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The mostly free events range from workshops on making protest posters and writing protest songs to learning about safeguarding workers’ rights and how to tie dye.
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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We’ve come a long way from stores marketing quiet spaces.
This country elected a community activist as president twice!
According to their filed 2022 From 990, Part IV Question 3, this group did NOT “…engage in direct or indirect political campaign activities on behalf of or in opposition to candidates for public office.”
Sure they didn’t. Their tax-exempt status should be revoked.
Dems say Republicans are fascist, and Republicans say Dems are fascist. There’s a lot of fascism going around.
Does activist equate to jobless with nothing else to do but get paid for being a public nuisance?
Nope. The two top people are or at least were on this wonderful organization’s payroll.
I wonder what shadowy organization, perhaps taxpayer funded, is behind this front for the spread of communism in the sheep’s clothing of progressive Democratic socialism? They’d run to their safe spaces or grab their umbrellas pretty quickly if I am allowed to get in there and make some signs.
Mental illness is rampant . Bar the doors closed and name it an insane asylum