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The artwork, commissioned by my old boss Billy Steinberg, is a reminder that there’s an alternative to today’s brutal agribusiness.

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Mark Rogovin was an artist and social activist who created outdoor murals and taught mural painting to young people while also being active in various political campaigns and movements.

The walls of the ‘Solidarity’ mural — which will be part of the Chicago Architecture Center’s annual Open House Chicago tour in October — are plastered with brightly colored scenes of workers’ struggles and triumphs.

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...painting over the mural doesn’t redress the historical crime that the mural shows – if anything, it covers up the critique of it, a goal the McCarthyites and their committees were never able to achieve.

The federal Works Progress Administration's version of “public art” was vastly different the the “public art” sponsored by Confederate apologists