Martha Chiplis

Emerging Artist Fellowship - Codex Foundation The CODEX Emerging Artist Fellowships aim to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion in the world of book arts by helping to reduce the financial barriers to exhibiting at the CODEX Book Fair. […]

The CODEX Emerging Artist Fellowships are a great opportunity. The deadline is approaching! Please help spread the word! www.codexfoundation.org/opportunitie...

#bookarts #letterpress #bookbinding #printmaking

It was a wonderful day!

This is serious, rigorous analysis and it should change the way the media has been covering these protests. These were, in the aggregate, *massive.*

Very grateful for John's work on the new website!

Owner of our local-ish native plant nursery, Possibility Place-

I will be part of this tomorrow

Thousands to line Ogden Avenue Sunday to protest Trump administration Thousands of people are expected to line Ogden Avenue from Aurora to Chicago Sunday as part of the Hands Across Chicagoland demonstration to protest the Trump administration

Tomorrow more than 20,000 will not be silent.
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If President Trump can wrongly deport a Maryland father to a prison in El Salvador and then defy a 9-0 Supreme Court order to facilitate bringing him home, who’s next?

This threatens the rights and freedoms of everyone in the United States.

The annual blossoms of this lily magnolia in central Berwyn are always such a welcome site after a grey winter. The smells reach across and down the block.

Complete Streets Too often an afterthought in street design, urban trees make streets safer, longer-lasting, healthier and more pleasant.

“Too often an afterthought in street design, urban trees make streets safer, longer-lasting, healthier and more pleasant.”
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A letterpress printed poster in green ink, reading I YIELD FOR A QUESTION WHILE RETAINING THE FLOOR

My demo for my letterpress class today. 12 line wood type printed on a Vandercook press. @booker.senate.gov

Tune in on April 26 for real talk on running your own letterpress print shop, with Jennifer Farrell!

This month’s interactive Long-Distance Letterpress class is packed with useful topics, gleaned from 25 years of running @starshapedpress

⚡️Register at partnersinprint.org/events

Senator Durbin @durbin.senate.gov -- we implore you to join Senator Duckworth in voting NO across the board on the GOP's catastrophic funding bill!

They want to keep it quiet, so you know what to do.

Donald Trump stood in front of Congress tonight and reinforced what we already knew: He’s a corrupt megalomaniac lunatic who is running our country to the ground. These are not normal times. Everything is not fine. We are in crisis.

4 protesters hold signs that say Support Ukraine, not Russia. Putin out of Ukraine. Impeach Trump now.

Support Ukraine, not Russia! We need a president who doesn't align with dictators over democracy.

Boreal Owl braving the wind!

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#Nature #Birds #Owl #Birdoftheday

AICWU Faculty Strike Fund Give to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Workers United (AICWU) Faculty Strike Fund!

If you're willing & able, please donate to the AICWU Faculty Strike Fund!✊

SAIC has relied on the underpaid labor of Non-Tenure-Track faculty while inflation has devoured paychecks; currently, more than 300 faculty teach w/o benefits (including health insurance).
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Judge temporarily halts mass firings at CFPB, preserves agency data The order also blocks acting CFPB Director Russ Vought from taking steps to defund the agency.

A judge just blocked Elon Musk and co-president Donald Trump from firing the financial cops at the CFPB who protect consumers from Wall Street scams.

There's power in fighting back.

This campaign needs you now Create Proactive Restorative Tree Planting in Berwyn, Illinois

We are petitioning the City of Berwyn, Illinois to be more proactive in its parkway tree planting.

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Online Candidate Forum: February 2025 As we approach the City of Berwyn municipal elections on February 25 (and traditional early voting February 10-24), the Berwyn Tree Canopy Initiative (BTCI) has asked the candidates to share their …

As the City of Berwyn's municipal elections approach on Tuesday, February 25, we have launched an Online Candidate Forum to inform residents about candidates' positions on issues of community health, environmental sustainability, and urban forestry. berwyntrees.org/2025/02/05/o...

A historic victory for the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church against the Proud Boys. This $2.8M judgment reminds us of the power of accountability in the fight against hate.

Read more about this win and its significance. www.splcenter.org/resources/ho...

THE ASK This week, between Monday and the vote on Vought, we're asking people from all over the country to plan a visit to Senate State Offices to demand Democrats fight and to hold Republicans accountable for their complicity. DEMOCRATS MUST USE EVERY PROCEDURAL TOOL TO SHUT DOWN TRUMP'S AGENDA Yes, we need Democrats to vote no on Vought's nomination, but no is not enough. Democrats have the power to grind Senate business to a halt and force Republicans to feel the political cost of backing Trump's extremist agenda. Here's how: 1. Deny a Quorum: If Republicans don't have 51 votes in the chamber, Democrats can walk out and shut down Senate business entirely. 2. Block Unanimous Consent: Object to every procedural shortcut, forcing Republicans to take the longest possible route for every step of the confirmation process. 3. Max Out Debate Time: Use all 30 hours of debate on Vought to expose Project 2025, Musk's Treasury takeover, and the funding freeze. 4. Delay and Disrupt: Force roll-call votes, quorum calls, and procedural delays to slow everything down. 5. Blanket Opposition: Democrats cannot continue to vote for Trump's other nominees, helping to install more MAGA loyalists into powerful positions in the federal government while this power grab continues. No Business as Usual: This is a constitutional crisis. Democrats must abandon the old rules and fight with everything they have. Bottom line: Senate Democrats must block, delay, and obstruct every step of this process-no cooperation, no easy votes, no fast-tracking Trump's takeover. To learn more about how Senate Democrats can shut down Trump's agenda with procedural hardball, check out our explainer here.

Indivisible is urging people to visit their senators' local offices between now and Thursday to demand that they use every tool—including denying a quorum and blocking unanimous consent—to fight the confirmation of Project 2025 architect Russell Vought for head of OMB docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Save the Chicago Reader - Leor Galil's Fundraiser on Donorbox I published my first Reader story in the summer of 2010. It concerned a Logan Square DIY space called Strangelight, which operated out of a storefront in the Congress Theater. I was 24 at the time. Be...

I wrote a brief appeal about why you should donate to the Chicago Reader to keep my newsroom afloat. Please donate if you can

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