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!

At West Side Technical Institute, 2800 S. Western Ave. Information: www.labornotes.org/chicago.

Rally in support of RML Hospital workers. Saturday.

11:00 a.m. 3435 W. Van Buren.

Press contact: (773) 899-2778 or (708) 539-5313.

Detailed Press Release image:
http://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4023/c/191/images/rml%20press%20release-001.j...

More about Teamsters Local 743 and RML is at the website, http://www.743teamsters.org and Facebook page, http://www.facebook.com/pages/Teamsters-Local-743/140922922601699.

Help these workers ORGANIZE!

Join with Chicago Jobs with Justice in supporting the hard-working technicians at Comcast South on 112th who will be voting to form a union with IBEW Local 21 on Tuesday June 7th and Wednesday June 8th!

Here are three ways you can make a difference:

1. Talk to Comcast workers about the power of solidarity and the importance of working union. Call Dave Webster at 630-222-9121 or send him an email at dwebster@ibew21.org to help hand out fliers and encourage workers in the morning between now and the election. Management has started captive audience meetings and they need to hear the truth!

Unemployed Action Center. Thursdays, hours 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Call for information about the action planning meeting at 1:00 p.m.

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

Demand good jobs for all! When? Now!    Friday, June 3rd, the first Friday of the month.

[See the information at the May 24, 2011 preparatory event in this Calendar.]

[See the information at the May 24, 2011 preparatory event in this Calendar.]

  On June 14th, executives from the largest and most profitable corporations in the Midwest will be meeting in downtown Chicago at the Chamber of Commerce CFO Executive Summit.

We’ll be meeting up starting at
3:30pm at the Thompson Center (Randolph and Clark)
and marching to the intersection of Michigan Ave. and Wacker Dr.

Meet for a ride at 2pm from any of 4 places in the Chicago area:

(The Action for Jobs for July 2011 will be downtown noon on July 8th.)

Information: www.jwj.org/conference/index.html

Join with Chicago Jobs with Justice as we demand a federal jobs program! We will be responding to the jobs report released earlier in the day. It will show, as usual, the need for major investments in job creation on the part of the federal government.

We will start off at the State of Illinois Building at Randolph and Clark (100 W. Randolph) and then march to Verizon Wireless at 209 S. LaSalle and demand that corporations like Verizon pay taxes so that we can afford to create jobs and prevent layoffs in the public sector. Verizon can also help preserve good jobs by negotiating a fair contract with their workers!

First Friday Jobs Action!
Friday September 2nd
12 PM - 1 PM
State of Illinois Building
100 W. Randolph
(Randolph and Clark)

RSVP here : http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=265929180087864

State of Illinois Building James R Thompson Center
100 W. Randolph, Chicago, Illinois

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Join us to respond to demand JOBS NOT CUTS! We will respond to the jobs report due to be released earlier that day and call for the creation of a jobs program paid for Wall Street and wealthy individuals! We will then march to a nearby corporate target!

We need YOU!

Mass Mobilization to Take Back Our Future -- Jobs, Homes and Education

The Futures Industry Association and Mortgage Bankers Association are coming to Chicago. Join thousands of Chicagoans to send a clear message: We’re taking back our jobs, homes, and education.

4:00 PM Federal Plaza
4:30 PM March to Art Institute

Join us and bring a friend!

Thousands from organizations all over the city will step off from locations in the loop to create feeder marches to the Art Institute. Be part of the movement!

Facebook page. Facebook registration not required.

Mass Mobilization to Take Back Our Future -- Jobs, Homes and Education

The Futures Industry Association and Mortgage Bankers Association are coming to Chicago. Join thousands of Chicagoans to send a clear message: We’re taking back our jobs, homes, and education.

4:00 PM Federal Plaza
4:30 PM March to Art Institute

Join us and bring a friend!

Thousands from organizations all over the city will step off from locations in the loop to create feeder marches to the Art Institute. Be part of the movement!

Facebook page. Facebook registration not required.

Chicago Jobs with Justice is celebrating its 20th year as a local coalition; and we invite you to help us honor one of the preeminent labor leaders who was integral to our founding and continued success.

University of Illinois-Chicago
Student Center East
Cardinal Room
750 S. Halsted
Chicago, IL 60607

To become a sponsor of this event or to purchase tickets, contact Monica Heth at 312.496.3647 or monica.heth+rsvp@gmail.com!

An online brochure and donation form are available HERE.

Mass Mobilization to Take Back Our Future -- Jobs, Homes and Education

The Futures Industry Association and Mortgage Bankers Association are coming to Chicago. Join thousands of Chicagoans to send a clear message: We’re taking back our jobs, homes, and education.

4:00 PM Federal Plaza
4:30 PM March to Art Institute

Join us and bring a friend!

Thousands from organizations all over the city will step off from locations in the loop to create feeder marches to the Art Institute. Be part of the movement!

Facebook page. Facebook registration not required.

Mass Mobilization to Take Back Our Future -- Jobs, Homes and Education

The Futures Industry Association and Mortgage Bankers Association are coming to Chicago. Join thousands of Chicagoans to send a clear message: We’re taking back our jobs, homes, and education.

4:00 PM Federal Plaza
4:30 PM March to Art Institute

Join us and bring a friend!

Thousands from organizations all over the city will step off from locations in the loop to create feeder marches to the Art Institute. Be part of the movement!

Facebook page. Facebook registration not required.

We're Not Broke! We Just Need to "Move the Money!"

Chicago Jobs with Justice and dozens of unions and community organizations are hosting a town hall meeting Members of Congress, Jan Schakowsky, Danny Davis and Jesse Jackson, Jr.

