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Comment by Joe Balkis on March 22, 2012 at 4:52

Indiana just passed the first Right to Work legislation of any state in a decade and the first ever in America’s rustbelt.

What does this mean for workers in Indiana and for the rest of us?

Join us for a valuable and urgent class and discussion focused on Right to Work and its impact on workers and unions.

This class will explore:

·      What is Right to Work?

·      How can unions maintain and mobilize their membership?

·      How do unions talk to members, the community, and the media?

·      What does Right to Work mean for the future of collective bargaining?

 

Thursday, April 19, 2012 from 11:00 am – 2:00 pm

Hawthorn Suites Conference Center

101 Trade Center Drive, Champaign, IL

 

Flyer, including registration form, is attached.

 

Martha Glotzhober

Office Manager

Labor Education Program

School of Labor & Employment Relations

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

504 East Armory Avenue, #223

Champaign, IL 61820

Phone: 217-333-0980

Fax: 217-244-4091

Email: memoore1@illinois.edu

Comment by Joe Balkis on March 22, 2012 at 4:51

Three weeks ago, 17-year old Trayvon Martin was gunned down by self-appointed neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman. Despite Zimmerman admitting to following, confronting, and killing Trayvon, he has yet to be arrested or charged with any crime.¹

Just minutes before Trayvon was killed, Zimmerman had called police stating that Trayvon looked "suspicious." Trayvon was unarmed and walking back to his father's home in Sanford, Florida when Zimmerman accosted him.

At the crime scene, Sanford police botched their questioning of Zimmerman, refused to take the full statements of witnesses, and pressured neighbors to side with the shooter's claim of self-defense.² As it turns out, Sanford's police department has a history of failing to hold perpetrators accountable for violent acts against Black victims, and the police misconduct in Trayvon's case exemplifies the department's systemic mishandling of such investigations.³ And now, the State Attorney's office has rubber-stamped the Sanford police's non-investigation, claiming that there is not enough evidence to support even a manslaughter conviction.⁴

Trayvon's family and hundreds of thousands of people around the country are demanding justice.⁵ Please join us in calling on the Department of Justice to take over the case, arrest Trayvon's killer, and launch an independent investigation into the Sanford police department's unwillingness to protect Trayvon's civil rights. It takes just a moment:

http://act.colorofchange.org/sign/Trayvon

 

Comment by Joe Balkis on March 22, 2012 at 4:47

, Please take action now to support this "Sage Grouse Recovery Alternative." Falling sage grouse populations are a symptom of the declining health of the "sagebrush sea," which is under attack by oil and gas development, livestock grazing and other industrial activities that fragment and degrade the birds' habitat. Aboveground power lines, wind turbines and other tall structures also increase the risk of predation and may cause sage grouse to abandon key habitat. Please, insist the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service protect the habitats and populations needed for sage grouse to thrive. Click here to find out more and take action. . .

Comment by Joe Balkis on March 22, 2012 at 4:40

Thursday, March 22 5:00pm - 8:00pm  Schmitt Academic Center (SAC) Room 154 2320 N. Kenmore, DePaul University

Thursday, March 22:  Conference with Diplomats of the ALBA Nations                                                                                                           For more information: ven.chicago@gmail.com; Stan Smith, uscubachi@yahoo.com, 773-376-7521

Comment by Joe Balkis on March 22, 2012 at 4:24

Recently you and hundreds of other Chicago residents took the time to write a letter to Mayor Emanuel about why you love your library and want to see its hours and staff fully restored. Because of community supporters like you, we’ve made great progress in rolling back cuts to the libraries -- but we need to keep making our voices heard until our neighborhood branches are fully restored. That’s why we want to make sure your message and the messages of hundreds of others from across the city get through to the mayor. We’re inviting all Chicago library lovers to join us this Thursday at City Hall: LETTERS FOR OUR LIBRARIES A Dramatic Reading to the Mayor Thursday, March 22 at 10 a.m. City Hall, 121 N. LaSalle, 5th floor Flyer [PDF] Join us in front of the mayor’s office to read your letter aloud, help hand-deliver the hundreds of letters, or just listen to others as they tell why their libraries mean so much to them. As you know, in October, Mayor Emanuel proposed cutting $10 million and 363 employees from the Chicago Public Library system. Public outcry pushed him back, with thousands of petition signatures, hundreds of people participating in actions like "Story Time at City Hall" and the People’s Library Hours at branches, plus countless phone calls from library supporters. But libraries are still closed most Monday mornings and short more than 100 staff all week long. With only $1 million in additional funding (a tiny fraction of the city budget), library hours and staff can be fully restored to 2011 levels. We need to send the mayor a clear message: Fully restore library hours and staffing at all our branch libraries. Join us this Thursday, March 22, to deliver that heartfelt messages from residents across the city

Comment by Joe Balkis on March 19, 2012 at 21:42

Women in Palestine (in honor of Women's History Month)

Monday on March 19, 2012 at 7pm.

