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Rahm Ramps up the Repression in Chicago: New Protest Rules Ahead of the G-8/NATO Meetings

Matt Reichel, AlterNet. January 16, 2012.

How Mayor Rahm Emanuel and elites intend to defend the city against free speech.

Can an Occupation Movement Survive if it No Longer Occupies a Space? Lessons from Across the Land

Arun Gupta, Salon. November 27, 2011.

Protesters around the country have been cleared out of their occupied public spaces, but some of the smaller occupations could hold lessons for next steps.

Occupy Chicago Activists Face Second Mass Arrest; Rahm Emanuel Sends Nurses to Jail With Protesters

Joe Macaré, In These Times. October 23, 2011.

130 protesters arrested as part of Occupy Chicago, some for the second time, said they were denied phone calls and sleep as Chicago police escalate the fight.

Chicago Police Shooting Spree? Halfway Through 2011, 43 Shot, 16 Dead

Asraa Mustufa, ColorLines. August 2, 2011.

It's already a record year for police shootings in Chicago and the year is only half over. What's going on?

Winds of Change: Is Chicago About to Stop Jailing Marijuana Users?

Phillip S. Smith, Drug War Chronicle. August 2, 2011.

Facing a huge budget shortfall, Chicago may switch to issuing fines for marijuana.

10 Kinkiest Cities In America

Anna Pulley, AlterNet. July 31, 2011.

Wish Lonely Planet would stop being such a prude and release a guide to where you can let your inner freak flag fly?

Corporations Are Waging a War on Public Resources But Are Trying to Duck Using the Term 'Privatization'

Tom Tresser, On the Commons. July 29, 2011.

Corporations are looking for ways to capitalize on public assets without uttering the now unpopular term 'privatization.'

Here We Go Again: Obama Picks Big Bank, Big Telecom, and Big Pharma Lobbyist to Be Chief of Staff

Ari Berman, The Nation. January 7, 2011.

Obama ushers a telecom lobbyist, chief architect of NAFTA and current Midwest chairman of JP Morgan Chase into the #2 job in the White House.

Infamous Police Commander Who Oversaw Torture of Over 100 Prisoners Awaits His Sentence

Salim Muwakkil, In These Times. December 30, 2010.

The depressing Jon Burge saga in Chicago reinforces the notion that racial bias is part of the institutional gene pool of the nation's police departments.

Trial Begins for Ex-Chicago Police Lt. Accused of Torturing More than 100 Black Men

Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. May 24, 2010.

Jon Burge oversaw a brutal interrogation program that sent countless innocent men to prison after they were tortured into confessing to crimes they didn't commit.

What Chicago's $1.3 Million Experiment Can Teach Us About Democratic Economics

Josh Lerner, Megan Wade Antieau, YES! Magazine. May 13, 2010.

For the first time in the U.S., the city's 49th Ward lets taxpayers directly decide how public money is spent.

Wage Theft Swamps Chicagoland: Workplace Protections Are Failing Cook County's Low-Wage Workers

Amy Taubin, Drum Major Institute. April 13, 2010.

What if we had a minimum wage, but nobody felt constrained to pay it? Or getting injured at work yielded no workers compensation, but a very real risk of losing your job?

Insider Report Blames White House's First Year Failures on Emanuel and the Obama's Inner Circle

Steve Clemons, The Washington Note. February 9, 2010.

Rahm Emanuel, Robert Gibbs, Valerie Jarrett and David Axelrod are the subject of a juicy report on what's gone wrong in the Obama White House,

What the FBI's Murder of a Black Panther Can Teach Us 40 Years Later

Jeffrey Haas, The Nation. December 2, 2009.

The legacy of Fred Hampton, who was assassinated under COINTELPRO in 1969, should be our demand that U.S. officials be held accountable when they break the law.

Pharmaceutical Giant Paid $500,000 to Psychiatrist Who Used Chicago's Poor as Guinea Pigs

Christina Jewett and Sam Roe, ProPublica. November 20, 2009.

Dr. Michael Reinstein reaped a cool half million off his patients' misery.

Showdown in Chicago: Protesters Rally Against Big Banks' Anti-Reform Lobbying

Meg White, BuzzFlash. October 27, 2009.

As businesspeople wandered by, protesters young and old aired their disgust with financial institutions.

Showdown Against the Greedy Bankers in Chicago

Rob Johnson, NewDeal 2.0. October 26, 2009.

Marchers join together in the call against banking greed and to speak out on behalf of people abused by foreclosure, subprime treachery and absurd interest rates.