Issue 8

AREA Chicago #8 was released May 1st, 2009

Table of Contents

• Bios + Mastehead
• Editorial: Inheriting the Grid #8 by Daniel Tucker
• In Memoriam: Franklin Rosemont

Cash Money

• Timeline of Financial Crisis in Chicago by Ashley Weger with Lauren Cumbia. Designed by Dave Pabellon
• City Wide Interview on Money by the Neighborhood Writing Alliance
• Who$e money is it anyway? American Anti-Redlining Movement by Damon Rich
• Fighting Friedman by Rebecca Zorach
• The Life of Crisis: Reflections on Sub-Prime Youth by Patrick Dunn
• Redefining the Commonwealth by Bert Stabler
• All in a Day’s Pay by Timothy Sarrantonio
• Economic Justice Organizations by Ashley Weger
• Definitions of Capitalism

Work

• Strike! Chicago by Lauren Cumbia
• Revolt on Goose Island by Kari Lydersen
• Day Laborer Organizing in the New Economy: Perspectives from the Latino Union of Chicago by B. Loewe
• Congress Hotel Strike at 5 1/2 Years by Rachel Wallis
• Economic Nun-Sense by Ajitha Reddy and Erica Meiners
• Sex Work as Activist Niche by Mark Shipley

Culture

• InCubate 2nd Year Report by InCUBATE
• A day at Stateville by Alice Kim
• Survey Results by Kristen Cox and Daniel Tucker. Designed by Dave Pabellon
• Temporary Services on Money by Temporary Services with Jerome Grand
• Mucca Pazza with Kristen Cox
• Punk and Economics by David Wolf
• Urbs in Horto: Sidewalk Symposia by Amber Ginsburg and Lia Rousset
• One Question About Art (and Economics) in Chicago with responses by Ed and Rachel Marszewski, Amanda Guiterrez, Mike Bancroft, Nance Klehm, Anne Elizabeth Moore, Coya Paz, Shannon Stratton, Edra Soto, Deborah Stratman, Dan Peterman, Marianne Fairbanks, Nicole Garneau, Amy Patridge, Sara Black, Elvia Rodriguez-Ochoa, Salome Chasnoff

Resources

• Introducing: Backstory Cafe by Sara Black and Robin Hewlett
• 501(c)(3) Chicago by Harishi Patel with Jill Doub
• Food Not Bombs by Raechel Tiffe
• Introducing: Rebuilding Exchange by Elise Zelechowski
• Donation Diaspora by Dale Asis
• The New Business in Art by Lee Ann Norman
• Money is Our Business by Jeanne Kracher and Sheila O’Donnell
• Boone School Funding by Wade Tillet

Afterword

• Toward a more coherent anti-capitalist theory and practice in the Chicago area by Chicago Political Workshop