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- The Case of Oscar Lopez Rivera
Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Examing the criminal case against and incarceration of Oscar Lopez Rivera, a Puerto Rican activist and organiser charged and convicted of seditious conspiracy in 1980.
- Century of Progress
Resource Type: Film Published: 1934 WFPL documentary film that criticizes society's direction in the early decades of the 20th century.
- Chicago Underground Library
Resource Type: Organization A collection focusing on material produced by small presses or independent publishers in the Chicago area. The collection includes zines, comics, perfect-bound novels, chapbooks, newsletters, art books, magazines and pamphlets.
- Death in the Haymarket
A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement, and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America Resource Type: Book Published: 2006 The story of the anarchosyndicalist militants accused of perpetrating the throwing of a bomb that killed police at a workers' rally at the Haymarket in Chicago on May 4, 1886.
- Degraded Work: The Struggle at the Bottom of the Labor Market
Resource Type: Book Published: 2013 Doussard demonstrates that the decline in wages and working conditions is anything but the unavoidable result of competitive economic forces. Rather, he makes the case that service sector and other local-serving employers have boosted profit with innovative practices to exploit workers that go far beyond wage cuts.
- Frank Fried (1927-2015)
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Frank Fried, a revolutionary U.S. socialist, passed away on January 13, 2015.
- The Great Depression
Resource Type: Film Published: 1934 WFPL docudrama with a silent narrative of one man's struggle and despair in search of a job in Depression-era Chicago.
- Halsted Street
Resource Type: Film Published: 2000 WFPL Documentary portraying the various ethnic groups along Chicagos Halsted Street.
- Liberal Dreams and Nature's Limits
Great Cities of North America Since 1600 Resource Type: Book Published: 1996 An exploration of city life through time, focusing on the life [economically, socially, politically, etc.] of five large North American cities at various times in the past - Philadelphia during the time of Benjamin Franklin (1760), New York in the mid nineteenth-century (1860), Chicago at the beginning of the Progressivist Civic Movements (1910), Los Angeles during the immediate Post-war boom (1950) and Toronto at the beginning of its own ascendancy in the 1970's. (1975).
- Neighbors joining together to block Trump deportations
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 In neighborhoods across Chicago with large immigrant populations, people are banding together to form rapid response networks to support their neighbors in the event of expected deportation raids by President Donald Trump's administration. In the 35th Ward on the city's Northwest Side, Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa has started what he calls the Community Defense Committee.
- Our Generation
Volume 7 Number 1 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
- Our Generation
Volume 7 Number 2 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1970
- The Sixties
Years of Hope, Days of Rage Resource Type: Book Published: 1987 One of the best books on the Sixties in the U.S., bringing to life the political and cultural currents, including especially the music, which raged during that decade, and setting them in historical context.
- An Unauthorized Biography of the World
Oral History on the Front Lines Resource Type: Book Published: 2004 This book uses oral history to discuss oral history. It is in memoir style, and delves into how oral history is done in such places as First Nations (Canada), Turkey, Chicago, Newfoundland, Peru, New York City, Cleveland, Israel, and other places. Riordon's concept is about telling stories, celebrating diversity, and making connections between people.
- Watch Your Back: Chicago Police Bosses Targeted Cops Who Exposed Corruption
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 After Chicago police officers Shannon Spalding and Danny Echeverria filed a whistleblower lawsuit, retaliation against them only intensified.
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