Philosophy

"Lost in Darkness" speaks to the voices never heard, the stories never told. The voices of those with no guarantee of hearth and home. Books on housing usually don't make the best-seller lists. Housing isn't "sexy". You won't hear these stories in the late-night on Letterman or Leno. But many of us are just a couple of paychecks away from the street. Recent studies have confirmed it: Twenty-first Century Chicago faces an alarming crisis - a severe shortage of affordable house. This collection captures the real, human stories of housing and homelessness. The words of human beings who shuffle, invisible, through half-lives of bus shelters, viaducts and abandoned basements.

Bulletin updating members of the Chicago-based international labor union the Industrial Workers of the World on matters of internal organization and finance in 2014.

"Building from the pivotal discussions from the 1996 Active Resistance conference in Chicago, anarchist organizer James Mumm... [combines] anarchist politics and community organizing approaches." - from "Another Politics: Talking Across Today's Transformative Movements" By Chris Dixon (found on Google Books)

Collection of various first-hand accounts and documents from the underground abortion service known as Jane, from 1968 until the legalization of abortion in 1973.

Overview of meal-based residency program held at Joong Boo Market. Author chooses artists, then they meet and discuss art over a meal.

"Our project Refuse, Refuse, doesn't sit all that comfortably with...ideas...that insist that the mechanisms that created global warming and other ecological disasters are the ones to solve them. We think that our engineering practices have brought us to our current environmental and cultural situation and that there is no better way to deal with the constant stream of waste running out of our factories than to stop, to refuse refuse. We are both attracted and repelled to the idea of creating a solution out of the problem. Being able to create a new home out of recycled materials, or to inject the atmosphere with tiny reflectors to redirect heat away from the planet are both beautiful and Sisyphean. In this book, you will find experiments with trash in Chicago and Aberdeen." (abstract is taken from the first page of the zine.)

Essays and short fiction on why read/who reads poetry.

Collection of literary submissions in a variety of formats

Articles, nonfiction, about politics and current events

Collection of prose, poetry, and other from the OBAC collective in Chicago. From the back cover 'A Literary Legacy of Black Chicago contains early and new poetry, fiction, drama, and essays by over 50 past or current OBAC members.'