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The purpose of this group is to create solidarity among the left & to take action by any means necessary.
Location: The frontline is everywhere!
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How to Promote Solidarity? 1 Reply
I think this group is a great idea and a worthy goal, but the question is how do we achieve this or at least how do we take practical steps to it?I know of many different attempts to unify various…Continue
Started by Rhys Harrison. Last reply by Joe Balkis Sep 30, 2012.
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Comment by Joe Balkis on May 6, 2013 at 3:19 -
Dear,
Sign our petition urging the White House to reject seismic airgun testing in the Atlantic!With enormous risks to marine lives and human livelihoods, the time to act is now to reject seismic airgun testing in the Atlantic. Actor and Oceana board member Ted Danson has joined with Oceana to spearhead a White House petition urging President Obama to reject the use of seismic airguns to search for oil and gas in the Atlantic. We need 100,000 signatures before May 15, so we are calling on each of you to sign this petition, and to share the link with your friends and family and urge them to sign it as well. Gas and oil may be valuable, but the health and future of the Atlantic Ocean and the creatures that call it home are priceless. Sign the petition and tell Obama that the Atlantic’s dolphins and whales deserve better.
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Comment by Joe Balkis on May 6, 2013 at 3:18
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please join with Daily Kos and Campaign for America’s Future by telling your members of the House and Senate to fix the entire the sequester, not just the parts that annoy rich people. Click here to sign the petition.
At a time when the most vulnerable Americans are losing vital services like Meals on Wheels and Head Start because of the sequester, Congress has leaped into action to... prevent delays in air travel.
Last Friday, both the House and the Senate overwhelmingly passed legislation allocating more money to the Federal Aviation Administration, and then quickly left town on flights back to their home districts.
While timely air travel is important, it is certainly no more important than lunch for senior citizens or early childhood education for pre-schoolers.
Please join with Daily Kos and Campaign for America’s Future by telling your members of the House and Senate to fix the entire the sequester, not just the parts that inconvenience the wealthy.
Keep fighting, Rachel Colyer, Daily Kos
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Comment by Joe Balkis on May 5, 2013 at 12:25
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The heroic whistleblower Bradley Manning was selected as an honorary grand marshal of this year's San Francisco Gay Pride Parade. But the president of the board of SF Pride, Lisa L. Williams, immediately reversed the decision -- announcing that someone responsible for it had been "disciplined" and that "even the hint of support" for Manning "will not be tolerated."
Click here to offer more than a hint of support.
Williams promoted the baseless and endlessly debunked claim that Manning endangered U.S. troops -- something that in fact the U.S. government does by keeping them in wars based on deception.
With enormous courage, Manning has enabled the world to see vast quantities of documents that reveal government falsehoods as well as human rights abuses and war crimes by the U.S. military.
It is crucial that the United States and the rest of the world know of our support for Manning's whistleblowing. He goes on trial June 3, facing life in prison. Already over 40,000 of us have signed a petition urging that Manning receive the Nobel Peace Prize for which he has been nominated.
We can now announce that RootsAction will deliver the petition and all the names on it, in person, to the Nobel committee in Oslo, Norway. You can sign now and add your comments.
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Comment by Joe Balkis on May 5, 2013 at 12:24
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Dear,
One month ago my son Alex was born. Yesterday I was fired from my job as a forklift driver at a warehouse where we move 100 percent Walmart merchandise.
I am outspoken. I defend my coworkers. I alert management to broken and unsafe equipment. I teach my coworkers about their rights, like what minimum wage is and what they should do when they are injured on the job.
Please sign my petition to Walmart to help me get my job back. We will deliver the petition this Monday so please sign right away.
