Chicago Jobs with Justice

  Thursday, March 10, 2011. 6:30 a.m.

Brothers and Sisters-

Please join me on the bus to Indiana to support workers in that state on Thursday March 10th. We are leaving at 6:30 AM from across the street at Teamster City (300 S. Ashland) and will return around 6:30 PM that night.

The seats are free and these solidarity mobilizations are really enjoyable!

If you would like a seat on the bus, send me an email: susanh@jwj.org!

For this reason we will NOT be meeting on Thursday March 10 at 1 PM for our regular organizing meeting.

Reminder: We will still be canvassing the unemployment office at 8750 S. Stony Island on Monday March 14th at 8 AM. If you can join us, it would be much appreciated.

In Solidarity, Susan

The Jobs With Justice National site. tells about more buses from Urbana-Champaign.

Brothers and Sisters-

National Nurses United is sponsoring a solidarity bus to Madison on Saturday March 12th.

The seats are free but you should bring money for food and $5 for the driver.

The bus departs from 1100 S. Hamilton, Chicago, IL at 8AM and returns to Chicago by 9PM.

There is parking available in the County Parking Garage for $2 all day.

Join with Chicago Jobs with Justice and National Nurses United; please contact Susan Hurley at (773) 412-2386 or send an email to susanh@jwj.org.

Reminder: We will be canvassing the unemployment office at 8750
S. Stony Island on Monday March 14th at 8 AM. If you can join us, it
would be much appreciated.

Stop the Budget Cuts. Wednesday March 16, 2011, 11:45-12:30 PM

Jackson and Clark (maps).

Article.

Join with our brothers and sisters at AFGE to stop the cuts to the federal budget at the Department of Labor, Housing and Urban Development, the Veterans Administration, the Department of Education, the Envronmental Protection Agency and the Social Security Administration! These cuts hurt us all!

We are looking to provide support for transportation security officers who are organizing at O'Hare and Midway airports. If you can help hand out fliers for an hour Thursday evening or Friday morning at O'Hare, please contact me right away: 312.738.6161 or susanh@jwj.org.

We are looking to provide support for transportation security officers who are organizing at O'Hare and Midway airports. If you can help hand out fliers for an hour Thursday evening or Friday morning at O'Hare, please contact me right away: 312.738.6161 or susanh@jwj.org.

333 S. Ashland. Facebook page.

Press Conference at Chicago Math and Science Academy
Thursday March 17, 2011, 6:15 PM-7:00 PM

7212 N. Clark (maps).

Support charter school teachers who are organizing a union at CMSA!

See www.chicagoafts.org.

Chicago rally and march on the 8th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

Saturday, March 19, 12:00 Noon, Michigan Avenue at Congres Parkway.

- Funding for jobs, healthcare, and education, not for war and occupation!

- Iraq, Palestine, Egypt: U.S. out of the Middle East

- End FBI raids, political repression, and corporate welfare at home

For information or to endorse, mailto:CCAWR@aol.com.

Visit the Facebook event page and help spread the word! http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=129641663770855 (Facebook membership required).

  A DETAILED POSTER / FLYER is available at http://www.9898.us/3/110319chi.htm.

Many cosponsoring organizations.

Wednesday March 23rd

THURSDAY MARCH 24th
12 NOON
THOMPSON CENTER
100 W. RANDOLPH

On Thursday, March 24 there will be a national day of action while members of both the House of Representatives and Senate are scheduled to be home for a District Work Period.

Funding for essential programs that provide job retraining and workforce education is at risk for being eliminated. Nearly 14 million Americans remain unemployed, with over 40% unemployed for 6 months or longer. Many are unable to return to their prior jobs because they no longer exist. These workers require the services and assistance provided by the nation’s public workforce system in order to take advantage of emerging job opportunities and retraining.

Struggles of the Unemployed, Past and Present.

See the poster / flyer at www.9898.us/3/110402a.jpg.

"Struggles of the Unemployed, Past and Present" Saturday April 2, 2011, 2:00 PM

A panel discussion with Erik Gellman, PhD, Assistant Professor of History and Philosophy
Roosevelt University; Susan Hurley, Executive Director, Chicago Jobs with Justice; Toussaint Losier, Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign.

