Urbana

This week Urbana Public Television presents this lecture by food systems analyst Ken Meter. It airs Tuesday 1/10 @ 7:30 pm, Wednesday 1/11 @ 4:00 pm, and Saturday 1/14 @ 7:30 pm.

Ken Meter is president of the Crossroads Resource Center in Minnesota, a non-profit organization working with communities and their allies to foster democracy and local self-determination. His work integrates market analysis, business development, systems thinking, and social concerns. Mr. Meter's lecture was sponsored by Urbana's Common Ground Food Co-op, and was recorded there by UPTV in September of 2011.

UPTV is the television service of the City of Urbana, providing governmental, educational and public access television for, and by, the local community. It is available on Comcast Channel 6 to over 40,000 homes in Urbana, Champaign, Savoy, Bondville, Philo, Ogden and St. Joseph, as well as in Springfield, Decatur and Danville on ATT U-Verse Channel 99. The complete program schedule is at www.urbanaillinois.us/uptv. Membership is free and entitles volunteers to free video and editing training and equipment use. For more information, contact UPTV at 217-384-2452 or at uptv@urbanaillinois.us.

Please join us this Friday, January 6th at the Champaign Public Library, Room C, Robeson Pavilion, from 6 to 9 p.m. for the first meeting of 2012!
This meeting is open to the public and all are welcome. Come and see what Occupy is all about!

For more information see also:
https://www.facebook.com/events/299796190056209/?context=create

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 4, 2011
10:37 AM

CONTACT: ACLU

Sandhya Bathija (202) 675-2312; media@dcaclu.org

ACLU Urges House Judiciary Committee to Consider the End Racial Profiling Act
Discrimination in Law Enforcement Must End

WASHINGTON - November 4 - Racial profiling is something many Americans deal with on a regular basis that Congress should end by passing the End Racial Profiling Act. The House Judiciary Committee is hearing testimony today as a first step in that process.

“Before there was even a name for it, racial profiling has been engrained in our country’s law enforcement practices,” said Laura W. Murphy, director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office. “But racial profiling not only goes against our Constitution and our country’s value for equality – it also hinders law enforcement officials from doing their job.”

by Barbara, Ehrenreich

As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems. Large numbers of people must be fed and kept reasonably warm and dry. Trash has to be removed; medical care and rudimentary security provided -- to which ends a dozen or more committees may toil night and day. But for the individual occupier, one problem often overshadows everything else, including job loss, the destruction of the middle class, and the reign of the 1%. And that is the single question: Where am I going to pee?

Date: Saturday Oct. 15 

Time: 11:30am

11:30 People will meet at WEFT on 117 N. Market St in Champaign. Occupy 217 and other supporters will march to Westside Park. People should dress weather appropriately, bring some snacks, blankets, an open mind, musical instruments, etc.. If anyone has any ideas for things to do at the rally bring those as well.

Credit unions are a great help for working people who need affordable finanical services, no matter how little you make or what your credit history is. There are many to choose from in the local area.

An ad-hoc UCIMC group has just put up a local site for posting OCCUPY info & events for Champaign, Urbana, Central Illinois :

http://occupy217.ucimc.org/

Seeking others interested in co-organizing!