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News & Politics, Feature Oct 19, 2018
Raised Voices

Our intrepid comics journalist interviews supporters, detractors, and everyone else at the Women’s March to the Polls in Grant Park.
- By Anya Davidson
- Tags: Feature, Women's March to the Polls, activists, activism, gun control, women's rights, gay rights, witches, protests

Music, Music Feature Aug 29, 2016
The uprising against Riot Fest continues

Activists refuse to be silent about the festival’s occupation of Douglas Park.
- By John Greenfield
- Tags: Music Feature, Riot Fest, Douglas Park, Freedom Square, Homan Square, Humboldt Park, Concerned Citizens, Concerned Citizens of Riot Fest in Douglas Park, Sara Heymann, Chicago Park District, Sharaya Tindal, Damon Williams, #LetUsBreathe Collective, Charles Rice, Paul Norrington, Jessica Maxey-Faulkner, Nas, Douglas Park Advisory Council, Michael Scott, Nichols Tower, George Cardenas, activists, dispute, controversy

News & Politics, Politics Mar 18, 2015
Chicago police are spying on citizens

Authorities have conducted surveillance on activists in recent years but won't say why.
- By Mick Dumke and Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Politics, Chicago Police Department, surveillance, activists, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Richard M. Daley, First Amendment, International Olympic Committee, Garry McCarthy, NATO protests, Occupy Chicago, Mehmet Uygun, Nadia Chikko, Matthew Ginsberg-Jaeckle, Brent Betterly, Brian Church, Jared Chase, the NATO Three, Thaddeus Wilson, Page May, We Charge Genocide, Marty Maloney

Columns & Opinion, On Politics Aug 27, 2014
As TIFs keep collecting tax dollars, schools face more cuts

Mayor Emanuel sits on an estimated $1.7 billion in TIF reserves.
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Ben Joravsky on Politics, TIFs, tax increment financing, Tom Tresser, Rahm Emanuel, schools, CPS, Chicago Public Schools, activists, taxes, property taxes, blight, Civic Lab, think tanks, budgets, TIF districts, transparency, school budgets, education funding, FOIA, Freedom of Information Act, CTU, Chicago Teachers Union, spending, Jeanette Taylor, local school councils, Mollison Elementary School, south side, receiving schools, school closings, Kimberly Henderson, Barbara Byrd-Bennett, DNAinfo, 3rd Ward, Pat Dowell, accounting

Columns & Opinion, On Politics Aug 5, 2014
How the city cut funds for mental health patients—and spied on them instead

The revealing story of undercover officers Mo and Gloves
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: On Politics, police, Chicago Police Department, CPD, N'Dana Carter, activists, Mehmet Uygun, Rahm Emanuel, City Council, mental health clinics, Woodlawn clinic, Occupy Chicago, Matthew Gisberg-Jaeckle, Chicago Police Department District Three, Nadia Chikko, undercover policing, police intelligence, Cook County state's attorney's office, protests, activists, NATO summit, NATO Three, Brent Betterly, Brian Church, Jared Chase, Thaddeus Wilson

Columns & Opinion, On Politics Jul 29, 2014
Rahm still hasn't told the public why he closed mental health clinics

A City Council hearing on the clinic closings is canceled almost as soon as it's announced.
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: On Politics, Rahm Emanuel, mental health clinics, City Council, activists, neighborhoods, N'Dana Carter, Woodlawn, Back of the Yards, Richard M. Daley, budget cuts, 12th Ward, George Cardenas, City Council Committee on Health and Environmental Protection, Pilsen, Matt Ginsberg-Jaeckle, Martin Macias, Robert Fioretti, Rick Munoz, Scott Waguespack, Mental Health Movement, WBEZ

Columns & Opinion, On Politics May 28, 2014
An activist's campaign for public schools and fair taxes lives on

