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Northside College Prep’s LSC is the first in CPS to vote police out of school: “The fight isn’t over”
“It’s going to put more pressure on the Board of Education to listen to students, teachers, parents, and community members.”
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In speaking with numerous abolitionists doing work in Chicago, the overarching idea is that society is endangered, not protected, by the current system.
“The idea of policing has never been about safety. It has always been about surveillance.”
Veteran Chicago journalist Monroe Anderson reflects on today’s anti-police uprisings and the 1968 anti-war uprisings, and the police who battered and bruised the press and the protestors during both.
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Front Porch Arts Center sponsored a Juneteenth Photography Contest this year.
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