by Nick Patricca | Mar 13, 2019
left to right Lina Abou Habib; Co-chair of NGO CSW Arab Mena, Susan O’Malley, chair of NGO CSW NYC; Andrew Gilmour, Assistant Secretary General for Human Rights, United Nations, Haydee Castillo, Human rights defender, Nicaragua; Asa Regner, Deputy Executive...
by Nick Patricca | Mar 9, 2019
Friends of Chicago Network: MARCH 2019 is Women’s History Month. I call to your attention two women: MARIA RESSA in the Philippines and SANJUANA MARTÍNEZ in Mexico who are creating history today in the struggle to investigate and to publish information that is...
by Nick Patricca | Aug 22, 2018
In 1968, I was living on the South Side of Chicago at 67th and Paxton streets, right off Jackson Park, and I was working on my Ph.D. in philosophical theology at the University of Chicago ( UChicago ). Living in a basement apartment for $50 per month, including all...
by Nick Patricca | May 3, 2017
In 1983, in the midst of the Contra War against the Sandinista government of Nicaragua that had overthrown the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza, a Franciscan nun from Milwaukee introduced me to the concept of co-operative economics. I was in Nicaragua participating in...
by Nick Patricca | Apr 5, 2017
The first time I was told I did not ‘fit’ was in third grade. Before nodding off and drooling on her desk, Sr. D. bitterly complained, as she stared me in the eye, about having to teach us Italians and Blacks—unfit to be in her class, fit only for...
