Chicago journalist Ben Joravsky starts each show by riffing on the news of the day with his celebrated humor, insight, and honesty. Then he talks politics with activists, elected officials, journalists and all sorts of political know-it-alls. We talk Chicago, Illinois, national (lots of national), international and lefty politics. Find The Ben Joravsky Show wherever you download podcasts.
Oscar Sanchez and many of his allies on the southeast side went on a hunger strike for about a month to protest the city gearing up to allow General Iron to move its metal crushing operation from an affluent north side neighborhood to their working class community. He explains why he did it and what's at stake for residents of an area that already deal with too much pollution.
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