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 [...]
Plenty of actions have already taken place in Chicago and cities across the world in honor of May Day. We’ve collected a Storify on the actions of the morning and will continue to update as protests continue throughout the day. Follow along by clicking this link here.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 Daniel Edward Massoglia (originally published at Devo and Whine) “Now isn’t the time.” Jesus Christ. “Now isn’t the time.” When is the time? What does that even mean? Why are you saying it? It is a peculiar society in which the common response to one of the most horrific shootings in its history [...]
Post by Natalie Solidarity In Chicago on October 29, 2012, dedicated Occupy activists and their allies, all NATO5 supporters, attended End the NATO5 Witch Hunt: Raising Funds from the Dead. I was lucky enough to be in town for the evening and even luckier still to read my compilation piece about the struggles of jail [...]
Post by Natalie Solidarity (originally printed in the Slutwalk 2012 compilation zine available via Portland Button Works) SlutWalk centers on empowerment of women to own their sexuality, to reconstruct or destroy traditional gender roles in which women who enjoy sex are criminalized as “sluts” and even worse, asking for rape. “We are tired of [...]
Post by Agnieszka Karoluk (originally published at In Our Words blog) We starve, look at one another, short of breath Walking proudly in our winter coats Wearing smells from laboratories Facing a dying nation of moving paper fantasy Listening for the new told lies With supreme visions of lonely tunes Somewhere, inside something there is [...]