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Chicago Youth Lead 500 Demanding Rahm Emanuel Ouster
By Bill Chambers Yesterday Chicago youth activists from groups like Fearless Leading by Youth (FLY) and from high schools around the city lead 500 protestors from Daley Plaza to City Hall to Michigan...
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Ahmad Sadri’s Detention Reveals the Power Struggles Behind the Iran Nuclear Deal
By Bill Chambers Last Tuesday, Ahmad Sadri, Professor of Islamic World Studies and Professor of Sociology at Lake Forest College and translator of a popular version of Shahnameh: The Epic of the...
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2015 – Islamophobia Goes Mainstream in America
By Bill Chambers With all the attention on Trump and the other Republican candidates for President making Islamophobic comments, one would think that the rise in attacks on American Muslims and Islam...
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Little Village Forces CPS to Postpone Co-Location Proposal But Fight Far From...
By Bill Chambers The Chicago Public Schools (CPS) emailed a cryptic press statement on Tuesday evening stating “CPS has postponed the proposed Saucedo/Spry colocation at the request of the community....
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CTU Rejects CPS Contract Offer That Increased Public Schools Instability
By Bill Chambers Yesterday, the forty member CTU contract negotiating team unanimously rejected a CPS offer proposed that would have added not only more fiscal instability to Chicago’s public school...
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Chicago Teachers Union & Supporters March and Occupy Bank of America for Fair...
By Bill Chambers More than three thousand teachers, staff, parents, students, and their supporters marched in Chicago yesterday for a fair contract for the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU). The protest was...
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Rasmea Odeh Case Sent Back to District Court By Appeal Ruling
By Bill Chambers Yesterday, the Federal Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals “vacated” or canceled the District Court’s judgement on the admission of expert testimony in the case of Rasmea Odeh, Chicago...
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Peace Activists Announce SEC Approves Resolution for Boeing Stockholders’...
By Bill Chambers Boeing has been a target of the global movement to Boycott, Divest, and Sanction (BDS) Israel for many years as its weapons were used in Israel’s military attack against the Gaza Strip...
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Is the UK Mandated Reporter for “Extremists” Program Coming to the US?
By Bill Chambers PREVENT, a UK government counter-terrorism strategy that “aims to stop people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism” focused on British Muslims was first introduced in 2006. Not...
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Thousands of Non-Violent Chicago Protestors Shut Down Trump Rally
By Bill Chambers There were about 3000 protestors outside the Trump rally in Chicago last night and about 1000 inside. While waiting for the never-to-appear Trump, small groups of protesters would...
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Chicago Teachers Who Occupied Bank of America Branch Get Day in Court
By Bill Chambers On Friday, twelve members of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) who occupied the lobby of the Loop Bank of America building had their first appearance in court after their arrest. About...
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Rasmea Odeh Heads Back to Court in Ongoing Campaign Against Palestine Activism
By Bill Chambers On Thursday, Palestinian community leader Rasmea Odeh heard that she will return with her attorneys and supporters to the Detroit federal court for a status conference on Monday, June...
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Islamic Medical Relief Missions to Sudan, Jordan, and Haiti Focus on the...
By Bill Chambers The Islamic Medical Association of North America (IMANA) has conducted medical relief missions around the world and provided funds for hospital projects in over 20 countries for over...
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Boeing Faces Increased Opposition on Weapons Sales to Israel
By Bill Chambers For the fourth year in a row, anti-war activists protested outside the annual Boeing shareholders meeting in Chicago yesterday. For the first time this year, Boeing shareholders who...
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Arab and Muslim Groups Protest Southwest Airlines Profiling at Stockholders...
By Bill Chambers On Wednesday morning, Southwest Airlines held its annual shareholder meeting in downtown Chicago. This year the stockholders were greeted by Arab and Muslim groups who were protesting...
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Palestinian Community Leader Rasmea Odeh Moves Closer to a New Trial
By Bill Chambers On Monday morning, over 100 of Rasmea Odeh’s supporters gathered from five states at the Federal Courthouse in Detroit to hear the results of her hearing on whether she would be...
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Orlando Shooting – How the FBI Turned LGBTQ Hate Crime into Terrorism
By Bill Chambers At the very first press conference after the Orlando shootings, FBI Special Agent Ronald Hopper, said he could not provide the name of the suspect yet, but he did say that they were...
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Chicago Activists and Teachers Occupy City Hall for Community Control of Police
By Bill Chambers Protestors from the large coalition fighting for community control of the Chicago Police were joined by hundreds of members of the Chicago Teacher’s Union (CTU) before the Wednesday...
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The Solution Still Ignored: Community Control of the Police
By Bill Chambers Over 40 years ago, Black and Latino activists in Chicago, raised the demand for community control of policing practices and justice for police crimes. The Black Panther Party and the...
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Chicago Alderman Carlos Rosa to Introduce Community Control of Police Resolution
By Bill Chambers At a press conference at City Hall yesterday morning, Chicago Alderman Carlos Ramirez-Rosa (35th) announced that he plans to introduce a resolution to provide elected community control...
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