Lisa Yun Lee

@POTUS please direct the archivist to publish the ERA. Make this part of your enduring legacy.

@POTUS thank you for using the power that has been invested in you to grant clemency to as many people as possible. Please commute the sentences of all individuals on federal death row. This moral act can be one of your most enduring legacies.

An anti-gentrification ordinance now is in effect for Northwest Side neighborhoods. The measure covers various of neighborhoods, including parts of Logan Square, Humboldt Park, Avondale, West Town and Hermosa. trib.al/Kh7Nymy

Why Did the Whole School Board Quit? Plus, Chicago Fashion Week and Halloween Decorations by City Cast Chicago megaphone.link/CC8916681515 a really great episode that ends with an on point description of “Cabrini -Green Couture” style as an act of resistance

Vijay, this photograph is so interesting and I love your invitation to situate him within a broader context. He was always urging us to read Mao, because Brecht was so fascinated with, and how could we not grapple with Mao if we wanted to understand Brecht? He told stories of stealing into East Germany, and expressed disbelief that none of us had memorized the lyrics to the International yet...and at one point in protest of an administrative decision - he disappeared in the middle of the semester and we found out he was somewhere in Africa... He will be missed.

Fredric Jameson (1934-2024) has died. I never met him, nor corresponded with him but I did read him extensively. I first heard of him via Aijaz Ahmad, and then was very interested in his work on Brecht and aesthetics. His book Brecht and Method (1998) is a favourite of mine. His writing was challenging, but his ideas were always sparkling. He was a regular correspondent in @NewLeftReview, where I enjoyed reading his essays, mainly on literature and on the broader cultural sentiments. I like this photograph from 1981. It has Fredric Jameson, Eqbal Ahmed, Yasser Arafat, and Don Luce (who was a figure in the fight to end the US war on Vietnam). This was an interesting period. The Pakistan poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz was living in Beirut, where he turned 70 that year (Faiz had dedicated his Mere Dil, Mere Musafir in 1980 to Arafat, and the next year Arafat gave a moving speech for the birthday of Faiz). Eqbal Ahmed had travelled with Edward Said that year to visit Faiz. A few years later, Jameson went to Nicaragua and interviewed Tomás Borge (of the FSLN) for New Left Review in 1987. In 1986, Jameson wrote: We must recover a sense of what 'cultural revolution' means, in its strongest form, in the Marxist tradition. The reference is not to the immediate events of that violent and tumultuous interruption of the 'eleven years' in recent Chinese history, although some reference to Maoism as a doctrine is necessarily implicit. The term, we are told, was Lenin’s own, and in that form explicitly designated the literary campaign and the new problems of universal scholarity and education: something of which Cuba, again, remains the most stunning and successful example in recent history. These are interconnected histories of transnational Marxists. Jameson never really wrote about any of this, but he seems to have been in some way connected to it. I hope there will be an obituary that helps place him in that broader Third World context.

nytimes.com/2024/09/18/opi… via @NYTOpinion

I am so sad. It is easier to imagine the end of capitalism than a world without Fred Jameson. Rest in Power. I’ve had many teachers in my life, but he was truly one of the best.

nytimes.com/2024/09/18/opi… via @NYTOpinion

PLEASE HELP STOP THE TRANSFER OF SOME STUDENTS FROM STATEVILLE PRISON. This is important, please sign: action.mijente.net/petitions/stop… via @conmijente

Please sign to support Darrell Fair, a survivor of CPD torture who has been incarcerated over 2 decades. action.mijente.net/petitions/free… via @conmijente

The Bears have hired Jennifer King as an offensive assistant, making her the first female coach in Bears history. King previously served as the assistant running backs coach for the Commanders for four seasons. trib.al/Y3Dclcr

@thenphm celebrates the 50th anniversary of Good Times. We are working with Cabrini LAC President Maurice Edwards. Excited for reboot! @RanadaCShepard

@ChicagoDCASE Cultural Commissioner Erin Harkey is a cultural worker who understands and champions the transformative power of arts and culture across Chicago’s diverse 77 neighborhoods- I appreciate her leadership and am thankful she is part of Chicago’s cultural ecosphere.

Congrats Landmarks Illinois!!! What a delicious and wonderfully important effort preserving the beautiful Ebony Test Kitchen. m.facebook.com/story.php?stor…

Chicago Housing Commissioner Marisa Novara leaving Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration, the highest-profile voluntary departure yet from Lightfoot’s Cabinet and one of the most well respected people in previous admin. Story @chicagotribune chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-ma…

Check out this webinar on 7/20 with @thenphm Executive Director @Doclisayunlee, who is also a Field board member.

Join @NextCityOrg on July 12 for a discussion on long-standing, hardwired narratives that show up in the community development sector & keep us from doing the #RacialEquity work that so many of us are trying to do. @MCargill28 @Doclisayunlee @lucasgrindley bit.ly/43nMzO2

#thewomankingofcomedy slayed in Chicago. So fiercely funny and political. I ❤️ @ginayashere everyone run to see her!!!