Chicago Justice Project
AREA Chicago talks to Joseph Lipari and Tracy Siska, creators of a web platform intended to network reports of police abuse throughout the city. Allegations that Chicago police officers engaged in acts...
View ArticleSending Clear Signals: Radios Populares
Radios Populares is a Chicago-based collective that formed in the spring of 2002, when they sent radio equipment to The National Center for Rural Workers (cntc) in Honduras. Since then, the group has...
View ArticleIntroducing: Chitown Chefs
About two and a half years ago, Cooperative Image Group (Co-op Image) was working out of their first art center, a two car garage sized space in Humboldt Park, across the alley from Carmen Arroyo’s (El...
View ArticleInheriting The Grid #1
AREA Begins In the mid-spring months of 2005, I started meeting regularly with Jim Duignan, an artist and educator who has been initiating a wide range of collaborative projects under the name of the...
View ArticleIntroducing: Mutual Aid Phonebook
“MAP is an ambitious project, to create a directory–starting in Chicago and branching out across the country–where anarchos/ anti-authoritarians can post an ad (for free) advertising any skills you may...
View ArticleView From The Ground
07/11/05 AREA Please introduce The View From The Ground project and provide some background on how it has functioned. Jamie The View grew out of a particular history, a particular set of relationships,...
View ArticleFire on the Prairie
Interview with Emily Udell and Aaron Sarver AREA: Give us a little background about Fire on the Prairie. How long has it been running? Can you explain your affiliation with In These Times magazine?...
View ArticleIntroducing: Green Lantern Gallery and Press
I began The Green Lantern Gallery and Press in 2005. I host monthly exhibitions, publish limited edition original fiction and incorporate other performance events. Through these varied modes of...
View ArticleLocal and National Organizing by Radical Teachers
A kindly first grade teacher is not most people’s idea of a revolutionary, but that may be because the radical history of teacher organizing has been forgotten. In Chicago during the early 1900s,...
View ArticleNotes from a Conversation: Inheriting the Grid #14
In the language of aspiring adults, “child” can be a dis or a prop. When you are childish you are petty and irrational. When you are childlike, you are innocent and fresh. To be grown is to see the...
View ArticleWhose Kid is She? Adoption, Culture, and the Indian Child Welfare Act
In 2013 the politics of adoption were front and center. Melissa Harris-Perry’s “What’s So Funny About 2013?” segment that poked fun at Mitt Romney’s Black adopted grandson and the launch of Land of a...
View Article“Childhood” at the Margins
I nearly cried when Netflix sent me an email announcing that season three of Louie was available. Louie is one of very few television series that genuinely piques my interest. In all of its offbeat,...
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WBEZ Are You Listening?
Photo by Iván Arenas Undoubtedly, society has changed dramatically since the days when a crowd of parents brought their all-white infants to be weighed and measured by doctors during the Illinois...
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“Am I Suspicious?” Reflections on the Death of Black Childhood
The February 26, 2012 killing of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman sparked waves of public demonstrations across the United States, creating a rupture in the myth of a post-racist United States....
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