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How Can We Take Our City Back From the 1%?
At the same time as the wealthy face a “crisis” of record traffic jams for private jets, most people face problems of declining affordable housing, youth unemployment and declining real income. 46th Ward Aldermanic candidate Denice Davis not only has a proven record of community activism in the Uptown neighborhood, she’s part of a growing…
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LGBTI Solidarity in Africa
African countries passing harsh laws against LGBTs and our allies have been much in the gay press over the past year. But all too often African LGBTs have appeared as mute objects of repression, rather than people organizing to win their own freedom. In this episode of the Gay Liberation Network on CAN TV, lesbian…
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Taking On Rahm’s Machine
Chicago and Illinois in general are infamous for bad government. Year after year, the wealthy and well-connected get taxpayer funded perks, leaving the rest of us out in the cold. Socialist candidate Jorge Mújica is attempting to change that legacy by taking on long-time 25th ward Alderman Danny Solis in next February’s election. He’s raising…
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A City Just for the 1%?
Chicago like many other big U.S. cities is increasingly marginalizing and pushing out working class and people of color. Sweetheart deals put millions of taxpayer dollars in the pockets of wealthy developers building luxury projects for other well-off and downright wealthy people. Meanwhile, city services for middle and lower income people – from public schools…
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Indiana Moving Backwards?
While much of the country seemed to be rapidly advancing towards equal marriage rights in 2013, Indiana seemed to be moving backwards, with the threat of an anti-gay constitutional amendment seeming to march towards inevitable passage amidst an orgy of hate. But then a remarkable thing happened: pro-equality Hoosiers came out of the woodwork and…
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“The NATO3 Show Trial” with independent journalist Kevin Gosztola
Many have noted that the “terrorism” trial of three young NATO protesters which began last week has been a joke — were not the stakes so high not only for the three young victims, but the state of civil liberties in Chicago in general. Rather than revealing a nefarious plot to commit terrorism, the prosecution…
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Guantanamo Prison: 12 Years Too Many!
Closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba was the first promise of the newly-minted Obama administration back in January 2009. Like so many other promises that could have been delivered on during the first two years of his administration, when the Democrats controlled both houses of Congress, Barack Obama hasn’t bothered to invest the political…
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Cardinal George: No Honor in Anti-Gay Bigotry
Whether it was equal employment rights, equal access to housing and public accommodations, let alone equal marriage rights, the Catholic leadership could always be counted on to oppose equal rights for LGBT people behind the scenes, if not openly. On the eve of Cardinal George’s lavish retirement dinner at the sumptuous Drake Hotel, Joe Murray…
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Is “Immigration Reform” Really Pro-Immigrant?
Just because so many Republicans have dropped off the deep end in their orgies of anti-immigrant racism doesn’t mean we should accept whatever the Democrats push on us. The “Immigration Reform” bill that Democrats have pushed in the U.S. Senate is very much akin to the false promises of “reform” they push in other areas…
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Marching on Springfield for Marriage Equality
Kim Hunt of Affinity Community Services joins Brent Holman-Gomez of the Gay Liberation Network to discuss the forthcoming October 22nd March on Springfield for Marriage Equality. Ms. Hunt explains the disappointment many felt over the failure to pass marriage equality in Illinois in the legislative session ending May 31st, and the determination to get it…