The October 2011 episode of From The Trenches features excerpts from the March for Peace and Justice on the 10th Anniversary of the War in Afghanistan, and voices from Occupy Chicago, Chicago's contribution to the Occupy Wall Street movement. Plus, headlines from the worldwide Indymedia network.

Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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.