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| Here is the place to find events RUSS members find interesting in the Chicagoland area. |
Join PUBLIC WORKERS UNITE! to defend our public services MARCH FOR JOBS AND PUBLIC SERVICES Join us in celebrating Dr. King's legacy of struggling for social justice and defending workers' needs. Rally at CTA Headquarters March will go to Board of Education and end at State of Illinois building 100 W Randolph CTA management is threatening to lay off over 1,000 bus drivers and maintenance workers on Feb 7th. This means fewer and more crowded buses and trains. Chicago Public Schools plan to close another 25 to 30 neighborhood schools and hand over our public education money to private companies. This won't help educate our kids. Unemployment is at its highest in 30 years but caseworkers who approve Food Stamps and Medicaid have unworkable caseloads of 1100 to 2200 families per worker - so people can't get the help they need. The rich and their politicians steal our taxes to bail out Wall Street and they "borrow" from our pension funds to hand out contracts to their friends. They sell our publicly-owned resources to private companies, and then make us pay for it through higher fees and fines. We say: make the rich pay. They made this crisis; we're not giving up our jobs and services to pay for it. Endorsers: AFSCME Local 2858, Caucus of Rank File Educators (CORE), Chicago Coalition Against War and Racism, Citizens Taking Action, Gay Liberation Network, Industrial Workers of the World, International Socialist Organization, League for the Revolutionary Party, Little Village Environmental Justice Organization, News and Letters, NoCTAcuts.org, Northside Action for Justice, Socialist Alternative, Solidarity, Veterans for Peace, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Veterans for Peace To endorse or for more information, contact publicworkersunite@yahoo.com
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Mondayfollowing on Issues the film raises as well as women's incarceration and social justice praxis in the U.S. and what people are doing about it.
Panel will include: Jodie Lawston, DePaul University Department of Sociology and author of Sisters Outside: Radical Activists Working for Women Prisoners, Renny Golden, activist, poet, academic and author of the book: War on Families: Imprisoned Mothers and the Families They Life Behind, and, Kathie Kane-Willis, acting director of the Institute for Metropolitan Affairs at Roosevelt University.
Co-sponsored by Institute for Metropolitan Affairs