The control of the United States' money supply should not be in the hands of a private corporation, 100% of whose shareholders are private banks. This is a conflict of interest on the part of the banks.

Waukegan teachers have been on strike since October 2nd. The Board of Education understands this means 17,000 students are out of class, but continues to sit on its hands and sends representatives with no power to make a deal. Teachers want a fair contract that includes provisions to improve health and safety conditions in the schools. More information ----> http://ow.ly/CrVpY

I'll never forget sitting in my first University level history class and learning about the atrocities committed by Christopher Columbus. This terrible man wrote in his journal about how easily he could conquer and govern the native people's of the New World. He maimed them, murderd them, and enslaved them. He used girls as young as 9 and 10 years old as sex slaves. All these atrocities are detailed in his journal. This is not revisionist ideology- this is historical fact and it is deplorable. We should not be honoring such a man with a holiday. It isn't just misleading, it's incredibly insensitive and disrespectful to his victims. I propose we change the name of this holiday to honor the memories and ancestors of his victims and the survivors of his depravity. I propose we re-name the holiday Indigenous People's Day. Let Utah join other states like Alaska, Hawaii, Oregon, and South Dakota in making this change!

Why does Laura Ingraham think it's annoying when a Latino's name is pronounced correctly? After journalist Jose Diaz-Balart translated on-air for a Spanish-speaking immigrant, Ingraham went on an anti-Latino tirade, complaining it was "annoying" Diaz-Balart was correctly pronouncing the woman's name with a Spanish accent: "He also did the annoying thing—saying her name in the native tongue at the very beginning when he introduced her," Ingraham complained on her radio show. "You cannot just say Maria Cruz Ramirez [with no accent]. You are such a gringo if you say that. You cannot say that." This isn't a first for Ingraham. She has a history of inflammatory language, once even calling the U.S. citizen children of immigrants, "anchor fetuses." The worst thing is that ABC, a mainstream network, is legitimizing her extremist rhetoric by keeping her on the payroll as a news contributor. Does ABC really want someone like Laura Ingraham representing them? Tell ABC News to drop Laura Ingraham as a contributor. Her ugly rhetoric doesn't deserve to be rewarded.

It is heart breaking to see that so many lives are lost for no reason. The fact that most of the time the police who commit these murders for no legitimate reason go unpunished makes these murders even worse.

Karl Rove's group "American Crossroads" is intentionally misleading voters and inciting anger in Iowa. His latest ad in Iowa attacks the Democratic candidate for US Senate in Iowa, Bruce Braley, by citing a famously discredited Heritage Foundation study on immigration reform which was written by a fringe researcher who believes immigrants and Latinos inherently have lower IQs than native whites. And if that's not bad enough, his ad says the Senate immigration bill is "amnesty" --- a claim Karl Rove knows is completely false. In fact, last year, Karl Rove himself wrote, "It is also important that Republicans avoid calling a pathway to citizenship "amnesty." Amnesty is the forgiveness of wrongdoing without penalty[...] The current Senate bill has plenty of penalties and hurdles for those here illegally who seek citizenship. " Our democracy has no place for people like Karl Rove who intentionally mislead voters in an attempt to incite anger. Please join with us and demand that Iowa TV stations refuse to run this ad.

Speaking out for kindergarteners at St. Leonard to have a mid-day recess.

ON 10-29-14 NIRPC WILL BE HOLDING A PUBLIC MTG. ON TRANSPORTATION ON WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER, 29TH AT THE WICKER PARK SOCIAL CENTER 2215 RIDGE ROAD IN HIGHLAND. WE HAVE CREATED AN ONLINE PETITION FOR PEOPLE TO SIGN TO SHOW THEIR SUPPORT FOR PUBLIC TRANS IN ORDER TO COMPLY WITH THE TERMS OF SETTLEMENT IN A CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT FILED ON BEHALF OF LAKE COUNTY PUBLIC TRANSIT RIDERS.

Judge Nick Kuntz is making unlawful decisions and assaulting our Rights as Parents and the Rights of our Children in order to appease his Campaign donors and serve his own personal advocacy. If he does not serve the interests and rights of the voters, he must be removed.

