Old Google Archive interesting re Obama

[dolfan]

Google's 10th Anniversary is, like, now. And, they've got a link where you can do a search from 2001's archive. I looked up Barack Obama. It got 768 hits. Can you believe that? John McCain -- 226,000.

A couple of interesting entries:

Another bill to provide for an amendment to the Illinois Constitution to make health care a fundamental right for state residents, known as the Bernardin Amendment, has been introduced by Rep. Mike Boland (D-East Moline) and Sen. Barack Obama (D-Chgo) and about 30-40 others. The bill is not likely to be voted on this session, however. Twenty-three jurisdictions in the state, including more than 100 communities, had the opportunity to vote for a referendum on the ballot in municipal elections on April 13 on the Bernardin amendment. The measure was approved in every jurisdiction.
Status: Dead
Jim Duffet: 217/352-5600

Some 400 healthcare workers will take to the streets today seeking remuneration for health benefits and wages. Home healthcare workers earn between $5.75 to $7 an hour without any health insurance to take care of senior citizens.

"I incurred $105,811.62 in unpaid hospital bills when I had heart surgery. I was to go for rehabilitation three times a week which I shelved because I couldn't afford the $56 per treatment charge," Darlene Depew of Decatur told the Chicago Defender Tuesday. Depew, who will be testifying during today's rally at the Illinois Armory building, 124 E. Adams St., had to quit her job to enable Public Aid to offset the bills.

"I can work now and I don't want to be on disability. We need health insurance to continue to work," she said.
Several political leaders will address the 11 a.m. rally, including State Sen. Barack Obama (D-13th), the chief sponsor of the Living Wages and Health Care Bill currently in the General Assembly, and State Sen. Miguel del Valle (D-2nd).

Here's something I actually agree with him on, but thought you'd like to know:

December 7, 1999 -- Illinois Looks at "DWB" Bill - Dec. 7, 1999




CHICAGO, IL -- Adding fire to the debate over allegations of "racial profiling" by police in Illinois, State Senator Barack Obama announced plans on Monday, December 6th, to sponsor a bill requiring state police to record and release statistics on the race of all motorists they stop.

The statistics would then be studied in an effort to determine whether there is a pattern of discrimination in the state.

Obama, who is a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 1st congressional district, said the bill was a response to constituents' concerns that Illinois state police may target minority motorists for traffic stops and searches.

Obama noted that analyses conducted in North Carolina, Texas, and New Jersey have revealed such bias by police in those states. He also said that at least 13 other states require highway patrols to record race on citations and warnings.

The senator announced his plans while flanked by representatives from the ACLU and the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund.

And, apparently, Todd Palin is not the only guy who belonged to a third party????

New Party members and supported candidates won 16 of 23 races, including an at-large race for the Little Rock, Ark., City Council, a seat on the county board for Little Rock and the school board for Prince George's County, Md. Chicago is sending the first New Party member to Congress, as Danny Davis, who ran as a Democrat, won an overwhelming 85% victory. New Party member Barack Obama was uncontested for a State Senate seat from Chicago.

The New Party also helped Carolyn McCarthy knock off freshman Republican Dan Frisa in a closely watched U.S. House seat in Long Island. Tom DiNapoli, the most progressive State Assemblyman on Long Island, handily won re-election as a Democratic Party/New Party fusion candidate. Progressive Milwaukee members affiliated with the New Party won a seat in the state Assembly and two seats in the state Senate.

And, because I'm tired, this is the last and maybe most interesting entry I found:

ORGANIZING AND ISLAM

Organizing in neighborhoods has taken two paths that reflect historic dichotomy between integrationist and nationalist strategies. Many top conununity leaders collaborate on urban issues through city's grasgroots network, forging multi-racial coalitions, while others take black nationalist approach, looking only within the African-American community for leadership and resources.

In first category are Ani Russell of community policing network, 312-461-0444; Jacky Grimshaw, former strategist for Harold Washington now working an community transportation issues; 773-278-4800, ext. 133; and Barack Obama, 773-684-4809, whose work to empower blacks has included his law practice, community organizing, philanthropy and most recently electoral politics: he is a candidate for state senate. A quiet leader with broad vision of empowerment and redevelopment in the Grand Boulevard neighborhood is Sokoni Karanja, 773-373-5700, whose nonprofit Centers for New Horizons provides social services, youth programs, education and child care.

Chicago is national center of black nationalist thought and organization. Head of the nation's largest secular black-nationalist organization, the National Black United Front, Conrad Worrill, 773-268-5658, is a professor at Northeastern Illinois University's Center for Inner City Studies and was prominent speaker at last year's Million Man Man March. Another Northeastern professor, Robert Starks, 773-268-7500, heads local Task Force for Political Empowerment, along with Worrill was major organizer in Harold Washington campaigns. Radio commentator and former newspaper columnist and publisher, Lu Palmer, 773-624-0242, holds forth two nights a week on a WVON-1450AM political talk show. He founded the Black Independent Political Orgization and Chicago Black United Communities. Eddie Read, 773-663-0704, is president of both organizations mentioned above; CBUC members have shut down construction sites where blacks don't get fair share of jobs. Salim Muwakkil, 773-643-3730, is senior editor of In These Times and contributing columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times. He has done extensive coverage of black activism and the black nationalist movement.

Chicago is home base for African-American Muslim organizations. Muslims have been visible forces for organizing and stability in many neighborhoods, only some of them aligned with controversial leader Louis Farrakhan and his Nation of Islam. Organizer Kublai Toure, 773-538-7217, is a member of Jim Brown's Amer-I-Can youth organization, with projects ranging from helping arrange gang traces to trips to Chicago Cubs baseball Sitines for public housing youth. Mikail Bilal, 773-721-6588, is chek of the Muslim addiction-prevention group Millati Wami, with twice-weekly meetings on South Drexel St. for recovering substance abusers. Abdul Rashid Akbar is the Muslim chaplin at Cook County jail, 773-721-6588, where many incarcerated African-Americans convert to Islam. The Nation of Islam's contact point for the media and editor-chief of The Final Call newspaper is James Muhammad, 773-602-1230. Ayesha Mustafaa reports on the larger Muslim community as editor of The Muslim Journal, 312-243-7600.

That was from http://web.archive.org/web/200107230556 ... icago.html