Issue 15

AREA Chicago #15 was released December 6th, 2015

Table of Contents

Healing + Repair

• An Editorial Introduction

Resistance and Survival

• Restoring the Land, Restoring Ourselves by Chi Nations Youth Council
• We Charge Genocide: Reflections on Healing and Resistance by Page May, Hana Worku, Breanna Champion, Monica Trinidad, Ethan Viets-van Lear and Kush Thompson
• A Refusal to be Made Lifeless by Semillas Autonomas
• 40 Acres and Beyond: Black Communities, Food Sovereignty and Climate Change  with Eric Kofi Malone, Diallo Kenyatta, Theodore Richards, Safia Rashid, Gregory Bratton, Kenya Vera Sample, Julian Sample and Michael Tekhen Strode
• Mother’s March for Absolute Justice by Panzy Edwards and Daphne Jackson
• Trauma can be the vehicle for art to manifest Southside Reflections on Art and Healing by Brian Sykes

Reparations

• Repairing a Society Built on Enslavement: Grassroots Reparations Enforcement in Chicago by Kahm Howard
• The Ghosts of Slavery in Corporate Chicago by Larry Redmond, Bob Brown, and Kahm Howard
• Statement from BYP100 regarding the #STOPTHECOPS action by Black Youth Project 100
• Testimonies from a Hearing on the John Burge Torture Reparations Ordinance by Anthony Holmes, Dorothy Burge, Darrell Cannon
• Collective Chicago Torture Justice Timeline by Chicago Torture Justice Memorial

Within and Against (The Law)

• Introducing the Chicago Community Bond Fund, or, Why we Should Let Most People Out of Cook County Jail by Chicago Community Bond Fund
• How to Provide Healing When Capitalism is Killing Us: The Revolutionary Potential of Community Healthcare From Below by Mary Bowman
• The Real Barriers to Care: What We Truly Need to Combat HIV by Cassie Warren
• You Can Die and Then be Buried or you can Raise Above the Grave and Fight by N’dana Carter
• Food and Power at Cook County Jail: How a Company Called CBM Managed Services Makes Big Money from the Food at CCJ by Food Not Bombs Pilsen
• Awakenings and Movement: The Chicago Area Youth Health Service Corps by Maria Ferrera
• How Illinois Prison Healthcare Hurts Prisoners: A Community Forum on Prison Healthcare Injustice by Alan Mills with Angela Mcclellan, Adrienne Canady, Jerri Lindsey, and Gianna X

Coming Together in Struggle

• Do Black Disabled Lives Matter? Timotheus Gordon
• Mycelium: A Reflection Upon Our Interconnectedness by Michael Tekhen Strode
• Thea Healing Justice Teaching Circle by Stephanie Camba, Nina Metsovaara, Erin Raether and Tanuja Jagernauth
• What We Bring Home by Kelly Hayes with Ejeris Dixon and Ash Stephens
• How to Stop First Responders form Killing Us? A Disability Rights Forum on Stephon’s Law featuring Danelene Powell-Watts, Candace Coleman and Carrie Kaufman
• You Can Chew Anything, You can Eat Any Shark: A Conversation About Trauma Center Struggles by Veronica Morris Moore
• Good Day and Good Mental Health by Phylis Humphries
• Making it Our Own by members of Escolta St. Snatchers Social Club: Raven Guerrero, Nasstasha Camba, Jenn Buckler, Crystle Dino and Stephanie Camba