Category Archives: Protests

Occupy Elgin for Sat., Nov. 26th, 2016

Occupy Elgin will gather on Saturday, November 26th at the corner of Kimball Street and Grove Avenue in Elgin from 1 PM till 2 PM. Our message will be

WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED!

Below is the text of the flyer we will distribute.
We are shocked and saddened by the recent election. But we will continue to stand up for peace and diplomacy along with racial, economic, gender, social, and environmental justice. These are moral commitments, and we will not back down from them.

We celebrate the greatness of America in the enormous diversity of our population, in our constitution and bill of rights which gave citizens protections against tyranny, and in the proud history of the social movements which fought to expand that citizenship and those protections to groups that had previously been excluded, oppressed and even enslaved. read more

Picket Bruce Rauner in Elgin, Friday, March 6, 2014

Bruce Rauner will bring his anti-worker agenda to Elgin.  He is speaking at Elgin’s Public House  at 219 E. Chicago Street, Elgin  60120 on Friday, March 6th at 4:15 PM.  Fox Valley Citizens for Peace & Justice will join with Northern Illinois Jobs with Justice and several unions  and will form a mass picket on the street in front of that restaurant.

Join us in support of unions, and the rights of working people.  We will gather on that block at 3:30 PM.  Dress for the weather.  Bring signs if you can.    There is a parking deck (free)  at the corner of Chicago Street and Spring Street. read more

January 13 Rally Against the Keystone Pipeline

Fox Valley Citizens for Peace and Justice, Elgin Green Groups, and the Unitarian Universalist Church of Elgin rallied against the Keystone XL Pipeline. on Jan. 13, 2014

The House of Representatives passed it last week. The Senate may pass it next week or two. We hope that President Obama will veto it. By holding this rally, we told ALL our elected officials that we will not quietly accept this destructive action on their part.


The Keystone XL pipeline is a threat to our whole ecosystem. Here is why read more