#OakPark has promoted #integration for more than 50 years. New #challenges have local #officials #reevaluating their approach.

“I love it,” Riccolo said, pausing to take a #photograph with a #DragQueen at her art booth at the recent Thursday event. “I didn’t want my #daughter raised in an environment that wasn’t #accepting.”

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Illinois #Chicago #Gentrification

https://www.chicagotribune.com/real-estate/ct-biz-oak-park-integration-20230801-s763o7mbhfcpln77535iemsttu-story.html

#Bipartisan #Carbonbombs: Freezing the #defensebudget makes far more sense than freezing #domesticspending, and would allow for #reevaluating the #OperationsAndMaintenance budget as well as setting #realisticpriorities in a hardware #budget out of control.
The simple fact is that mindless #militarization is being challenged by neither the #Congress nor #TheMedia.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/06/02/the-mainstream-medias-unwillingness-to-challenge-u-s-militarization/

#WarsForOil
#KeepItInTheGround
#HumanRightsNow