UIUC Conference: The Problem of the Twenty-First Century: Race and Racism in and Beyond the United States

Posted on 07/10/2012 by Public i

THE PROBLEM OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: RACE AND RACISM IN AND BEYOND THE UNITED STATES Transnational Studies and Race/Class/Gender Workshop University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign September 7-8, 2012 Keynote Speaker, Howard Winant, Howard Winant is author of Racial Formation in the … Continue reading →

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Odyssey Project Offers Classes on Literature, Philosophy, History and Art

Posted on 07/10/2012 by Public i

Residents in Urbana-Champaign are invited to apply to be part of a unique program offering a free college liberal arts course to adults living on low-incomes, complete with college credit. The Odyssey Project, a program of the Illinois Humanities Council … Continue reading →

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Grassroots Radio Conference Coming to Urbana: Hundreds converging July 26-29 to chart the future of community radio.

Posted on 07/03/2012 by KristinaWho

From July 26-29, the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center will be hosting the Grassroots Radio Conference (GRC), an annual conference celebrating the vibrant and democratic medium of local, community-driven radio. Highlights include a Friday night keynote by New York Times best-selling … Continue reading →

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CAPITALISM IS NOT IN CRISIS

Posted on 06/30/2012 by Michael Brun

Though many suffer, the crash of 2008 was not as system threatening as in 1929. The financial turmoil of the past five years reminds many of the crash of 1929, which led into the Great Depression of the 1930s.  That … Continue reading →

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A Two Part Installment on the Proposed Keystone XL Pipeline Part One: Jobs and Security

Posted on 06/30/2012 by admin

After successful careers in such divergent fields as biochemistry & immunology (at UIUC and UT-Austin) and organizational development in corporate America, Marilyn Leger now travels the U.S., Caribbean and Europe by houseboat soaking up history, exploring cultures, sampling foods (and … Continue reading →

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