the fear is that along with unlimited surveillance and endless war for profit there will be no public open spaces. the wish is that we can save something for the common good. the wish for 2021 is that obama sees the injustice of taking public parkland for his private enterprise and leaves our park be.

here's an excerpt of a letter to the editor on new year's eve day 2020.

imagine a gift of public land expressly set aside for public use only, given to a private entity and then made legal. chicago is unique among great lake cities in that most of the lakefront is reserved for parks and the public. that is very valuable land. what person would not want to live in a highrise on lake michigan? for developers, all those trees in jackson park sit in the way of big profits. this is the issue protect our parks president herb caplan is addressing. this fight he is making over the obama center isn't about obama. it is about the precedent that this construction on lakefront property makes. if one person can do it, so can others. the profits would be enormous. taxes would go up to pay for the de-construction of the park, of course. everybody wins who is in on it. the rest lose. 

~jon rice