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
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. 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
Promoting peace, a stronger democracy, and social and economic justice through education, dialog, and action
