Kari Lydersen: 3 books

Book cover of Revolt on Goose Island

Revolt on Goose Island

The Chicago Factory Takeover and What It Says About the Economic Crisis

by Kari Lydersen
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014

Revised and updated, with a new afterword by the author “There is much talk about ‘audacity’ these days, but true chutzpah is when the workers take over the factory and take on the bank. Kari Lydersen’s invaluable account of the Republic sit-down strike is an instruction manual for...
Book cover of Mayor 1%

Mayor 1%

Rahm Emanuel and the Rise of Chicago's 99%

by Kari Lydersen
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013

Kari Lydersen's work has appeared in The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Chicago Reader, and The Progressive, among other publications. Lydersen's book Revolt on Goose Island was awarded a Studs Terkel Community Media Award. This is the only book that takes on Barack Obama's...
Book cover of Shoot an Iraqi

Shoot an Iraqi

Art, Life and Resistance Under the Gun

by Wafaa Bilal, Kari Lydersen
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013

"Domestic Tension," the performance piece Bilal discusses here, received extensive international and national media attention in at least 138 countries. High profile coverage included CNN, The Washington Post, Newsweek, NPR, the Chicago Tribune and elsewhere. As a result, there should be...
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