#ShutDownChi action!
Originally posted April 4, 2016
Month: October 2017
#ShutDownChi shows how to defeat the 1%
Originally posted April 4, 2016 Click here or on the picture above to see amazing Channel 9 video of the massive anti-racist, pro-public education, pro-investment in our communities march which shook the Continue Reading →
Confronting Harassment of Workers at CAN TV
Originally posted March 28, 2016 Click to watch Facebook Video and YouTube versions. For years, workers at Chicago Access Network TV have confronted abysmally low pay and management’s refusal to consider their creative Continue Reading →
April 1 Shutdown: Rainbow Flags for Education & Justice!
Originally posted March 28, 2016 From the first day he got into office, Mayor Rahm Emanuel has tried to privatize public education and destroy the teachers’ union. Union-busting has also Continue Reading →
The Significance of Chicago’s Trump Shut Down
Originally posted March 13, 2016 In the course of a few hours, several thousand Chicagoans did more to stop Trump bigotry than months of bemoaning by media pundits and other Continue Reading →
Roe v. Wade on Trial
Originally posted March 3, 2016 On the day that the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the most important abortion rights case since Roe v. Wade, pro-choice activists rallied in Continue Reading →
Be the Cure for a Bad Case of TIF: Just Vote NO!
Originally posted March 3, 2016 Petitioning Members of the Chicago City Council Committee on Finance and Committee on Zoning, Landmarks and Building Standards to oppose the request by Montrose-Clarendon Continue Reading →
No TIF Handout for Luxury Lakefront Hi-Rises
Originally posted March 3, 2016 Even by Chicago standards, the brazenness of this theft is stunning. In a city already infamous for its taxpayer-funded gifts to the wealthy and well-connected, Continue Reading →
“That Line of White Privilege”
Originally published February 28, 2016 A few hundred packed the monthly Chicago Police Board meeting last night demanding the firing of cops who have murdered civilians and faced no consequences. Continue Reading →
Why Defending the Right to Abortion is Important to All of Us
Originally published February 28, 2016 Edited version of a January speech on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade by GLN’s Andy Thayer This spring the Supreme Court will rule Continue Reading →