Gang Signs Seen in City Sticker Design, Clerk Investigating [Chicago]
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<p>Chicago - City Clerk Susana Mendoza is investigating whether gang signs are in the artwork of the new Chicago city sticker just days before the sticker is set to be printed.</p><p>The sticker was picked as the winner in a city-wide contest and was designed by a 15-year-old boy who attends a school for troubled youth.</p>
Published on Thursday 9th of February 2012 01:10:09 AM
Wisconsin recall unprecedented for Chicago political consultancy
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Ann Liston and Eric Adelstein are hardened Chicago Democratic consultants. Their behind-the-scenes role helping the Wisconsin Democratic Party collect more than 1 million signatures to recall Gov. Scott Walker has put them in a campaign unlike any they've ever seen. The two 40-somethings said Facebook's power to reach voters, combined with a recentU.S. Supreme Court ruling that unfettered limits on corporate and union political spending, has rewritten their industry's game plan. "It's horrible for democracy but great for business," Adelstein said Tuesday, referring to the Citizens United U.S. Supreme Court decision. Voters in Wisconsin, South Carolina and Florida have been...
Published on Thursday 9th of February 2012 01:10:09 AM
Report: Secretary Duncan got $50K payout from Chicago schools
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Secretary of Education Arne Duncan got a $50,000 payout in unused sick and vacation leave when he left his job as CEO of the Chicago Public Schools system to join the Obama administration. According to a new report by the watchdog group Better Government Association, the secretary was able to take advantage of department policy to covert unused, accrued benefits into a cash payout. Since 2006, Chicago's school system has paid $265 million to employees under this policy, with $227 million for sick days alone. The policy was put into place by the Chicago school board and predates Duncan, a...
Published on Thursday 9th of February 2012 01:10:09 AM
Cops: Cross-dressing muggers charged with additional attacks
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Two men who prosecutors said were dressed as women when they mugged two people in November 2011 near Lincoln Park Zoo have been charged with a pair of additional attacks that authorities said happened the month before, police said.
Published on Thursday 9th of February 2012 01:10:09 AM
Magazine The Helped Launch OWS Calls On Occupiers To Come To Chicago During G8 Summit In “Tradition
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Nothing would make me happier than seeing Occupiers rampaging in the streets of Chicago only six months before the November elections. (CNS News) — Adbusters, the radical, Vancouver-based anti-consumerist magazine, credited by many media outlets for launching the Occupy Wall Street protests, has put out an ad calling for 50,000 protestors to “Occupy” the G8 summit in May. And they are not calling for peaceful protest. The Adbusters ad shows a picture of policemen beating up a defenseless protestor, and comes with the caption: “In the Tradition of the Chicago 8.” The Chicago 8 were radicals who incited riots in...
Published on Thursday 9th of February 2012 01:10:09 AM
Minister in ‘rent-a-protester’ flap offers to open his books
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Minister in ‘rent-a-protester’ flap offers to open his books BY ROSALIND ROSSI Education Reporter/rrossi@suntimes.com Last Modified: Jan 28, 2012 02:12AM A minister in the eye of the “rent-a-protester” storm has offered to open the books of his non-profit agency to prove it spent taxpayer money appropriately — and not on packing school closing hearings with paid protesters. “Small stipends” offered to school protesters did not come from after-school and safe-passage grants the HOPE Organization received from Chicago Public Schools, the group’s CEO, Rev. Roosevelt Watkins III, told the Chicago Sun-Times in an email. “I have called CPS and invited them...
Published on Thursday 9th of February 2012 01:10:09 AM
The Encyclopedia of Chicago: Communist Party
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The American Communist Party was born in Chicago in 1919 and headquartered there until 1927, when its headquarters and newspaper, the Daily Worker, moved to New York. In the 1930s, the Communist Party in Chicago reached its largest audience through organizing the unemployed and protesting evictions and cuts in relief. Black Belt organizers recruited protesters at Washington Park, while Communists in Back of the Yards built alliances with community activists like Roman Catholic bishop Bernard Sheil and Saul Alinsky. During the Popular Front of the late 1930s, Communism's popularity increased among artists, writers, and intellectuals. By the end of the...
Published on Thursday 9th of February 2012 01:10:09 AM
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