Post by Aaron Cynic While Chicago’s Mayor and other administration officials seem to believe the closing of more than 54 public schools in Chicago is a done deal, resistance to the closures is about to peak just before the school board votes on the closures. This weekend, thousands plan to march to say no to [...]
Post by Aaron Cynic. Conservatives and President Obama alike are outraged over revelations the IRS has been targeting Tea Party groups. Last week, the IRS admitted to giving extra scrutiny to groups applying for non profit status if their applications contained the words “patriot” or “Tea Party.” Calling it an “organizational shortcut,” Lois Lerner, director [...]
After a huge demonstration in Chicago a few weeks ago, workers allied with the fight for 15 movement and their allies have been staging strikes to fight for a better minimum wage for non union retail and fast food workers. MSNBC reports more than 100 employees at around 30 different chains walked out the doors [...]
Post and photos by Aaron Cynic I’ve been on the road touring with Dinner and Bikes, a traveling road show about bike culture, bike economics featuring a delicious vegan dinner nightly. I’ll have much more to say about this as time goes on, but in the mean time, here’s a few photos from our last [...]
Post by Aaron Cynic On Friday, I’m heading out of Chicago for a little while with some fantastic friends on a tour called Dinner and Bikes. A while back, these fine folks tapped me on the shoulder to tag along with them, help share the workload of driving and running a traveling bookstore and document [...]
Chicago’s monthly critical mass ride at the end of April was dedicated to saving more than 54 public schools the city wants to close. The full story is here at Chicagoist, but these are some of our other favorite shots from the ride. All photos by Aaron Cynic.
(Post by Aaron Cynic) Nearly 100 demonstrators rallied at the Thompson Center in Chicago on Earth Day after assembling and marching from the Vietnam Veterans memorial along Chicago’s riverwalk. Demonstrators called for an end to fracking, the use of Tar Sands oil, and railed against the expansion of a local refinery which would process it.
Post by Aaron Cynic About 75 demonstrators gathered in the Chicago loop to protest drone warfare as part of a nationwide demonstration against the use and manufacture of drones by the American military. Protesters briefly marched and chanted along Wacker Drive and then stopped at the Lyric Opera House to pass out flyers and perform [...]
(Post by Aaron Cynic) “…they secretly want it to end. Their life is shit and boring and dull and controlled from so many fucking angles and nothing changes. No matter what happens it’d be great to see the whole thing crumble and see what happened after that. It’d be a massive playground adventure where everybody’s [...]
Post by Aaron Cynic As White House officials spent the week defending targeted assassinations via drone strikes, the FAA released a new drone authorization list which highlights law enforcement agencies and other entities nationwide who have applied to use drones in domestic airspace for surveillance. Thanks to a Freedom Of Information Act lawsuit from [...]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) plans to take warfare to the next level of science fiction by integrating lasers into planes within two years. Gizmodo reports last week the Defense Department’s research wing announced it would integrate the HELLADS (High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System) system, a solid state laser system light [...]
Post by Aaron Cynic When I look back on the events of 2012 and all the years I’ve been in and around activist culture, I’m often reminded of a quote from a clip of a movie I once saw. It goes like this: “You are becoming gods. There’s a new master of creation, and [...]