Interview With Eve Ewing
Interview by Jamie Trecker Photo by Nolis Anderson Dr. Eve Ewing has become one of Chicago’s leading public intellectuals in an incredibly short span of time. The author of Electric Arches (Haymarket) and Ghosts...
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Welcome to 1968
Dearest Readers, Welcome to 1968. They say: time is a circle, history repeats itself. Fifty years later, we reflect on the past and our present, and how the future can be...
68 + 50: A Summer of Programming Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of 1968
68 + 50 Public Media Institute and Illinois Humanities launch of a summer of programming commemorating the 50th anniversary of 1968 CHICAGO, JULY 25, 2018 –1968, a year of great social, political...
Lumpen 130: The Municipalism Issue
We just released Lumpen magazine #130, our Summer 2017 missive with the theme of Building a Municipal Movement. Issue #130 had Contributions by: Alan W. Moore, Brian Mier, Christina Sanchez Juarez, Jerry Boyle,...
Lumpen Week in Review July 7, 2017
Welcome to Lumpen Week in Review the show that covers the past week of news, happenings and programs presented on Lumpen Radio. This week, we spoke to the architects behind Bridgeport’s Eleanor Boathouse...
Mash Tun Journal #11 Release: A Reuben Party
On Saturday, April 29 from 5-9pm, join the producers of Mash Tun Journal at Maria’s/Kimski join the producers of Mash Tun Journal as they celebrate the release of issue #11. Enjoy some brews by...
Only Connect! Live in fragments no longer.
By Alan Moore ( Featured in Lumpen 129, the “Our First 100 Days” issue. ) I’ve been studying the squatting movement in Europe for nearly ten years. My zine House Magic and two books...
Please Encrypt
By Sebastian Villarreal Image by Lauren Gallagher These are simple pleas: Please encrypt everything, please care about privacy, please make it harder to spy on us. The Snowden revelations proved that that basically...
Our First 100 Days.
Here we are at the dawn of a Trump era. President Orangeface, President Troll, is the elected leader of the United States of America and we still cannot believe it. Months after his electoral...
The Law Is Not Your Friend: Law and Order in the Trump Regime
by Jerry Boyle The Message Is Now The Message, Not The Medium Trump, like Reagan before him, has promised to “hit the ground running” and, for activists especially, that military metaphor should be taken...