St. Martin’s Episcopal Church
5710 W. Midway Park Chicago
Free parking on street available

The alienation, frustration, tension, and hardship that working class people are facing today is a part of the repression we face.

In 1930 Unemployed Councils occupied welfare offices and moved evicted families back into their homes. Today we have Unemployment Compensation.

Stop Lakeview / Lincoln Park Walmart.

Wellington Church, 7PM, 615 W. Wellington. Parking located at 3030 N. Broadway.

Sign the petition: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/no_walmart_in_lakeview_chicago/

Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/lakevieweast#!/home.php?sk=group_159449284099168

The Truth About Walmart Press Conference in Lakeview
Thursday 4/21/11. 10 AM.
2840 N. Broadway (Broadway, Diversey, & Clark)

The residents in the Lakeview area overwhelming oppose the placement of a Walmart store in the neighborhood as it poses an existential threat to an otherwise vibrant and distinguished local business community. This press event is led by the Lakeview Chamber of Commerce and we will discuss the findings of Walmart's impact on jobs, small business and prices on markets into which they enter. (Hint: It's not good!) It's also a nationwide day of action as Walmart tries to implement its plans to penetrate urban markets whether they are welcome or not.

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Below is the press advisory for the Walmart event

For Immediate Release. April 20, 2011
MEDIA ADVISORY

What Walmart Doesn’t Want Chicagoans to Know

Action at University of Chicago Medical Center
Thursday 4/21/11, 3:30 PM
58th and Maryland

This event will be very powerful. It is led by two youth organizations, STOP and FLY, who are supporting the sister of the young man shot in the UCMC neighborhood and instead of being treated there, was shipped to Northwestern and he died on the way. The Chicago Sun-Times recently acknowledged that their CEO was killed at UCMC due to a medical error that likely resulted from improper staffing practices.

This hospital is receiving millions in tax breaks as a non-profit and yet is shirking its duty to the community around it in favor of well-insured patients in need of cadillac procedures.

The students are leading a press conference and "die in", and risking arrest, to demand a meeting with the CEO of UCMC to discuss bringing back the trauma center and holding the hospital accountable to the community.

MEDIA ADVISORY. For immediate release.
CONTACT: Susan Hurley, Executive Director
Chicago Jobs with Justice. (773) 412-2386

CHICAGO ACTIVISTS JOIN INTERNATIONAL CALL TO PROTECT HUMAN RIGHTS OF U.S.TOBACCO FARM WORKERS

WEDNESDAY APRIL 27th at 1:00 PM
BRITISH CONSULATE IN THE WRIGLEY BUILDING, 400 N. MICHIGAN IN CHICAGO, IL

[This release is available as a Microsoft Word document is here.]

Wednesday, April 27, union and community leaders will hand-deliver a letter to British Ambassador Nigel Sheinwald at the British Embassy in Washington, DC, asking him to urge British American Tobacco (BAT), which owns the controlling share in the U.S. tobacco giant Reynolds American, to end “widespread and egregious” human rights abuses against U.S. tobacco field workers.

*British Consulate*

*Wrigley Building *

*(400 N. Michigan [ http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=wrigley+building+chicago&ie=UTF8&hq=... ])*

*Help Deliver a Support Letter for Tobacco Workers in the US!*

Oxfam will be releasing a human rights report tomorrow on the violations of workers rights by British American Tobacco (owner of RJ Reynolds Tobacco). We are participating in a national day of action by delivering a support letter to the British Ambassador TOMORROW with the Chicago Federation of Labor. Please join us if you can!

DEFEND PUBLIC SERVICES, schools . hospitals . transportation . public services
Thursday, April 28th · 6pm
Workers United Hall 333S. Ashland Ave. . Chicago, IL

[Download the poster-flyer.]

Featuring:

- Helen Ramirez-Odell, Chicago Teachers Union Delegate

- Brenda Langford, President of National Nurses Organizing Committee Region 13, Cook County Nurse

- Loretta Capeheart, University Professionals of Illinois, Local 4100, Northeastern Illinois University Professsor

Bothers and Sisters-

Greetings in the spirit of solidarity which is what May Day is all about!* In Chicago, over the last several years, the labor movement and immigrant rights advocates have begun to reclaim this day here in America to be about international worker solidarity as it is recognized around the world.

