March & Rally for
Education not Empire!
March 4th * 4:30 pm
Federal Plaza
(Adams & Dearborn)
Chicago, IL

Students from over 30 high schools, colleges and universities in the metro chicago area plan to participate in walkouts, teach-ins, rallies, guerilla theatre, and other actions on march 4th, before converging downtown to rally to demand money for education, not warfare.

because..

Chicago Public Schools face a short fall up to 100 million dollars, after proposed budget cuts.

City Colleges face severe budget cuts

University of Illinois students face yet another year of double diget tuition increases.

At many area schools, more students end up in jail or in the military than in college.

The federal government is spending over 5 billion a month to occupy Iraq and Afganistan and Bush has proposed to increase the military budget by over nine percent, homeland security by ten percent, with less than a two percent for education.

Students and Youth, Take Action for Education not Empire!

Please post information on local actions and region convergences below:


National Books Not Bombs Day of Action: www.nyspc.net
www.campusactivism.org/booksnotbombs
Original local call to action with background info:
chicago.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/35304
Flyers and Materials:
chicago.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/36293

Local Websites:
Student Liberation Collective
www.hulla-balloo.com/slc/
Chicago Student Labor Action Project
www.chicagoslap.org
College of DuPage Campus Greens
web.greens.org/mwcampus/cod.html
Columbia College on the Ground
ontheground.okcancel.org/