Nelson Algren (original) (raw)

Active Core Members: Nina Gaspich, Hugh Iglarsh, Kurt Jacobsen, Mary Wisniewski, David Witter and Warren Leming.

Founders include: Stu McCarrell, Studs Terkel, Warren Leming, Alice Prus, Char Sandstrom.

In 2010, the annual Birthday Party was dedicated to anti-war activist and historian Howard Zinn. The celebration unwound before 120 attendees in a Wicker Park church basement. From folding chairs on paint-chipped concrete floor, guests calloused workers and fresh faced college kids, rose to offer standing O’s to assorted anti-establishment speakers, poets, actors, writers, musicians, scholars and the woman who in leading the audience in song, required all to repeat stanzas in Polish.