| Fox Valley Voices for Democracy, a newly formed organization, along with Fox Valley Citizens for Peace & Justice will hold aDemonstration of Protest to express our strenuous rejection of
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Three Upcoming Events
Occupy Elgin will meet on Saturday, March 11th from 1 PM till 2 PM at the corner of Kimball Street and Grove Avenue in Elgin. We will hold signs and distribute flyers. Our emphasis will be:
Immigrants are Welcome Here!
Refugees are Welcome Here!
Muslims are Welcome Here!
We strongly oppose the Travel Ban on people from six Arab countries and the plans to detain and deport many immigrants.
On Saturday evening, March 11th, Fox Valley Citizens for Peace and Justice will participate in a film showing and panel discussion in Batavia.
Occupy Elgin, Sat., Feb 25th, 1:00 PM till 2:00 PM: Stop Trump Agenda.
Occupy Elgin will meet on Saturday, Feb 25th at the corner of Kimball Street and Grove Avenue in Elgin from 1:00 PM till 2:00 PM. Our theme will be a call to stop the destructive agenda of Trump. We will give special attention to Trump’s terrible Supreme Court nomination, his unfit cabinet appointments, his increasingly visible incompetence, his Muslim Travel Ban, and his decision to direct the Army Corp of Engineers to begin drilling for the DaKota Access Pipeline. We will not limit ourselves to those topics.
Occupy Elgin, December 17th, 1:00 PM, Save Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security
Occupy Elgin will gather at the corner of Kimball Street and Grove Avenue in Elgin on Saturday, December 17th from 1 :00 PM till 2: 00 PM. Our message for the day will be a call to Save Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. Below is the text of the flyer we will distribute.
Save Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security!
House Speaker Paul Ryan plans to change Medicare drastically. His plan would charge seniors more money and provide less health coverage.
Ryan intends to replace traditional Medicare, an efficient program offering guaranteed treatment and featuring rock-bottom administrative costs, with a privatized program. Seniors would get a federal voucher to help them pay premiums to buy private health insurance. Ryan calls this system “premium support.”
#NO DAPL Action Events for December 1st in Chicago Metro Area
For those of us who cannot go to the Sacred Stone Camp in North Dakota to be physically with the Standing Rock Sioux, there are important things we can do locally. to support them.
As most of you know, the Army Corp of Engineers has issued a notice that they will evict water protectors and their allies from the Sacred Stone Camp on Monday, December 5th. The Standing Rock Sioux have vowed to stand and hold their positions. Most of you are also aware of the violence perpetrated upon the Sioux and their allies by law enforcement bodies.
We plan some solidarity actions beginning on Thursday, December 1st. We will target branches of the banks which are invested in and supportive of the Dakota Access Pipeline. We call upon them to withdraw their funding from the project, as the Norwegian bank has done. We will call upon the customers going in and out of those banks to consider moving their money to other institutions.
Please Join us.
Here is the schedule of our plans for Thursday:
1) 8 AM till 9 AM, Chase Bank at Grove Avenue and Chicago Street in Elgin.
2) 10 AM till 11 AM, Citibank at 800 S. Barrington Road in Streamwood,
3) 1 PM till 2 PM, Wells Fargo Bank at 210 So Roselle Rd in Schaumberg.
4) There is also at least one event planned for Chicago. You can read about it here.
5) We are also aware of an event planned for a bank at 4 PM in South West Naperville. The details of this event are not yet available, but you can sign up to get more information here.
Bring a relevant sign and join us.