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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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DePaul Coalition Calls for Removal of Dean Implicated in Guantanamo Torture
A coalition of DePaul University students, faculty and alumni held a press conference on Thursday, October 1st, 2015 with academics Dr. Frank Summers and M. Cherif Bassiouni to demand removal of...
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Palestinian Community Leader Rasmea Odeh & Supporters Seek #Justice4Rasmea in...
Rasmea Odeh, her attorneys, and hundreds of supporters will appear before the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Cincinnati on October 14 for oral arguments on the appeal of her November 2014...
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Rasmea Odeh & Supporters Fight for Justice in the Appeals Court
About 100 hundred supporters from Chicago, Ohio, Minnesota, Florida, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Michigan rallied for Palestinian community leader Rasmea Odeh in front of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the...
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2015 – Islamophobia Goes Mainstream in America
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 just began in the...
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Little Village Forces CPS to Postpone Co-Location Proposal But Fight Far From...
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. We will hold...
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Is the UK Mandated Reporter for “Extremists” Program Coming to the US?
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 surprisingly,...
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Chicagoans Commemorate World Week for Peace in Palestine Israel 2015
From September 21th through the 27th, The Palestine Israel Ecumenical Forum (PIEF) called for a “World Week for Peace in Palestine Israel.” The PIEF was launched by the World Council of Churches in...
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Chicagoans Protest Attacks on Freedom to Worship at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque
Along with similar protests in New York, Jerusalem, Hebron, Ramalah, and Gaza City, 300 Chicagoans protested the escalating Israeli security forces and extremist settler attacks on Muslim worshippers...
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Congressional Briefing on Israeli Treatment of Palestinian Child Prisoners
On Tuesday, June 2 at 9:30AM, there will be a Congressional Briefing sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) with opening remarks by US Representative Keith Ellison focusing on a...
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Thousands March for a Just Chicago and a Fair Contract for Teachers
On Tuesday, about four thousand Chicago teachers, parents, and their supporters rallied at the Thompson Center and marched down LaSalle Street to the Chicago Board of Trade. They demanded not only a...
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Chicago Arab Community Leader Rasmea Odeh Appeals Conviction
Attorneys for Rasmea Odeh, Arab community leader in Chicago, have filed an appeal of her November 2014 conviction for “unlawful procurement of naturalization.” Her defense team states “justice...
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Angela Davis and Rasmea Odeh: Sisters in a Growing Solidarity Movement
Last Sunday afternoon at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a sold-out crowd of over 500 activists, community leaders, organizers, poets, and artists came together for an event titled “Freedom...
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Al-Quds Day Commemorated in Chicago
On Friday in Chicago, a diverse crowd of 250 people commemorated Al-Quds Day that takes place annually in multiple cities around the world. This year’s event was held on the one-year anniversary of...
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Why is the Anti-BDS Lobby Celebrating Their Non-Victory in Illinois?
If you read the self-congratulatory messages from the anti-BDS lobby, you would think that they won a major victory against what they call “anti-Israel hate.” Here is a message that The Israel Project...
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Why is the Anti-BDS Lobby Celebrating Their Non-Victory in Illinois?
If you read the self-congratulatory messages from the anti-BDS lobby, you would think that they won a major victory against what they call “anti-Israel hate.” Here is a message that The Israel Project...
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Congressional Briefing on Israeli Treatment of Palestinian Child Prisoners
On Tuesday, June 2 at 9:30AM, there will be a Congressional Briefing sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) with opening remarks by US Representative Keith Ellison focusing on a...
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Thousands March for a Just Chicago and a Fair Contract for Teachers
On Tuesday, about four thousand Chicago teachers, parents, and their supporters rallied at the Thompson Center and marched down LaSalle Street to the Chicago Board of Trade. They demanded not only a...
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Chicago Arab Community Leader Rasmea Odeh Appeals Conviction
Attorneys for Rasmea Odeh, Arab community leader in Chicago, have filed an appeal of her November 2014 conviction for “unlawful procurement of naturalization.” Her defense team states “justice...
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Al-Quds Day Commemorated in Chicago
On Friday in Chicago, a diverse crowd of 250 people commemorated Al-Quds Day that takes place annually in multiple cities around the world. This year’s event was held on the one-year anniversary of...
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