YAOTL ( Young Activists Organizing As Today’s Leaders Presents
Valentine’s Day party
Friday Feb. 12th 3610 W. 26th St.
6 Pm. – 9 Pm.
Featuring
- Open Mic ( Hip Hop, Poetry, Drama)
-Curie Breaker Crew Battle
- DJ Ang ( House, Dance)
$10 suggested donation
NO GANGS… NO VIOLENCE…
The Next Step – COP 16 Mexico
By Breli
What will the outcome of this conference be?
Since the Copenhagen Accord is non-binding and has left numerous concepts to be agreed upon it has brought deliberation about COP 16, which the President of Mexico has announced will be hosted in Cancun from November 29 to December 10, 2010. This Conference will not only serve as an opportunity for government representatives to negotiate on how to reduce green house gas emissions but also a chance for all the people that will be taking part in this action to share their stories, opinions, thoughts, hopes and ideas to make our world an environmentally healthy place for everyone.
Our hope right now is to reach an agreement at this conference as a follow up to the Kyoto Protocol which expires in 2012. We might have a possibility for an establishment of a binding post-Kyoto international climate agreement in 2010 if climate legislation that offers essential emission cuts and international financial commitments is passed by the U.S. Senate before November 2010.
The conference is open to everyone and there is expected to be up to 20,000 participants. We hope for a good outcome at this conference, let’s make it happen.
It was only a few days ago, January 27th, that President Barack Obama delivered “The State of the Union Address”. And of course, this had both its pros and cons. First of, President Obama covered a variety of topics during his address; from topics such as the recession, going “green”, and equal pay. The following quote is what I thought was one of the biggest “cons” in Obama’s address: “But to create more of these clean energy jobs, we need more production, more, efficiency, more incentives. And that means building a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants in this country. It means making tough decisions about opening new offshore areas for oil and gas development. It means continued investment in advanced bio-fuels and clean coal technologies. And yes, it means passing a comprehensive energy and climate bill with incentives that will finally make clean energy the profitable kind of energy in America.” Clean coal, and nuclear power is certainly not eco-friendly, energy efficient, nor clean at all from my perspective. It just does not exist. It’s like trying to cleanse a puddle of mud with “Windex” and stating that it’s clean enough. On the contrary, one of the things I fully agreed on was “equal pay”. I am really glad president Obama mentioned this. Women make only about 75cents for every $1 men make. As you can see, there is a major gap between the two quantities. Equal pay would play a very important role in society. It is prejudice for women to get paid less than men. Lets hope this change is made. During The State of The Union, Obama managed to obtain the audiences’ laughter with what he said: “And if there’s one thing that has unified Democrats and Republicans, and everybody in between, it’s that we all hated the bank bailout. I hated it — I hated it. You hated it. It was about as popular as a root canal.” If you missed out on Obama’s State of the Union Address, you can access his speech at the web address at the bottom of this page. Let us know what YOU thought about The State of the Union by sending us an email at elcilantro@lvejo.org http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/28/us/politics/28obama.text.html?pagewanted=1&sq=the%20state%20of%20the%20union%20address&st=cse&scp=1
By: an anonymous writer(:
By: Tiburon
1/8/2010
This week, the Regional Transit Authority which oversees public transit in Chicago and the surrounding suburbs
is being slapped with a civil rights lawsuit. The complaint is that funding for CTA and Metra buses and trains favor whiter
suburbs whereas in the city, we get less services and pay more at the same time…
What does this lawsuit mean for people living in Little Village, Pilsen and South-West Sides of Chicago??? Looking at the data
it is no surprise that the ridership of Metra is over 70% white and CTA riders are over 60% Black and Latino.
Since 1983, fare hikes have risen about 30% for Metra riders, whereas CTA have seen fares rise over 200% since 1983.
Why is that? Why do the suburbs get better bus and train services than us even tough we pay more?
RACISM seems to be the easy answer. For too long, we, the working class residents of Chicago have had to endure longer waits,
over-crowded buses…those long train delays and more.
We shouldnt have to pay for the bad mistakes of others.
In a democracy we elect our leaders and if do good they stay and if they do bad they get fired like us…
We will see how the lawsuit unfolds with the RTA
In the meantime, if you would like to get involved in campaign for reforming CTA public transit,
contact Mike Pitula- Public Transit Organizer, www.chicagopublictransit.org
or visit our offices at 2856 s Millard to get involved.
Peace
Next YAOTL meeting is 1/21/10 at 5:30 pm.
Movie night & Discussion
“Death of a Black Panther”
Come join us!
Check out this article and audio slideshow!
Alderman Takes Aim at Power-Plant Emissions
by: Chip Mitchell
http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/content.aspx?audioid=38889
Please distribute.
Stop Rigo’s deportation
Stop the deportation of undocumented students
Fight for fair immigration reform!
The work to stop Rigo’s deportation continues.
This student from the University of Illinois at Chicago is a good person, student, an asset to the community, a friend.
His set date for deportation is December 16th, 2009, and most legal options have been exhausted.
His deportation, and the deportation of other undocumented immigrant students illustrate what is wrong with current immigration laws. We need to demand that ICE immediately halt Rigo’s deportation through an administrative closure or to defer his deportation proceedings, stop deporting immigrant students, and that our legislators work to quickly pass just and humane immigration reform.
Rigo and millions of others like him can not wait.
We have just 16 days to show ICE that we have had enough of seeing our youth deported. We have just 16 days to send thousands of faxes to DHS Secretary Napolitano and ICE Director John Morton. We have just 16 days to stop Rigo’s deportation!
What you can do:
Send your fax here: http://icirr.e-actionmax.com/takeaction.asp?aaid=184
Thank you for your continuing work and support
If you have any questions please contact Tania at ilehlainat@gmail.com
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