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On October 15, Rich Trumka, the Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO spoke to, and answered questions from local AFL-CIO delegates to the Champaign County AFL-CIO. Also present were apprentices from two of the local craft unions. The AFL-CIO had been working … Continue reading →

When Gordon Brown, the current Prime Minister of Great Britain, announced that his government’s response to the financial crisis was to “recapitalize” British banks by buying shares in them, while at the same time extending deposit guarantees, it amounted to … Continue reading →

On October 29th, the Rally for Quality Education brought together various unions, students, campus workers and allies. Over 200 people showed up to display their opposition to increasing tuition, wage cuts and limitations on the freedom of speech. Also being … Continue reading →

With the newly opened Urban Outfitters on Green Street, we are not only inviting yet another huge corporation to suck money out of our community; we are also furthering our town’s gradual corporatization. Urban Outfitters is a unique corporation because … Continue reading →

Forty years ago, in 1968, Project 500 brought a large number of African American students to this campus for the first time. While this was a welcome response to demands that had been make upon the university by campus and … Continue reading →

If you close your eyes and picture “homeless,” what would it look like? Do you see a person? What does this person look like? What is this person wearing? Is the person female or male? What is she/he doing? Some … Continue reading →

ON SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, non-western ways of knowing, learning and living were experienced at a day-long community symposium, In Beauty, It is Restored: Media Activism, Indigenous Women’s Epistemologies, and Scholarship, sponsored by Native American graduate students at UIUC. The symposium … Continue reading →

ON AUGUST 18, 2006, SEVEN young African American lesbians traveled to Greenwich Village in New York City from their homes in Newark for a regular night out. When walking down the street, a male bystander sexually propositioned one of the … Continue reading →

SURVEILLANCE IS AT AN ALL TIME HIGH across the land. In schools, hospitals, stores, theatres, and street intersections, surveillance cameras have become commonplace. The Big Brother we feared in 1968 is now here in 2008, masquerading as homeland security, with … Continue reading →

WHEN THE ABU GHRAIB PICTURES surfaced, showing the systematic torture of detainees by United States military forces, the American public was shocked and outraged. Subsequent exposes detailing the horrific uses of waterboarding and the degrading treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo … Continue reading →

Bruce Nestor of the National Lawyers Guild Called For a Probe Into Police Conduct. Bruce Nestor: “What happened in St. Paul, Minnesota from—really going back to the infiltration and surveillance two years, but from September 1 to September 4, 2008—had … Continue reading →

Convergence Center Being Raided by Denver Police colorado.indymedia.org/node/1042 *Happening right now* The Convergence Center for activist coordination and planning, etc. is about to be raided by the Denver Police Department. Two people have been arrested, another is being detained, reports … Continue reading →

FOR THE LAST DECADE, we have been witnessing a promise of resurgence in political activity, from small youth walk-outs to protests against the global giants—the World Trade Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Renewed anti-war and peace efforts and massive … Continue reading →

In a small claims case local black activist Patrick Thompson filed pro se against his former attorney, Harvey Welch, a judge decided that legal malpractice had been committed and ruled in Thompson’s favor. Thompson says he is donating the $3,000 … Continue reading →

IN NEGOTIATIONS THIS SUMMER, Patrick Thompson and Martel Miller arrived at a settlement in a civil suit against local authorities claiming their civil rights had been violated when eavesdropping charges were leveled against them in 2004 for videotaping the police. … Continue reading →

It was a beautiful day for the fifth annual Unity March on Saturday, October 4, 2008, an event organized by Champaign-Urbana Citizens for Peace and Justice. This year’s march was dedicated to passage of the coming Township referendum on the … Continue reading →

A SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL COMPUTING (SAIC) corporate spokesperson said in the journal, Business 2.0, “We are a stealth company. We’re everywhere, but almost never seen.” Indeed, they were there when pardoned felon Admiral Poindexter began the Total Information Awareness (TIA) … Continue reading →

THIS YEAR’S 4TH OF JULY PARADE was not what I expected. I remember that in the past the parade was for kids. It was mostly about marching bands, community groups, guys in the little cars throwing out candy and stuff … Continue reading →

IT IS OFTEN SAID that Urbana Middle School, as well as Urbana High School, are both quite similar to what some people would call “prison,” because of the tight security measures enforced upon the students. For example, facilitators walk through … Continue reading →

HIGH-SCHOOLS OFTEN ARE TEEMING with young people who, when done with high-school, want to “achieve something big in their lives.” To many, that means joining the armed services. But when should the line be drawn for recruiters who enter our … Continue reading →