Honoring the late Edna Pardo
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Ben Joravsky on Politics, Edna Pardo, activism, activists, taxes, schools, League of Women Voters, property taxes, John McDermott, Chicago Reporter, EAV, equalized assessed value, tributes, Communist Party, Victor Pardo, Lou Pardo, Indianapolis, PTA, Parent-Teacher Association, Austin, Chicago Public Schools, CPS, race, segregation, education funding, TIFs, tax increment financing, Ed Burke

Columns & Opinion, On Politics Oct 22, 2013
How to irritate Mayor Emanuel and do some legislating in one easy step

Council independents could force a vote on proposals the mayor wants buried.
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: On Politics, activists, aldermen, Chicago Public Schools, City Council, city jobs, Civic Lab, committees, cost-effectiveness studies, CPS, Emma Mitts, James Balcer, jobs, Joe Moreno, legislation, Lona Lane, Marty Quinn, NTT Data, outsourcing, parking meter deal, parking meter lease deal, privatization, Rahm Emanuel, Richard M. Daley, Richard Mell, Robert Fioretti, Roderick Sawyer, Rule 41, rules committee, Scott Waguespack, south side, tax increment financing, taxes, TIF surplus, TIFs, Tom Tresser, UIC, University of Illinois at Chicago, water department, west side

Columns & Opinion, On Politics Oct 15, 2013
The activist-doctor Quentin Young is still in

A new film project tries to capture the life of the physician who takes care of Chicago.
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Ben Joravsky on Politics, Quentin Young, activists, doctors, Jesse Jackson, Operation PUSH, Martin Luther King Jr., Rahm Emanuel, Cook County Hospital, integration, Wrigley Field, film, Al Noakowski, documentaries, Hyde Park, Cat Jarboe, Jeff Bivens, south side, Hyde Park High School, University of Chicago, Northwestern University, antiwar movement, single-payer health care, Al Raby, James Bevel, civil rights, civil rights movement, Chicago Board of Health, Richard J. Daley, Marquette Park, Harold Washington, Chicago Cubs, public subsidies, Illinois Sports Facilities Authority, Manny Sanchez, Pat Quinn, City Council, Kickstarter, South Loop, development

News & Politics, Feature Aug 21, 2013
A new generation of activists fights injustice, from school cuts to Trayvon Martin

Activists aren't waiting for another movement (or another Martin Luther King) to push for change.
- By Mick Dumke
- Tags: Feature, Keith Richardson, West Side, activism, activists, March on Washington, history, 1963, American Postal Workers Union, American Postal Workers Union, Chicago Local 001, murder, violence, race, crime, jobs, organized labor, Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, AFL-CIO, National Action Network, Al Sharpton, Maureen Forte, churches, coalitions, poverty, Otis Moss III, Trinity United Church of Christ, Amisha Patel, immigrants, Elk Grove Village, Stanford University, Grassroots Collaborative, mental health clinics, schools, school closing, Chicago Public Schools, CPS, Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman, Yondi Morris, New Freedom Movement, civil rights, civil rights movement, Beverly, Northwestern University, Aldon D. Morris, social movements, change, Bronzeville, neighborhoods

News & Politics, Feature Aug 21, 2013
Video
Fifty years later, participants in the March on Washington still hoping for justice

Organizers of the Chicago contingent in the 1963 March on Washington say it's time for another movement.
- By Steve Bogira and Mick Dumke
- Tags: Feature, history, 1963, civil rights, March on Washington, Washington, DC, Timuel Black, Martin Luther King Jr., segregation, Don Rose, Richard J. Daley, South Side, schools, Negro American Labor Council, NALC, A. Philip Randolph, jobs, violence, nonviolence, Montgomery bus boycott, Birmingham, Alabama, 4th Ward, Chicago Defender, integration, desegregation, organized labor, 63 boycott, minimum wage, federal jobs programs, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, freedom trains, Chicago Tribune, James Ritch, Hyde Park, The New York Times, "I Have a Dream" speech, hope, Chicago Sun-Times, demonstrations, school boycotts, neighborhoods, poverty, justice, civil rights laws, Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, Vietnam War, riots, activism, activists, Jane Byrne, Video

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