Create Change with Art

Stand up for what is right,
Even if you're standing alone.

Music is a universal language an extremely powerful form of communication. It is with our music that we have created songs for our freedom... you know “Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.” Activist need artist.

Seriously, what happened to ALL the teachers who wanted Rahm out? How is that guy STILL allowed to mess up our city???

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/04/philadelphia-chicago-school-funding_n_5635062.html

How Two Of America's Biggest Cities Are Short-Changing Low-Income Students In recent years, the public education systems in Philadelphia and Chicago have seen mass personnel layoffs, school closures and frequent budget crises. But a new report from the Center for American Progress shows that it does not necessarily have to ...

http://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/371356/north-lawndale/

The Guardian of North Lawndale In a neighborhood where 43 percent of residents live below the poverty line, Billy Lamar Brooks Sr. is trying to help kids build a future.

http://www.vice.com/read/arresting-children-is-now-commonplace-in-america?utm_source=vicefbus

Arresting Children Is Now Commonplace in America | VICE United States Putting police in schools was supposed to make kids safer, but instead it's resulted in a children and teens being handcuffed.

36 People Shot In 36 Hours In Chicago A 17-year-old girl killed Friday afternoon was among at least 36 people wounded in gun violence over the weekend in Chicago. Gakirah Barnes, 17, was shot multiple times in the upper body Friday afternoon in the city's Woodlawn neighborhood. She di...

Protests greet CPS vote to spend $10 million on office furniture On the day that the Chicago Board of Education was expected to approve spending $10 million on new office furniture, dozens of parents, activists, teachers and administrators gathered to protest the board's actions.

It doesn't matter who you are, you can always change someone's life.. Make an impact in someone's life.

Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals."

-- Harold Washington

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it.

Emanuel’s re-election nightmare - Chicago Sun-Times ‘You want Harold?” the voice boomed from the podium back in 1983. “You got Harold!” Harold Washington became Chicago’s first African-American mayor. But his entry into that seminal election was a slow dance. What Washington, a just-re-elected Congressman in a safe seat, demanded before he’d