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Solidarity 69

The purpose of this group is to create solidarity among the left & to take action by any means necessary.

Location: The frontline is everywhere!
Members: 71
Latest Activity: on Friday

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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 March 25, 2013 at 19:07
Friends -

The Anti-War Committee of Chicago will meet today to plan the April 6 action against drone warfare: 4:00 to 6:00 pm, at 1325 S. Wabash, Suite 105.

Hope to see you there - we have a lot of work to do! The 10th anniversary event was very successful - let's make the national protests against drone warfare even more successful.

 

http://antiwarcommitteechicago.blogspot.com/

Comment by Joe Balkis on March 24, 2013 at 16:50

SAVE AMERICA’S POST OFFICE

RALLY TO SAVE 6 DAY DELIVERY!

Sunday, March 24, 2013

National Day of Action to Save America's Postal Service

Federal Plaza @ Adams and Dearborn

Chicago, IL

3:00-5:00pm

Comment by Joe Balkis on March 23, 2013 at 22:17

Hugo Chávez, Presente!

Build Solidarity with
Venezuela and Latin America

Saturday, March 23, 6
pm
4802 N. Broadway
#202
Info:
773-463- 0311


Speakers

**Jesus Rodriguez-Espinoza, Consul
General of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Chicago
**John Beacham, Coordinator of the ANSWER
Coalition in Chicago

Latin American
revolutionary and president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez
Frías, led a life of dedication to the struggle of the people of Latin America
for independence and self-determination. He also led Venezuela in an effort to
build a better society, redistributing resources in Venezuela to the benefit of
the masses of working and poor people. Since his untimely death, millions of
Venezuelans, Cubans and people around the world have paid homage to his legacy.
Some 33 heads of state and representatives of 50 governments attended Chávez’s
funeral.

The massive outpouring in
Venezuela is not just an expression of deep sentiment for a fallen leader. The
cries of “We are Chávez!” and “Chávez Vive!” are a resounding commitment by the
people: they are more determined than ever to defend the Bolivarian
Revolution.

Join us at this public
forum to commemorate Chavez's legacy and discuss how to build solidarity with
the struggle for Latin American self- determination within the United
States.

Comment by Joe Balkis on March 23, 2013 at 6:40

Saturday, March 23, 8:30 AM to 12:30 PM Building Peace in Chicago and Beyond Klarchek Information Commons, 6501 N. Kenmore Ave, Chicago 50th Anniversary of Pacem in Terris. Pre-Registration recommended. MORE INFORMATION.

Saturday, March 23, 1 PM Faith in Struggle Woodson Regional Library, 9525 S. Halsted St, Chicago Rev. Addie Wyatt's fight for labor, civil rights, and women's rights. MORE INFORMATION.
Saturday, March 23, 8 PM 24th Annual Nelson Algren Birthday Party Bloomingdale Arts Building, 2418 W. Bloomingdale, Chicago Honoring Tom Palazzolo. Music, video, poetry. $10. MORE INFORMATION.
Comment by Joe Balkis on March 19, 2013 at 3:53
Tuesday, March 19, 11 AM to 12:30 PM Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets Elgin Community College, Jobe Lounge, 1700 Spartan Dr, Elgin Undocumented students speak out. MORE INFORMATION.
Tuesday, March 19, 3:30 PM College of DuPage Candidate Forum CoD Student Resource Center 2000, 425 Fawell Blvd, Glen Ellyn Opportunity to ask questions about the militarization of campus. MORE INFORMATION.
The March 19th Anti-War Coalition will be participating in the 4- 5:30 action on Tuesday, March 19th, on the anniversary of the unjust, illegal and brutal 2003 U.S. attack and invasion of Iraq. We urge you all to do so as well. The starting place is at 4 p.m. at LaSalle and Jackson for a march through the Loop and to the Federal Plaza.
Tuesday, March 19, 7 PM to 9 PM "Lessons from the Heartland" Concordia University Chicago (Chapel), 7400 August St, River Forest Barbara Miner about her new book. MORE INFORMATION.
Comment by Brian Ross Ashley on March 14, 2013 at 18:04

Urgent: Solidarity needed with Haitian unions and workers

Please email this list of Haitian Government officials and let them know they cannot conduct this sort of repression without condemnation by the world.

