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<div>* TODAY, 4:30 PM--Protest FBI raids against social justice activists</div><div>* Today, 5:00 International Socialist meeting</div><div>* Today, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); line-height: 15px; ">6:30pm-8:30pm, </span><b>Hunger Symposium</b>, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); line-height: 15px; ">in the CityView Meeting Center at the Illinois Terminal, 45 E. University Ave., Champaign. This event is free and open to the public.</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); line-height: 15px; ">* Tu. Sept. 28, 1pm -- AWARE on the Air is being taped.</span></div>
<div>* Tu. Sept. 28, 5:30 PM--<strong>Panel Discussion: Confronting Racism from the Sports Arena to the Political Arena</strong></div>
<div><div>* Sa. Oct. 2, 2-4pm, AWARE's monthly peace demonstration, Neil St and Main St., Champaign</div><div>* Su. Oct. 3, 4:30 planning meeting for those who are going to the peace demonstration in Chicago (October 16)</div>
<div>* Sa. Oct. 9, noon--Unity March: Fight for justice in the Champaign-Urbana community (thanks to the folks at CUCPJ for passing this along).</div></div><div>* Sa. Oct. 9, 2 PM--<strong>The Revolutionary Ideas of Karl Marx: A Day of Discussion </strong>(note: The time of this event has been moved to 2 PM so that folks can attend the annual Unity March. We encourage folks to attend both events!)</div>
<div><strong></strong><br></div><div>* Sa. Oct. 16, Chicago peace demonstration</div>
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<div><strong><font size="6">Confronting Racism: From the Sports Arena to the Political Arena</font></strong></div>
<div><strong><font size="4">A Public Forum</font></strong></div>
<div><font size="4">Tuesday, September 28, 5:30 PM</font></div>
<div><font size="4">Greg Hall R. 319 (on Wright Street, northwest corner of the main quad)</font></div>
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<div><font size="4"><font size="2">From the protests against the mis-named "Ground Zero mosque" to Glenn Beck's desecration of Martin Luther King's dream, to the passage of a draconian immigration law, SB 1070 in Arizona, it feels as though racists have been able to dominate the mainstream political debate lately. But their racism is producing something else--resistance. That resistance has</font> </font><font size="2">included counter-protests of thousands against the anti-Muslim bigots from New York City to Gainesville, Florida, and it has fueled a movement for immigrants' rights that stopped the worst aspects of SB 1070 dead in their tracks. That resistance has even reached Major League Baseball, where immigrants rights activists have launched a campaign to get next year's Major League Baseball game moved from Arizona because of that state's anti-immigrant stance. And here at the University of Illinois, protests against Chief Illiniwek, the racist mascot, have drawn hundreds in the past, and stand to do the same this year. </font></div>
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<div>Join socialists, immigrants' rights and other activists as we discuss the fight against racism, from Assembly Hall to Ground Zero.</div>
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<div><font size="4">Featuring:</font></div>
<div><font size="4"><strong>*</strong></font><font size="6"><strong>Carlos Daniel Rosa</strong>, </font><font size="4">MEcHA and i-Resist Coalition</font></div>
<div><font size="4"><strong>*</strong></font><font size="6"><strong>Damian Reyes </strong><font size="4"><strong>(</strong>panel moderator)</font>, </font><font size="4">International Socialist Organization and i-Resist Coalition</font></div>
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<div><font size="4"><strong><font size="6">*Dave Zirin</font></strong>, sports columnist. </font><font size="2">Dave is the sports editor for <em><a href="http://thenation.com/" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc">thenation.com</font></a></em>, and a columnist at<em>The Huffington Post</em>. He has been a leading voice promoting a boycott of major league baseball's Arizona Diamondbacks for their owner Ken Kendrick's backing of politicians who support SB 1070, the draconian anti-immigrant law. He is the author of a number of books, including <em>A People's History of Sports in the United States</em>, <em>Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics, and Promise of Sports</em>, and <em>"What's My Name, Fool?": Sports and Resistance in the United States</em>. His latest book is <em>Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love</em>. </font></div>
