The Fight for 15 started in 2012, famously, when two workers walked off their shift at McDonald’s. They were protesting the paltry minimum wage, what hasn’t increased since 2009 from…
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photo by Gage Skidmore We are officially in the second year of one of the deadliest pandemics the earth has ever seen. Many countries have taken extensive measures to ensure…
photo by Luis Quintero On November 17th, Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced plans for students to return to school starting January 11th, with teachers coming a week earlier. The issue of…
America’s 2020 election, while technically not over, has certainly occurred. I voted for Biden. I’ve written in the past about really not wanting to do that, but I’ve found that…
photo by Julie Aagaard As of writing, it’s the day before the 2020 election. It’s all anyone can think of, for better or worse, for different reasons. Today I find…
photo by Element5 Digital Every four years leading up to November, Americans become students of electoral practices, how best to achieve true democracy, and how the way we do things…
photo by Ted Eytan A video of Florida State Senator Mike Bennett is doing the rounds on social media leading up to the election, and for good reason. In it,…
On August 6, Chicago Public Schools (CPS) scrapped its Fall hybrid learning plan for an all remote plan. Lightfoot made the call a day after the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU)…
photo by Mike Licht In the age of declaring Antifa, (or the act of being anti-fascist,) a terrorist organisation, political delineation has become a semantic practice used to keep people…
In the first week of May, Pritzker gave into The Illinois Restaurant Association’s urges to reopen at-restaurant dining. Originally set to open as part of Phase Four on June 28,…
photo by Charles Edward Miller According to the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Public Schools are expected to announce that they will be going completely remote in the Fall. How students go…