Loyola Chicago's Lake Shore campus

McCormick Lounge

1032 W. Sheridan Rd., Chicago, IL 60660. 

Kristen Szremski, Sarah Smith, and Itedal Shalabi--as they speak about the distinct lives of Palestinian women (under and, in a sense, away from the occupation) through various lenses. This lecture panel will cover the role of the occupation in micro-financing, the psycho-social aspects of occupation, and the FBI raids and subpoenas targeting Palestinian solidarity activists. Overall, as Ms. Szremski states, "it will be a story of hope rising from the injustice of the occupation."
 
Kristen Szermski will talk about her trip to Palestine and the role of the occupation in micro-financing.
Itedal Shalabi will focus on the psycho-social aspects of occupation.

Sarah Smith will speak about grand juries, material support laws, and her experience of being subpoenaed by the FBI after traveling to Palestine.

 

Comment by Genevieve Evelyn Evo on March 19, 2012 at 8:03

http://youtu.be/vJgisdzjSUE

Comment by Genevieve Evelyn Evo on March 19, 2012 at 7:05

Comment by Genevieve Evelyn Evo on March 19, 2012 at 7:02

N.U.B.E Online Campaigns

Maybank dismisses 2 workers without just cause and terrorizes others

Maybank Bhd unlawfully dismissed Abdul Jamil Jalaludeen and Chen Ka Fatt for taking this picture outside the United Nations in Geneva early this year. They held the banner to symbolise Maybank Bhd’s failure to respect workers’ rights and to pay just remuneration to their lowest paid employees. The dismissal was Maybank Bhd’s style of suppressing and oppressing its workers.

Maybank further displayed its arrogant contempt for both Jamil and Chen, as their customers, by cancelling their credit cards and leaving them in a state of impoverishment. Chen only has 3 more years to retire and loses all privileges that he has rightfully earned as an employee; while Jamil cannot provide for his 3 children and wife any longer because of Maybank Bhd’s animalistic actions.

 

WE NEED YOUR HELP!

We, Bank Workers want to serve the Rakyat better but we are deeply troubled by the tyranny of Maybank Bhd.

We condemn the cruelty of Maybank and the failure by the Ministry of Human Resources to protect these workers from the brutality of Maybank Bhd, despite the clear encroachment of employee rights.

Please sign the online campaign below to help us convey your support for Justice for Jamil-Chen Campaign against the bullying of Maybank Bhd. Your protest will be channelled to the Prime Minister of Malaysia urging him to take action against Maybank Bhd, a GLC, and the government officers for the abuse of statutory powers and utter neglect of duty to protect the Rakyat.

Comment by Joe Balkis on March 18, 2012 at 4:22

Friends in the Committee Against Political Repression -

Tomorrow will be the anti-war march on Devon Street to mark the 9th
anniversary of the Iraq War.

If you will be there and can help distribute literature about FBI
repression, a few of us will be there with some signs and leaflets.
Look for us at the corner of Devon and Hoyne.

Joe

March Against the Wars
On the 9th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq

Sunday, March 18
March in Chicago's leading South Asian neighborhood
Assemble 3 PM:  Devon Avenue & Hoyne Street

The Obama administration is peddling a myth:  That the wars are over
and peace is on the horizon.

But the facts tell a different story:

++ U.S. and Israel are threatening war on Iran, recycling many of the
lies used to justify the war on Iraq.  With Iraq, George W. Bush
claimed the country had "weapons of mass destruction." With Iran,
Obama supports crippling sanctions, the same precursor to war that
Bush used against Iraq.  He hypocritically threatens war against Iran
for its alleged nuclear arms program – while supporting nuclear-armed
Israel with billions of dollars in arms each year.

++ Annual drone strikes in the tribal areas of Pakistan have tripled
since Obama became president, killing thousands of innocent people,
and have expanded to Yemen and Somalia.  At the end of January, Obama
said his drone strikes target only "people who are on a list of active
terrorists" – as if you can identify who is a "terrorist" from 20,000
feet.  Last year was the fifth year in a row of increased deaths by
U.S. drone strikes.