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<div>Sponsored by the International Socialist Organization, La Colectiva, Minority Association of Future Attorneys (MAFA), and Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEcHA).</div>
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<div>To co-sponsor, or for more information, email <a href="mailto:iso.champaign@gmail.com" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc">iso.champaign@gmail.com</font></a> or call 415-713-6260. For more on Dave Zirin, visit <a href="http://www.edgeofsports.com/" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc">www.edgeofsports.com</font></a>.</div>
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<div><strong><font size="6">The Revolutionary Ideas of Karl Marx: A Day of Discussion</font></strong></div>
<div><font size="4">Saturday, Oct. 9, 2 PM-7 PM</font></div>
<div><font size="4">Greg Hall R. 215</font></div>
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<div>"Philosophers have merely interpreted the world...The point, however, is to change it"--Karl Marx</div>
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<div>Come discuss an alternative to a world of war, poverty and oppression. Help understand the world, in order to get involved in changing it.</div>
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<div>Session I: 2 PM-3:30 PM--The Revolutionary Ideas of Karl Marx</div>
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<div>Session II: 3:45 PM-5:15 PM-- Why Capitalism Fails: Marxism and the Theory of Economic Crisis</div>
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<div>Session III: 5:30 PM-7 PM--Marxism and Political Organization</div>
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<div>For more info, contact <a href="mailto:iso.champaign@gmail.com" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc">iso.champaign@gmail.com</font></a> or call 415-713-6260.</div>
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<div><b><span style="font-size:12pt">URGENT ALERT: please repost widely!</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></div>
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<div><b><span style="color:red;font-size:18pt">Protest the 9/24 FBI raids -- and the larger assault on our right to dissent.</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></div>
<div><b><span style="font-size:18pt">4:30 PM, Monday, 9/27/10</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></div>
<div><b><span style="font-size:12pt">FBI headquarters in Champaign</span></b></div>
<div><span style="font-size:12pt"><font size="2">2117 W Park Court<br>Champaign, IL 61821-2986<br>(West of Mattis, just west of the Snucks shopping center)</font></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:12pt"><font size="2">We denounce the Federal Bureau of Investigation harassment of anti-war<br>and solidarity activists. The FBI raided seven houses and an office in<br>
Chicago and Minneapolis on Friday, September 24, 2010. The FBI handed<br>subpoenas to testify before a federal grand jury to eleven activists<br>in Illinois, Minnesota, and Michigan. The FBI also attempted to<br>intimidate activists in California and North Carolina.<br>
<br>This suppression of civil rights is aimed at those who dedicate their<br>time and energy to supporting the struggles of the Palestinian and<br>Colombian peoples against U.S. funded occupation and war. The FBI has<br>
indicated that the grand jury is investigating the activists for<br>
possible material support of terrorism charges.<br><br>The activists involved have done nothing wrong and are refusing to be<br>pulled into conversations with the FBI about their political views or<br>organizing against war and occupation. The activists are involved with<br>
many groups, including: the Twin Cities Anti-War Committee, the<br>Palestine Solidarity Group, the Colombia Action Network, Students for<br>a Democratic Society, and Freedom Road Socialist Organization. These<br>activists came together with many others to organize the 2008 anti-war<br>
marches on the Republican National Convention in St. Paul.<br><br>We ask people of conscience to join us in fighting this political<br>repression, as we continue working to build the movements against US<br>war and occupation.<br>
<br>Take Action:<br><br>Call the U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder at 202-353-1555 or write an<br>email to: <a href="mailto:AskDOJ@usdoj.gov" target="_blank">AskDOJ@usdoj.gov</a><br><</font><a href="http://us.mc431.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=AskDOJ@usdoj.gov" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc" size="2">http://us.mc431.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=AskDOJ@usdoj.gov</font></a><font size="2">> .<br>
