Chicago

This New Year’s Eve, 750 heavy wooden crosses were distributed to a gathering of Chicagoans commemorating the victims of gun violence killed in 2016. Rev. Michael Pfleger and the Faith Community of St. Sabina Parish had issued a call to carry crosses constructed by Greg Zanis. The crosses, uniform in size, presented the name and age and, in many cases, a facial photo of the person killed. Some who carried the crosses were relatives of the people killed. As the group assembled, several sobbed upon finding the crosses that bore the names and photos of their loved ones.

Gang violence has fueled a staggering death toll in Chicago, much as military violence has spread death and chaos over large swaths of the world, reminding Kathy Kelly of the need for an “eternal hostility” toward killing. By Kathy Kelly…Read more →

Contagious violence, institutional abuse and suing TV + this day in history w/Wounded Knee Massacre and our song of the day by Chicano Batman on your Morning Monarchy for December 29, 2016.

Chicago will pay a $3 million settlement to the family of a teenager shot and killed while fleeing police on a busy street, claiming he had a black object in his hand that made them fear for their lives.
The black object turned out to be an iPhone case.
And surveillance cameras do not show Cedric Chatman, 17, pointing the object at officers as he fled as police initially reported, although the videos are grainy.

Religious thoughts, kinda kuru and astrological assassins + this day in history w/Our Lady of the Angels School fire and our song of the day by Son Of The Velvet Rat on your Morning Monarchy for December 1, 2016.

With the advent of the social impact bond… if Adam Smith were around today, he’d be talking not just about the invisible hand of markets but the invisible heart of markets.
— Sir Ronald Cohen (a.k.a. “high priest of money-making”).

Chicago police officer Jaeho Jung blew the whistle on officer misconduct within his department, including officers who fabricated reports and faked radio communications.
His supervisors responded by retaliating against him.
Now the 10-year veteran has filed a lawsuit against the Chicago Police Department .

In 45 of those instances, Creamer was scheduled to meet with Obama himself.

Americans are finally realizing they never lived in a democracy; Hacks and pranks can be a fun way to monkeywrench the New World Order; and people are turning abandoned homes into greenhouses.

Americans are finally realizing they never lived in a democracy; Hacks and pranks can be a fun way to monkeywrench the New World Order; and people are turning abandoned homes into greenhouses.