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Campaigns & Issues
A New New Deal:
Obama Year One
Taking Stock: Where Are We and Where Do We Go From Here? Saturday, February 20, 2010, 1:30pm - 4:30pm Roosevelt University Auditorium Building (430 S. Michigan), Room 232 This past year, in the aftermath of the historic 2008 elections and in the midst of the deepest economic crisis since the Great Depression, activists and... »
Petition to Protect Our Community Hospitals
Resurrection Health Care recently announced plans to sell West Suburban and Westlake Hospitals to Vanguard Health Systems, a for-profit corporation. Now employees and community residents who rely on these hospitals are concerned about their future. The Illinois Attorney General will review this proposed sale because it involves a for-profit corporation taking over nonprofit hospitals. We must demans that this sale... »
A New New Deal: How We Make It Happen!
Saturday, June 13, 2009, 12:30-5:00 p.m. Workers United Hall, 333 S. Ashland, Chicago An organizing workshop to build the movement for change based on human needs by connecting the fights for ending wars and militarism; workers' rights; the right to health care; and stopping foreclosures. Visit the event page for details Join other Chicago area labor, community, religious leaders and... »
Rally: Tell Resurrection Health Care to Put Patients First
Action for Quality Patient Care Thursday, April 30 from 6:15 PM to 7:30 PM Bentley/Lamborghini Gold Coast 834 N. Rush St., Chicago Employees at Resurrection Health Care's eight hospitals work hard to ensure that patients get high quality care. However, Resurrection Health Care management has focused on the bottom line and the impact on quality of care is painfully clear. Resurrection Hospitals consistently... »
A Living Wage for the Village of Oak Park
Economic Justice - More than Necessary in These Difficult Times. Unite Temple Social Mission Committee Presents a Public Forum Living Wage Ordinance Endorsed by a Majority of Oak Park Electorate Sunday, April 26 Gale House (124 N. Kenilworth, Oak Park, IL) 12:45 PM: Doors Open 1:00 PM: Light Lunch 1:30 PM: Speakers 2:00 PM: Open Discussion 2:30 PM: End of Program Facilitator: Janet Holden (Unity Temple Social Mission Committee) Speakers: Tom Broderick - History... »
Resurrection West Suburban Hospital Cooks the PR Books
Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics: RWS Hospital Cooks the PR Books by Bill Barclay Recently Pat Shehorn, the new CEO at Oak Park's Resurrection West Suburban Hospital (RWS; she also continues as CEO at Westlake Hospital in Melrose), had initiated a PR campaign to rehabilitate the hospital's image in the minds of the surrounding community. In both ads and letters to the... »
OPAHA: Fighting for Quality Health Care and Workers’ Rights
Oak Park Austin Health Alliance Working to Reform West Suburban / Resurrection Hospital In 2004 Oak Park’s largest hospital, West Suburban, was acquired by Resurrection Health Care (RHC), a large Catholic hospital chain. West Suburban was a primary source of quality health care in the Oak Park and Austin communities as well as... »
A New New Deal: What Should It Look Like?!
Video / Resource Page for the New New Deal Panel View video segments from this successful panel, held on Jan. 25 to discuss progressive solutions to the unprecedented domestic and global crises we all face. Panelists discussed policy recommendations that can bring about real change. Topics included: the economy, green energy, health care, and foreign policy. The Panel ... »
Working for a New New Deal
By John Bactell People's Weekly World, 02/02/09 OAK PARK, Ill. - Nearly 100 activists and concerned citizens gathered on Sunday, Jan. 25 for a lively forum hosted by the Oak Park Coalition for Truth and Justice (OPCTJ) entitled, “A new, new deal: what should it look like?” http://www.opctj.org The gathering was like hundreds of others that have been held in the wake of the... »
A Jobs Program for the U.S.
Presented By the Chicago Political Economy Group This paper proposes a jobs program to address both the chronic problems of unemployment and underemployment in the U.S. economy and the debilitating economic and political impacts of growing inequality in the U.S. The jobs program... »
Featured Resources
Feb. 20, 2010 - Obama Year One - Taking Stock: Where Are We and Where Do We Go From Here?Join leaders of the labor, peace, immigrant rights, healthcare reform, and economic justice movements in assessing the past year and current political conditions to determine ways we can work together towards progressive change.
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