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Residents’ Journal Editor Appearing on Vocalo Radio

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Tune in to Vocalo 89.5 FM’s community media roundtable radio talk show on Friday, June 3, 2011 from noon to 1 p.m., for a live taping featuring Residents’ Journal Editor-in-Chief Mary C. Piemonte, and other local community journalists and editors having a candid conversation with Chicago Reporter Editor Kimbriell Kelly, about the city’s new Mayor Rahm Emanuel and his administration’s dealings with issues that matters to their readership.

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We The People Media’s Coverage of the Chicago Mayor’s Race

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Dear Friends:

In the next few hours, voters in Chicago will decide on a new mayor as well as the City Council and other citywide offices. Among the issues the successor to Mayor Richard M. Daley will face will be the housing crisis for the city’s poor. Last year, when the Chicago Housing Authority opened its waiting list for the first time in years, more than 200,000 families registered for just 40,000 slots – on the waiting list. The new Mayor will have to decide how to fulfill his predecessor’s pledge to rebuild mixed-income communities on the sites where the infamous high-rises once stood.

Since the beginning of the mayoral race, We The People Media has covered the contest from the perspective of those who see Chicago’s low-income families as an underutilized resource. As you make your decision, we offer you an easy way to read all of our articles and videos. These reports include exclusive interviews and comments with the candidates.

Please don’t hesitate to write to us and let us know what you think – about our reports as well as about the mayor’s race itself!

Click here to read all of our coverage of the Mayor’s race, beginning with our first pieces in December:

https://wethepeoplemedia.org/tag/chicago-mayoral-candidates/

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We The People Media in the News/Holiday Appeal

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We The People Media/Residents’ Journal staff regularly appear on the programs of other news organizations, providing our unique perspective on Chicago’s vibrant political scene, the future of poverty policy and progress of efforts to recreate public housing as mixed-income communities. Here are links to three recent print and radio reports in which Residents’ Journal’s staff were quoted:

Listen to Editor-in-Chief Mary C. Johns on National Public Radio’s “Here and Now” program about the past and future of public housing: http://www.hereandnow.org/2010/12/16/cabrini-green

Read Mary’s comments on the end of the North Side’s Cabrini-Green development in this story from the Associated Press:

http://www.aolnews.com/2010/12/01/chicago-closes-infamous-public-housing-complex/

Listen to Publisher Ethan Michaeli talk about Rahm Emmanuel and the campaign to become Chicago’s new mayor on WBEZ Public Radio’s weekly political roundtable,
“The Best Game in Town”: http://www.wbez.org/blog/best-game-town/best-game-town-14-rahms-residency-burris-bid-and-big-issues-race-mayor

Check out these appearances in other media, and make sure to look below for the articles and videos from our own national-award-winning adult reporters as well as our youth reporters.

In this holiday season, please don’t forget that your support will help us ensure that these important voices remains a part of our national conversation. Please click the “Support” tab and check out our new e-commerce service to make a donation. Remember that We The People Media/Residents’ Journal is a registered 501 c3 organization and all donations are tax-deductible. Any size donation is appreciated, but $100 or more will be especially helpful to our work.

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An Important Message from the Publisher

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Dear Friends,

I am thrilled to invite you to the official debut of our newly improved web site at www.wethepeoplemedia.org.

We have updated the whole site to allow you to comment on our articles, videos and news coverage.

The site now contains information about our staff as well as a full menu of press clips about our work, a sizeable archive of print editions of Residents’ Journal, and a host of other features.

Be sure to sign up for an RSS feed so you can get the latest updates.

If you are charitably minded, please click the “Support” tab and check out our new e-commerce service to make a donation.

Remember that We The People Media/Residents’ Journal is a registered 501 c3 not-for-profit organization and all donations are tax-deductible.

Any size donation is appreciated, but $100 or more will be especially helpful to our work empowering Chicago’s low-income communities with control over their own media outlets.

I look forward to having you as a member of our on-line community. Please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions, comments or concerns.

Ethan Michaeli

Publisher/Executive Director

Residents’ Journal/We The People Media

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New Issue of Residents’ Journal Now On Line

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The New issue of Residents’ Journal is now on-line. Click on the image of the cover to the left to read Editor-in-Chief Mary C. Johns and Crystal Medina’s special coverage of the situation in post-Katrina New Orleans; Jacqueline Thompson’s article about the final phase of the Harold L. Ickes Homes; Quintana Woodridge’s continuing coverage of how low-income households in Chicago are dealing with the Digital TV transition; and, of course, a new set of articles from the Urban Youth International Journalism Program. We hope you’ll read the articles – and add your comments and questions!

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Robert Taylor On Line

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Robert Taylor Homes still exists – on the Internet.

The last building in the Robert Taylor public housing development was demolished in 2006.

Just a few dozen replacement units have been built, and most of the hundreds of thousands of people who lived in Robert Taylor’s high-rises over the decades have scattered all over the globe.

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The CHA Plan Is Dead

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Janice Patton gave up on the Plan for Transformation a long time ago. Patton moved out of Robert Taylor Homes in 2000, the same year Mayor Richard M. Daley announced the Plan. The mayor promised that residents who moved out temporarily could return shortly, after the high-rises were demolished and replaced with new, ‘mixed-income’ communities. Patton didn’t go too far from Robert Taylor, settling in the neighborhood just south of where the development stood. Like most of those who moved out, she used a Section 8 certificate – now known as Housing Choice Voucher – to subsidize her rent in a relatively well-managed, new construction development. Unlike many of her former neighbors, Patton never expected to come back.

“I left it and kept on going,” she explained. “I thought, ‘Let me get into a good building so I don’t have to move from place to place.’”
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House Passes Digital TV Delay

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Mitchell Szczepanczyk thinks the nation got a reprieve Wednesday when the U. S. House of Representatives passed a delay in the conversion to digital television. Szczepanczyk, an organizer with Chicago Media Action, has been advocating for a delay for years, warning that tens of millions of Americans are unprepared for the conversion and are at risk for seeing their TV screens go dark.

“The delay gets more time and hopefully more money for those who need help,” Szczepanczyk said.
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Congress Still Trying for DTV Transition Delay

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Democrats in the US Congress are still trying to delay the transition to digital television, according to the chairman of a powerful committee in the US House of Representatives.

US Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, stated Thursday that Democrats in the Congress may try to pass legislation delaying the digital television transition until June 12. Currently, all television broadcasters in the US are scheduled to switch to digital-only Feb. 17. But Waxman and other legislators are concerned that too many Americans are not prepared for the transition.
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Update: U. S. Senate Advances Digital TV Delay

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The U. S. Senate voted Monday to delay the transition to digital television to prevent up to 21 million households around the country from losing their television signals.

U. S. Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV).
Photo from Sen. Rockerfeller

The Senate voted to delay the DTV transition until June 12. Many African American, low-income and rural families as well as senior citizens are at risk of being cut off from using their televisions.
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