<br>Demand:<br><br>**Stop the repression against anti-war and international solidarity activists.<br><br>**Immediately return all confiscated materials: computers, cell<br>phones, papers, documents, etc.<br><br>**End the grand jury proceedings against anti-war activists.<br>
<br>In Solidarity, the Anti-War Committee – <a href="http://www.antiwarcommittee.org" target="_blank">www.antiwarcommittee.org</a><br><</font><a href="http://www.antiwarcommittee.org/" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc" size="2">http://www.antiwarcommittee.org/</font></a><font size="2">><br>
<br>_____<br><br>The following is a list of the 19 planned protests that we have heard<br>of so far, and the list is growing. Please participate in the one<br>nearest you, or if there is not one in your city, organize one and let<br>
us know at <</font><a href="http://us.mc431.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=iacenter@iacenter.org" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc" size="2">http://us.mc431.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=iacenter@iacenter.org</font></a><font size="2">><br>
<a href="mailto:iacenter@iacenter.org" target="_blank">iacenter@iacenter.org</a> so we can publicize it and add it to the list:<br>Please be in touch with the Minnesota Anti-War Committee -<br><</font><a href="http://www.antiwarcommittee.org/" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc" size="2">http://www.antiwarcommittee.org/</font></a><font size="2">> <a href="http://www.antiwarcommittee.org" target="_blank">www.antiwarcommittee.org</a><br>
<br>Monday 9/27:<br><br>Minneapolis, MN - 4:30, FBI Office Monday, 111 Washington Ave. S.<br><br>Chicago, IL - 4:30 FBI Office, 2111 W. Roosevelt, Chicago<br><br>Kalamazoo, MI - 4:30 Federal Building, 410 W Michigan Ave<br>
<br>Salt Lake City, Utah - 9 AM at Federal Building<br><br>Durham, NC - 12 noon Federal Building, 323 E Chapel Hill St<br><br>Buffalo, NY- 4:30 pm at FBI Building - Corner of So. Elmwood Ave. & Niagara St.<br><br>Gainesville, FL - Monday, 4:30 PM at FBI Building<br>
<br><br>Tuesday 9/28:<br><br>NYC, NY - 4:30 to 6pm Federal Building, 26 Federal Plaza,<br><br>Newark, NJ - 5 to 6pm Federal Building Broad Street<br><br>Philadelphia, PA - 4:30pm Federal Building, 6th & Market,<br><br>
Washington DC - 4:30 – 5:30 FBI Building, 935 Pennsylvania Ave NW.<br><br>Boston, MA - 5 pm, JFK Federal Building<br><br>Detroit, MI - 4:30 pm McNamara Federal Building, Michigan Ave. at Cass<br><br>Raleigh, NC - 9 am. Federal Building, 310 New Bern Ave<br>
<br>Asheville, NC - 5 pm Federal Building,<br><br>Atlanta, GA - Noon, FBI Building<br><br>Los Angeles, CA - 5 pm, Downtown Federal Building, 300 N Los Angeles St<br><br>Tucson, AZ - 5 pm Federal Building<br><br><br>Wednesday 9/29:<br>
<br>Albany, NY - 5 to 6 pm Federal Building<br><br>Chicago Press Conference Protests FBI Raids<br><br>To view on YouTube, click here:<br><br></font><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-ugQusghXw" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc" size="2">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-ugQusghXw</font></a><br>
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<div>Local action is sponsored by Anti-War Anti-Racist Effort (AWARE) and the International Socialist Organization (list in formation).</div>
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<p align="left">7th ANNUAL UNITY MARCH !: <font size="4">Sowing the Seeds of Empowerment</font></p></font></font>
<div><font size="4">Saturday, Oct. 9, noon</font></div><font size="4"></font></div>
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<div><font size="4">906 W. Vine St., Champaign</font></div><font size="4"></font></div>
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<div><font size="4">Join us on the 1-Year anniversary of Kiwane Carrington's death to:</font></div>
<div><font size="4">*RECLAIM your neighborhood</font></div>
<div><font size="4">*RESTORE the relationships in your community</font></div>
<div><font size="4">*REMEMBER the life of Kiwane Carrington</font></div>
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<div><font size="4">Join us in a march for education, adequate wages, health care, political involvement, family responsibility, respect for self & others, food security.</font></div>
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<div><a href="http://socialistworker.org/2010/09/27/uiuc-students-protest-trustees" target="_blank">http://socialistworker.org/2010/09/27/uiuc-students-protest-trustees</a></div>
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<h1>UIUC students protest trustees</h1>
<p><span>By Ben Rothschild</span> | September 27, 2010</p>
