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News :: Urban Development |
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New Walmart To Spark Sprawl On Urbana's East Side |
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by ML |
31 Dec 2003
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According to a report in today's (31 Dec. 2003) Champaign News-Gazette, Walmart is confirmed as the anchor store in a vast new development in a cornfield at the Urbana city limits.
The News-Gazette confirmed "one of those worst-kept secrets" in Champaign County by frontpaging the story today (31 Dec. 2003), saying that Walmart will construct its third store in the metropolitan area in the cornfields at Urbana's rural eastern edge. Left unmentioned in the N-G story was the character of this potential Urbana business, a mega-corp recently implicated in immigration-law-violations, as well as numerous charges of unfair and exploitative labor practices.
Bypassing Urbana's blighted, but high traffic count, Sunnycrest shopping area on South Philo Road, a development plat has been submitted to city officials detailing SpraWlmart's 24-acre store plan. SpraWlmart's new store will be part of a larger, 74-acre scheme to pave rural areas, instead of recycling neighborhoods and prior city infrastructure improvements by redeveloping Sunnycrest. |
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Getting A Vote |
by Meg Miner
Email: blue2 (nospam) net66.com |
28 Dec 2003
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State Senator Emil Jones refuses to call a vote on SB101. What kind of democracy exists when we don't vote on things until we know they will go our way?
By now you have probably heard about the Massachusetts' court decision stating that the MA government discriminates against gay people by denying them access to the same benefits heterosexual people have through marriage. What you may not have heard is how this ruling affected every person in Illinois.
On November 19th, 2003 the mere threat of voter backlash in November 2004 destroyed the chances of progress on an equal protection bill when Senate President Emil Jones, Jr. refused to hold a vote with on SB101, a bill that will add the words "sexual orientation" to the Illinois Human Rights Act. |
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News :: Health |
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USDA And Beef Industry Downplay Discovery Of Mad Cow Disease In US Beef Supply |
by Benjamin Grosser
Email: grosser (nospam) uiuc.edu |
24 Dec 2003
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Despite assurances from the USDA that they think beef is safe to eat, there may be substantial risks to beef consumers throughout the world. |
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News :: Elections & Legislation |
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Prairie Greens Step Towards Filing Suit Against Champaign County Clerk |
by Ken Urban
Email: kenurban (nospam) kenurban.com |
23 Dec 2003
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Four members of the Prairie Green Party of East Central Illinois are making preparations to file suit for ballot placement against the Champaign County Clerk. The clerk refused to accept the petitions to place the candidates on the ballot for the March 16 primary. |
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News :: Media |
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FCC Issues Construction Permit For New Low Power Radio Station On 104.5 FM To Socialist Forum |
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by ML |
22 Dec 2003
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News was received today that the FCC granted a Construction Permit to Socialist Forum on Dec. 19 to construct a Low Power FM station on 104.5 Mhz in Urbana. |
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News :: Peace |
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Vehicular Assault, Police Belligerence Back At P4P |
by Ricky Baldwin
Email: baldwinricky (nospam) yahoo.com |
08 Dec 2003
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Once more, peaceful protesters at AWARE's Prospect for Peace demonstration faced an angry motorist driving along the sidewalk and a hothead cop with a tin ear for the US Constitution. |
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Announcement :: Government Secrecy |
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Support The Resistance |
by Diedra Cobb
Email: underfoe (nospam) hotmail.com |
14 Nov 2003
Modified: 08 Dec 2003 |
Support for a local female whose conscientious objector case was recently denied.
For those of you who don't know, yesterday morning (13 NOV 03) I, Diedra Cobb, a 21yr old female from Urbana, IL, found out that my conscientious objector case was denied. I have been struggling through this case since Jan. 03, living in barracks in which I currently reside at Aberdeen Proving Ground in MD. This denial of my case means that I can now be called upon to go to Iraq, and that I will be starting the process of filing a writ of habeus corpus case at the federal court level to appeal this decision. The problem is that in these times of militaristic machismo coupled with a great shortage for the type of lengthy war that we are waging, they need people. If they lose too many people, they will have to reinstate the draft and this is a move that would kill president Bush's election campaign in the upcoming election. So I'm in a situation where I presented a strong case (from what I've been told the orgs that have aided me), however, since the final decision is left up to a military committee called The Conscientious Objector Review Board, which is located at the Headquarters of the Dept. of the Army, it really doesn't matter what kind of case I present, they can deny it and make up any number of reasons why they don't think I'm sincere enough to be granted CO status. This is why my only option now is to make noise and let them know that people know about this and that this cannot and will not be swept under a carpet as they are so used to having the privilege of doing. |
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News :: Crime & Police |
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Missing Teenager In Urbana Illinois |
by M Griffin
Email: MGriffin (nospam) Mchsi.com |
07 Dec 2003
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 Rachael Sandy was last seen on 12-01-03 leaving her home on Kerr Ave in Urbana to catch the bus on her way to the Urbana High School. She never showed up at school and she has not been located. Please notify the Champaign County Sheriff's office if you have any information |
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News :: Labor |
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GEO Pickets University Of Illinois Over Inadequate Health Care Offer |
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by ML |
03 Dec 2003
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World-class institution makes health care benefit package offer described as "junior-college level."
Approximately 150 Graduate Employees' Organization members and supporters marched in an informational picket outside Grainger Library, site of ongoing but nearly stalled contract negotiations with the University of Illinois, after hearing details of the University's initial health care benefits package offer. |
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News :: Civil & Human Rights |
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Miami Police Arrest At Least 5 Independent Journalists |
by Sascha Meinrath
Email: sascha (nospam) ucimc.org |
21 Nov 2003
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Five independent journalists (including at least three IMC reporters) are in jail tonight after they were arrested by Miami police while they were covering the FTAA protests.
Instructions for how you can help get them out are below: |
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