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National Immigrant Solidarity Network April 10-12, 2009 UIC Student Center West http://www.ImmigrantSolidarity.org Conference Hotline: (773)942-2268 Travel and Housing For a complete lists of conference housing, please visit HERE
Information About the Conference Site: UIC Student Center West Direction to UIC Directions to CampusDirection to UIC Student Center West Campus Parking
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Getting Around Chicago: Mass Transits
Tourist Information: Wiki Travel Chicago: http://wikitravel.org/en/Chicago Timeout Chicago: http://www.timeout.com/chicago/ Chicago Convention and Tourism Bureau http://www.choosechicago.com Chicago Chinatown: http://www.chicagochinatown.org Weather for Chicago: http://www.weather.com/weather/local/USIL0225
Information, Government, History About Chicago: City of Chicago Offical Site: http://www.cityofchicago.org Federal Government Offices in Chicago (Google Search) Wikipedia Chicago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago Chicago Tribune (Largest newspaper in Chicago): http://www.chicagotribune.com
Progressive, Immigrant Rights, Activist Resources For Chicago: Chicago 1886 -- The Birth of First May Day International Workers Day It all began over a century ago when the American Federation of Labour adopted an historic resolution which asserted that "eight hours shall constitute a legal day's labour from and after May 1st, 1886". In the months prior to this date workers in there thousands were drawn into the struggle for the shorter day. Skilled and unskilled, black and white, men and women, native and immigrant were all becoming involved. In Chicago alone 400,000 were out on strike. A newspaper of that city reported that "no smoke curled up from the tall chimneys of the factories and mills, and things had assumed a Sabbath-like appearance". This was the main centre of the agitation, and here the anarchists were in the forefront of the labour movement. It was to no small extent due to their activities that Chicago became an outstanding trade union centre and made the biggest contribution to the eight-hour movement. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_Riot http://struggle.ws/about/mayday.html
Chicago 2006 -- The May Day Immigrant Rights Movement Chicago - home of the original May Day. Although the 1st of May is not a holiday in the US, thousands of workers and school students walked out today to take part in a huge pro-immigration march across the city. 120 years ago immigrant workers speaking a mixture of European languages struck to demand a 8 hour day. Today workers from another continent are coming together to demand that they be treated as equal citizens to the descendants of those who won that right. Chicago: Twenty thousand march for immigrant rights May 1, 2008 On May Day 2007, call rings out for immigrant rights May Day 2006: El Pueblo Unido... A historic May Day in Chicago
Other Useful Chicago Actvism Resources Chicago Independnet Media Center: http://chicago.indymedia.org Acme Artworks Mexico Solidarity Network National Lawyers Guild - Chicago Chapter
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