[Peace] TONIGHT: Emergency Picket--Don't Legalize Discrimination!

[Jen Tayabji]

AWARE is a member of the Central Illinois Jobs with Justice coalition.
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TONIGHT! COME STAND IN SOLIDARITY!

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EMERGENCY PICKET
At the Champaign City Council Mtg.

**Don't Legalize Discrimination**

Tuesday, October 3
Picket: 6:30pm
City Council Meeting: 7pm

Outside of the Champaign City Council Chambers
102 N. Neil St., Champaign

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On Tuesday, October 3, community members and local organizations will be
picketing outside prior to the Champaign City Council meeting. The picket
will begin at 6:30pm to greet City Council members as they enter for their
7pm meeting. Community members will then attend the Champaign City Council
meeting to join together and voice their concerns and opposition to the
proposed changes to the Champaign Human Rights Ordinance.

These proposed changes would in effect legalize discrimination against
citizens who receive Section 8 housing subsidies. These changes would
allow landlords to choose not to rent to those citizens with Section 8
housing, therefore giving landlords the right to discriminate against low
income people by denying them the right to housing opportunities. As a
community, we cannot allow our elected officials to pass such egregious
policies.

Sponsored by the Central Illinois Jobs with Justice Chapter.

The members of the Central Illinois Jobs with Justice include (but are not
limited to):
* American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)
Council 31
* Brotherhood of Maintenance Way Employees/International Brotherhood of
Teamsters (IBT) 1069
* Graduate Employees’ Organization/American Federation of Teachers (AFT)
6300
* International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers 601
* Illinois Education Association (IEA) Region 9
* Association of Academic Professionals (UIUC)
* Service Employees International Union (SEIU) 73
* Teamsters Local 26
* Union of Professional Employees (UIUC)
* Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort
* Champaign County Health Care Consumers
* Channing-Murray Foundation
* Illinois Disciples Foundation
* Progressive Resource/Action Cooperative
* Jewish Social Justice Network
* Champaign County NAACP
* Champaign County National Organization for Women
* Socialist Forum
* Champaign-Urbana Tenant Union
* UC Friends Meeting
* Volunteers for a Better America
* Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) Local
* United Church of Christ
* UIUC Campus Greens

For more information, please contact Central Illinois Jobs with Justice at
(217) 344-8283 or naiman.uiuc at gmail.com. Visit us online at www.jwj.org.