[TYPO correction to sentence above- corroborate not collaborate] On 21 April 2004, Vanunu was released from 18 years behind bars [convicted of treason and espionage for providing photographic proof of Israel's WMD Facility to London's SUNDAY TIMES in 1986] to 24/7 surveillance and ten years of struggle through the Supreme Court appealing for his right to leave Israel. Vanunu said, “When Johnson became president, he made an agreement with Israel that two senators would come every year to inspect. Before the senators would visit, the Israelis would build a wall to block the underground elevators and stairways. From 1963 to ’69, the senators came, but they never knew about the wall that hid the rest of the Dimona from them. “Nixon stopped the inspections and agreed to ignore the situation. As a result, Israel increased production. In 1986, there were over two hundred bombs. Today, they may have enough plutonium for ten bombs a year.” https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/479363 In April 1999, thirty-six members of the US House of Representatives signed a letter calling for Mordechai Vanunu's release from prison because they believed "we have a duty to stand up for men and women like Mordechai Vanunu who dare to articulate a brighter vision for humanity." President Clinton responded with a public statement expressing concern for Vanunu and the need for Israel and other non-parties to the Non-Proliferation Treaty to adhere to it and accept IAEA safeguards. http://www.eileenfleming.org/index.php/vanunus-freedom-of-speech A few weeks after his Freedom of Speech Trial began in March 2006, Vanunu taped this message to then Senator Hillary Clinton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Omq-QG7isA In September 2014, TNT’s Petition To Israel: “We are not free until Vanunu is FREE” was mailed to Prime Minister Netanyahu, President Rivlin, Supreme Court President, Interior Minister and enshrined in “The Vanunu Legend Israel’s Nuclear Whistleblower’s Struggle for Freedom” https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/479363 We encourage you, your staff, FBI, CIA, NSA for reading it in hope for audacious leadership. "HOPE has two children. The first is ANGER at the way things are. The second is COURAGE to DO SOMETHING about it."-St. Augustine END Israel’s Nuclear Deceptions Free Vanunu 2014! Petition ENDS and will be delivered to President Obama on November 4--- election day in the USA. The Petition to World Media and Israel: We are not free, until Vanunu is FREE remains open for signatures: https://www.causes.com/actions/1765266-a-petition-to-world-media-and-israel-we-are-not-free-until-vanunu-is-free

We, the undersigned, are writing in support of the demands of Mexican protesters and to express our indignation about the horrible events of Friday, September 26, 2014, when six people, three of them students, were assassinated and 43 other students were disappeared from the Rural Normal School “Raul Isidro Burgos” in the State of Guerrero, Mexico, and when two teachers two teachers from the State Coordinators of Workers of the Education of Guerrero were mortally wounded. The persecution and assassinations of the students by the Municipal Police of Iguala and by groups dressed in civil uniforms is extremely alarming to the international community - especially those of us who stand with these students and teachers who were organizing to defend their right to public education - and provides concrete evidence of the lack of guarantees for anyone to exercise their basic human rights, such as those of to petition, demonstrate, and organize. We demand that your government act immediately to guarantee that the 43 students who were disappeared return alive. We also demand that those responsible for the assassinations and the persecutions, be punished to the fullest extent for their heinous crimes. We believe that the fight to defend public education and the human and political rights of all the people in our countries is a righteous and just fight, and we demand that you use your positions to bring about justice for these murdered and disappeared freedom fighters. ADDITIONAL CONTEXT: (Fact Report from Centro de Derechos Humanos de la Montaña Tlachinollan) On September 26, 2014, at 9 pm, 80 students from the Rural Normal School (teacher training college), “Raul Isidro Burgos,” were headed by bus to the city of Chilpancingo from the city of Iguala. As they were leaving the bus station, police cars suddenly blocked the exit of the station and began firing their weapons intermittently without any warning whatsoever. One student was wounded and still remains in a hospital in a “vegetative state.” The students who were in the back of the bus were violently removed by the police, who forced them to lie in the street by a store. The rest of the students ran in different directions, while the municipal police continued to fire their weapons for almost 40 minutes. At midnight, as the students were informing other organizations about the attacks, a van arrived and a number of armed people jumped out and started randomly and indiscriminately firing their assault weapons. Two students, Daniel Solis Gallardo and a first year student, were killed; five students and two professors were gravely wounded. This second armed aggression lasted about 15 minutes. On September 27, Normalista students appeared at the “Fiscalía de la zona Norte de la Procuraduría General de Justicia del Estado de Guerrero (PGJE) (government judicial state offices), where they were told that no students had been detained. During the second armed attack many of the students had run away to escape the gunfire. Fifty-seven of them were now considered disappeared, including those who were detained by the municipal authorities in the first attacks. After the 27th, 14 students came out of hiding but 43 students still remain missing. At 4:00 pm, the students at the government judicial state offices (PGJE), the Public Minister informed the students who were at the state office that just three blocks away from the site of the attacks the corpse of one of the students had been found who had visible signs of torture. His eyes had been gouged out and his face had completely skinned. After being identified by his classmates, it was confirmed that it was the body of Julio Cesar Fuentes Mondragon. On these grounds, a legal complaint was lodged on September 28,2014 denouncing the crimes related to the dangerous disappearance of, of the 57 students (now 43), which was filed under the prior investigation VRA/03/2385/2014 in the State Office(PGJE) of Chilpancingo. A legal complaint has also been filed with the “Comisión Estatal de Derechos Humanos del Estado de Guerrero,” the State Commission for Human Rights of the State of Guerrero. The assassination of the three students, the situation of those who were gravely wounded and the disappeared students all constitute grave and serious violations of human rights that cannot remain unpunished. These acts are evidence that the Municipal Police used excessive force in and that there was a failure by the state and federal authorities to implement appropriate preventive and security measures to avoid the second armed aggression, as well as to stop the disappearance of the students.

Waitresses.. . We need them -- we love our jobs, but we need more money... It's $2.13 an HOUR. Please help your favorite Waitresses get at least $5.00 an hour.