Stefan Brün

PHOTO ESSAY: Chicago's children are getting caught in the chaos of immigration crackdowns CHICAGO (AP) — Just before noon on a sunny Friday earlier this month, federal immigration agents threw tear gas canisters onto a busy Chicago street, just outside of an elementary school and a childre...

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As Toni Morrison said, "the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work." But she also reminded us never to lose our capacity to be shocked.

Part of my conversation on @ayman.msnbc.com earlier today.

That way we fight each other, instead of fighting the real enemies. It’s no coincidence that the real enemies are the ones in charge of our sources of information."

That’s how we are controlled. There are two different realities, that will never come together. Our separate sources of information are designed to keep us separate and uninformed.

Their reality is completely different. If we saw only what they see, we would think liberals were crazy for believing what they believe. That’s the whole point.

From John Lister :
"I have a conservative social media alter ego. The reason we think the right wing are crazy for believing what they believe, is because if they saw what we saw, they would have to be crazy to believe what they believe. But the point is, they don’t see what we see.

YouTube video by laborvideo "Hands Off Chicago" Mayor Brandon Johnson On "No Kings Day" Calls For National General Strike

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‘No More Trump!’: Protesters Denouncing the President Unite Across the Country

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No one is who they are supposed to be.

Cheer Up, or Else: China Cracks Down on the Haters and Cynics

The new international melting pot of authoritarianism: Cheer Up, or Else: China Cracks Down on the Haters and Cynics www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/w...

The 13th Largest Army in World Is Unleashing Violence in Chicago As federal agents kill and use extreme force in Chicago, their budget surges.

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“This is what occupation looks like,” said Stacy Davis Gates, president of the Chicago Teachers Union, in a press statement released October 4.
She added, ​“This is what happens when a sitting president wages war on an American city.”

YouTube video by jude lombardi A Retrospect: Thirty years of ASC Cybernetics

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YouTube video by thejuicemedia Honest Government Ad | Global Sumud Flotilla

The Israeli Government has made an ad about the Global Sumud Flotilla headed for Gaza, and it's surprsingly honest and informative.

YouTube video by DRM News FULL REMARKS: Gov. Pritzker Holds Presser, Slams Trump & Supreme Court ICE Tactics | DRM News | AC1N

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YouTube video by micro Chicago A Rhino Fest Roundtable

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I do not see much employment and labor justice being led by the wealthy culture institutions, often taking in disproportionate public funding (which all working class people pay for) while they’re circling their wagons and protecting their privilege.

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Chicago working class artists are seeing radically diminishing opportunities, while wealthy hobbyists are replete with high-cost diversions.

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often micro-managed by an absentee volunteer wealthy supervisor, perhaps Zooming in from one of the coasts.

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often run by upper class boards of directors who transform paying artistic jobs into volunteer positions and seek out pliant and easily intimidated artists for low pay alibi functions,

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In the days of liberal arts shutdown in higher education combined with a massive cutoff of arts funding, it has become quite a challenge for any working class artist to break into artistic institutions,

…I am less a helpless consumer, than media and those intimidated would have me think. More a participating Spectactor. No, that is no typo.

…I do mean that, regardless of our conscious stance now, if democracy means anything at all beyond pretense, we were part of creating - and so now have greater opportunity to intervene in - the political and social and economic spectrum in which all of this occurs…

I consider myself responsible to a considerably greater degree, than the vast quantity of peoples who have no influence on our society. I do not wish to offend you, nor do I mean that you, or I, chose Trump…

“We go in, we will solve Chicago in one week”

The Great Migration ‘A national history assumes the ability to forget everything not in accord with it.’ Hans Magnus Enzensberger on migration in Germany in Granta 42: Krauts!

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As what used to belong to all of us, is now regulated by a partisan censoring FCC, what ever happened to public access to public media as a protected right? Anybody know where it went? Oh say, can you see…?