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Police Violence in Champaign: City Manager Holds a Not Very Newsy Press Conference

Posted on 12/19/2011 by Belden Fields

    Belden Fields   After the Sunday November 20 issue of the News-Gazette published a front page article on excessive violence against a black youth by the Champaign police near campus on June 5, Champaign City Manager Steve Carter … Continue reading →

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Community Members, City Leaders Search for Answers in June 5 Arrest

Posted on 12/19/2011 by Belden Fields

Jerehme Bamberger   A squad car video of a confrontation between a Champaign city police officer and a local African American youth has raised serious concerns about the relationship between the CPD and high-ranking city officials in the last week.  … Continue reading →

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Heather Ault: Visualizing 4000 Years of Choice

Posted on 11/28/2011 by Marya Burke

Adapted from Sunday 20 November 2011 Interview By Eleanor J. Bader published online in  On The Issues Magazine | Op-Ed Heather Ault holds a Master of Fine Arts and her current position is as a graphic designer at the Office of Online … Continue reading →

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The US Today: Economic Stagnation, Political Paralysis

Posted on 11/10/2011 by Mark Weisbrot

Mark Weisbrot   First published in the Guardian guardian.co.uk, Friday 7 October 2011   Given mass unemployment and stimulus spending blocked in Washington, no wonder people are taking to the streets The monthly employment report for September, released Friday, shows … Continue reading →

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Black Youth Beaten by Champaign Police

Posted on 11/01/2011 by Brian Dolinar

It has been two years since Kiwane Carrington was killed by a Champaign police officer, but 18-year-old black youth, Calvin Miller, is still afraid of the police. So when a Champaign cop attempted to pull him over for no apparent … Continue reading →

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GEO Victory! Arbitrator Rules in Favor of Tuition Waivers

Posted on 11/01/2011 by Rodrigo Pacheco-McEvoy

Tuition waivers have long been an important issue for graduate employees at the University of Illinois. As such, the recent arbitration victory for the Graduate Employees Organization (GEO) against the UIUC administration marks the beginning of another long battle regarding … Continue reading →

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Acceptance Speech by Danielle Chynoweth for Woman of the Year Award 2011

Posted on 11/01/2011 by Danielle Chynoweth

On October 13, 2011, UC-IMC co-founder Danielle Chynoweth was presented with the Woman of the Year Award at an event organized by the News-Gazette. To a packed room of more than 300 people, she gave the speech that appears below. … Continue reading →

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Errata to City Court Article

Posted on 11/01/2011 by Belden Fields

I would like to correct two errors of fact that I made in an article on Champaign’s City Court in the November 2010 issue of the Public i  First, I stated that the “court/expense fee,” the fee that a guilty … Continue reading →

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Al Jazeera Reporter Visits UCIMC

Posted on 11/01/2011 by Public i

Franc Contreras, a reporter for Al Jazeera based in Mexico City stopped by the IMC when he was in town. He gave a talk on campus about the drug war in Mexico sponsored by La Casa, the Department for Dept. … Continue reading →

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Photos from Troy Davis Rally

Posted on 11/01/2011 by Public i

These photos were taken at a rally for Troy Davis in front of the alma mater on September 21, 2011 the day he was executed in Georgia.  Credit: Mary Gen Davies.  

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“Secure Communities” Program Adopted by Sheriff Wreaking Havoc in Local Immigrant Community

Posted on 11/01/2011 by Brian Dolinar

The “Secure Communities” program being adopted in local counties across the United States has already caused much controversy in its short history. The implementation of Secure Communities by Champaign County Sheriff Dan Walsh has brought great distraught to several families … Continue reading →

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Hard Up for Work

Posted on 10/23/2011 by Ricky Baldwin

By Ricky Baldwin Mary is laid off from her job in food service at the University of Illinois four times a year for a total of four and a half months. During this time, she does not count as unemployed. … Continue reading →

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Credit as a Cover for Cutbacks Over the Past Thirty Years

Posted on 10/20/2011 by Michael Brun

By Michael Brün Two facts are important for understanding our current economic situation and how we got here. The first is that the finance industry has grown from comprising less than one tenth of our economy in the 80s to … Continue reading →

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Consumer Debt’s Central Role in Finance-led Capitalism and Class Warfare-An Organizing Opportunity

Posted on 10/18/2011 by David Green

“For at least five thousand years, popular movements have tended to center on struggles over debt—this was true long before capitalism even existed. There is a reason for this. Debt is the most efficient means ever created to take relations … Continue reading →

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What Has 9/11 Done to the United States?

Posted on 10/02/2011 by Belden Fields

In the October 2001 issue of the Public i, I examined elements of US policy that might have contributed to the 9/11 attack terrorist act that violated the human rights of the people killed and injured. Here I want to … 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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Emails Leaked at IMC Web Site Detailing the Internal Struggles of the Champaign Police Department

Posted on 10/02/2011 by Brian Dolinar

Operating for more than a decade, the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center website has become known as a local source for exposing police misconduct. For perhaps the first time at any IMC site, somebody from behind the “blue line” leaked information … Continue reading →

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Ironworkers at Labor Day Parade Pose for a Photo with the Latest Public i

Posted on 10/02/2011 by Brian Dolinar
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Mother Jones Spotted at Labor Day Parade

Posted on 10/02/2011 by Brian Dolinar

Many were at the Labor Day Parade in Urbana, Illinois, including Germaine Light who dressed up as Mother Jones and marched with the local chapter of Jobs With Justice.

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Champaign-Urbana to Host International Restorative Justice Learning Event

Posted on 10/02/2011 by Mikhail Lyubansky

Seventeen years ago, Dominic Barter walked into a shantytown near his home in Rio de Janeiro with a question – what happens when I walk toward conflict, rather than away from it? Could it be that conflict becomes violent when … Continue reading →

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