Archive for April, 2009

Friday, May 1, 4:00PM Haymarket Monument Randolph and Des Plaines, Chicago Labor unions and workers will gather to celebrate the annual reclaiming of May Day at Haymarket Square. This year's plaque will be dedicated by the AFL-CIO. A national AFL-CIO representative will speak about labor's fight to pass the Employee Free Choice Act. The President of United Electrical Workers Local 1110 will talk... »

Date: Saturday, May 2, 2009 Time: 10:00am - 5:30pm (9:30am Doors open for on-site registration) Location: Little Village Lawndale High School, 3120 S. Kostner, Chicago, IL Join organizers and activists from Chicago, Louisville, New York, D.C., Oakland, Atlanta, Detroit and elsewhere as we work to link our various grassroots struggles for social justice. Panelists Include: Carl Rosen, Western Region President of the United Electrical Workers, and co-organizer/supporter... »

Sunday, May 17, 2009, Oak Park, Illinois Break the Silence. Break the Blockade. Although Gaza has faded from the headlines in the aftermath of Israel’s December 2008–January 2009 bombardment and assault, the blockade and siege of Gaza’s 1.5 million residents continues. Already an impoverished, isolated zone before the winter war, Gaza now faces a humanitarian disaster of catastrophic proportions, widespread physical... »

May 30, 2009, 3PM - Roosevelt University - Come hear Amjad Ali, Representative of the Iraqi Freedom Congress. After six years of US invasion, war and destruction... Help support Iraq’s inspiring grass roots labor movement fighting for a free, secular and independent Iraq. FORUM (3 p.m.): Roosevelt University, Gage Gallery, 18 S. Michigan. AMJAD ALI of the Iraqi Freedom Congress MIKE ZWEIG of AFT... »