Dave Zirin buries the 3 in this instant classic of sports journalism.
As a long-time resident of Illinois, I can confirm that Chicago leads the world when it comes to the sheer brazenness of its elite looting. Most famously, Chicago sold off its parking meters to banksters for a song, resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars being transferred from city services to the pockets of the 0.1% (read Hal Dardicks' excellent and devastating expose of the scam). Now Mayor Rahm has decided to shut down more than fifty elementary schools as part of the plutocrat's open war on public education - schools that just happen to be 90% located in African American communities. Sheerest accident, that. While the schools are being destroyed, His Greediness the Pharoah Rahm-ses I is shoveling $100 million of public funds into a shady sports arena.
Billions for despicably evil, stupid plutocrats and their Roman circuses, all at the expense of our children.
But enough carping. The time has come for action. It's time to topple the neoliberal Pharoahs, from Cairo to Chicago. The forces of resistance are on the march, and unlike past rebellions, this time we, the 7 billion working people of planet Earth, have powerful digital tools at our disposal. It's the 7 billion against the 700 billionaires, and I know which side I'm on. Do you?
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