Sitemap - 2024 - Fred Klonsky in Retirement

On May Day we paid our respects to the Haymarket Martyrs, the outside agitators.

The Gaza protests and the tree sitters of Humboldt County.

Undo Tier 2. The fight for pension fairness.

Undo Tier II. Illinois pension fairness.

The campus protests have been non-violent. There is no evidence that Jewish students are unsafe.

Columbia and Barnard's Jewish faculty condemns the misuse of the fight against antisemitism as the new McCarthyism.

Campus protests spread. Once again that is where America's conscience can be found.

The incredible shrinking right of free speech.

Bipartisan support for forever wars and warrantless surveillance is not a win for peace and democracy.

Free the Columbia 100. Keep cops off campus.

Are the Chicago cops on security detail at the DNC trained by the Israeli Defense Force, paid for by the Anti Defamation League?

Rest easy, Slim.

Faith Ringgold. Artist/Activist.

Chicago's top cop is not into civilian control of the cops.

The killing of Dexter Reed. Have targeted traffic stops replaced stop and frisk?

The killing of Dexter Reed. Have targeted traffic stops replaced stop and frisk?

Dexter Reed shot and killed by police in a traffic stop. Allegedly driving without a seat belt, while Black.

Over 500,000 Democratic primary voters have chosen #ImmediateCeasefire.

The Dems and Nancy "Go back to China" Pelosi are feeling the pressure over Gaza.

Aid workers were targeted for death by Israel. The world is outraged.

On Wisconsin. Voters send a message to Biden and Trump.

The Kill Zones in Gaza.

Ramy Yousef and Chuck Schumer.

Ramy Yousef and Chuck Schumer.

Private equity and our healthcare. The meeting of doctors started with a prayer and ended with them being fired.

"Six presumed dead.'' The men on the Key Bridge.

The United Nations ceasefire resolution.

Tuesday's Illinois primary showed no enthusiasm for Biden. Or Trump.

The pro-Israel lobby AIPAC spent big in the Illinois primary and got some wins.

The U.S. ceasefire resolution in the U.N. that didn't call for a ceasefire.

The Illinois primary Biden protest vote.

Illinois primary. Voters were not interested.

The anti-Semite-in-chief.

Our "welcoming city" bungles its migrant and measles crises.

The Democratic convention is coming to Chicago and Palestine looms large.

Mayor Johnson: Stop the evictions of migrant families.

Maybe you can say "Gay" in Florida again.

Oscar night.

A guns and butter speech that pleased the pundits and the media.

The "uncommitted" voter movement rolls on but Illinois doesn't allow it.

Chicago is waiting for an elected school board. So are the MAGAs.

The flour massacre.

Los Angeles' elected school board and the billionaires who want to privatize it.

Uncommitted in Michigan.

The Alabama IVF decision.

Illinois' pension debt grows.

What's the deal with Pritzker's pension payment proposal?

San Francisco artists' love letter to Gaza.

Some questions about CPS reading scores.

Protests at the Democratic Party convention. What's the deal Mayor Johnson?

Early voting in Illinois begins this week. I'll be voting for #ceasefire in the Democratic primary.

The war party passes a military funding bill. Nearly all the Democrats and half the GOP unite.

Gaza war news.

Northwestern University got caught in a world of trouble. It's attack on pro-Palestinian students is just the latest.

In Sarasota the rallies won't stop until Moms for Liberty founder is off the school board.

I'm in Florida, the home of Mom's for Liberty.

NEA members organize to rescind Biden endorsement.

Florida teachers have it bad and that ain't good.

Chicago votes for a #ceasefire.

Nancy Pelosi goes bonkers. "Go back to China," she tells peace activists.

"Tower 22." The attack on a secret U.S. military base in Jordan that threatens a wider war.

An execution. "Nothing out of the ordinary."

Colleges are telling critics of Israel's war on Gaza to shut up. America needs a new Free Speech Movement.

In Gaza, hundreds of schools destroyed. Teachers and students killed.

“Welcome home Ron, welcome back to the MAGA movement where you’ve always belonged.”

The Chicago City Council should not delay the vote on a #ceasefire.

MAGA clones fall away. Why would GOP voters choose a weaker version of the original?

Bombs over Yemen.

Covid 3.0

University of Indiana cancels Palestinian artist Samia Halaby.

The heads of both national teacher unions call for ceasefire.

The Right wing media giant Axel Springer joins American hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman in threatening independent journalism.

Bernie Sanders’ new call to outright reject the funding – rather than put conditions on it, as he previously called for.

Monday’s art.

The billionaire bully and his plagiarist wife.

Art Saturday.

Mainstream Democrats go after the party's progressive Left wing. Suicide in the face of Trump.

Freedom dance.

Harvard's president and the new McCarthyism.