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Chicago Rising: This Year in Struggle
As activists and organizers, we live in opposition to that which is an affront to our humanity and our beliefs, and we do so while building both community and …
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Digging in and Throwing Down: Direct Action at Union Station
Yesterday, a group of around 150 protestors formed a #BlackLivesMatter event at Union Station in Chicago.
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Tough Lessons for Rahm
Over the past decade, the number of black educators in Chicago Public Schools dropped precipitously.
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From Chicago to Geneva, a Call for Police Accountability for Violence and Torture
We Charge Genocide, a coalition of Chicago activists, is turning outside the US criminal justice system to force accountability for police misconduct by taking their complaints to the United …
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Want To Take Back Chicago? Here’s How, Say Activists
Our city is sold piece-by-piece to private interests.
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One Year After Closings, How Are Chicago’s Public Schools Now?
For the low-income communities that lost a neighborhood school, the effects are still palpable one year later.
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Angela Davis Featured at National Forum on Police Crimes at University of Chicago
The National Forum held workshops highlighting police crimes against undocumented and other immigrant workers, the labor movement and all workers, the LGBTQ community, women, peace, and solidarity activists, and …
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Despite Community Pleas, Three Chicago Schools Slated for Privatization
The Chicago Board of Education has consistently voted to close schools or turn them over to private management - laying off most of the staff in the process - …
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Milking Public Education
A Teach For America teacher grows leery of the role of charter schools.
“Do What You Gotta Do”: Cop Shows Bolster Idea That Police Violence Works
What is the social impact of cop booster program “Chicago PD”? What audience - and what ends - does it serve?