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The Chicago Reader presents The Politics of Public Space: A Moderated Panel and Group Discussion
About This Event
The Chicago Reader presents The Politics of Public Space: A Moderated Panel and Group Discussion
Join the Chicago Reader for a live event to talk about the politics of public space. We’ll be discussing who gets to use “public” spaces and what kinds of spaces get built for the public. RSVP here.
Panelists:
Katie Prout is a features writer for the Chicago Reader focusing on addiction, homelessness, and the unique people who make this city the best in the world.
Shawn Mulcahy is the Reader‘s news editor. He covers police, prosecutors, and prisons. His writing has appeared in outlets including the Washington Post, the Guardian, and Bolts. He previously worked for the Texas Tribune and WFSU Public Media.
Holly Krig (Moms United Against Violence and Incarceration) | Moms United organizes mutual support & participatory defense in solidarity with mothers who suffer criminalization & separation from their kids.
Judah Venturi is an independent researcher, writer, teacher, and philosopher who monitors city cleanings of homeless encampments.
The Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice serves to connect organizations working to reduce pretrial incarceration in Illinois and, more broadly, to end mass incarceration and address the root causes of socio-economic and racial inequity in our legal system.
Ali Simmons from the Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness (CCH).
Tabling Organizations:
Chicago Community Jail Support is a grassroots mutual aid project focused on assisting anyone released from Cook County Jail.
Parks For All is a coalition of Chicagoans who believe unhoused people have a right to exist in city parks and green spaces. Based in Albany Park.
Featured Authors
Katie Prout
Katie Prout is a features writer for the Chicago Reader focusing on addiction, homelessness, and the unique people who make this city the best in the world.
Shawn Mulcahy
Shawn Mulcahy is the Reader‘s news editor. He covers police, prosecutors, and prisons. His writing has appeared in outlets including the Washington Post, the Guardian, and Bolts. He previously worked for the Texas Tribune and WFSU Public Media.
Presenters
Holly Krig
Holly Krig (Moms United Against Violence and Incarceration) | Moms United organizes mutual support & participatory defense in solidarity with mothers who suffer criminalization & separation from their kids.
Judah Venturi
Judah Venturi | Judah is an independent researcher, writer, teacher, and philosopher who monitors city cleanings of homeless encampments.
Ali Simmons
Ali Simmons | Ali Simmons is the Senior Case and Street Outreach Worker with the Law Project of the Chicago Coalition to end Homelessness and has been employed with CCH for almost 10 years. Ali is from Chicago and has experienced homelessness as a child and adult.
About the Venue
Pilsen Community Books
Pilsen Community Books is a worker owned and operated independent bookstore that specializes in new and used literary fiction, radical history and politics, and literature in translation. The staff's goal is to unite their bookselling experience with their belief that labor is entitled to all it produces.
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