With the end of the revolutionary party, political struggles have become increasingly centered around place-based, local antagonisms. What does it mean to read our current situation with a lens to its potential openings, to imagine possibilties of rupture within its apparently seamless structures? This week, we will read two texts on the relation between industry, infrastructure, and revolution, using them as provocations to rethink our relation to Chicago’s own existing faultlines. Readings:
Sunday at 2pm, we’ll be joined by former-Chicago historian Kai Parker, who will talk about how the notion of “racial progress via integration” in fact led to ghettoization on the south side, as neighborhoods transitioned from white to black. All are welcome.
Commemorating the Chicago Race Riot of 1919
Franklin Cosey-Gay, executive director of the Chicago Center for Youth Violence Prevention at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration, and Peter Cole, author and history professor at Western Illinois University, will discuss the Chicago Race Riot of 1919 and the commemoration project that aims to place works of public art at the locations around the city where 38 persons, black and white, died during the riots. John Clegg, postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago, will discuss the 1919 race riot map that he and a team of collaborators have developed.
Sunday Nov. 24th at the Double Parlor.
We’re excited to announce that friends from Olympia WA will be touring the Midwest next month for their new book on collective strategic thinking. They’ll be making a stop in Chicago on Dec 12, at @FloodsHall . Don’t miss it.
On Nov 9th, 2019, there is a special guest presentation by comrades who traveled to Catalonia and Hong Kong. Floods Hall, 730pm.