Bill Ayers

Admit it: The DUMBOCRATS is a fitting and appropriate moniker for one of the two mainstream capitalist political parties in the US—one of the greatest war-mongering parties in world history, and an unrelenting supporter of greed and private profit. But the other establishment party needs a comparable title. Let’s go with the REPULSICANS. Kind of perfect, right? 

THXXX Osha:

I shall begin by depicting them as they were in their heyday of the Revolution; when the love of equality and the urge to freedom went hand-in-hand; when they wished to set up not merely a truly democratic government but free institutions, not only to do away with the privileges but also to make good and stabilize the rights of man, the individual. Youth was at the helm, in that age of fervid enthusiasm, of proud and generous aspirations, whose memory, despite its extravagances, men will forever cherish: a phase of history that for many years to come will trouble the sleep of all who seek to demoralize the nation and reduce it to a servile state. [Osha emphasis]
Alexis de Tocqueville, The Old Regime and the French Revolution, x–xi

Get tickets for THE HUMANITIES at Victory Gardens Theater:

The Humanities is a provocative play by Zayd Ayers Dohrn in which faculty and students at an elite American university grapple with issues of gender, race, sex, and violence when a controversial speaker comes to town. Cultural battles are fought, identities are made and unmade, and people accustomed to the life of the mind are forced to confront their most primal instincts.

At this hour, solidarity begins with a clear demand: the United States and Israel must end their illegal war, and they must retreat.

8/15/26 Studs Terkel event at CHECKOUT, 4116 N. Clark

2 to 3pm
Connecting the feeling tone of the past to the now
Chicago Tribune journalist Rick Kogan in conversation with Melissa Harris & Mary Schmich, creators of the recent podcast docu-series Division Street: Revisited.
Featuring music by Chris Walz.

3 to 4pm
Only in Chicago: exploring underground art, culture, & politics
Chicago History Museum Director of Exhibitions Paul Durica in conversation with oral historians Meghan McGrath and Peter Alter.
Featuring audio from the Studs Terkel Radio Archive.

4 to 5pm
Reflections on the power of community organizing
Writer Alex Kotlowitz in conversation with Jahmal Cole, founder & CEO of My Block • My Hood • My City.
Featuring music by Mark Dvorak.

5 to 6pm
Dream into action
Activist & educator Bill Ayers in conversation with civic leader Zenobia Johnson-Black.
Featuring Studs Terkel’s seminal audio documentary This Train.

6 to 7pm
Move On Up a Little Higher
Featuring gospel & jazz vocalist Tammy McCann celebrating the work of Mahalia Jackson and her long friendship and collaboration with Studs Terkel.