Chicago Network for Justice & Peace

“I don’t want anybody to take their eye off the ball for what we do every day. . . . We’re taking down the Biden regime.” -- Stephen K. Bannon speaking to reporters as he turned himself in to federal authorities for refusing to comply with congressional subpoena to testify on January 06, 2021, riots at Capitol...

A daughter of Veracruz, Mexico, Regina Martínez Pérez’s decades-long investigative journalism career focused on her native state. From 2000 until she was found beaten and strangled to death in her home on 28 April 2012, she worked as a leading correspondent for Proceso, a national investigative weekly media outlet....

CHICAGO CITY OF REFUGE INITIATIVE -- a project of Chicago Network for Justice and Peace -  proudly presents Solomon Fikre Lemma our featured writer in exile for Winter 2020. Solomon and his wife Mesrak are in exile in Chicago because of their work for civil and human rights in Ethiopia. You may contact Solomon...

Unoma Azuah teaches writing at Wiregrass Georgia Technical College, Valdosta, GA. Her research and activism focus on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) rights in Nigeria, and her recent book project is Blessed Body: Secret Lives of the Nigerian LGBT. Some of her writing awards include the Aidoo-Synder...

Mexico is the second most dangerous country in the world to practice journalism, second only to Syria, which is in a war. Year after year this is Mexico's rating. Why? One reason cited by everyone is impunity. According to government statistics only 4 % of reported crimes ever get to the attention of a judge and...