This post is taken from a July 12 CU Indivisible email:  Everywhere we turn, there’s heart-sickening news story we feel we can’t to anything about. Today, I have an action you can take that will directly impact our community and make our community a little more fair. Join us in calling on Champaign City Council … Continue reading From CU Indivisible: Sign the Petition for Fair Chance Housing in Champaign

A local group has created a petition to the Champaign City Council to eliminate discriminate in housng against people with conviction records. The group includes members from CUP, Bend the Arc, CU Indivisible and CU Tenant Union. Briefly, Section 17-4.5 of the Champaign City Code allows landlords to use conviction records to deny our neighbors … Continue reading Sign the Fair Chance Housing Petition for City Council Meeting on July 24

Illinois Newsroom, Illinois Public Media, Jane Addams Bookstore and Riggs Beer Company invite you for a discussion driven by data, research, and stories around the impact of Books in Prisons. The date is Tuesday, July 24, 6:00 - 7:30 pm. at the Riggs Beer Company, 1901 S High Cross Rd, Urbana. This April, education reporter … Continue reading News & Brews: Books in Prisons, Why So Complicated?

  Stand Against Poverty, Mass Rally & Moral Revival This event is sponsored by Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival and Ben & Jerry's. This post was summarized from the Facebook event. On Saturday, June 23 the #PoorPeoplesCampaign will head to the US Capitol in Washington, D.C. for a Mass Rally & … Continue reading National Poor People’s Campaign: Finale in DC on June 23

We are in the final weeks of the national Poor People's Campaign, with an Illinois culmination in Chicago on June 18 and a national gathering in DC on June 23.  The Coordinating Committee for Illinois provide this report on last week's event and foreshadows what's coming. Earlier this week, we rallied in front of the … Continue reading Report from IL Poor People’s Campaign Coordinating Committee