Breaking with Convention: Chicago Protests GOP in Tampa, Democrats at Home
On September 17, Occupy Wall Street will mark its one year anniversary with a spirit somewhere between celebration, outrage, and the need to reaffirm its own identity and significance. But in Chicago...
View Article“Familes Are Being Crushed”: A Debate-Night Live Blog
As some two politicians take to national TV to discuss the country’s woes, Occupied Chicago Tribune contributing editor Nick Burt offers running comment on tonight’s presidential debate. 7:56 p.m....
View ArticleActivists Arrested Confronting Dick Durbin About ‘Fiscal Cliff’
Originally published at In These Times. With hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts to desperately needed federal safety-net programs looming and the future of Bush-era tax cuts to the rich up in the...
View ArticleA View From Washington: Reality Checking
We’re proud to introduce our newest monthly column, from Don Washington, progressive rabble-rouser, writer and frontman of Mayoral Tutorial. Last time President Obama won there was a honeymoon and the...
View ArticleA View from Washington: The President’s Quest for the Unholy Grail
You are probably tired, angry or resigned to the evil that plutocrats do when you think about the Fiscal Cliff, the Grand Betrayal or, as I like to call it, the Unholy Grail. Most people don’t...
View ArticleHow Obama and Valerie Jarrett Helped Launch Their Political Careers in an...
Originally published at AlterNet. As President Obama’s second term begins, and inequality, especially for black Americans, is worse than it was when Obama first took office, it’s worth revisiting...
View ArticleCPS CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett May Have Met Her Match in Chicago
The new CEO of Chicago Public Schools is only the latest well-paid mayoral proxy working to destroy Chicago schools. But there is powerful grassroots resistance to the planned CPS closings, says Kenzo...
View ArticleA View From Washington: Our First CEO President
If you’ve been thinking that Obama is a Democratic President fighting for a historic compromise called the Grand Bargain for whatever reason, you do not understand what is actually happening, argues...
View ArticlePritzker Cashes Out
As Obama nominates billionaire heiress Penny Pritzker for Secretary of Commerce, Chicago’s gain is everyone’s loss, says Nick Burt. In surveying potential nominees for Secretary of Commerce, President...
View ArticleA View From Washington: Democracy’s Enemy
The Department of Justice’s spying on Associated Press phone records and James Rosen’s emails are just the latest steps towards the criminalization of news gathering, says Don Washington. In a speech...
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“Familes Are Being Crushed”: A Debate-Night Live Blog
The wreckage of Malort (not from the Occupied Chicago Tribune debate party). (Photo: Scott Fitzgerald, Creative Commons) As some two politicians take to national TV to discuss the country’s woes,...
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A View From Washington: Our First CEO President
If you’ve been thinking that Obama is a Democratic President fighting for a historic compromise called the Grand Bargain for whatever reason, you do not understand what is actually happening, argues...
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Pritzker Cashes Out
As Obama nominates billionaire heiress Penny Pritzker for Secretary of Commerce, Chicago’s gain is everyone’s loss, says Nick Burt. “Thanks for the 5 million in TIF money,” says Penny Pritzker on a...
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