We will be taking about how as a nation we are NOT broke, but rather resources are being concentrated in the wrong hands and spent on the wrong things.

We will demand:

Jobs NOT Cuts!
Rebuild America!
End the Wars!
Bring the War Dollars Home!
Make Wall Street Pay!

After the forum, we marched over to join with Occupy Chicago at Congress and Michigan!

Join us!

Thursday October 20th
6:00 PM
Chicago Temple
77 W. Washington

Find out more here: http://www.facebook.com/MoveTheMoneyChicago?ref=ts&sk=wall

Join the Movement! Occupy Chicago!

Thanks and In Solidarity,

Susan Hurley
Executive Director
Chicago Jobs with Justice

Join with Occupy Chicago, and occupations around the country, in protesting police brutality and repression toward the movement.

Wednesday, November 2, 2011
5 PM - Student Walkouts - Columbia College, UIC, DePaul, Northwestern
6 PM - March to City Hall - Gather at Jackson & LaSalle
7 PM - Occupy Chicago General Assembly - Michigan & Congress

March with Occupy Chicago. 6 PM --

FROM LaSalle and Jackson [map].

TO City Hall, 121 N. LaSalle [map].

State of Illinois Building (James R Thompson Center) / 100 W. Randolph, Chicago Loop

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Join us to respond to demand JOBS NOT CUTS! We will respond to the jobs report due to be released earlier that day and call for the creation of a jobs program paid for Wall Street and wealthy individuals! We will then march to a nearby corporate target!

We need YOU!

Rally and March Against Cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and HUD programs

March and Rally on Monday, November 7th

Our Retirement Security, Our Housing, OUR FUTURE!
Seniors Take on the Fight!

Rally at 10:15 am and March at 11:00 am

Federal Plaza, Chicago

Back to the Streets!

For more information, call JASC at 312-787-2382

Full details at http://www.seniorcaucus.org/ .

11 AM Memorial and Speak-Out
at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Wacker and Wabash

12 Noon March to Occupy Chicago
at LaSalle and Jackson.

  The proposed Chicago budget would close 1/2 of our mental health clinics and privatize all other city clinics!

Chicago Temple, downtown. Noon, Tuesday Nov. 15, 2011.

The Southside Together Organizing for Power website, www.stopchicago.org, has complete event and history information.

Put America back to work. Thompson Center Plaza rally, march.

Brothers and Sisters-

Join Chicago Jobs with Justice for a national day of action for Jobs NOT Cuts! This event is endorsed and sponsored by Stand Up! Chicago, SEIU, MoveOn.org, the Chicago Federation of Labor, Occupy Chicago and many community organizations. YOU should be there!

This is a day of action to send a message to Congress and the so-called "Super Committee" that we want jobs NOT cuts! We will be demanding a jobs program to rebuild our communities! Join us!

(2:30 PM bus from 333 S. Ashland [map].*)

Chicago Jobs with Justice First Friday Action for Jobs.

State of Illinois Building (James R Thompson Center) / 100 W. Randolph (at Clark St.), Chicago Loop [map].

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Join us to demand JOBS NOT CUTS! We will respond to the jobs report due to be released earlier that day and call for the creation of a jobs program paid for by Wall Street and wealthy individuals! We will then march to a nearby corporate target!

We need YOU!

"I am going to DC to help Take Back the Capitol, to tell lawmakers that we need jobs not cuts! They need to extend unemployment benefits and get to work on a real jobs program," said Andy Gebel, an unemployed activist with Chicago Jobs with Justice.

200+ community and union activists headed out at 5 AM Monday morning to join thousands setting up a camp on the national mall demanding and economic recovery for working people.

"I am going to DC to help Take Back the Capitol, to tell lawmakers that we need jobs not cuts! They need to extend unemployment benefits and get to work on a real jobs program," said Andy Gebel, an unemployed activist with Chicago Jobs with Justice.

200+ community and union activists headed out at 5 AM Monday morning to join thousands setting up a camp on the national mall demanding and economic recovery for working people.

"I am going to DC to help Take Back the Capitol, to tell lawmakers that we need jobs not cuts! They need to extend unemployment benefits and get to work on a real jobs program," said Andy Gebel, an unemployed activist with Chicago Jobs with Justice.

200+ community and union activists headed out at 5 AM Monday morning to join thousands setting up a camp on the national mall demanding and economic recovery for working people.

"I am going to DC to help Take Back the Capitol, to tell lawmakers that we need jobs not cuts! They need to extend unemployment benefits and get to work on a real jobs program," said Andy Gebel, an unemployed activist with Chicago Jobs with Justice.

200+ community and union activists headed out at 5 AM Monday morning to join thousands setting up a camp on the national mall demanding and economic recovery for working people.

Please join with the Chicago Federation of Labor and Chicago Jobs with Justice for a solidarity rally with the unemployed activists currently lobbying DC RIGHT NOW for an extension of unemployment benefits!

Thursday December 8th, 3:30 PM. Federal Plaza, Dearborn and Adams

Thousands of labor and community activists have set up a tent city on the national mall to demand action for America's working families: Jobs and Benefits NOW!

You can help save Christmas for millions people struggling in this holiday season.

Join us for a solidarity rally THIS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8th at 3:30 PM at Federal Plaza!

We will gather petition signatures downtown and send them to Kirk and Durbin. Help us save this holiday season and preserve the lifeline millions are depending on.

Thanks for all that you do!

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=192888974131750

The Creative Movement Award ceremony and the following dinner on Friday, December 9th are in celebration of people, projects, and organizations that are helping create a climate for social change in the United States. Details ...