West Side activists will take their fight for construction of a neighborhood high school to City Hall. The Austin Community Education Network will hold a press conference June 11 prior to the City Council Finance Committee's meeting on approval of a TIF that would subsidize a warehouse project on land ACEN wants for a new school....
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Submitted on Thu, 05/29/2008 – 03:39. With violence surging on Chicago streets, a hundred young people from the South Side are travelling to Springfield this week to press for funding for summer jobs for youth. Youth unemployment has also surged — 90 percent of Chicago black males aged 16 to 19 are unemployed, according...
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Submitted on Tue, 05/06/2008 – 02:19. A local solidarity group occuped the Lisle office of a major agro-chemical corporation May 2 to protest the recent killing of a leader of landless peasants in Brazil. Chicago Friends of MST — supporters of the Landless Workers Movement of Brazil, or Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra...
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Submitted by Visitor on Thu, 03/13/2008 – 02:22. In 2004, world coffee prices slumped and a coffee farmer in Mbale in eastern Uganda went door-to-door talking to his neighbors about forming a cooperative to boost their earnings. The farmer, J.J. Keki, was a member of the Abayudaya, an indigenous Ugandan Jewish community which had...
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Submitted on Tue, 03/04/2008 – 20:04. The number of books in the home correlates strongly with children’s reading achievement levels, but the disparity in book ownership levels across income groups is striking. The national organization First Book cites a recent study showing that in middle-income neighborhoods, the ratio of books to children is 13...
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Submitted on Wed, 09/19/2007 – 15:48. http://www.newstips.org/ Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai, founder of Kenya’s Green Belt Movement, will preside over a ceremony for a new garden named in her honor at the Al Raby High School for Community and Environment, 3545 W. Fulton Blvd., at 6 p.m. Sat., Sept. 22. The school...
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Submitted on Tue, 09/18/2007 – 14:42. Media activists are mobilizing for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) hearing in Chicago to be held at Rainbow PUSH Coalition. The main issue being discussed this week is whether the FCC should allow greater media consolidation. The FCC is considering whether or not to lift restrictions on cross-ownership...
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Submittedon Fri, 09/14/2007 – 14:39. http://www.newstips.org/ With 50 percent of in-town trips made in single-occupancy automobiles, Chicagoans could do much to reduce the city’s carbon footprint by changing their own individual behavior, according to a new report. And while city policies – that have created 350 miles of bikeways and 10,000 bicycle racks –...
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Submitted on Wed, 09/12/2007 – 01:24. Gov. Rod Blagojevich is high on the list of targets as hundreds of disability activists gather in Chicago this week to protest state policies they say promote segregation. From Sept. 8-13, members of the disability rights group ADAPT will be traveling the streets of Chicago, holding protests to...
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Submitted on Mon, 09/10/2007 – 14:07. The Jackson Park Advisory Council, which voted earlier in the summer against siting Olympic venues in the park, will hold a public meeting with the Chicago 2016 Olympic committee’s new community representative Sept. 10. The advisory council has never been consulted about Chicago 2016 plans to site field...
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