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- Monday, Jan 02, 2012
Video The Occupy Wall Street protest inspired a nationwide occupation movement, with encampments in thousands of communities large and small. One of the producers of Chicago Independent Television took a road trip from Boston to Chicago, visiting sever... -
- Saturday, Dec 03, 2011
Video Since 9 /11, the world has seen a disturbing increase in intolerance against Muslims. In this short film, we'll visit two opposing demonstrations that took place at ground zero on the tenth anniversary of 9/11. -
- Friday, Dec 02, 2011
Video One of the top international stories of the past year has been the "hackergate" scandal in Britain, affecting Newscorp and its chair Rupert Murdoch. The scandal could also impact American media, and has spurred Chicago media activists to action, ... Video For the first time in over 20 years, Chicago has a new mayor. Will he be any better than the last one? We'll learn more about the sordid history of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel in this short film. -
- Tuesday, Nov 29, 2011
Audio The full audio of the November 2011 episode of From The Trenches, featuring excerpts from Media Democracy Day 2011; presentations by Steve Macek, Mitchell Szczepanczyk, and Jeanette Foreman. Plus headlines from the worldwide Indymedia network. -
- Monday, Nov 07, 2011
Video On the 10th anniversary of the War in Afghanistan, more than 1,500 peace activists gathered in downtown Chicago to protest the ongoing occupation. We'll join the protest and learn some of the consequences of the war's past ten years in this short ... -
- Tuesday, Nov 01, 2011
Video Just weeks after Occupy Wall Street began and took off, other cities across America started their own Occupy efforts, including here in Chicago, as seen in this short film. Video The Occupy Wall Street movement has dramatically grown from a single summer callout by the magazine Adbusters into a worldwide protest of historic proportions. In this short film, we'll go to where it all began, the Occupy Wall Street encampment i... -
- Sunday, Oct 23, 2011
Audio From The Trenches is the monthly radio program of the Chicago Independent Media Center. -
- Saturday, Feb 27, 2010
Commentary I agree that markets for many important reasons must be abolished and replaced. The projects around a participatory society, including participatory economics, certainly rank among the more detailed proposals for a more just successor economy and ... -
- Wednesday, Nov 18, 2009
Blog Post Mitchell Szczepanczyk's Resoc Interview -
- Tuesday, Sep 01, 2009
ZMag Article Report from a conference mixing science fiction with left politics -
- Monday, Jul 13, 2009
ZNet Article You could select any topic that subsumes anything that might be called "left activism" -- the environment, war and militarism, labor rights, energy, education, media, electoral politics, food and drink, banking and finance, just to name a few broa... -
- Monday, Apr 27, 2009
ZNet Article A presentation for the Albany Park, North Park, Mayfair Neighbors for Peace and Justice Economics, April 25, 2009 -
- Tuesday, Dec 30, 2008
Blog Post A report back of an October 2008 face-to-face meeting between members of CAPES (the Chicago Area Participatory Economics Society) and APPS (the Austin Project for a Participatory Society). -
- Friday, Aug 29, 2008
Blog Post What: A celebration of the publication of "Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century"
When: Monday, September 1st, starting at 2pm.
Where: The Book Cellar, 4736 N. Lincoln Avenue, Chicago (about a block from the Western stati... -
- Saturday, Jul 05, 2008
ZNet Article Corporations -- particularly those transnational corporations with limited liability and rights of personhood -- pose a great threat, perhaps the greatest threat, to the environment and to the future of this planet. Examples are legion: Exxon-Mobi... -
- Sunday, Apr 27, 2008
ZNet Article On Wednesday, February 18, 2009, all analog over-the-air TV broadcasting in the United States ceases, and will be replaced with an all-digital broadcasting setup. The ostensible reason for this conversion to digital television (DTV) is to improve ... -
- Monday, Mar 24, 2008
Blog Post March 23 – Six members of the anti-war group “Catholic Schoolgirls Against The War” staged a dramatic die-in during the 11AM Easter mass at Holy Name Cathedral, Chicago’s most prominent Catholic parish – and the home of one of the nation’s most co... -
- Thursday, Dec 06, 2007
Video Who Will Stop The War? - A guest segment from the Chicago-based TV show Labor Beat. Here is an excerpt from their video, "Who Will Stop the War?", in which we take a closer look at the protest organizing to find some controversy beneath the surface. Video Dec. 20, 2007, Chicago Peace Mobilization - In the fall of 2007, thousands of protesters marched and rallied in Chicago's streets to protest the ongoing war and occupation in Iraq. We take a look at the day's events in this segment. -
- Wednesday, Sep 12, 2007
Blog Post A heads-up for a couple of things:
(1) There's an FCC hearing in Chicago scheduled for next Thursday, September 20. Chicagoans and folks in the midwest U.S. are encouraged to attend. More details are here and here. In anticipation of the hea... -
- Tuesday, Sep 11, 2007
Blog Post Obviously. Because scintillating commentator and analyst David Brooks said so. On the PBS Newshour (well, it IS an hour long, but is it news?), Brooks was talking about the latest videotape by Osama bin Laden, and Brooks said:
...I mean, on... -
- Tuesday, Aug 21, 2007
Blog Post Well, this IS new content, and an idea I've been throwing around for a while. And hey, Z does satire every month!
