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    Daniel Tucker
  • Martha Boyd
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  • Ken Dunn of the Resource Center
    Sarah Lewison
  • Daniel Block
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  • Introducing: Chitown Chefs
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  • Humboldt Park Food Not Bombs
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  • Nance Klehm
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  • Growing Home
    Cassie Fennell
  • The Institute for Community Resource Development
    Micah Maidenberg
  • God’s Gang
    Micah Maidenberg
  • Gene Wise
    Micah Maidenberg
  • Looking For Greens
    Nancy Thomas
  • 3 Kinds of Produce
    Heather Sewell
  • Growing Power
    Cassie Fennell
  • Boleria Hernandez
    Nance Klehm
  • Nueva Vida ABC
    Nance Klehm
  • Driving Around With Ken Dunn
    Sarah Lewison
  • Neoliberal Appetites
    Brian Holmes
  • Introducing: Dill Pickle Food Co-Op
    Alisa Baum
  • Respect Is Due
    Young Women’s Action Team
  • Introducing: Seed Archive
    Salvation Jane
  • Coercive Consumption
    Claire Pentecost
  • Urban Foraging
    Salvation Jane
  • What About the Farmers?
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  • The Conquest of Thalia
    Jefferson Gutierrez Lozano
  • Public Memories of Haymarket in Chicago
    Nicolas Lampert
  • Downtown Decentered
    Faith Agostinone Wilson
  • The Chicago Street Art Archive: Vanish Portfolio
    Jamie Kalven | Patricia Evans
  • Introducing: Material Exchange
    Material Exchange
  • Heat 05
    Nicole Garneau
  • Community Land Trust
    Martha Boyd

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Featuring Interviews with: Mike Bancroft (Co-op Image), Wafaa Bilal, Sara Black (Material Exchange), Brett Bloom (Temporary Services), Aquil Charlton (Crib Collective), Salome Chasnoff (Beyondmedia), Marianne Fairbanks (Mess Hall), Edra Soto Fernandez, Nicole Garneau, Theaster Gates, Amanda Gutierrez, Craig Harshaw (Insight Arts), David Isaacson (Theater Oobleck), Jennifer Karmin (Anti Gravity Surprise), Nance Klehm, Edmar and Rachael Marszewski (Lumpen), Mark Messing (Mucca Pazza), Anne Elizabeth Moore, Sonjanita Moore (Kuumba Lynx), Laurie Palmer, Amy Partridge (CAFF Collective), Mary Patten (Feel Tank Chicago), Coya Paz (Teatro Luna), Dan Peterman (Experimental Station), Jon Pounds (Chicago Public Art Group), Aay Preston-Myint (Chances Dances), Toufic El Rassi, Laurie Jo Reynolds, Elvia Rodriguez-Ochoa (Polvo), Deborah Stratman, Shannon Stratton (threewalls), Brad Thomson, travis (American Veterans for Equal Rights), Dan S. Wang, Rebecca Zorach (Feel Tank Chicago), and more.

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