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BrownTown sits down with co-authors of the "Girl, I Guess" Progressive Voter Guide, three-peat guest Stephanie Skora and newcomer Raeghn Draper to talk all things 2024 Cook County Democratic Primary Elections. From ethics and attitudes in long-form opinion journalism to new endorsement standards surrounding Palestinian liberation, the gang situates the relationship between electoralism and the Left in this moment and extrapolates its potential for the future. Originally recorded February 8, 2024.

GUESTS
Stephanie Skora is a writer, educator, speaker, organizer, and non-profiteer based in Chicago, Illinois. She lives as a Stone Top hard femme trans Lesbian and working-class anti-Zionist Ashkenazi Jew, and mobilizes her identities to work in solidarity with Palestinians, to queer Jewish spaces, and to fight for justice and liberation for all trans people. Stephanie is the Co-Founder and Chief Development Officer of Brave Space Alliance, serves as Board Treasurer for the Midwest Institute for Sexuality and Gender Diversity, and is the co-author and editor of the "Girl, I Guess" Progressive Voter Guide. Follow her on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

Raeghn Draper is a Chicago-based writer, community organizer, and hospitality professional originally from Milwaukee, WI. Since 2019, they have been involved in the Chicago social justice scene and co-founded the Chicago Hospitality Accountable Actions Database (CHAAD) Project. This commitment extends to their current role at Futures Institute as the Lead Storyteller, where they blend creativity with a drive for social change. Through their activism and advocacy, they strive to raise awareness of the issues that affect workers of color in the industry and work toward meaningful change. Follow them on Instagram.

Mentioned in episode and more information:

• Previous episodes. 80 & 60 with Stephanie Skora
• Kim Foxx's trajectory (1, 2, 3, 4)
• Rossana Rodriguez: Passing the Chicago Ceasefire vote & 2019 election win
• How the U.S. Drove Venezuelans North (In These Times)
• New endorsement standards regarding Palestine
• Bring Chicago Home & its Golden Shrug!
• Injustice Watch's 2024 Cook County Judicial Primary Election Guide

Opinions on this episode only reflect David, Caullen, Stephanie, and Raeghn as individuals, not their organizations or places of work.

CREDITS: Intro and outro music from Polls by Piff Marti. Audio engineered by Kiera Battles.

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Some of us have internalized the national media's narrative of a broken Chicago. We aim to change that by celebrating our neighborhoods and chronicling the resilience of the people who fight every day to make Chicago a better place for all.

Join our cybersecurity experts in this week's episode of the Security Squawk podcast as they unravel the complexities of these cybersecurity incidents and uncover the lessons learned for both businesses and individuals.

In this episode, they discuss the ongoing Boeing cyber incident and provide updates on what has unfolded since the last episode. They also explore the actions taken by the Lockbit ransomware gang, their threats, and the impact on Boeing.

Additionally, they investigate the case of Mr. Cooper's cyber attack, where a severe breach left millions unable to make mortgage payments. They analyze the aftermath of the breach and its implications for businesses and customers.

Lastly, they shed light on the Cook County Health breach and its connection to a third-party service provider's cybersecurity vulnerabilities.

Don't miss this informative and thought-provoking episode!

The United States is one of the most incarcerated nations in the world. But why does the U.S. have so many people in prison and what are the biggest drivers of mass incarceration? One way to understand the answer to this question is to look at how prosecution is done in America. Reimagining criminal justice procedures has been the focus of a growing progressive prosecutor movement. Chesa Boudin, a proponent of reforming prosecutorial procedures, is the former district attorney of San Francisco, a position that he held until his recall in 2022. His biological parents spent a combined 62 years in prison starting when he was a baby. He’s now the founding executive director of Berkeley’s Criminal Law and Justice Center. Boudin joins WITHpod to discuss his familial experience with incarceration, the backlash he received while in office, building out alternative infrastructures, rethinking decarceration and more.

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We're taking #WITHpod back on the road. We still have a limited number of tickets available for you to join us in Chicago on 10/9. And join us in Philadelphia on 10/16.  Buy your tickets now at msnbc.com/withpodtour.

