Speech to the City Council 11/5/07 |
Tonight I am speaking on behalf of the Sunrise Anarchist Collective in Waukegan.Last time I was here I spoke very briefly about gentrification. The city wants to move the poor out for the rich. It is,...
Posted by on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:42:00 GMT |
Speech to the City Council 10/1/07 |
I'm speaking tonight and representing the Sunrise Anarchist Collective in Waukegan.The economic development plans pushed by Richard Hyde and various middle-class groups in Waukegan is a threat to our...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:19:00 GMT |
Anarchism and Labor: A Brief History |
Anarchism and Labor -- A Contradiction?There is a public opinion that Anarchists hate work; that we are terrorists, criminals, and that our ideas have nothing to offer to real life. But how many peop...
Posted by on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 01:33:00 GMT |
Anarchists and Immigration |
The immigration debate is currently stuck between two stubborn positions. On one side, conservatives argue for deportation for all migrant workers, an English-only country, and armed guards on our bo...
Posted by on Sun, 26 Aug 2007 21:55:00 GMT |
Waukegan Govt: Against Environment, Against the Poor |
Last night the Waukegan City Council and Mayor Hyde was rejected for a 34 million dollar grant from the federal government to clean the Waukegan harbor. The Environmental Protection Agency had propos...
Posted by on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:40:00 GMT |
The Living Wage and Anarchism |
It goes without saying that those of us working all over Waukegan are doing so at poverty wages. A living wage calculator states that unless you are an engineer, business owner, computer scientist, d...
Posted by on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 14:20:00 GMT |
No human is illegal! |
Though the media would tell us that Waukegan is protesting against 287g, we all know that our issues go far beyond this law. Leaders of this protest have put the most emphasis on tossing out thi...
Posted by on Sat, 07 Jul 2007 09:47:00 GMT |
Gentrification in Waukegan |
We have all been told that bringing new business into Waukegan is a positive step towards a better city. We've been told by the newspapers and politicians that new business means a completely ne...
Posted by on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:07:00 GMT |
Collective Points of Unity |
1. Food, shelter, water, clean environments, health care, education, jobs, and clothing are human rights, not priveleges.
2. Capitalism is violent and exploitive, and therefore should be done away wit...
Posted by on Thu, 02 Feb 2006 20:05:00 GMT |
Speech to the Mayor of Waukegan |
Today I would like to bring up an issue not well-known amongst people until it affects them personally. That issue is 'gentrification', or , as the Democrats love to say, "economic development."...
Posted by on Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:55:00 GMT |
