March 5, 2009 – Chicago Talks interviews Benjamin June, the creator of the Iraq Suicide Attack Project. His work is currently on display at the Co-Prosperity Sphere Gallery on 3219 S. Morgan Street, Chicago, Ill. Iraq Suicide Attack Project–March 4, 2009 from Jennifer T. Lacey on Vimeo June was inspired to create his "Iraq Suicide Attack...
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Feb. 10, 2009 - Gloria Campos and her three-month-old son were the only members of her family to board the last Red Cross plane out of Nicaragua during the revolutionary war in July 1979. Campos, then 21, was the daughter of a high-ranking government official, who also owned a cotton farm and electricity generators. Since her father worked for...
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According to Jane Saks, director of theInst. for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media, the show includes larger than life images designed to try and shake us out of our everyday frame of reference. In addition to the large color photos, which require no reading, and simply confront the viewer, are a...
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Come to see the exhibit. Learn how to stand with these remarkable, yet ordinary, women. Find out how to stand with them and support their struggle for peace, an end to violence, and health. CONGO/Women Portraits of War: The Democratic Republic of Congo Launch of National Exhibition and Educational Campaign: Chicago / Washington, DC...
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Jan. 7, 2009 Story by Jessica Rosenberg Kathleen Harrison was never that interested in Africa. But that was 2001 – before the former Loyola University medical professor visited an orphanage for HIV positive children in Kenya. On the long trip home, the images of the parentless children played back in her head. She knew...
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Jan. 2, 2009 – Standing outside the Deluxe Diner on the North side of Chicago in Rogers Park, Peter Magai Bul towers over the people around him. An acquaintance from the neighborhood swerves around sidewalk pedestrians on his bike and affectionately gives Bul a nod, calling him "Manute Bol" as he passes. At 6 feet, 6 inches,...
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Dec. 12, 2008 Story by Ebony L. McCline Maketh Bul Mabior walks into a downtown Starbucks ten minutes late. However, he does not appear to be in a rush. His six-foot frame turns as the revolving, see-through door twirls around. He stops. He looks around. He pulls out his cell phone, proceeds to dial...
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Dec. 5, 2008 – Karen Yang works at an import jewelry shop in Chicago's Chinatown neighborhood. She said the word among business owners is that times are tough and sales are down. Just up the street from her, a woman behind a counter selling Oriental décor nearly breaks into tears over the slowing economy. "No business...
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Dec. 1, 2008 – She was 10 years old chopping wood with her father, and vividly remembers how difficult it was to lift the axe with her tiny twig-like arms and crash down on the log, slicing it into pieces. "When I was small, I would follow my father everywhere: sawing logs, farming and gardening. It was hard work,...
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Nov. 24, 2008 Story by Jessica Rosenberg On a dark October night in 1992, six-year-old Bishnu Khatiwada and his family arrived at their new home: a Nepalese refugee camp. The lack of electricity at the newly established compound made the Himalayan night that much darker. He remembers the eight-hour bus ride through India and...
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