BrownTown continues to dialogue about the relationship between electoral and radical politics with Alderman Byron Sigcho-Lopez and Alderperson-elect Jessie Fuentes. With the historic 2023 Chicago municipal elections in the rearview, the team situates what this never-before-seen cohort of socialist and progressive alderpeople and new mayor means in terms of the city's social movements and political history. If electoralism is a mere tool in the toolbox in the work towards collective liberation, what potential does this new energy from Chicago's Left have to facilitate the conditions for political and social transformation?

In this fourth installment, BrownTown and the alders discus everything from the decades-long history of mayors and movement, voter turnout, the power of relationships in organizing, to pop culture-saavy internet memes. We've witnessed the number of socialist and progressive alders grow exponentially from 2015 to 2019 to 2023. As insiders, Byron and Jessie share about going from movement to municipal government while all four unpack the nuances of sustaining a liberatory praxis in relationship to the state apparatus. Originally recorded April 6, 2023, two days after the municipal run-off elections.

Full Transcription Here!

GUESTS
Alderman Byron Sigcho-Lopez (25th Ward) came to the US alone as a teenager where he found care in teachers, coaches, and community members who gave him shelter, guidance, taught him English, and a pathway to a good education. He eventually settled in Pilsen, a historic immigrant working class neighborhood in Chicago, and worked as an adult education teacher, founding the bilingual adult education program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Byron became politically active when he successfully lead community efforts to keep a neighborhood public school open after then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel attempted to close it. Later, he served as the Director of the Pilsen Alliance and co-founding the campaign to Lift the Ban on rent control in Illinois. As alderman, Byron was the Chief Sponsor of an ordinance to curtail harassment of homeowners who have been targeted by predatory developers. He is a member of the Chicago DSA. Byron holds a BS in Mathematics and Business Administration, an MS in Economics, and is currently a PhD candidate in Urban Education Policy. Follow Byron on Facebook (political), Instagram (personal, political), and Twitter (personal, political). Stay up to date with his City Council work and 25th ward services at 25thward.org.

Alderperson-elect Jessie Fuentes (26th Ward) is a queer Latina grassroots organizer, educator, and public policy advocate with over a decade of experience in education, criminal justice reform, affordable housing, community development and sustainability. A child of Humboldt Park and a seasoned organizer, Jessie’s lived experience overcoming poverty, violence and generational trauma, coupled with her professional accomplishments, prepared her to serve the residents of the 26th Ward. Through personal resilience, community support, and restorative justice she was able to turn her most challenging life experiences into tools to uplift others facing similar life circumstances. Jessie sees her new role in City Council as a message to young people that transformation and change are possible and that one’s life circumstances do not dictate their destiny. Follow Jessie on Facebook (personal, political), Instagram (personal, political), and Twitter (personal, political). Stay up to date with her upcoming City Council work at Jessiefor26thward.com.

Mentioned or alluded to in episode:

• Previous installments: (1.0 with Camille Williams (2018), 2.0 with Ald. Maria Hadden (pre-COVID 2020), 3.0 with Stephanie Skora (fall 2020))
• Chicago’s Progressive Alderpeople Retain Seats, Look To Expand Influence On City Council — And Even Mayor’s Race (Block Club Chi)
• Caullen's election Instagram highlights -- memes and commentary :)
• Commentary | An appeal to Chicago’s Black voters: don’t fear your liberation by Damon Williams (TRiiBE)
• The Revolutionary Column | The War on Gangs stunted our growth by Bella BAHHS (TRiiBE)
• Midwest Socialist Article on 2023 Municipal Elections by Chris O.
• Brandon Johnson’s Ground Game Defeats Obama Machine in Chicago by Luke Goldstein (The American Prospect)
• Election Night Coverage: Morgan Elise-Johnson (of the TRiiBE) on WTTW
• Eve Ewing’s Instagram post on electoralism and movement
• Benji Hart's Twitter post -- election highlights and reflective thoughts

Episode Note: Byron SIGCHO-Lopez is NOT RAYMOND Lopez, despite what David may say...

Opinions on this episode only reflect David, Caullen, Byron, and Jessie as individuals, not their organizations or places of work.

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CREDITS: Intro soundbite from Brandon Johnson's April 4, 2023 mayoral election victory speech. Outro song Chi City by Common. Audio engineered by Kiera Battles. Episode photo by Davon Clark.

