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Saturday, October 27, 2007
Start: 12:00 am
End: 11:59 pm

1:30pm Gather at Union Park, Ashland and Lake
2:30pm March to downtown
4:00pm Rally at Federal Plaza, Adams and Dearborn

Visit Chicago's Oct. 27 web site, oct27chicago.org for full list of endorsers, more materials and further information.

Chicago JWJ is an endorser of this regional protest to Stop the War Now. Bring your family, co-workers, friends and neighbors to join thousands in demanding:

  • Fund Human Needs, Not the War
  • Defend Civil Liberties, Defend Immigrant Rights
  • Stop the Violence, at Home and Abroad, No Wider Wars

Download a flyer.

Monday, October 29, 2007
Start: 11:00 am
End: 1:00 pm

Rally in Federal Plaza
219 S. Dearborn St.

On October 29, Congressman Dan Lipinski and Mayor Daley will meet to plan the 2016 Olympics while the Chicago regional transit and paratransit systems collapses in 2007. We will rally in response to this meeting to say that getting people to work safely, on time & affordably is more urgent than the Olympics.

Download the bilingual flyer

Thursday, November 15, 2007
Start: 3:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm

Join Chicago Federation of Labor and allies in a rally against the recent anti-union decisions by the National Labor Relations Board.

Regional NLRB offices
Rookery Building
209 S. LaSalle St., Chicago

Read more about the decisions in our article NLRB Racing to Erode Workers' Rights.

Saturday, November 17, 2007
Start: 9:30 am
End: 11:30 am

Support workers at Smithfield Packing in Tar Heel, N.C.

Chicago Theatre, 175 S. State St.

Celebrity chef Paula Deen has ignored the workers from the Tar Heel N.C. packing plant of her sponsor Smithfield Foods who have faced years of anti-union campaigns. Now you can join other supporters of these workers in greeting Paula Deen on her visit to Chicago.

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