You Can Die and Then be Buried or you can Raise Above the Grave and Fight with N’Dana Carter On April 15, 2015, AREA Chicago sat down with N’Dana Carter in Nichol’s Park to talk with her about her involvement in the Mental Health Movement (MHM). The following is an excerpt of that interview. N’Dana […]
Criminalizing Black Mothers and children: The Ella Baker Freedom School
How is the State used against Chicago women of color who organize and unschool or homeschool their children? Ella Baker Freedom School co-founder Marissa Brown is facing potential criminal charges for homeschooling her 2 daughters! Marissa has been a community activist that has been consistently vocal about her opposition to state sanctioned violence against Black […]
AREA #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, AREA invites you to consider writing about childhood as a political project. Contributors to our forthcoming Issue #14: KIDS! will read from their articles, and reflect […]
Saving the Lathrop Homes. The fight to preserve public housing on the northwest side
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 community meeting and stated, “We are not in the business of putting people out of housing.” I was happy to hear this, […]
Stories 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 on foreclosures and evictions. Chicagoans affected by the foreclosure and eviction crisis— both owners and renters, including public housing residents—testified to their experiences amidst […]
Sneak 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 tours of “Unfinished Business: Home Economics in the 21st Century” 6-7:30 PM Issue #13 readings and celebration Issue includes photographic […]
Housing 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 to re-think and re-shape Chicago. Will also have a sneak peek at AREA Issue #13 “Home Fronts, Housing Struggles”, coming out in early […]
Ocupados/Occupations and Tent Cities
Opening Reception: Friday, February 15 from 6 to 9 p.m.
at Art In These Times,
2040 N. Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago
(we regret this venue is not wheelchair accessible)
Encampments, Occupations and Tent Cities, curated by Jayne Hileman as part of AREA #13, examines historic actions such as the Fayette County Tent City, the occupations of Alcatraz and the Mad Houser hut cities. Espacios Ocupados: Defining 99%, an exhibit curated by Jesus Macarina-Avilaby for Instituto de Nuestro Cultura, features work from contemporary Caribbean, Latin American and Latino/a artists that explores shifting cultural identities in a post-occupy world.
Artists/projects: Alfonso Fernández Acevedo, Celia Alvarez-Munoz, Eric J. Garcia, Jose Guerrero, Pedro Lasch, MadHousers, Atlanta and Chicago, Occupied Chicago Tribune, Sarah Jane Rhee, Love + Struggle Photos, Nyki Salinas Duda & Sydney Stoudmire, and more…
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Special 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 explores the contested ground where we live and have lived: the history and current state of “housing” in Chicago and the political, personal, and imaginative meanings that accompany these physical spaces and the struggles for them. This sampling of pieces to appear in the print issue reflect the issue’s broad themes, including stories and histories of housing in Chicago; the CHA’s Plan for Transformation and its ongoing aftermath; current struggles in Chicago around foreclosure and eviction, detention, and uneven development; housing alternatives and the labor of care; and the effects of gentrification in the Pilsen neighborhood.
Issue 13 explores the contested ground where we live and have lived: the history and current state of “housing” in Chicago and the political, personal, and imaginative meanings that accompany these physical spaces and the struggles for them. This sampling of pieces to appear in the print issue reflect the issue’s broad themes, including stories and histories of housing in Chicago; the CHA’s Plan for Transformation and its ongoing aftermath; current struggles in Chicago around foreclosure and eviction, detention, and uneven development; housing alternatives and the labor of care; and the effects of gentrification in the Pilsen neighborhood.
Issue #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 sites, buildings, histories, and activist campaigns) or a broader sense (definitions and creative interventions into the idea of “home”). Content should have a […]
Call 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 streets, trajectories, political interests? How do we each occupy intersecting positions and histories? How do social movements address the intersections of local, regional and global […]
Where 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 is the front line? Where is the front line of the struggle for disability rights? In an Oklahoma nursing home a young man weeps from loneliness. […]
Study: 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 costing Chicago communities up to $8 million a year, a new study from faculty at the University of Chicago and Roosevelt University finds. The study is a cost […]
Move 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 steadfast courage and bravery under pressure. Though its best you don’t wear a mask doing it! Are you […]
What 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 unapologetically sympathetic to the issues likely to be raised by protesters, but am not taking a stand […]
Illinois 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, the current D.R.E.A.M. (Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors) Act allows “legalization” for undocumented youth through military service or college […]
Message 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 events in Madison, only 2.5 hours northwest of Chicago, have combined to produce what the three of us agree is […]
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 intersection of major waterways, and expanded as the intersection of railroads and highways. It became the destination for successive waves of new arrivals […]