Welcome To Neoliberal Chicago, the Privatized City of the Future
A radio interview courtesy of This Is Hell Radio, by Chuck Mertz
Chicago elects a mayor Feb 24. Barack Obama cut commercials for privatizer Rahm Emanuel? Rahm gave Chicago an “Infrastructure Trust Board” appointed by the mayor with power to overrule all local laws. His public schools chief invests heavily in privatizing companies, and everything but sunshine is privatized. Welcome to neoliberal Chicago. Chuck Mertz on This Is Hell interviews Rick Pearlstein, author of How To Sell Off A City
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This week’s featured author is Rima Vesely-Flad.![How Joe Biden and The Democratic Party’s Climate Agenda Increases Environmental Racism More Than It Reduces Emissions [A Three Part Series]](/sites/default/files/styles/nc_thumb/public/2023-09/cancer%20alley%20protest.jpg.jpeg?itok=kOK48inx)
The environmental benefits of Biden's Inflation Reduction Act are non-existent for Black and other marginalized communities.
There are Arab governments going along with the U.S. push to normalize relations with Israel. But people throughout the region are adamantly opposed to such treachery, as the now suspended Foreign…
Nothing is sacred under capitalism. Even hip hop, the genre which spoke to Black politics and culture is now just another commodity.
