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.read more
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. read more
Occupy Elgin will meet on Saturday, April 16th at the intersection of Kimball Street and Grove Avenue in Elgin from 1:00 PM till 2:00 PM. Please join us!
We will hold signs calling for an end to the budget impasse in Springfield. Below is the text of the flyer we will distribute.
End Illinois Budget Impasse!
The budget impasse in Springfield is causing great suffering throughout Illinois. Services to people with disabilities, people with mental health needs, the elderly, students, and the hungry are being severely cut because Illinois has no money available to pay for these services. . The governor refuses to negotiate with the legislature unless they accept his agenda stripping workers of their collective bargaining rights.read more
Occupy Elgin will gather on Saturday, March 26th, 2016 at the corner of Kimball Street and Grove Avenue in Elgin from 1:00 PM till 2:00 PM. Please join us. We will hold signs and distribute a flyer with the following text.
Choose Love! Oppose Racism!
Life has become harder for many Americans in recent decades. Unscrupulous politicians seize upon our frustration and give us someone to blame. People of a different race or religion become easy targets, along with refugees and migrants.
But the forces that make life difficult for White Americans are the very same forces that are driving refugees to our borders and pushing African-Americans into second-class citizenship. They are the same forces that want to keep us focused on the threat of terrorism and afraid of our Muslim neighbors. These forces are the multinational corporations and the wealthiest one-percent. It serves their purposes to keep us divided against one another. That keeps us from noticing that the economic system has been rigged against all of us.read more
On March 11, 2015, members of Fox Valley Citizens for Peace and Justice lobbied two Illinois Representatives with regards to the Trans Pacific Partnership. We told them both to vote NO on Fast Track and the TPP. We dropped off literature to Tammy and gave her a letter that had signatures from unions opposing Fast Track for the TPP.
Promoting peace, a stronger democracy, and social and economic justice through education, dialog, and action
