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News :: Peace |
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Local Protests Add to National Call to End War |
by Ricky Baldwin
Email: baldwinricky (nospam) yahoo.com |
09 Jan 2006
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 Area residents opposed to war and Administration lies protested Saturday along with peace advocates in over 140 cities. The activists are calling on Congress to censure, and possibly impeach, President Bush and VP Cheney. (Photos by Jan Kruse) |
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News :: Latin America |
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Legendary Zapatista Leader Comandanta Ramona Has Died |
by Andrew Kennis
Email: andrew (nospam) indymedia.org |
07 Jan 2006
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She Struggled with Cancer for Ten Years; “Other Campaign” Temporarily Suspended for Her Funeral
After a decade-long bout with cancer of the kidney, Zapatista leader Comandanta Ramona died early yesterday morning. Choking back tears and with a wavering voice, Subcomandante Marcos made the public announcement of Ramona’s death in the midst of the Chiapas segment of the nationwide six month Zapatista led “Other Campaign.” |
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News :: Globalization : Latin America : Miscellaneous |
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Zapatista "Other Campaign" starts series of town-hall like meetings in San Cristobal . . . |
by Andrew Kennis
Email: andrew (nospam) indymedia.org |
06 Jan 2006
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 The Zapatistas began yesterday the first of a series of town-hall like meetings that will comprise the bulk of a six-month nationwide caravan dubbed as the “Other Campaign.” The campaign will touch every state in Mexico and aspires to form a wide-ranging non-electoral and anti-capitalist alliance that can be a powerful enough of a force to implement a new constitution for Mexico. |
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News :: Labor |
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Building Trades picket non-union hotel construction |
by Ricky Baldwin
Email: baldwinricky (nospam) yahoo.com |
28 Dec 2005
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 Building and construction trades union members picket non-union work site at the corner of Neil and Kirby in Champaign. Horve Builders, they say, are the construction managers and are using all non-union labor. Hence the rat. |
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News :: Civil & Human Rights : Crime & Police : Prisons : UCIMC |
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Books to Prisoners Announces Alternative Holiday Gift Program |
by Jay Schubert
Email: jay.schubert (nospam) gmail.com |
09 Dec 2005
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 Are you looking for a meaningful gift to give your friends and family this holiday season?
Why not consider buying a book to send to an inmate in an Illinois prison or jail in honor of your loved one? Urbana Champaign Books to Prisoners will use your donation to buy books to add to the Champaign County Jail Library or to send to an inmate in an Illinois prison.
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News :: Arts : Media : UCIMC |
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Urbana-Champaign IMC: Indymedia as Social Movement |
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by Amy Dalton, Portland and Philly IMCs |
04 Dec 2005
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 The Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center recently moved into their new home -- in Urbana's historic downtown post office. The opening, which featured the "barnraising" of a new low power FM radio station located in the building, highlighted the eclectic and engaged organizing tactics of this highly-successful IMC.
The significance of their new home is not lost on the UC-IMC collective members, who are brimming with ideas on how to re-invent this natural human gathering point by and for their community. The front section of the structure will remain a post office, as it was before, so neighbors walking in will have a similar experience as in the past -- with one significant difference: where one wall of mailboxes used to be is now the newly-constructed studio window of the new low power FM radio station -- WRFU, Radio Free Urbana.
WRFU is just one of UC-IMC's projects that the new building will enable to come to fruition. The Independent Media Center in Urbana-Champaign has embraced a broad definition of "media" and over the past five years has given birth to a loose network of interdependent, overlapping projects -- from art collectives to a program that sends books to prisoners; from an innovative community wireless initiative to multiple ad-hoc advocacy efforts arising in response to stories that IMC "citizen journalists" broke. |
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Grease, The Cheap and Satisfying Way to Go |
by Darrin Drda
Email: d_drda (nospam) hotmail.com |
29 Nov 2005
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 Alas, mobility comes at a very high price. But what if someone told you that it’s possible to run your car on a renewable resource that produces no environmentally destructive emissions, doesn’t fuel wars, and costs virtually nothing? |
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News :: Peace |
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Anti-War Demonstrators Peacefully Confront Members of St. John’s Lutheran Church Over Iraq War During ‘Christian Season of Peace On Earth’ |
by Kimberlie Kranich
Email: kakranich (nospam) yahoo.com |
27 Nov 2005
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Champaign, IL. Eight members of the Champaign-Urbana based Anti-War, Anti-Racism Effort (AWARE) stood Sunday morning on the sidewalk at the entrance of St. John’s Lutheran Church in Champaign with signs that included the messages “Will Christians Stand For Peace?” “Choose Life, End War,” “Is Torture A Christian Value?” and “Missouri Synod Lutherans For Life Say No to War,” while attempting to distribute literature and a letter to church leaders asking them to take a stand against the war in Iraq and bring US troops home. About half a dozen members of St. John’s Lutheran church spoke to AWARE members. Others smiled and took their literature, some shook their heads and refused their literature and still others avoided making eye contact. This is the first in a series of planned Sunday church actions by AWARE between now and Christmas. |
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Announcement :: Protest Activity |
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Local Counter Recruitment Event |
by Cotton/Kruse
Email: jandurl (nospam) insightbb.com |
22 Nov 2005
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 Just after Thanksgiving, the Army National Guard has plans to recruit
Illinois high school football players, their friends, family members
and fans near Memorial Stadium. The AWARE counter-recruitment working
group will be there with signs and flyers to provide a counterweight
to that effort. Join us anytime (for as long or as little as you like)
between the hours of noon and 4PM on the Friday and Saturday after
Thanksgiving as we demonstrate with flyers and posters near an actual
military recruitment event. We especially welcome and encourage
veterans to attend. |
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News :: Civil & Human Rights |
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Oppose Bush's third occupation |
by Ricky Baldwin
Email: baldwinricky (nospam) yahoo.com |
16 Nov 2005
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Ever since a US-backed coup in 2004 overthrew the elected government in Haiti for the second time, violence and repression have been rampant there. Grassoots Haitian activists are calling for international solidarity, and a new local group is forming to help. |
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