Holiday Party (and sort of meeting) - Dec 18

NA4J members and friends will celebrate the holidays and our continuing work for social justice




Friday, Dec. 18, 6:30 - 10pm
Edgewater Presbyterian Church (NA4J office)
1020 W. Bryn Mawr #312

Drop in for a quick chat or stay for a while and listen to music and enjoy refreshments.
We'll have a short update on housing, jobs, community justice and more at the beginning.

Feel free to bring something to share if you'd like, but your presence and support are most important.

Support Worker Rights!

Rally for workers during JwJ National WEEK OF ACTION: March 27 - April 4 !

NA4J supports Jobs With Justice in the struggle for worker rights and dignity. Lets build on the momentum gained by the Republic Windows and Doors victory and support Fillip Metals workers!

Fillip Metal has been sold and the Union Members, some of whom have worked there for 32 years, are being laid off without any benefits. Join Teamsters 743 as they fight for fair compensation!

DATE: Tuesday March 17, 2008 TIME: 12 noon
PLACE: Fillip Metal Cabinet Co., 701 N. Albany, Chicago
Contact information: Teamsters Local 743: (773) 254-7460

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Tell the Chamber of Commerce: Stop the Lies about Worker Rights

The Chamber of Commerce and major corporations are funding phony front groups to lie to people about the Employee Free Choice Act. The Chicago Jobs with Justice coalition members are mobilizing for a rally at the Chamber to tell them to stop lying and stop blocking worker justice and a fair economy.

Tuesday, March 31, 12 Noon
200 E. Randolph
Bring your signs and banners!

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Support Teachers' Right to Organize

Teachers at several Chicago charter schools are organizing to improve their conditions and the educational environment of our children. Most charter schools, run like businesses, have been resistant to recognizing the right to organize, not to mention undermining public education.

Stay tuned for details during the JwJ Week of Action.

More action to support police torture victims in Chicago

6 years is too long to wait!
Rally, Press Conference, & Peoples Delegation:
Tell Lisa Madigan that Burge torture victims deserve new trials!

April 6, noon
Thompson Center, 100 W. Randolph (at Clark)

In April 2003, Attorney General Lisa Madigan was appointed to oversee the cases of dozens of police torture victims under former Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge, who goes on trial in May.

For nearly six years, the prisoners and their families, activists, and attorneys having been asking the Attorney General to initiate evidentiary hearings for men who faced electro-shock, suffocation, beatings and mock executions in Area 2 and Area 3 police interrogation rooms.

While President Obama has ordered the closing of Guantanamo Prison due to international outcry over torture, Lisa Madigan has allowed dozens of Chicago police torture victims, all of whom are African-American, to languish in prison in Obama's backyard.

In 2007, the Cook County Board of Commissioners passed a resolution calling on Madigan to initiate new hearings for all police torture victims. It is now March of 2009 and she has still refused to take substantial action. Even more disturbing, on April 7 2009, rather than grant relief to torture victims, she is hoping that a judge will allow her to pass five of the torture cases to new States Attorney Anita Alvarez.

With Lisa Madigan gearing up for a run for Governor, it's time for her to take responsibility for the Burge torture cases. No public official who condones torture is fit to be in the State's highest office. Join exonerated torture victims, activists, attorneys, and family members for a rally, press conference, and a people’s delegation to Lisa Madigan’s office to tell her:

* Six years is to long to wait! Police torture victims deserve new trials immediately.

For more information or to co-sponsor this event, call (312)-623-1602 or email joshua.brollier@gmail.com

Event is co-sponsored by
Northside Action for Justice
Campaign to End the Death Penalty
Voices for Creative Non-Violence
Francis of Assisi Catholic Worker House
DePaul Students Against the Death Penalty
Eighth Day Center for Justice
Black People Against Police Torture
International Socialist Organization
Justice Coalition of Greater Chicago
Tamms Year Ten
Citizens Alert

Naomi Klein at Loyola - Jan 29

Award-winning author of No Logo
NAOMI KLEIN
speaking on her latest book Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.

The event will include talk, Q & A, and book signing.

Thursday, January 29, 2009
7:00pm - 10:00pm
Loyola University Chicago
Mundelein Auditorium
1020 West Sheridan Road
(NE corner at Kenmore)

Open to the public; free with Loyola ID. $1 for non-Loyolans.

Co-sponsored by: Loyola Campus Greens, Center for Ethics, Environmental Studies Program, International Studies Program, Department of History, Department of Sociology, Loyola Anti-War Network, Loyola Students Against Sweatshops, the Loyola Chapter of Oxfam, Loyola's Vegan & Vegetarian Society, and Jeff Harder. Generously underwritten by Loyola's Student Activity Fund.

Watch Naomi Klein break down her position on the bailout at the Nation/Brecht Forum about the financial crisis: