More information on who has called this meeting would be helpful and might boost attendance. If you're just a concerned person that's fine, but if you're part of or work with an established group that would be good to know.

Here is a link to an interesting video about the Minuteman Project: www.witness.org/option,com_rightsalert/Itemid,178/task,view/alert_id,43/

See what the Save Our State (SOS) Project thought of San Diego's Indymedia...
www.saveourstate.org/forums/index.php

See what the Save Our State (SOS) Project thought of San Diego's Indymedia...
www.saveourstate.org/forums/index.php

Glen Ellyn is quite a haul for those of us who live in Chicago. Would anyone be interested in having a meeting in the city this Saturday to discuss plans? Perhaps the two groups could then contact each other to coordinate?

Nice... Gringos supporting the MS-13!

One thing potential protesters should be aware of is that this location will probably not have a lot of people walking by, so there may not be much opportunity to distribute literature (except to each other). Also, there will only be a limited amount of traffic on Euclid itself, so it might be a good idea to post some people with signs, flyers, etc. on the corner of Euclid and the Northwest Highway.

The minutemen aren't armed.

Stop lying and your point might get across.

But then again, if you do not lie, you really have no point to make.

The Minutemen who actually go to patrol the border ARE armed, and any group that seeks to recruit for them should be considered a threat.

I live off the govt. Ha ha ha Taxpaying Citizen.

Some Minutesmurfs are armed because many "coyotes" and drug smugglers use automatic weapons.

Before this thread gets hijacked by trolls, let me ask again if anyone in Chicago is interested in having a meeting in the city this weekend to discuss plans for the upcoming Chicago Minutemen conference in Arlington Heights? Or are any such meetings, other than the one in Glen Ellyn, already scheduled?

COD was chosen because it is a public location accessible by public transit in the west suburbs, also where the minutemen are to be meeting.

This effort is being coordinated by a number of student groups from community colleges and universities in the area. Expect a public call out with group names after the meeting.

Head for the hills! Cheney is turning into a monster!

In the everyday struggles against racism and violence we face steep challenges, and how we respond to those particular challenges can have far reaching ramifications - negative and positive. There is a threat before us at this very moment and how we respond to it is no small thing. The Minuteman Project is coming into the area for a rally and recruiting/training session in the Chicago suburbs. If you haven't heard about the armed, racist vigilantes patrolling the border between Mexico and the U.S. then you absolutely must read the articles that I've linked to below. Despite the fact that these people are not affiliated (officially) with any governmental organization and are taking the law into their own hands they have been getting support from people in high places including Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California. The story should disgust and anger you but will hopefully make you want to stand up and assert your right to do something about it too. The question is so much bigger than immigration alone and is being taken up by students and youth, immigrant rights organizations, civil liberties groups, and anti-racist activists alike.

www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7358268/
www.cnsnews.com/viewnation.asp=\Nation\archive\200509\NAT20050916a.html
www.hispanicbusiness.com/forum/topic.asp
www.icirr.org/storydisplay.asp

Minuteman Project official website.
www.minutemanhq.com/hq/index.php

Short online video about the Minuteman Project, produced by the American Civil Liberties Union and others.
www.witness.org/option,com_rightsalert/Itemid,178/task,view/alert_id,43

Some grassroots efforts to stop the Minuteman Project.
www.immigrantsolidarity.org/Campaigns/Minutemen.htm

Some notes on the Christian Liberty Academy:

For one thing, it’s a private Christian school that teaches its kids with something called McGuffey's Eclectic Readers. These things, which were first published in 1836, teach kids the sexist aspects of the "proper" roles for men and women, Native Americans are "savages" and Jews are very, very bad. Among the speakers at the Minuteman Project event will be project founder Chris Simcox; Terry Anderson, a black conservative L.A. radio talk show host whose main thing is to gripe about immigration; Susan Tully, National Director of Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR, or the evil FAIR, as we prefer to call them); Dave Gorak, Midwest Coalition for Immigration Reform, Keith Butler, U.S. Senate candidate for Michigan, Kevin Fobbs, Michigan/Ontario Border Watch; Frank Penn, retired Illinois State Trooper; and others.

Students from UIC, DePaul and Colombia College will be mobilizing for the demonstration as will several local immigrant rights organizations. Official endorsements forthcoming.