Press Release: WNPJ Reaches into Illinois for 153rd Member Group

WNPJ’s 153rd member group, the DeKalb Interfaith Coalition for Worker Justice, is also our second member group in Illinois, joining the Rockford Peace and Justice Action Committee.

The Dekalb coalition recently succeeded in placing a referendum on the DeKalb township ballot for the November 7 election calling on the US government to "immediately begin an orderly and rapid withdrawal of all military personnel from Iraq, beginning with the National Guard and Reserves". The referendum was placed on the ballot by a 20-7 vote of DeKalb township citizens at the townships’ annual meeting on April 11.

The DeKalb coalition is a member of the newly-formed Illinois Coalition for Peace and Justice, which came into being at an April 1 meeting in Champaign, Illinois. The ICPJ is supporting referendum efforts in other Illinois towns and cities, and three other Illinois townships, Sycamore, Geneva and Riverside, have placed troop withdrawal referendums on their local ballots for the November election.

You can contact Dan Kenney of the DeKalb coalition at: dkenney@dekalbinterfaithnetwork.org

The DeKalb and Rockford groups join two other WNPJ member groups outside Wisconsin: Loaves and Fishes in Duluth and North Country Fair Trade in St. Paul.