Women at Work, Women at Risk: Sexual harassment and assault in Will County warehouses “We donʼt go to work to be touched, to be talked down to, to be told what our bodies look like ... thatʼs something you have to deal with every day at work.” Women who work in warehouses across Will County are being paid less than their male counterparts, are subject to verbal abuse and physical assault, and when they complain are either ignored or met with retaliation from their supervisors. The police take no interest in these cases and there are no legally-binding grievance procedures workers can use to protect their rights. Come and hear Warehouse Workers for Justice talk about working conditions for women and how we can help them to marshall the legal resources needed to right these wrongs. Free and Open to the Public Tuesday May 15th, 2012, 7:00pm Lombard Mennonite Church 528 East Madison Street Lombard, IL 60148 WSFPC is an initiative of faith-based peacemakers from across Chicago’s western suburbs. WSFPC includes clergy, congregations, church staff, lay persons, faith-based peace organizations, peace and justice committees, religious communities, and more, spanning from Oak Park to Elgin to Joliet. WSFPC is committed to sustaining work of peace through activities such as prayer vigils, public witness, peace education, lobbying/legislative initiatives, and interfaith dialogue.�

President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama will kick off the general election season Saturday with large rallies in two critical battlegrounds, Ohio and Virginia, intended to showcase the technological firepower of his re-election campaign. As he has been doing at fundraisers and other public appearances in recent weeks, Obama is expected to draw a sharp contrast between his record and what he predicts would happen if his Republican rival, Mitt Romney, won the White House in November. The news, however, may not be in what Obama says, but in how the rallies look and how his team uses technology and social media to engage supporters and gather information about them to serve the campaign through the fall.

If all goes as planned, ComEd customers should see their bills shrinking and their lights staying on more often over the next decade. It’s all part of a plan the company has to upgrade its system to a Smart Grid, a modernized power grid that ComEd believes will significantly reduce outages, help customers manage their power use and save them money. Calls to report outages would be a thing of the past once the Smart Grid is in place, the company says. The modern power grid could report problems itself, alert customers’ cell phones when power is restored and “heal itself” when there is a problem on a line.