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Announcement :: Protest Activity |
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4th of JULY Parade******Mission Accomplished******* |
by jan kruse
Email: jandurl (nospam) insightbb.com |
04 Jul 2006
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 AWARE marches in the *Freedom Celebration* July 4th Parade!
This year the parade theme was: "Broadcasting our Freedoms"!
The parade was a good opportunity to let the public know
that township residents in Urbana/Champaign will be able
to vote November 7 to *Bring the Troops home Now*!
And to *Impeach Bush/Cheney*!
Our theme was defending the Constitution against the White House! |
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News :: Civil & Human Rights |
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A Call for Witnesses - Prevent Courtroom Lynching in Champaign County |
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by Local Yocal |
24 Jun 2006
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The malicious re-proscecution of Patrick Thompson, one of the "Cop Watch" videographers from 2004, reconvenes this week. COME WITNESS CHAMPAIGN COUNTY IN/JUSTICE THIS WEDNESDAY, July 5th at 9 AM in Courtroom A. Community Courtwatch is calling all community members to help witness this trial. We are concerned the jury will, once again, be all white and from rural "sundown towns." Patrick is facing prison time if found guilty of charges with NO EVIDENCE, NO WITNESSES, NO INVESTIGATION. To have true justice, we must not tolerate corruption in our justice system. |
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News :: Labor |
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AFSCME 698 Thursday weekly informational pickets continue |
by Paul Kotheimer
Email: herringb (nospam) prairienet.org |
22 Jun 2006
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AFSCME 698 held its third informational picket this afternoon. The next informational picket will be held at 11:30AM on Thursday, June 29, at the UIUC Main Library, Armory and Wright Streets in Urbana.
Well over 100 participants marched in the third AFSCME 698 informational picket this afternoon. Members of American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees local 698 were joined on the picket line by members of the United Steelworkers, fellow AFSCME workers from the UIUC, and by members of the GEO, the AAP, and Jobs With Justice. |
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Announcement :: Protest Activity |
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Boycott Firehaus! |
by Martin Smith
Email: send2smith (nospam) yahoo.com |
06 Jun 2006
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Boycott Firehaus!
Bar/Restaurant condones harassment of anti-war customer by drunken bar patron.
...A drunken bar patron cornered me and began hurling epithets at me for wearing a tshirt in opposition to the war, following me to my table. When I reported the bar patron's conduct to the manager, I was simply told that this customer was a regular and that there was nothing the bar was willing to do. The hostile and threatening actions by the bar patron would not have been considered appropriate behavior under any other circumstance; however, I believe that because the patron was directing his epithets at me for wearing an anti-war tshirt, the manager consented and refused to remove the drunken patron from the bar. |
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News :: Labor : Political-Economy |
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Boilermakers 484 Lockout is Over! |
by Darrin Drda
Email: d_drda (nospam) hotmail.com |
25 May 2006
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Just days after a local benefit concert for locked-out workers in Meredosia, IL, members of Boilermakers Local 484 have ratified a labor contract. The lock-out is over. |
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Announcement :: Drugs : Elections & Legislation : Environment : Health : Labor |
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Champaign City Council voted 5-4 to Go Smokefree |
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by IMCista |
16 May 2006
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Champaign City Council voted 5-4 to go smoke-free in restaurants, bars, and a number of public places. The ordinance goes into effect August 1st, 2006 and is dependent on Urbana doing the same. Urbana will very likely vote to go smoke-free this Monday, May 22nd. Urbana has already said it will go smoke-free if Champaign does.
Voting yes in Champaign: Giraldo Rosales (who led the charge), Gina Jackson, Marci Dobbs, Tom Bruno, Ken Pirok (the swing vote). Voting no: Kathy Ennen, Mike LaDue, Vic McIntosh, Mayor Schweighart. Note: everyone but Kathy who voted "no" is a smoker. |
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News :: Environment |
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Halliburton Solves Global Warming |
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by wayward |
10 May 2006
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 Halliburton representatives Fred Wolf and Northrup Goody demonstrate SurvivaBalls at Lexis-Nexis Catastrophic Loss conference. The SurvivaBall will protect managers from natural disasters using a mechanism similar to slime molds formed by amoebas. |
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News :: Media |
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Champaign Votes Yes by 5 to 3 to Pursue a New Community TV Station |
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by Citizen Reporter |
10 May 2006
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Champaign Council voted 5-3 in favor or supporting the pursuit of a community operated, public access Community TV Station in the next franchise agreement. That franchise process begins with Insight Communications this year and would likely run for 15-20 years.
The vote was expected to fail, but over 50 supporters of public access packed council chambers and this appeared to sway the outcome. In addition, presenters from the C-U Telecommunications Commission and Public Access Study group urged council members not to vote public access down before the franchise negotiation process gets started.
A majority of council members appeared to support the concept of the Community TV station, but differed over how to fund it. This report provides details of the meeting as well as transcript-like notes from public input and each councilmember's statements. |
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News :: Media |
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Champaign City Staff Aims to Torpedo New Public Access TV Channel |
by Randall Cotton
Email: recotton (nospam) earthlink.net |
07 May 2006
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This Tuesday, May 9th at 7PM, the Champaign City Council will consider the future of Public Access Cable TV in our community. And although there has been considerable community support building over the past two years for the creation of a new, dedicated Public Access Cable TV channel, the Champaign city administration is mounting a surprise 11th-hour effort to dissuade the Champaign City Council from providing any support for Public Access Cable TV for perhaps the next 15 years. Instead, they are proposing a substantial funding increase to equip and staff the government-only cable channel they already run, which has no public access. A strong public turnout will be necessary at Tuesday's meeting in order to ensure community efforts to establish a new Public Access TV channel are not dashed by Champaign's city staff. |
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