Comment by Joe Balkis on March 7, 2013 at 6:58
Join us for an informational picket and protest rally to let District Office know...
Local 1708 Part Time Deserve A Fair Contract!!!
Meet Us at 226 W Jacksn Blvd, Chicago, IL at 8:30 am on March 7, 2013
Comment by Joe Balkis on March 6, 2013 at 18:11
Friends -
We received this information about events happening today and Friday in Chicago in memory of President Hugo Chavez:

Solidarity in Chicago

With the Venezuelan People and Bolivarian Revolution

 

Wednesday, March 6th

Vigil

Trinity Episcopal Church

125 E. 26th Street, Chicago

7:00 pm

With Rebel Diaz

 

Friday, March 8th

Acto de Solidaridad

Calles y Sueños

1901 S. Carpenter St., Chicago

7:00 pm

With The Beehive

In addition, here is FRSO's message to Venezuela on the passing of Chavez:

http://www.fightbacknews.org/2013/3/5/frso-message-venezuela-passin...

Comment by Joe Balkis on March 6, 2013 at 6:08
Wednesday, March 6, Noon to 1:30 PM Jane Addams and the Gritty Side of Chicago Women's Center, 2000 Sheridan Rd, Evanston Louise Knight on the effect Chicago had on Addams and vice versa. RSVP MORE INFORMATION.
Wednesday, March 6, 3 PM to 7 PM "Jai Bhim: Comrade" Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, 800 S. Halsted, Chicago Showing of documentary, panel, Q&A with filmmaker. MORE INFORMATION.
Wednesday, March 6, 3:30 PM to 5 PM Undoculove UIC Latino Cultural Center Lecture Center B2, Chicago Ruth Gomberg-Munoz on the ethnography of people trying to legalize their immigration status. MORE INFORMATION.
Wednesday, March 6, 6 PM "Free Angela and All Political Prisoners" Logan Performance Hall, 915 E. 60th St, Chicago Documentary screening followed by panel. MORE INFORMATION. (PDF)
Wednesday, March 6, 6 PM to 8 PM Housing Discrimination and Segregation Garfield Park Conservatory, 300 N. Central Park Ave, Chicago Town Hall featuring Jesus Garcia, Larry Suffredin, Robert Steele. MORE INFORMATION.
Wednesday, March 6, 6 PM to 7 PM (?) Urban Documentaries and Social Change: Where Are We? MCA, 220 E. Chicago, Chicago How do we socially understand urban media and how has the contemporary political landscape impacted documentary filmmaking? Two panels. $12. MORE INFORMATION.
Wednesday, March 6, 7 PM Investing in People Who Invest in Themselves Tau Center, 26W171 Roosevelt Rd, Wheaton Ed Coleman on Bethel New Life. MORE INFORMATION.
Comment by Joe Balkis on March 5, 2013 at 20:55
Chicago Street Action for Palestinian Prisoners
For Arafat Jaradat, Samer Issawi, and ALL Palestinian Political Prisoners
WHERE: Israeli Consulate, 500 West Madison, Chicago, IL 60661 (map)
On Wednesday, March 6, 2013, Chicago activists and people of conscience will gather in response to the death of 30-year-old Arafat Jaradat last Saturday. An autopsy revealed that Jaradat died after being tortured during interrogation by Israeli security, sustaining a total of six broken bones in his spine, arms and legs; his lips lacerated; his face badly bruised.
As the Palestinian prisoners’ rights group Addameer recently reported, “Since 1967, over 200 prisoners have died in captivity, fifty-one of them from medical negligence. Alarmingly, there is a recent trend of prisoners who have died shortly after they are released from medical complications that went untreated during their detention.”

Over 4,000 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails launched hunger-strike action on Sunday to protest the death of Arafat Jaradat. Additionally, Jaradat’s death set off a wave of demonstrations in Palestine and around the world, protesting Israel’s unjust treatment of Palestinian prisoners.
In the wake these events, please join us in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners. Let us gather in support of Samer Issawi, Ayman Sharawna, Tareq Qa’adan, and Ja’far Izzidine, along with other Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike to protest their inhumane and illegal detainment in Israeli prisons.
We refuse to allow Israel’s continued dismissal of Palestinian prisoner rights to go unchecked. Raise your voices!
Bring Palestinian flags. Signs will be provided.
 

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