[Peace-discuss] Community-Labor Rally May 10 at 10AM

[Karen Medina via Peace-discuss]

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.

[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]


The local Republican Party is having their annual Lincoln Day Dinner
The keynote speaker will be Bruce Rauner, the GOP nominee for governor.
Saturday, May 10, 2014
Hilton Garden Inn in Champaign, IL // 1501 S. Neil Street
[Gather for the rally in the E14 parking lot at 10am (see below)]

Rauner's platform and record indicate that he:
* thinks that taxpayers cannot afford to pay for state pensions
* is anti-union and wants to create right-to-work zones
* believes that people are "improperly taking state health benefits"
* supports charter schools (non-union)
- - Rauner has given about $2.5 million to Noble Network of Charter Schools
in Chicago.
- - [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.
- - 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.
- - Rauner's family foundation has also given about $4 million to other
organizations that operate or support charter schools.

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Stand up to the 1%!

>
> This Saturday is an opportunity for community and labor activists to come
> together and demand better for Illinois.
> 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.
>
> Parking is free at the University's E14 lot near Oak and Kirby in
> Champaign.
> Gather just before 10AM and we will march over to the conference center
> together (about a block).
>
> There will also be a sign-making party tonight at the University YMCA,
> 6-8PM, hosted by GEO.  (Thanks, GEO!)
>
> Ricky Baldwin
>
>
> "Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes." - Maggie Kuhn
>
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-- karen medina
"The really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." - Mark
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