Issue 3

AREA Chicago #3 was released September 1, 2006

Table of Contents

• Editorial Introduction: Inheriting the Grid #3 by Daniel Tucker
• AREA #3 Credits

AREA News

• Miscellaneous Calls for Solidarity, Support, and Participation
• Area News/ Cries for Help
• Updates on Area-related projects

Our AREA

• Guest Editorial: Practicing Solidarity by Chris Hayes
• Thoughts on Solidarity by Mary Patten
• Ex-offenders working to stop the next offender by Cassie Fennell
• Who Are We Now? –Getting Connected by Elena Gonzales
• Freedom Schools of Chicago by Kristen Cox and Ryan Hollon
• Six Fragments by Mary Patten 
• Solidarity and Its Fracturing in ACT UP by Debbie Gould
• W.A.S.T.E. by Laurie Palmer
• Missing Landfills: Conflicts of Interest and Museums by Therese Quinn
• Cuentos: A Solidarity Story by Michele Feder-Nadoff
• Notes for a People’s Atlas by Dave Pabellon (Map) and Daniel Tucker (research)
• Building Solidarity through Struggle: The Experience of S.T.O.P. by Matt Ginsberg-Jaeckle
• Contested Chicago: Pilsen and Gentrification by Paul Sargent
• How Chicago’s Community of Doulas is Making it Work by Bonnie Fortune
• Michael Piazza Remembered by Mary Patten, Bertha Husband, Jim Duignan and  Brian Dortmund
• Speculative Landscape: Signs of the Times by Jason Reblando
• Anatomy of a Solidarity: Coming to Chicago, Confronting McDonalds
• Introducing Platypus

Mini Interviews & Project Profiles:

• Nicaragua Solidarity Committee of Chicago by Daniel Tucker
• The Rainbow Coalition by James Tracy
• Pilsen Open Studios: When Art Scenes Say We with Miguel Cortez and Daniel Tucker
• Radios Populares by Aaron Sarver
• Chicago Couriers Union by CCU Membership
• Mexico Solidarity Network by Ryan Hollon

Plus: Solidarity Stories Lauren Berlant, Rogers Park Community Action Network, Rebecca Zorach, Student/Tenant Organizing Project, Leticia Cortez, Kristen Cox, Gabriel Piemonte, Deborah Gould, Salem Collo-Julin, Anthony Rayson