Rampant Magazine
The City of Chicago yesterday announced a $29 million contract with a company known as “Canada’s Blackwater” to run tent camps for newly arrived asylum seekers. Meanwhile, a prominent and effective alternative based in dignity and care had to shut down for lack of city support. This is their story.
While elected officials plead scarcity, communities create and share means of collective survival with newly arriving asylum seekers in Chicago.
As a Chicago Public School parent, I fully support the teachers fighting to protect our communities during the Omicron surge.
Now is not the time to despair, but to fight like our lives depend on it.
The US legal system was never capable of bringing Bill Cosby to justice.
New allegations of police rape and cover-up confirm that Chicago’s police will never play a positive role in supporting survivors, even among their own ranks.
Chicago police shot someone on the South Side last night. By looting downtown, protesters are addressing the root cause of police violence.
In a city notorious for its segregation and broken political system, mass mobilizations point to the possibility of repair.
Survivors of sexual violence face a nauseating new twist on lesser evilism.
Chicago’s Mayor Is Flunking the Most Elementary Question of the Coronavirus Crisis
