Mass incarceration has had a devastating impact on low income African American neighborhoods. Meanwhile, more affluent and white areas have gone largely unscathed. Though mass…
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If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. In Chicago today, there is a lot of discussion…
Inner freedom is a social responsibilty – Vimala Thakar The way we treat ourselves has serious political implications. Do we take the time to exercise?…
A Conversation with Angela Caputo Angela Caputo is an award-winning journalist with years of experience. Yet in many ways, she feels like she is just…
I like to think that my writing journey is just getting started, that my greatest growth and development is still ahead of me. My novels…
click here to download Climate change is a big, scary topic. It’s not always easy to talk about and it can be almost impossible to convince…
“The structures of society need to be transformed, but the hidden motivations and assumptions on which the structures rest need to be transformed as well.”…
What makes a neighborhood an awesome place to live? Is it proximity to cool coffee shops? Or to lovely public parks? While those are beautiful…
While Chicago hosts the NATO summit, where military leaders and their like-minded political counterparts turned conference rooms into war rooms and exhibit halls into transatlantic…
This story is about how we learn to not see, how we are conditioned to ignore the harsh realities that structure our surrounding world. It…
What makes people powerful? Is it the level of resources they wield? The amount of knowledge they possess? Or, perhaps, is it their ability to...
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Marie Kennedy is a transformative community planner who often draws upon participatory action research (PAR) methods to advance her work. In this interview, she shares…
Prisons provide different things to different people. For some, they ensure a far-away place to send people who have done harm to someone you love….
Ryan interviews Janette Bulkan, who has worked on issues of poor governance, corruption, and their negative impacts on people, the economy, and the ecology in...
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Our climate is destabilizing, and we are drastically unprepared. As of October, the atmosphere’s carbon dioxide levels were at 388 parts per million, higher than...
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This video-poem highlights key organizing efforts in Chicago including images from the cityscape as well as the front lines.
What does hip-hop legend J-Live have in common with the billionaire ultra-conservative Koch brother? Not much. Expect perhaps that they both work hard and are…
Since BP’s Deepwater Horizon explosion this spring, over 5 million barrels of oil have spilled into the Gulf of Mexico. Animals, humans, states and entire…
Everyone agrees that Chicago Public Schools have to change. Yet there are fierce disagreements over what kinds of changes must be made, who should lead…