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HPV: Prevention of Cervical Cancer Through Vaccination

Posted on 07/25/2006 by Suzanne Trupin

   has been hailed by gynecologists as the most significant breakthrough in Women’s Health of the century. The first HPV Vaccine has been approved by the FDA. HPV is a DNA virus that infects skin and mucosal tissues … Continue reading →

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Support our Troops! Provide Healthcare When They Get Home

Posted on 06/25/2006 by Laura Stengrim

In case you haven’t been keeping track, ately, the latest Department of Defense figures indicate that the U.S. is quickly approaching 2,500 soldier deaths and 18,000 casualties in Iraq. While anti-war activists have been vigilant about exposing the lies that … Continue reading →

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Peoria Citizens Score Public Health Victory –And Call for Our Help

Posted on 06/25/2006 by Lisa Offut

When my family moved to Peoria from Urbana more than 8 years ago, we suffered some culture shock. We’d left a fairly progressive community and a wide circle of activist friends to move to a city where the culture was … Continue reading →

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Testimony to the Adequate Health Care Task Force

Posted on 06/25/2006 by David Gill

I had the opportunity to address Illinois’ Ade – quate Health Care Task Force on February 15, 2006, when they visited the 15th Congres – sional District. My remarks were received with boisterous applause. Here’s the text of my testimony: … Continue reading →

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Healthcare Justice for Illinois

Posted on 06/25/2006 by Ken Powell

After over a decade in which it was considered a third rail of politics, and despite all the lobbying on the part of insurance and pharmaceutical industries, health care reform is again making political waves as we realize that our … Continue reading →

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Five Deaths at County Jail

Posted on 06/25/2006 by Brian Dolinar

With the death of Quentin Larry on May 28, now five inmates have died in the Champaign County Jail over a three year period. Individuals should not die in police custody – even if they are drug addicts. Citizens must … Continue reading →

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Waking Up to the Reality of Healthcare in Champaign County

Posted on 06/25/2006 by Marcia Zumbahlen

Over the last 22 years, that I have lived, worked, and attended school in Champaign C o u n t y, I have used nearly every possible method to cover health care costs for my daughter and myself: school insurance, … Continue reading →

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Impressions of Northern Vietnam

Posted on 06/25/2005 by Belden Fields

In the fall of 2001, been invited to give a lecture on human rights in Thailand. I was eager to see Thailand where I had friends, but I also wanted to use the occasion to visit Vietnam. The latter country … Continue reading →

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Sensitivity Test: A Play

Posted on 06/25/2005 by Susan Parenti

In one scene (shortened from the original four scenes for the Public i) Original cast: Walter Matherly, Mark Enslin Original Performance: April 2005 House T h e a t e r, Urbana, Illinois Mark and Walter, sitting on chairs, with … Continue reading →

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The Challenges of Media Reform

Posted on 06/25/2005 by Laura Stengrim

More than 2,500 people converged in downtown St. Louis in mid-May for an historic meeting of citizens, journalists, activists, scholars, artists, policymakers, and media producers, all dedicated to solving a crisis that threatens the roots of American democracy: the media. … Continue reading →

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It’s Time to Reclaim the Media

Posted on 06/25/2005 by Durl Kruse

about the current state of our local and national broadcast media as I am? I hope so, because our democracy is facing a media crisis of untold proportions that is threatening its very vibrancy and vitality. On May 13-15, I, … Continue reading →

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Looking for Martha: The Mess Behind Bars

Posted on 06/25/2005 by Daniel Larson

The Alderson Federal Prison Camp i n West Vi rginia looks to have solved the problemthat has beset modern penal policy for hundreds of years: recidivism. Its progressive plan of image rehabilitation has now set free a series of media … Continue reading →

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Zine Reviews: “Footloose” and “go by bicycle”

Posted on 11/25/2004 by Adam

Two zines recently made their way to the IMC that I thought would be perfect to review together, because both take different approaches to the subject of travel. “Footloose,” a locally-produced zine by Sarah Lazare, is a travel journal that … Continue reading →

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Indymedia Siezure Search

Posted on 11/25/2004 by Scott Edwards

On October 4, 2004, Rackspace, a web-hosting provider based in San Antonio, was issued a secret court order, apparently in accordance with the International Mutual Legal Assistance Tr e a t y, that required them to surrender two servers. The … Continue reading →

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Campaign for Access to Emergency Contraception

Posted on 11/25/2004 by Brooke Anderson

Om March 3, 1973, , the U.S. Congress passed the Comstock Act, criminalizing the publication, distribution, and possession of information about contraception. In the intervening century, everyday women fought hard for their birth control rights. They marched and picketed, were … Continue reading →

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Muzzing Al-Jazeera in Iraq

Posted on 10/25/2004 by Wendy Edwards

Al-Jazeera, sometimes called “the BBC of the Middle East,” was launched in November 1996 and offered the Arab world an alternative to government-controlled news stations. The network’s attempt to cover multiple viewpoints has drawn criticism from a variety of sources. … Continue reading →

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Little ‘Gitmo’: Activists Held in Captivity during the Republican National Convention

Posted on 10/25/2004 by Public i

Media Center were arrested in a mass round-up of peaceful demonstrators just one block from the site of the former World Trade Center in New York City. The arrest led to a two and a half day ordeal for the … Continue reading →

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From Profile to Prison: Criminalization of a Community

Posted on 10/25/2004 by Brian Dolinar

While news of police mistreatment in African-American communities is nothing new in the post-Rodney King era, what is new is the nation-wide organizing against it. From Los Angeles to New York, Chicago to Champaign—grass roots organizations have come together to … Continue reading →

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Food Not Bombs Serve Up Local Justice

Posted on 10/25/2004 by Scott Edwards

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condi – tion of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can … Continue reading →

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Really Untold News: The Recent Global Assault on Independent Media

Posted on 10/25/2004 by Scott Edwards

“Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.” (Napoleon) “ We are not afraid to entrust the American peo – ple with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and com – petitive values. For a nation … Continue reading →

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