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“Evgeni Malkin’s 1,000th NHL Game” PIT@CHI 11/20/22

Last night in Winnipeg, Tristan Jarry and the Pittsburgh Penguins played hard-and-smart for the FULL sixty minutes of regulation. They got rewarded, in the form of their very first shutout victory of the season. Following a historically bad losing streak, the Pens needed two things to come together in order for the team to feel stabilized. For one, they needed to play their game for the entirety of three periods. Then they were going to need their top goaltender to ratchet-strap the payload down to the bed of the bed of the pickup, chisel the ice off the tow hitch, and get back to work. Forget the recent 7 game losing streak, because when it comes to playing on the road in Chicago, the Penguins haven't won in that barn since 2009. So on the night Geno hits the 1.000-game mark, I'm hoping we see the Penguins throw that particular monkey off their back.

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Enjoy tonight's Penguins road game versus Tommy Hawk and the NHL’s Chicago Hockey Franchise, and of COURSE:

LET'S GO PENS!!

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On today’s show, I will interview the Honorable David Ellis.

Judge Ellis is the Edgar-winning bestseller of ten novels of suspense, as well as eight bestsellers co-authored with James Patterson. His latest thriller, LOOK CLOSER, was released in July 2022. 

In December 2014, Dave was sworn in as the youngest-serving Justice of the Illinois Appellate Court for the First District. Before taking the bench, Dave was in private practice specializing in constitutional law, where his work included serving as the House Prosecutor who tried and convicted Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich in the impeachment trial before the Illinois Senate.

​In today’s episode, we discuss:

·      Why David became a lawyer, and ultimately a Justice of the Illinois Appellate Court for the First District.

·      How does a person become a judge?

·      His favorite part of being a judge.

·      When his author life blends with his life on the bench.

·      Why he writes.

·      His extraordinary workday juggling all of his responsibilities.

·      David’s writing process and navigating complex plots.

·      Writing with James Patterson.

·      The Bobby Knight quote, “Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.”

 All of this and more on today’s episode of the Cops and Writers podcast

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This week on Inside the Skev, are rejoined by Fritz Kaegi, the Cook County Assessor. Since assuming office in 2018, Fritz has striven to bring fairness, ethics and transparency to the Cook County Assessor’s Office with a vision focused on operational changes, technological upgrades, and the elimination of favoritism. We will talk about how he has accomplished his goals, what property owners should know about the property tax system in Cook County and how Covid is affecting property valuations. We also discuss the upcoming elections. 

More information can be found here: http://www.cookcountyassessor.com and https://fritzforassessor.com

Inside the Skev is a one stop shop for all things Skokie and Evanston hosted by Aaron Masliansky. Be the first to know about local events, new podcast episodes, real estate and the latest stories about the great people in these towns by going to http://www.skevanston.com. Sign up for the newsletter and reach out to Aaron Masliansky at aaron@skevanston.com with any questions or suggestions. Shoutout to First Class Moving & Storage and Lapin Systems for sponsoring this episode!

William "Billy" Moore joined Vondale Singleton live at CHAMPS Saturday for this Live Audience Podcast recording.  He discussed his new book "Until The Lion Speaks"  Having been incarcerated for twenty years for the shooting incident that led to No #1 player in the nation, Benji Wilson's death in 1984.  He also was a victim of gun violence when he lost   his own son to gun violence.

Mr. Moore devotes his life to ensuring that other young men live lives of meaningful purpose as opposed to regret.  CRED’s holistic approach brings together proven models—street outreach, life coaching, and counseling, violence prevention, workforce development, advocacy and prevention— to create transformative change in the South and West side communities of Chicago.  Mr. Moore has been coined a violence interrupter as his hands on work and sharing of his life’s experiences has had a noted impact on countless individuals who needed a compassionate counselor to expose them to hope and lead them from criminal and violent lifestyles.    

Joshua B. Hoe interviews Dr. Nneka Jones-Tapia about her work with Chicago Beyond and her time as the warden of the Cook County Jail

You can find full show notes on our website https://decarcerationnation.com/

Real talk Chicago sits down with us army veteran, former police officer, author, firearms safety instructor Mike Brown. Support us by joining the conversation or shopping in our online store at www.mogulminds.net/merch