++ The U.S. keeps silent about human rights abuses against minorities
in countries that it is allied with, while hypocritically lecturing
about human rights abuses by governments it opposes.  In U.S.-allied
Pakistan, over 4000 Balouchis have been "disappeared" by the security
forces and hundreds killed through torture, with their bodies being
thrown into the street. In U.S.-allied Kuwait, immigrants – the
overwhelming majority of the population – have virtually no rights.
In U.S.-allied Saudi Arabia, women have few rights and gays are
subject to execution, yet millions of U.S. arms flow there each year.

As the Wikileaks revelations of U.S. diplomatic cables showed, the
U.S. government, regardless of which party controls it, supports the
1% and opposes the democratic aspirations and self-determination of
the 99% in all nations.

++ The U.S.-sponsored Iraq war continues – subcontracted to private
military contractors and an unpopular puppet regime instructed by the
world's largest embassy and its huge "diplomatic" corps.

++ Obama announced that his "surge" of troops into Afghanistan would
end this September, but that would still leave 70,000 U.S. troops
there, along with other NATO troops and the forces of a regime which
stole the last election and is widely viewed as among the most corrupt
on the planet.  Last year was the deadliest year yet for civilians in
Afghanistan, up 8% from the year before.

++ Obama continues to sell arms to Gulf dictatorships such as Bahrain
(recently invaded by the U.S.-armed Saudi Arabian dictatorship), which
stands accused by its own human rights commission of gunning down
non-violent protesters and torturing prisoners to death.

++ The U.S. continues to support the military dictatorship in Egypt
while hypocritically calling for regime-change in Syria and ignoring
reports of systemic torture and pogroms by its new client regime in
Libya.

++ Obama continues to arm Israel at a rate higher than any other
country in the world, even though it is responsible for systematic
human rights abuses including theft of Palestinian land, widespread
imprisonment without charge or trial, torture, and refusal to allow
refugees to return to their homeland.

At a time when social services from mental health services to
libraries to public transit are being slashed, the U.S. spends as much
on war as the rest of the world combined.  Demand an end to this
insanity.  Support our march for peace on the 9th anniversary of the
invasion of Iraq.

3 PM, Sunday March 18
Devon Avenue & Hoyne Street

Help spread the word by joining our Facebook event here:
http://www.facebook.com/events/194851447281591/
…and inviting your FB friends.

Please help distribute printed materials.  Half-page handbills are
available here:
http://chicago.indymedia.org/sites/default/files/Handbill%2C%202012...

Full-page flyers are here:
http://chicago.indymedia.org/sites/default/files/Flyer%2C%202012-03...

And 11"x17" posters are here:
http://chicago.indymedia.org/sites/default/files/Poster%2C%202012-0...

To endorse this action, email ccawr@aol.com  More information is also
available at khsa5@aol.com

Cosponsored by: Pakistan Federation of America, Pakhtun Jirga,
Pakistan United Parade Committee, Midwest Anti-War Mobilization,
Coalition Against the NATO/G8 War & Poverty Agenda, Chicago World
Can't Wait, The Urbane Radical, Chicago Area Peace Action, Chicago
Area CodePink, Gay Liberation Network, Chicago Area Peace Action,
North Shore Coalition for Peace and Justice, Voices For Creative
Non-Violence,8th Day Center for Justice, and the Chicago Coalition
Against War & Racism.

 

 

 

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PEACE, JUSTICE, SOLIDARITY:
A Foreign Policy for the International Working Class

As many prepare to protest NATO (and for peace and justice!) in Chicago this May, the shape of US foreign policy is a foremost issue.  From "class war" to the "War on Terror," how has U.S. corporate dominated foreign policy impacted workers both at home and abroad? How do we envision a foreign policy that puts people before profits?

How do we build international working-class solidarity, mutually beneficial trade and cooperation rather than ruthless competition and imperialist intervention and aggression?

Join us for a panel discussion to explore these questions and work to build a fairer, freer world with:

Terry Davis - Chicago Labor for Peace, Justice, and Prosperity
Aaron Hughes - Iraq Veterans Against the War
Bamshad Mobasher - Oak Park Coalition for Truth and Justice and CPUSA

When: Thursday, March 22nd, 6:30-8:00 PM
Where: The Unity Center, 3339 S Halsted Ave, Chicago, IL

Light refreshments will be served at 6:30 PM; discussion to begin at 7.

Host: Haymarket Labor Forum. For more info: 773-446-9925

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