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Comment by Joe Balkis on May 3, 2013 at 9:10
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How about an economic justice forum closer to home - we're doing a TIF Town Meeting to Illuminate the Englewood Neighborhood TIF on Saturday, May 4 at 10am - details at http://tinyurl.com/TIF-Forum-May-4
Tom TresserOn Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Howard Ehrman a href="http://us.mc1253.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=hehrman@uic.edu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">hehrman@uic.edu> wrote:> >
Howard Ehrman, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)
College of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine
School of Public Health, Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
Contact Information:
email: hehrman@uic.edu
--Join The CivicLab and our TIF Illumination Project! We're Illuminating Chicago's 163 TIFs one ward at a time!
tom@civiclab.us Tom's website = www.tresser.com
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Comment by Joe Balkis on May 3, 2013 at 9:05
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Demand TIAACREF hear our concerns
Friday, May 3rd at noon
TIAACREF Chicago office, 200 N. LaSalle St (map)
Why did you choose to retire with TIAACREF? Was it because you wanted a plan that built your retirement on ethical investments? Were you looking for a provider that took feedback from its clients seriously?
TIAACREF has become one of the largest retirement corporations in America, largely because of the promises they've made to invest for the greater good But we know better. TIAACREF has broken those promises!
For more than two years, shareholders have campaigned for TIAACREF to divest from Israels illegal and immoral military occupation of Palestine In Chicago weve held monthly vigils outside of their office collected petition signatures and scheduled appointments with their representatives. TIAACREF has not only ignored our appeals they are actively repressing discussion about divestment.
Right now, TIAA-CREF is trying to kill a proposal that would allow shareholders to vote on divestment. Any corporation that claims to be socially responsible should allow its clients to vote on its policies. They should not be silencing shareholder activism around human rights!
We are tired of TIAACREF muzzling us! This Friday, join us as take our demands directly into the TIAA-CREF building! We will march up to our office with a ringing rotary phone. The phone symbolizes more than a year of constant requests for TIAACREF to hear our call for divestment.
Don't let TIAA-CREF get away with dodging divestment! Join us, and make sure we are heard.
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Comment by Joe Balkis on May 1, 2013 at 5:44
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Wednesday, May 1, 12:45 PM to 2 PM May Day Solidarity Speak Out Union Park, Randolph & Ashland, Chicago Austerity, debt, joblessness, foreclosures, endless war, gun violence, climate change, the war on drugs, school closings, the two-tiered justice system, deportations, etc. MORE INFORMATION and MORE INFORMATION.
Wednesday, May 1, 2 PM to 5:30 PM May Day March and Rally Starting from Union Park, Randolph & Ashland, Chicago March for immigration reform and worker rights. Rally at Federal Plaza, Dearborn & Adams @ 4:30 PM MORE INFORMATION and MORE INFORMATION.
Wednesday, May 1, 2:30 PM Carry On the Tradition. Carry On the Fight! Haymarket Free Speech Monument, Randolph & DesPlaines, Chicago The Illinois Labor History Society's annual commemoration and May Day celebration. MORE INFORMATION.
Wednesday, May 1, 6 PM to 7:30 PM "Looking for Leroy" Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, 800 S. Halsted St, Chicago Author Mark Anthony Neal on his new book re: the complex ways in which black masculinity has been read and misread through contemporary American popular culture. MORE INFORMATION.
Wednesday, May 1, 9 PM "American Drug War" MultiKulti, 1000 N. Milwaukee, 4th Floor, Chicago Documentary on the failure of the war on drugs. MORE INFORMATION.
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Comment by Joe Balkis on April 29, 2013 at 11:14
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For decades, Social Security has served as a vital lifeline for the Black community.
Tell President Obama and Congress: Cuts to Social Security won't help the economy.
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Comment by Joe Balkis on April 29, 2013 at 11:13
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Save Our Oceans In this stunning new video, NRDC supporter Sigourney Weaver suggests a simple way to help save marine wildlife. 
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Comment by Joe Balkis on April 29, 2013 at 11:12
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Suburban Tar Sands Spill Warns of What's to Come Earlier this month, an ExxonMobil tar sands pipeline ruptured, spewing more than 150,000 gallons of toxic crude into an Arkansas suburb and forcing homeowners to evacuate. It's a glimpse of what lies ahead if the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline gets built. At full capacity, the Keystone XL will carry almost ten times the amount of corrosive tar sands as the pipeline that failed in Arkansas. NRDC is escalating public pressure on Secretary of State John Kerry to heed the wake-up call from Arkansas and conduct a new, truthful environmental review that tallies the real costs and dangers of the Keystone XL on our climate and communities. 
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