Born in Chicago, IL, Michael A. (Mike) Brown, MA is the author of a revolutionary social emotional children's book series, beginning with What I Tell Myself FIRST: Children's Real-World Affirmations of Self-Esteem.  Based on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, this book of real-world affirmations highlights the various abilities and attributes of the reader while exposing readers to realistic possibilities of rejection of difference in various forms thereby enabling readers to form mental frameworks to surmount those forms of rejection and achieve positive self-actualization. Mr. Brown is a product of the Chicago Public School system. He served in the United States Army and in various communities as a police officer. He is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of MABMA Enterprises, LLC and the principal instructor of Security Training Concepts, a training agency specializing in collegiate / career occupational courses in multiple criminal justice and self-defense-related disciplines. Mr. Brown also serves as a nationally-certified anger management specialist and Crisis Prevention Institute-certified nonviolent crisis intervention instructor. He is the father of four beautiful children and believes in raising them into the best strong, capable, productive, responsible, and most importantly, happy human beings they can be. A former adjunct college professor and advocate of education, Mr. Brown is a graduate of Governors State University in University Park, Illinois, having been conferred a Bachelor of Arts degree in Interdisciplinary Studies (Criminal Justice, Psychology and Philosophy) in 2006 and a Master of Arts degree in Criminal Justice in 2012.  He serves as an innovative and fresh approach to leadership, training, and empowerment. Mr. Brown sits on the Board of Directors of the Supporting Professionals Networking Association, a childcare provider association, and is a member of the International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association, the National Anger Management Association, and the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.  

This week on Inside the Skev, are joined by Fritz Kaegi, the Cook County Assessor. Since assuming office in 2018, Fritz has brought fairness, ethics and transparency to the Cook County Assessor’s Office with a vision focused on operational changes, technological upgrades, and the elimination of favoritism. We talk about how he has accomplished his goals, what property owners should know about the property tax system in Cook County and how Covid is affecting property valuations. We also talk about our mutual admiration for to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and the Bernstein family. 

Inside the Skev is a one stop shop for all things Skokie and Evanston hosted by Aaron Masliansky. Listen live on Sunday mornings at 10AM Central time on WCGO-95.9FM, 1590AM, or Facebook Live. Be the first to know about local events, new podcast episodes, real estate and the latest stories about the great people in these towns by going tohttp://www.skevanston.com. Sign up for the newsletter and reach out to Aaron Masliansky at aaron@skevanston.com with any questions or suggestions. Be sure to also follow Inside the Skev on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter for the latest updates. 

Venus & Charlotte discuss two women from Illinois who went missing and when found they where dead and had been sexually assaulted.
Ruth George was a UIC student just trying to get home in 2019.
A year later in 2020 Vanessa Ceja Ramirez a teacher's aid went missing in the forest preserve while walking with a friend and mother.





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Building on the first and second installment of the Electoral & Radical Politics series with activists and alderpeople, BrownTown talks electoral politics, grassroots organizing, and everything in between with Stephanie Skora, creator of the popular "Girl, I Guess" Progressive Voter Guide. With everything that is 2020 as the backdrop, the team breaks down the Cook County General Election ballot, Chicago politics, and the role of and opinions on voting within movement circles. In this third installment, BrownTown leans hard into into the much-loved voter guide, using it as a site to discuss topics ranging from progressive shifts in popular opinion, factions within the two-party system (Tea Party in 2010, democratic socialists in 2018), inaccessible language, literal fascism, and vote shaming in 2020). Originally recorded October 1, 2020.

Stephanie shares her background creating the guide (originally with her friend Ellen Mayer) and the differences between Chicago municipal, Democratic primary, and general elections. The team breaks down ballot items such as the Fair Tax Amendment and the importance of judges (peep #TrappedByToomin, Judges Matter, Injustice Watch) set to the backdrop of coronavirus, summer uprisings, and an already high voter engagement. Each give their opinion on vote shaming amongst the normally politically inactive, vote-dodging amongst the highly politically active, and how to understand voting as simply a tool and by no means the path to liberation. Once again, they wrap by exploring the current state of next year's Chicago city budget and a re-energized call to defund the Chicago Police Department, noting the 87% of Chicagoans who are calling for it, despite an unwilling Mayor Lightfoot.

With everything that is 2020 as the backdrop, how do we work towards actual liberation while participating (begrudgingly) in the current violent settler colonial system? Or do we? Here's their take. Originally recorded October 1, 2020.

