By Penny and the Jets
Don’t resent Mayor One Percent
He’s the guy lookin’ out for you
From Lincoln Park down to Streeterville
Unless your collar’s blue
Posted on March 25, 2015
The Beachwood Radio Hour #49: Property Tax Polka
By Steve Rhodes
The Politics of Plans. Plus: Rear-End Rahm; Privatizing Tourism; Aaron Schock’s Magic Tahoe; Fuck The Obama Library; and Developing Homan Square.
Posted on March 22, 2015
Amnesty International Calls For Federal Investigation Of Homan Square
Amnesty International USA called on the Department of Justice to investigate allegations of beatings and disappearances of detainees at a Chicago Police Department facility in Homan Square and to determine whether these allegations of ill-treatment and other abuses are, in fact, systemic throughout the Chicago Police Department.
“International law . . . obligates governments to investigate allegations of human rights violations; disclose the truth about violations; prosecute those responsible; and ensure remedy for victims, including reparations, truth and justice,” wrote Steven W. Hawkins, executive director of Amnesty International USA.
“In the light of the national conversation around policing, it is clear that the United States government can and must do much more to ensure policing practices both in Chicago and nationwide are brought into line with international human rights standards.”
Posted on March 19, 2015
The Beachwood Radio Hour #48: Carol Marin’s Blinders And The Homan Blackout
It’s not a media conspiracy, it’s a media feature. Plus: Rahm’s Neighborhoods Now; Chuy’s New Rules; I Warned Siska; Wikipedia Sues NSA; The Marionization Of America; and Exclusive! Sneed Is A Fraud.
Posted on March 15, 2015
Amnesty International USA Joins ACLU, Wikimedia In Lawsuit To Stop Mass Surveillance Program
By Amnesty International USA
Amnesty International USA joined a major new lawsuit today filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of a broad group of organizations challenging the National Security Agency’s mass interception and searching of Americans’ Internet communications, including emails, web-browsing content, and search-engine queries.
The plaintiffs in the case, Wikimedia v. NSA, include the Wikimedia Foundation, the Rutherford Institute, The Nation magazine and Human Rights Watch.
Naureen Shah, director of Amnesty International USA’s Security and Human Rights Program, issued the following statement:
“The U.S. government’s surveillance is thwarting Amnesty International’s ability to do our work to document and stop human rights abuses.
Posted on March 10, 2015
The Beachwood Radio Hour #47: What Chicagoans Aren’t Being Told
By Steve Rhodes
Homan Square, the NSA, the CIA, Trans-Pacific Partnership. Plus: Pander bears in a runoff and where Brian Williams hid the news.
Posted on March 8, 2015
Yes, Black America Fears The Police. Here’s Why.
By Nikole Hannah-Jones/ProPublica
This story was co-published with Politico Magazine.
Last July 4, my family and I went to Long Island to celebrate the holiday with a friend and her family. After eating some barbecue, a group of us decided to take a walk along the ocean. The mood on the beach that day was festive. Music from a nearby party pulsed through the haze of sizzling meat. Lovers strolled hand in hand. Giggling children chased each other along the boardwalk.
Most of the foot traffic was heading in one direction, but then two teenage girls came toward us, moving stiffly against the flow, both of them looking nervously to their right. “He’s got a gun,” one of them said in a low voice.
Posted on March 6, 2015
The Beachwood Radio Hour #46: Explaining Chicago’s Black Site
By Steve Rhodes
A guide to Homan for our comprehension-challenged local media.
Posted on March 1, 2015
Rahm’s Next Job
By The Beachwood Employment Services Desk
Given that he’s on the verge of being unemployed, we’ve got some suggestions for his next gig.
* Fishmonger.
* Arby’s. He’s a legacy.
* Uber driver. They seem to like creepy characters.
* Next Celebrity Apprentice host. So he can fire people every week.
* Emo band leader. Alienated white guy from the suburbs – perfect!
* Host of Meet The Press. Where, for the first time, he will actually meet the press.
Posted on February 27, 2015
Tweeting Election 2015
Good Game, Everybody
Highlights from across the Twitterverse.
Rahm’s schedule tmrw: 8am: screaming @ subordinates. 11am: quiet rage. Noon: expensive lunch. 1pm: screaming & drinking #ChicagoElection2015
— Samwise Eisenstein (@SamwiseEyes) February 25, 2015
Posted on February 25, 2015