First Chicago NATO Protest: National Nurses United
Daley Plaza was filled this afternoon by National Nurses United, a rally headlined by Tom Morello and part of an international day of action in support of a “robin hood tax” on financial trades.
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Chicago NATO Summit: Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, and Mark Jacobson
Chicago’s most famous activist couple talks about the “military arm of the one percent” with Amy Goodman; plus, a handy rundown of what’s important inside McCormick Place this weekend.
Joe Ricketts, His Children, and Their Political Ties
Good thing President Obama is a White Sox fan. This morning’s New York Times carries a front-page story about Omaha billionaire and TD Ameritrade founder Joe Ricketts, whose money bought his family the Cubs in 2009, allegedly funding a new advertising campaign aimed at defeating Obama…
Occupy and Public-Private Space
Memories of 1968 give protesting an association with speaking, writing, performance, and rhetoric. Occupy concerns itself with something less ephemeral: space, and things.
Chicago NATO Summit: How to Participate, Or Just Follow Along From Your Computer
A roundup of guides, events, people to follow on Twitter, livestreams to watch, and more for NATO weekend, whether you want to participate, follow from a safe distance, or just figure out what’s going on
Illinois: Corrupt or Not?
MIXED MESSAGES: Two reports on public corruption in Illinois and other states are at odds
In 'The Amateur,' Ed Klein Talks to Jeremiah Wright, Unloads on Obama
In The Amateur, a decidedly anti-Obama book released this week by conservative publisher Regnery, author Ed Klein claims to have conducted more than 200 interviews. Barack, Michelle, and the people closest to them in and out of the White House would not talk, but Klein’s interviews with the Obamas’ former pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, and with the Reverend Jesse Jackson were on the record, and they emerge as two of the more interesting figures in the book…
Chicago NATO Summit: Unilateralism, Protests, Media Coverage
What people are protesting—it’s not just NATO by a long shot; concerns about NATO and unilateralism; local vs. international coverage; and more
The Loop: Is the El a 'Universal Principle of Human Organization'?
A new paper suggests that big-city subway systems around the world are all converging towards one mathematically modeled shape: a core-and-branch structure that will look familiar to Chicagoans. And it looks an awful lot like what some early Chicago sociologists thought, too.
Chicago NATO Summit Agenda: 'Smart Defense' for an Austere West
NATO responds to its ongoing existential crisis by offering “Smart Defense”: inexpensive military services for the new austerity. Did they mention their lubrication and fuel nozzle services?