Spider Pig Buys Out Wall Street Journal
Spider Pig, who does whatever a Spider Pig does, stunned the business world Monday b... -
- Thursday, Aug 16, 2007
Blog Post Lately, it seems like I've been using this blog to promote one or another thing, rather than deliver some semblance of original content. Right you are -- though that might change soon and I might get back to posting up original content. Anyway, ... -
- Wednesday, Jul 04, 2007
Blog Post Just a quick blog post announcement which would interest ZNet readers.
Last month, I interviewed Michael Albert on my weekly radio show in Chicago. We discussed a number of topics raised in his recent book "Remembering Tomorrow".
The full a... -
- Saturday, Jun 23, 2007
Blog Post I had an idea for a tactic to proceed our economy. Why not just go ahead and start a participatory economy?
Some might react by saying "We already have projects like Z Magazine and South End Press which already are starting". I know that, but... -
- Thursday, May 24, 2007
Blog Post From the Department of Neato:
This map shows the distribution of the 15.9 million people worldwide who protested against the invasion of Iraq in 2003 by troops from over 25 other territories, including from the United States, the Unit... -
- Saturday, Apr 14, 2007
Blog Post From an article I posted on Chicago Indymedia:
Freedom-of-speech advocates and political activists are expecting a verdict this week in the case of a Chicago political activist who was arrested at a political rally for openly questioning poli... -
- Monday, Feb 26, 2007
Blog Post This is just a quick announcement.
The complete audio of the Feb. 10 Chicago Parecon debate at the offices of In These Times, and hosted by the Open University of the Left, is now online.
The audio has been divided into six MP3 files, each... - All Most Recent Content
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- Tuesday, Nov 29, 2011
Audio The full audio of the November 2011 episode of From The Trenches, featuring excerpts from Media Democracy Day 2011; presentations by Steve Macek, Mitchell Szczepanczyk, and Jeanette Foreman. Plus headlines from the worldwide Indymedia network. -
- Sunday, Oct 23, 2011
Audio From The Trenches is the monthly radio program of the Chicago Independent Media Center. - All Recent Audio
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- Monday, Jan 02, 2012
Video The Occupy Wall Street protest inspired a nationwide occupation movement, with encampments in thousands of communities large and small. One of the producers of Chicago Independent Television took a road trip from Boston to Chicago, visiting sever... -
- Saturday, Dec 03, 2011
Video Since 9 /11, the world has seen a disturbing increase in intolerance against Muslims. In this short film, we'll visit two opposing demonstrations that took place at ground zero on the tenth anniversary of 9/11. -
- Friday, Dec 02, 2011
Video One of the top international stories of the past year has been the "hackergate" scandal in Britain, affecting Newscorp and its chair Rupert Murdoch. The scandal could also impact American media, and has spurred Chicago media activists to action, ... Video For the first time in over 20 years, Chicago has a new mayor. Will he be any better than the last one? We'll learn more about the sordid history of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel in this short film. -
- Monday, Nov 07, 2011
Video On the 10th anniversary of the War in Afghanistan, more than 1,500 peace activists gathered in downtown Chicago to protest the ongoing occupation. We'll join the protest and learn some of the consequences of the war's past ten years in this short ... -
- Tuesday, Nov 01, 2011
Video Just weeks after Occupy Wall Street began and took off, other cities across America started their own Occupy efforts, including here in Chicago, as seen in this short film. Video The Occupy Wall Street movement has dramatically grown from a single summer callout by the magazine Adbusters into a worldwide protest of historic proportions. In this short film, we'll go to where it all began, the Occupy Wall Street encampment i... -
- Thursday, Dec 06, 2007
Video Dec. 20, 2007, Chicago Peace Mobilization - In the fall of 2007, thousands of protesters marched and rallied in Chicago's streets to protest the ongoing war and occupation in Iraq. We take a look at the day's events in this segment. Video Who Will Stop The War? - A guest segment from the Chicago-based TV show Labor Beat. Here is an excerpt from their video, "Who Will Stop the War?", in which we take a closer look at the protest organizing to find some controversy beneath the surface. - All Recent Video
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