RACE UNITY RALLY SUNDAY
The eighth annual “Vision of Race Unity”
rally will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday, June 5, in the Capitol Rotunda.
Featured speakers include Luanner Peters, the governor’s deputy chief
of staff for social services, and Ken Bowers, deputy secretary-general,
Spiritual Assembly, Baha’is of the U.S. Winners of a student art and
poetry contest will be announced; Grace United Methodist Liturgical Dancers
will perform. A reception will be held at the Capitol Complex Visitors
Center at 4:30 p.m.
MAKING WAVES IN SPRINGFIELD
A lengthy interview with Mbanna Kantako,
Springfield’s original pirate broadcaster, is featured in the current
edition of Confluence, a St. Louis-based alternative publication available online at
www.stlconfluence.org. Kantako, whose Human Rights Radio (106.7 FM,
www.humanrightsradio.net) has operated in the capital city since 1987,
reviews the history of the low-power station and his repeated scrapes with
federal regulators. A related article on low-power FM radio, by retired UIS
professor Ronald Sakolsky, appears in the same publication.
GROUP SAYS NO TO REACTOR
Public Citizen, a Washington, D.C.-based consumer
advocacy group, last week registered its opposition to a second nuclear
reactor in Clinton, Ill. The organization says the proposal by Exelon Corp.
poses more risks than benefits to Illinois residents, and called on the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission to deny the company’s request for an
early site permit. Among issues cited by Public Citizen is the potential
impact of a second reactor on Clinton Lake. The NRC environmental-impact
statement also doesn’t weigh the security threat of indefinitely
storing nuclear waste on the Clinton site. Public Citizen’s full
comments are available at
www.citizen.org/documents/clintondeiscomments.pdf.
WHEN WISHES COME TRUE
Students at Lincoln Land Community College
contributed more than 1,000 used textbooks to benefit the Make-A-Wish
Foundation, the college announced last week. The value of the books, deemed
obsolete because textbook publishers periodically issue new editions,
isn’t known. Books that won’t be sold will be distributed
abroad. Make-A-Wish helps terminally ill children.
This article appears in Jun 2-8, 2005.
