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CPS Closings: Interactive Map with Affected Schools, Gang Lines - Old Town - DNAinfo.com Chicago
Their blood will be on your hands, Mayor Emmanuel. DNAinfo.com mapped the gang boundaries CPS students
could will be forced to cross if when their schools close.
"It all starts with the person who seems committed to win the current spirited competition as the most loathsome person in American political life: Mayor Rahm Emanuel. The same Mayor overseeing the closing of fifty-four schools and six community mental health clinics under the justification of a “budgetary crisis” has announced that the city will be handing over more than $100 million to DePaul University for a new basketball arena. This is part of a mammoth redevelopment project on South Lakeshore Drive consisting of a convention center anchored by an arena for a non-descript basketball team that has gone 47-111 over the last five years. It’s also miles away from DePaul’s campus. These aren’t the actions of a mayor. They’re the actions of a mad king."
Rahm Emanuel’s Zombie Pigs vs. Chicago’s Angry Birds | The Nation (via sexartandpolitics)
Can we get a king slayer up in this joint please?
(via glitterfarm)
Rahm's latest plan: Close the schools, build an arena
“…the great scam known as the city’s TIF program. At its essence—if I give it the best possible spin—the TIF program lets the mayor take property tax dollars from the schools, parks, and county in order to invest the money in projects that he hopes will someday generate even more property tax dollars. Think of it like pulling ten bucks out of your paycheck and investing it in Starbucks stock. In several years, if all goes well, your $10 may have grown into $100. Incidentally, if you do this several thousand times over, you might get wealthy enough to become one of the few people the mayor makes time to meet with—unlike, for example, everyone else who lives in Chicago. In the case at hand, Mayor Emanuel has decided to take the $55 million and buy some property on which he’ll build the aforementioned hotel and basketball arena. But once the city owns it, this land will move off the property tax rolls because publicly held property is exempt. So instead of investing your property tax dollars in developments that create more property tax dollars, Mayor Emanuel has decided to invest them in a scheme that will yield no property tax dollars whatsoever. Think of it as spending $55 million to lose money. Just so you know, the land in question, near the intersection of Cermak and Prairie, is not blighted property that no one wants. Which, by law, is what TIF funds are supposed to be invested in.” If you don’t understand why myself and some of your Chicago tumblr friends are foaming at the mouth today, this is why. Please read this article by the one of four people still employed as a journalist that is paying attention to the scam the mayor is running.
Follow Up Interview with Dr. Allen Frances: Dishing the Dirt on the DSM 5 -
(Source: politicalsocialworker)
While surfing the internet, as I normally do, I randomly came across an article in Psychology Today entitled “Why Social Workers Should Oppose the DSM 5 by Dr. Allen Frances.
There’s a lot of good information in this piece, especially the link to the Wired article and one to a Mother Jones article as well. I’m a bit conflicted about Frances himself, though. I mean, HE is partially to blame for the currentDSM woes. The DSM-IV was his baby. And some have pointed out that it’s convenient for him to speak out now because he’s no longer connected AND his royalties will no longer be coming in. I do appreciate that someone from the inside is providing vocal opposition, though, and recognizes that over-diagnosis and over-medication is a huge problem in this country.
South of the Ohio: A Queer Photo Doc
Featured photographer Christian Hendricks is embarking on a photo project documenting Queer culture in the American South. Learn more about the project and help chip in a few bucks on the project’s kickstarter, and keep up to date with the project’s tumblr page too.
I’m here for this.
YES! I just contacted Christian to see if he would be visiting WV. I pointed him in the direction of Rainbow Pride of West Virginia’s Pride Week festivities. It still blows my mind that not only is there a parade now but an entire week! My baby queer self coulda used that. (I was pretty much gone by the time it got off the ground.) I hope it helps current younger West Virginia queers feel more accepted and proud.
Hazel Dickens, West Virginia born musician.
Hazel Jane Dickens (June 1, 1935 – April 22, 2011) was an American bluegrass singer, songwriter, double bassist and guitarist. Her music was characterized not only by her high, lonesome singing style, but also by her provocative pro-union, feminist songs. Cultural blogger John Pietaro noted that “Dickens didn’t just sing the anthems of labor, she lived them and her place on many a picket line, staring down gunfire and goon squads, embedded her into the cause.” The New York Times extolled her as “a clarion-voiced advocate for coal miners and working people and a pioneer among women in bluegrass music.” With Alice Gerrard, Dickens was one of the first women to record a bluegrass album.
Always reblog Hazel
This looks good also I like how this person pronounces "Yahoo."
This looks good also listen to how this person pronounces “Yahoo.”
Can’t wait.
(via julierthanyou)
Why aren’t more people freaking out about the new Venezuelan labor law?
You know, the one that gives housewives/full-time mothers a pension— wages for housework?
It’s ONLY A HUGE VICTORY FOR FEMINISM, SOCIALISM, AND WOMEN OF COLOR. Not a big deal or anything. Tumblr is mysteriously silent about this.
http://rabble.ca/columnists/2013/05/venezuelas-new-labour-law-best-mothers-day-gift
Boom.
Wow
