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By Sabeel Ahmed/GainPeace
The Chicago Muslim community is visibly shocked at the news of the terrorist attack in two mosques in New Zealand.
Here’s how the Muslims of Chicago are reacting to the attacks:
1. Many Muslims kept wake watching their social media feeds, especially Whatsapp to get updates on the shooting.
Posted on March 16, 2019
By Mike Luce
A true story.
Me: There’s a huge muffler in the middle of the Ohio Street off-ramp of the Kennedy. Like it fell of a truck or something.
911 operator: OK, has there been an accident?
Me: No, but it looks super dangerous.
911: Is it in the street or on the shoulder?
Me: In the middle of the right lane.
911: Is it on the street or the ramp?
Me:
Posted on March 14, 2019
By Sheerine Alemzadeh/Healing to Action
Healing to Action, a non-profit, Chicago-based grassroots organization whose mission is to build a worker-led movement to end gender-based violence. is proud to open a community-designed art exhibit, Sanación De Generaciones: Esperanza Del Mañana/Healing Generations: Hope of Tomorrow.
This bilingual art show features ofrendas, or personal altars, designed by eight of Healing to Action’s worker leaders, who are using the exhibit to launch a broader campaign to address the root causes of gender-based violence in Chicago’s low-income communities of color.
Each ofrenda honors the leaders’ past, present and future journeys, and represents their personal truths that have been silenced across generations, cultures, and gender lines.
Posted on March 12, 2019
The nation’s largest cheese, butter and yogurt competition started Tuesday in Green Bay, with more entrants than ever. AP on the call:
Posted on March 7, 2019
By Charles Pignon/The Conversation
Climate change is an urgent threat to societies around the world, driven by carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels such as oil. One of the most effective ways to curb emissions is to replace these energy sources with others that are carbon neutral or even carbon negative – that is, technologies that remove more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than they put in.
Bioenergy, or energy derived from organic matter, usually plants, is an attractive option. The U.S. already derives 5 percent of transportation fuel from bioenergy, mostly corn. Even jet fuel could be produced from specially engineered crops, potentially balancing out 3 percent of the world’s human-made emissions.
Posted on March 5, 2019
By J.J. Tindall
Like A Rembrandt In Candlelight
She moves
Like a Rembrandt
In candlelight:
There’s a glimmer,
A flicker, that is signature.
The others lack dimension,
Somehow, in comparison,
Like the difference
Between the Great Plains
And the Kettle Moraine.
Posted on March 4, 2019
Blue-Spotted Salamanders, Painted Turtles & Feral Children!
The largest gathering of Chicago’s nature lovers was held Saturday. Here are some highlights via Twitter:
One of my fav slides from #WildThings19, Essential Skills for Feral Children, at the “I Love the Trash Forest” talk abt keeping wild spaces for kids to play – https://t.co/Y7tkc7mNzD pic.twitter.com/3sU6LnxDVu
— cassi saari (@BOUCUR) February 25, 2019
Posted on February 26, 2019
By The Wild Things Conference
With the myriad challenges facing the natural world, it’s more important than ever to come together to share notes on tangible solutions to pressing issues large and small. The Wild Things Conference is the largest gathering of Chicagoland’s nature lovers – both professional and amateur – who gather to celebrate and defend our priceless natural spaces.
From bobcats returning to Illinois to social science methods for community conservation, the 2019 Wild Things Conference will be the biggest one yet, with more than a hundred different presentations and exhibitions.
Happening on Saturday, February 23rd at the Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, this celebration of people and nature will continue the biennial tradition of ecological knowledge-sharing that started in the mid-1970s.
Posted on February 19, 2019
By J.J. Tindall
Courtyard Still Life: Cardinal and Cricket
The chirp of a courtyard cricket
Came in through the bathroom window.
It was high noon in summer.
I was startled. I heard eternity.
Cricket song, I thought,
Was a strictly midnight phenomenon.
One expects siren shriek, train whoosh, tire screech,
Car alarms, garbage trucks, arguments, gunfire.
Apartment courtyard acoustics prevail:
Posted on February 18, 2019
