At the CivicLab, here are the projects we are working on:
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Bringing back the CivicLab as a physical space – www.civiclab.us
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Building a membership for the CivicLab@ https://www.joinit.org/o/civiclab
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Training 500 social justice ninjas to help win here in 2019 and beyond (started last year, now at 150) – www.powerinstitute.us
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Illuminating tax increment financing harms one ward at a time – www.tifreports.com (72 public forums to date)
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Revealing $5 billion in sustainable, progressive annual revenues for the city – www.wearenotbroke.org (62 public meetings to date)
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Explaining how our civics got so toxic – www.chicagocivics.org
In addition, we are planning for the TIF Legal project – to litigate against Tax Increment Financing on a constitutional basis – and the the Democracy Protection Project – to train a cadre of election lawyers and ballot protection volunteers.
Here is our Flickr home page with images from many of the exciting activities and projects that happened at our physical space, which we operated in Chicago’s West Loop from July 2013 through June 2015..
