Here is the information on the STAND Rally and Parade from a STAND flyer:
"Rural Celebration Near Peotone
Please attend our STAND
UP FOR FARMLAND, STOP THE AIRPORT rally and parade, starting at 8:30 am,
Saturday, April 21. We will celebrate rural life, agriculture, and Mother
Earth.
Invasion by the
Jacksons
We will be firm, but
civil. Reverend Jesse Jackson and his son
Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. will bring clergy and other airport boosters from
Chicago and the south suburbs to "occupy" Peotone, have a fake
"groundbreaking," and pray for the destruction of our homes,
communities, and farmland to make way for an unneeded airport. This publicity
stunt is designed to pressure Governor Quinn into giving Jesse Jr.'s airport
group (ALNAC), the authority to build the airport. Jackson's developer (SNC
Lavalin),a scandal ridden, foreign-based giant corporation, wants Illinois
taxpayers to give them land and pay for infrastructure. If built, it would be another
white elephant, like MidAmerica Airport at Mascoutah, Il., which has not
created permanent jobs.
Help Us Send a Message
Let’s show Governor
Quinn that Illinois citizens want to protect farmland and rural communities, and
are opposed to wasting precious
taxpayer dollars on this boondoggle when the State of Illinois is $131 billion
in debt!
Parade and Rally
Meet at Eagle Ridge
Farms located at 6104 W Eagle Lake Rd, Peotone, IL 60468 at 8am for check-in;
procession begins at 8:30, traveling east to the South Suburban Airport project
office, 5710 W. Eagle Lake Road, where the Jacksons will be having their
"groundbreaking" at 9 am. We will stop for a press conference as
local ministers bless the crops and pray for the preservation of the earth. We
will then proceed 3 miles to the Will Township building at Will Center and Beecher/Peotone
Road for coffee and snacks.
Please contact Lydia to join us by registering yourself, bike, car, horse, truck, hay rack, tractor at (708) 946-2275.
Contact Governor Pat Quinn and tell him: no eminent domain at Peotone & kill the
proposed airport: Phone (312) 814-2121
Fax(312)814-6775
Write: Thompson Center, FL 16 Ste 100, Chicago, IL. 60601
Email at web site: http://www2.illinois.gov/gov/Pages/ContacttheGovernor.aspx"
UPDATE: Video of Groundbreaking: http://willcountynewspeotoneairportnews.blogspot.com/2012/04/peotone-airport-peoples-groundbreaking.html
UPDATE: Video of Groundbreaking: http://willcountynewspeotoneairportnews.blogspot.com/2012/04/peotone-airport-peoples-groundbreaking.html
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