GUEST
Stephanie Skora is a Chicago-based unapologetic femme, a statistically middle-aged genderqueer trans woman, a lesbian reclamationist, and an anti-racist, anti-Zionist white Jew practicing her spiritual tradition through the Religious Anarchist Jewish practice. Born with some pretty bad paperwork errors, raised in a deeply conservative suburb of Chicago, Illinois, and brought up in a sheltering, faux-liberal, and Zionist family with an abusive parent, Stephanie had the making of an activist from an early age. Stephanie is a renowned educator, organizer, researcher, and non-profiteer whose work is recognized and sought after across the United States, and in the Midwest in particular. Her activist work centers radical queer and trans justice, liberation for Palestine, and the dismantling of antisemitism, while employing black liberation and decolonial praxes, and works towards building and teaching survival in a society and culture hostile to all forms of queerness, transness, and racial resistance and life. She is currently the Associate Executive Director of Brave Space Alliance, and serves as Board President for the Midwest Institute for Sexuality and Gender Diversity.

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Follow Stephanie on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Stay up to date with her work at StephanieSkora.com.

Opinions on this episode only reflect David, Caullen, and Stephanie as individuals, not their organizations or places of work.

Episode Correction: The electoral college is part of the U.S. Constitution, Article II, Section 1, Clauses 2 and 3.

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CREDITS: Intro song "(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang" by Heaven 17. Outro song You About to Lose Yo Job (Remix) by iMarkkeyz and DJ Suede using original video with Johniqua Charles. Audio engineered by Genta Tamashiro.

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On this episode of Real Talk Chicago, we sit down with Melissa Villa, an activist for the wrongly accused and sister to Alex Villa.
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A preview of POLICY, a Chicago Sustainability Series Dialogue with Joyce Coffee (President, Climate Resilience Consulting), held on March 30th, 2017 in support of The People's Climate March (via Food+Water Watch - Midwest) at Civis Analytics.

Featuring a panel discussion with Joyce Coffee (President, Climate Resilience Consulting), Ashley Munson (Policy Coordinator, Illinois Environmental Council), and Deborah Stone (Cook County Chief Sustainability Officer, Director of Cook County Department of Environmental Control).

In partnership with Assembly Required, we produced intersectional environmental justice posters and signs that we utilized at the 2017 People's Climate March in Chicago.

In keeping with our ongoing partnership with Healthy Soil Compost + Nature's Little Recyclers, all food and food waste was composted.

Learn more about The Chicago Sustainability Series at SustainTheChi.com.

"...which gives me tremendous hope for the region." - Deborah Stone (Director + Chief Sustainability Officer, Cook County Department of Environmental Control)

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A preview of POLICY, a Chicago Sustainability Series Dialogue with Deborah Stone (Cook County Chief Sustainability Officer, Director of Cook County Department of Environmental Control), held on March 30th, 2017 in support of The People's Climate March (via Food+Water Watch - Midwest) at Civis Analytics.

Featuring a panel discussion with Deborah Stone (Cook County Chief Sustainability Officer, Director of Cook County Department of Environmental Control), Joyce Coffee (President, Climate Resilience Consulting), and Ashley Munson (Policy Coordinator, Illinois Environmental Council).

In partnership with Assembly Required, we produced intersectional environmental justice posters and signs that we utilized at the 2017 People's Climate March in Chicago.

In keeping with our ongoing partnership with Healthy Soil Compost + Nature's Little Recyclers, all food and food waste was composted.

Learn more about The Chicago Sustainability Series at SustainTheChi.com.

"... we ultimately vote these people into office." - Ashley Munson (Policy Coordinator, Illinois Environmental Council)

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A preview of POLICY, a Chicago Sustainability Series Dialogue with Ashley Munson (Policy Coordinator, Illinois Environmental Council), held on March 30th, 2017 in support of The People's Climate March (via Food+Water Watch - Midwest) at Civis Analytics.

Featuring a panel discussion with Ashley Munson (Policy Coordinator, Illinois Environmental Council), Deborah Stone (Cook County Chief Sustainability Officer, Director of Cook County Department of Environmental Control), and Joyce Coffee (President, Climate Resilience Consulting).

In partnership with Assembly Required, we produced intersectional environmental justice posters and signs that we utilized at the 2017 People's Climate March in Chicago.

In keeping with our ongoing partnership with Healthy Soil Compost + Nature's Little Recyclers, all food and food waste was composted.

Learn more about The Chicago Sustainability Series at SustainTheChi.com.