<div dir="ltr"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">There will be a rally at the Hilton Garden Inn on the occasion of the rightwing billionaire Bruce Rauner's visit to the local Republican Party. </span><br>
</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></div>[I looked up a few more details about this event that Ricky Baldwin shared with us and thought I would share what I learned. -karen evans levy]<div>
<br></div><div><br></div><div>The local Republican Party is having their annual Lincoln Day Dinner </div><div>The keynote speaker will be Bruce Rauner, the GOP nominee for governor.<br></div><div>Saturday, May 10, 2014</div>
<div>Hilton Garden Inn in Champaign, IL // 1501 S. Neil Street<br></div><div>[Gather for the rally in the E14 parking lot at 10am (see below)]</div><div><br></div><div>Rauner's platform and record indicate that he:</div>
<div>* thinks that taxpayers cannot afford to pay for state pensions</div><div class="gmail_extra">* is anti-union and wants to create right-to-work zones</div><div class="gmail_extra">* believes that people are "improperly taking state health benefits"</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">* supports charter schools (non-union)</div><div class="gmail_extra">- - Rauner has given about $2.5 million to Noble Network of Charter Schools in Chicago. </div><div class="gmail_extra">- - [On the positive side, 98% of Noble's students are minorities; 89% come from low-income families.] But it is not know the percentage of minorities and low-income which attend the school named after Rauner. </div>
<div class="gmail_extra">- - Noble Network of Charter Schools took in $106.8 million last year. That includes $82.1 million from city and state taxpayers, $9 million in federal taxes and $9.5 million in private donations. Noble has 8,850 students, so that is $12,067 per student. <br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra">- - Rauner's family foundation has also given about $4 million to other organizations that operate or support charter schools.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
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This Saturday is an opportunity for community and labor activists to come together and demand better for Illinois.</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal">
There will be a rally at the
Hilton Garden Inn on the occasion of the rightwing billionaire Bruce Rauner's visit to the local Republican Party. Rauner represents the worst of the Republican Party, the rich elite who are coordinating the attacks on the rights for working people (including the unemployed, and including workers from other countries driven from their homes by US foreign policy and collusion and exploited here), social programs that serve them, etc.</div>
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Parking is free at the University's E14 lot near Oak and Kirby in Champaign.</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal">
Gather just before 10AM and we will march over to the conference center together (about a block).</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal">
<br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal">There will also be a sign-making party tonight at the University YMCA, 6-8PM, hosted by GEO. (Thanks, GEO!)<br>
</div><div> </div><div>Ricky Baldwin</div><div><br><br></div><div>"Speak
your mind, even if your voice shakes." - Maggie Kuhn<br></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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