Here we are at Occupy Elgin, Sat, Oct 22nd
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Kathy Kelly, Renowned Peace Activist to speak in Elgin, Sept., 18th
Kathy Kelly
Kathy Kelly, coordinator of Voices for Creative Non-Violence and world renowned peace activist, will speak
on Sunday,
September 18th
at 2:00 PM
at Highland Avenue Church of the Brethren,
783 W. Highland Avenue,
Elgin, IL 60123.
Kathy has been nominated three times for a Nobel Peace Prize. She and her colleagues have travelled into active war zones to live among civilians in the line of fire, in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, and Gaza. She has brought back to Americans compassionate stories of the lives of those civilians. More recently, she has travelled to Russia.
Stop Military Strikes on Libya!
Below is the text of a flyer we will distribute at Occupy Elgin on Saturday, August 13th, 2016 from 1 PM till 2 PM.
There is no military response to terrorism. “ President Obama has said that several times himself. And yet he has recently launched military strikes in Libya in an effort to crush ISIS there.
ISIS is indeed an evil force, terrorizing and abusing the people in the territories it controls in the Middle East. More recently it has organized or inspired evil acts of terrorism within the US and Europe. But some of our allies, especially Saudi Arabia do equally barbaric things. For example, they behead people regularly. Yet we support them wholeheartedly. Our policy is hypocritical. Our own drone wars have killed at least two thousand people including hundreds of innocent civilians and many children over the past ten years.
Walk with FVC4PNJ in Elgin’s July 4th parade
We need people to walk with us in Elgin’s parade, on Monday, July 4th. The more people who walk with us the stronger our message.
Our line-up spot is Grove Street B, on Grove Street, between Lincoln and Lovell. There is free parking in downtown Elgin, and in the library lot. There is a shuttle bus to carry you from near the library to our line-up spot. Be there no later than 8:30 AM.
Our message will be a challenge to the one-percent who are waging class warfare on the poor and the middle class of America. They work to manipulate our elections, privatize our public sector, undermine our schools and libraries, keep wages low, crush unions, limit access to health care, cut or eliminate pensions, and pass trade treaties that further empower corporations. They keep us involved in permanent wars, maintain grotesque levels of military spending, and keep our homes and streets stocked with guns. They distract us from the urgency of the looming Climate Crisis. Meanwhile, they seek to divide us against one another by race, religion, gender, and age, to make it hard for us to fight back.
Break Free From Fossil Fuels Midwest Rally & March, May 15th
Fox Valley Citizens for Peace & Justice has endorsed and will participate in this March. Click here for background.. All over the world, people are marching to pressure our governments and fossil-fuel corporations to make the promises of the Paris Agreement come true. Without this pressure, it will not happen in time.
Please Join us.
Chicago Area Action
Whiting Lakefront Park,
1798 119th St.
Whiting, IN 46394
1:00 pm CT, May 15th, 2016
We will arrange car pools from the Fox Valley for the morning of May 15th. If you are interested write to us through this website.
See below to understand the passion and the power driving this event.