Ths year is the 125th anniversary of the event that made May Day the symbol of worker solidarity: the Haymarket Affair, right here in Chicago. Chicago Jobs with Justice is participating in 4 meaningful events this weekend and we are inviting you to join us!

*11:OO AM-12:30 PM
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The New Americans Rally in Support of an Illinois Dream Act

St. Nicholas of Tolentine Church [ http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&q=st+nicholas+of+tolentine&fb=... ]

Map: Randolph Street and Des Plaines Street in Chicago [ http://mapq.st/jRCRXt ]

Haymarket Affair Re-enactment.
Haymarket Square near downtown Chicago, Randolph Street and DesPlaines Street.

The Pocket Guide to Hell Tours, Haymarket Pub & Brewery, the Illinois Labor History Society, the Drinking & Writing Theater, the Fulton River District Association, and Version 11: The Community are partnering in re-enacting the Haymarket Affair TOMORROW Saturday, April 30th at 2 PM at the monument to the Haymarket martyrs at Randolph and Des Plaines in Chicago. If you have period attire (or can approximate it) please do!

May Day, Protest Walmart's international exploitation of workers.

12:00 Noon, at the corner near the big Walmart in Forest Park.
Des Plaines Road and Roosevelt Road in Forest Park, Illinois. MAP! [ http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=des+plaines+and+roosevelt+in+forest+... ]

[Print, display, and hand out the .pdf poster / flyer (English, Spanish).]

Speakers include:

- Tom Balanoff, President SEIU Local 1 and Illinois State Council
- Donnie Von Moore, President Teamsters Local 743
- Jesse Miranda, Teamsters Hispanic Caucus
- Moises Zavala, Local 881 UFCW
- Margarita Klein, Workers United/SEIU Chicago and Midwest Regional Joint Board
- Robert Hines, Warehouse Workers for Justice-UE

1:00 PM Rally for Workers Rights at the Haymarket Memorial, Rededication. Forest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, IL. , 863 Des Plaines Avenue, Forest Park, IL. HERE IS A MAP! http://www.foresthomecemetary.net/image/9.gif [ http://mapq.st/lMGiEB ]

[Print, display, and hand out the .pdf poster-flyer (Spanish, English).]

The ceremony will take place in the cemetery and is sponsored by the Illinois Labor History Society, the Illinois AFL-CIO, Chicago Federation of Labor, and allies and activists in organized labor and the community.

AND, COME TO THE WALMART ACTION NEARBY BEFORE THE CEREMONY - -

12:00 Noon
PROTEST WALMART’S INTERNATIONAL WORKER EXPLOITATION.

Walmart in Forest Park. Des Plaines and Roosevelt • Forest Park, IL

12:30
MARCH, TO THE HAYMARKET MEMORIAL. 1 mile.

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1:00 PM
RALLY FOR WORKERS RIGHTS AT THE HAYMARKET MEMORIAL.

Wednesday May 4th
Free screening of "The High Cost of Low Prices"* [facebook link: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=163214487071954 ]*

7:30-10:30 PM (with discussion on Walmart's attempt to open in Lakeview [ story: http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=8067172 ])
Landmark Century Cinema
*2828 N. Diversey (Diversey and Clark)* [map: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=landmark+cen... ]

Walmart has begun its effort to expand to neighborhoods all over the city. Come find out why this is bad for small business, workers, all of our communities and YOU!

Unemployed Action Center. Thursdays, hours 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Meeting at 1:00 p.m.

 Join the Chicago Jobs with Justice Unemployed Workers Council, allied organizations, and citizens downtown.

Demand good jobs for all! Now!

    Friday, MAY 6th, the first Friday of the month.
    12:00 Noon / State of Illinois Building--Thompson Center / Randolph and Clark in Chicago [Map: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=randolph+and... ]

JOBS not Cuts! End Evictions! Make Wall Street Pay!