From The Trenches is the monthly radio program of the Chicago Independent Media Center.
ON THE SHOW IN AUGUST 2012:
* CHICAGO READER'S BEN JORAVSKY ON CHICAGO'S CONTROVERSIAL "TIF" PROGRAM
Chicago's controversial Tax Increment Finance, or "TIF", program has been accused of being a massive effort to build a massive unaccountable "shadow budget" of Chicago's wealth. Ben Joravsky of the Chicago Reader explains.
* CHICAGO ACTIVISTS COMMEMORATE HIROSHIMA ANNIVERSARY
Norma Field, a Japanese-American scholar at the University of Chicago, discusses the legacy of nuclear energy and nuclear weapons in Japan and in the United States.
* Plus, headlines from the worldwide Indymedia network.
Mitchell Szczepanczyk is a software developer, media producer, political activist, aspiring polyglot, degree-holding linguist, and game show aficionado. He has written two e-books, and contributed to the books Real Utopia and Democratic Economic Planning. Mitchell has been involved with groups working on the heterodox economic model known as a "participatory economy"; he co-founded CAPES, the Chicago Area Participatory Economics Society, and has organized events with CAPES. He is currently helping to develop computational models of a participatory economy. A son of Polish immigrants and a native of Michigan (USA), he makes his home in Chicago where he has lived since 1996.
