Mike Klonsky's Blog

On yesterday's Hitting Left show , community activists Christian Diaz and Cory Stevenson both agreed. Southside disinvestment and n...

AMAZING!...No sooner did the Progressive Caucus of the City Council hold the first of its hearings on police accountability THEN THIS HA...

A SmallTalk Salute  goes out to the 12  Dyett hunger strikers who are putting their bodies on the line to keep the public in public educa...

Desi Mundo Strong coffee this morning with Desi Mundo , visionary artist and  founder of the Oakland-based Community Rejuvenation Projec...

Remember how Rahm's spin machine demanded that teachers hold off on their strike vote until after the release of the fact-finder's ...

Supporters blocking the gate. (M. Klonsky pics) After getting a call yesterday, that Mayor Emanuel was moving to arrest parents at Wh...

Former CPS art teacher Francisco Mendoza (wearing hat), talks with friends and well-wishers during an auction of donated art items for h...

"The not-even-second-city" Sources close to the mayor privately concede that, after two decades in office, the bench has been depl...

That's how the N.Y. post describes a proposed community-based training program for parents, at NYU's Metropolitan Center for Urban ...

Fallout from the Ownership Society In the bubble decade, making money as an end in itself boomed as a calling among students at elite univer...