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<p>URBANA, Ill.--Students and campus workers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) organized to confront the Board of Trustees during its September 23 meeting on the state university system's flagship campus.</p>
<p>The day of protest culminated in a student demonstration during the afternoon public comment session that effectively shut down the trustees' meeting.</p>
<p>The trustees met behind closed doors throughout the day, deciding on a budget for fiscal 2011 that is expected to contain further cuts in classes and student services--even though the board hiked tuition over the summer by a 9.5 percent, pushing base tuition at UIUC to $10,386 per year.</p>
<p>Only at 3 p.m. was the meeting opened up for public comment--and even then, the trustees chose a small room, so only half the graduate and undergraduate students who mobilized to confront the board were allowed in, with the rest forced to watch from an overflow room.</p>
<p>Those students who got to address the board spoke passionately about tuition rates, a drop in minority enrollment and the need for tuition waiver security for graduate students. Speakers requested responses from the board, specifically asking for a tuition freeze.</p>
<p>When board members refused to answer any questions, students broke into chants of "Whose university? Our university!" and "What do we want? Tuition freeze! When do we want it? Now!" Within 15 seconds, board members started leaving the room. As they exited, the students who had not been allowed into the session lined the halls, wearing white bandanas over their faces with their demands written on them.</p>
<p>Earlier in the day, about 150 people attended a noontime rally organized by campus unions and student groups to speak out about the crisis for students and workers at UIUC. In the morning, members of the Graduate Employees Organization (GEO) and Service Employees International Union, which both represent workers on campus, held a 50-person picket as board members arrived for their meeting.</p>
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<p>THE BOARD of Trustees meeting took place as leaders of the U of I system have come under criticism for mistreating university employees, mismanaging the system's resources and failing its students.</p>
<p>For example, one prime concern of students is the fact that diversity has decreased at UIUC. Project 500, a university initiative that emerged from the student struggles of the late 1960s, sets a goal of recruiting 500 Black and Latino students into each freshmen class. Last year, for the first time in 40 years, the university failed to meet this goal.</p>
<p>Last November, members of GEO went on a two-day strike that centered importantly on winning a commitment from the administration on tuition waivers, which are vital for most teaching assistants and graduate assistants to continue attending UIUC. The strike won widespread student support, with huge protests on the quad. Because of the determination of GEO members and the support of the wider community, the administration gave in on the union's demands for tuition waiver security, wages and health care benefits.</p>
<p>In the year since, administration and trustees have come under fire for a long list of shady practices. The best-known was a scandal over admissions--members of the Board of Trustees, the chancellor, the president and many state politicians were part of a scheme in unqualified applicants were accepted on the basis of political clout. Several trustees, plus the president and chancellor, stepped down over the controversy.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, the heads of the U of I system still treat each other like royalty. In May--on the very day that the university hiked tuition--the system's new president, Michael Hogan, got a $170,000 salary increase, bringing his total annual compensation to $620,000. Last March, the administration doled out a $273,500 retirement bonus package for the chancellor of the Springfield campus, Richard Ringeisen.</p>
<p>Then there's Joseph White, the corrupt former president who had to resign because of the admissions scandal. He's still on the payroll at U of I--paid $350,000 a year. White is is teaching a course on "business ethics." The list goes on and on. The administration also tried to use $100,000 in student fees to build a sculpture of retired President Stanley Ikenberry. After the <i>Chicago Tribune</i> started investigating, the university changed its mind.</p>
<p>By taking a stand when the trustees met, students sent a clear message that they won't tolerate this mismanagement of public education.</p></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>
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