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Champaign Labor Day Parade, Monday, Sept 3 |
Current rating: 0 |
by [first-neighbors]?
(No verified email address) |
30 Aug 2001
Modified: 31 Aug 2001 |
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Champaign Labor Day Parade |
Reply-To: first-neighbors (at) yahoogroups.com
To: first-neighbors (at) yahoogroups.com
Subject: [first-neighbors] Fwd: Champaign Labor Day Parade
>> Hi, all. Here, courtesy of Judy Stoll, is information on the
>> upcoming Labor Day Parade. I ask you for two things. First, please do
>> whatever you can to get the word out about this. If you have contacts
>> with local media it would be a big help if you could get in a
>> plug. Second, if you will be in town Monday morning, come out to West
>> Side Park. Put on a some union garb and join us in the parade (it's a
>> short route) or come for the music afterward. Bring family and friends,
>> and hope for good weather. It's taken a lot of work on the part of
>> union folks to bring back this Champaign tradition, and it would be too
>> bad if it were anything but a success.
>> Gregg Homerding
>> President, AFSCME Local 698
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>>WHAT
>>Labor Day Parade, organized by AFL-CIO of Champaign County
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>>WHEN
>>start at 10 a.m. Monday, September 3, and will last about 1 hour
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>>WHERE
>>begin and end at West Side Park in Champaign:
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>>starts on Church in front of West Side Park and will go
>>south on Elm to University,
>>east on University to State,
>>south on State to Healey,
>>east on Healey to Randolph,
>>north on Randolph to Church
>>back to West Side Park.
>>
>>WHO
>>30 units from Organized Labor and the community
>>- Painters, IBEW, five AFSCME locals, Laborers, Teamsters, SEIU, IATSE
>>(stage hands), Carpenters, Plumbers, Roofers, Champaign Police,
>>Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice,
>>- politicians
>>- union vehicles
>>- Champaign fire truck
>>- motorcycles
>>- color guards
>>- floats
>>- Urbana High School Marching Band
>>- Rantoul Township High School Marching Band
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>>Afterwards at West Side Park -- immediately after the parade
>>- performance by the band The Blues Deacons at the fountain
>>- Illinois Power bucket trucks will give free lift rides to kids
>>- free hand size American flags given out
>>
>>QUESTIONS:
>>contact Joanne Wiegel at 367-3826, or Judy Stoll 352-5151.
"I consider it important, indeed urgently necessary, for intellectual workers to get together, both to protect their own economic status and, also, generally speaking, to secure their influence in the political field."
-- Albert Einstein's comments when asked why he became a charter member of the American Federation of Teachers local number 552 at Princeton University in 1938. |
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parade route |
by [first-neighbors]?
(No verified email address) |
Current rating: 0
30 Aug 2001
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To: neighbors <first-neighbors (at) yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [first-neighbors] Labor Day Parade, Monday, Sept. 3
Please spread the word about the Labor Day Parade, Monday, Sept. 3 at 10
a.m. The parade will begin on Church Street in Champaign at West Side Park,
south on Elm,east on University, south on State, east on Healey, north on
Randolph, back west on Church St. to the park.
There will be Illinois Power demonstration trucks and music by the Blues
Deacons in the park after the parade.
First Labor day Parade in 30+ years |
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Wrong Day |
by kayoss
kayoss (nospam) phlem.com (unverified) |
Current rating: 0
30 Aug 2001
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May 1 is Labor day
Sept. 1st is the day used to cover up the real Labor Day
Remember Haymarket! |
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kayoss: |
by JoeHill
(No verified email address) |
Current rating: 0
30 Aug 2001
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So, can I assume you'll be at the parade with a sign saying basically that? ;-)
<
Sept. 1st is the day used to cover up the real Labor Day
Remember Haymarket!>> |
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to clarify |
by JoeHill
(No verified email address) |
Current rating: 0
31 Aug 2001
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I should have been less obtuse in my previous note. There are of course
deep truths regarding Labor Day truly being May 1st. I think that
"Remember Haymarket!" makes a great slogan to carry on a poster in the
parade.
In general, I don't think this is a day to be divisive. Rather, it should
be a time for all working folk to come together and appreciate what they
have in common -- a day for coalition building.
"Every Day Is Labor Day" would be another good poster as would "Organize!" |
