Call for Proposals: AREA issue #11 – im/migration
Scheduled for release in May 2011 Proposals due February 1st Chicago is a city shaped by movement and trade. First inhabited by indigenous peoples, the city was built through land speculation at the...
View ArticleMessage from Madison
To our Chicago friends and allies, This is a plea from three of your comrades who have been witness to the events in Wisconsin. Since the day Hosni Mubarak fell half a world away, fast-developing...
View ArticleIllinois Federation of Teachers: A More Just DREAM Act
Resolution No. 17 – Pushing for a More Just Version of the D.R.E.A.M. Act PUSHING FOR A MORE JUST VERSION OF THE D.R.E.A.M. ACT Adopted at the 2010 Illinois Federation of Teachers Convention WHEREAS,...
View ArticleWhat is this G8 thing people are talking about, and why should I care?
This is the first of an occasional series of posts on next year’s G8 meetings to be held in Chicago in May. My goal is to inform myself and you about the upcoming G8/NATO meetings and protests. I’m...
View ArticleMove the Money
Originally posted at Radio Arte “Remember the Fifth of November” may only be known from the film “V For Vendetta” or as “Guy Fawkes’ Day” but it is now tied to a nationwide action that calls on your...
View ArticleStudy: O’Hare, Midway “Living Wage Loophole” costing Chicago
Originally posted at Inside Chicago Airports CHICAGO– The loophole in Chicago’s Living Wage Ordinance that has enabled O’Hare and Midway Airport concessionaires to skirt the City’s living wage could be...
View ArticleWhere is the front line?
This piece was originally written by Michael Bailey, recommended by Amber Smock, a Chicago based coordinator of ADAPT. You can read her piece, “Disability’s Reverse Diaspora” from AREA 11 here. Where...
View ArticleCall for proposals: AREA #12
Chicago’s history is one of intersecting ways of being, trade routes, migratory patters and capital flows. How is Chicago built and transformed at intersections? What happens at the crossing of...
View ArticleIssue #13 Proposal Deadline: September 15
AREA Chicago’s issue #13, to be released in December/January, will focus on Housing and Home. We invite contributions — text, image, and video — dealing with housing in a concrete sense (specific...
View ArticleSpecial web preview – Issue#13, Housing
The full issue is scheduled to appear in print in March 2013. Please see "Web Features" drop-down menu for a sampling of some of the contributions, edited together as a special web preview. Issue 13...
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Ocupados/Occupations and Tent Cities
AREA Chicago is proud to present a new exhibition project in conjunction with Issue 13: Housing, on view February 15 to May 31, 2013 Opening Reception: Friday, February 15 from 6 to 9 p.m. at Art In...
View ArticleHousing Matters
Housing Matters: Gentrification, Detention and the Foreclosure Crisis in Chicago Saturday, March 9 2013 – 4:30 PM-6:30 PM DePaul Art Museum, 935 W Fullerton Ave Join us for a discussion about efforts...
View ArticleSneak Peek: AREA #13 Table of Contents
Please join us to launch AREA Chicago Issue #13: Home Fronts, Housing Struggles Thursday, April 4 at the Jane Addams Hull House Museum, 800 S Halsted St., Chicago 5-6 PM Museum open hours and special...
View ArticleStories of Struggle. Foreclosure and Eviction in Chicago
On August 9, 2012, Communities United Against Foreclosure and Eviction (CUAFE), the Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign , and the Centro Autónomo of Albany Park held a joint meeting to demand a moratorium...
View ArticleSaving the Lanthrop Homes. The fight to preserve public housing on the...
Many years ago, when I was doing research on the transformation of a public housing project on Chicago’s South Side, the then-CEO of the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA), Lewis Jordan, came to a...
View ArticleAREA #14 discussion/reading at Blackstone Library
AREA Chicago and Friends of Blackstone Library present Writing Children January 22, at 6:00 PM Blackstone Library, 4904 S. Lake Park Ave Facebook event here To explore the politics of being a child,...
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