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by n0madic, posted on Monday, June 11th, 2012 at 7:00 amAttorney: “NATO 3” Activists Detained on Terror Charges Are Victims of Police Entrapment
by n0madic, posted on Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012 at 2:46 pmfrom Democracy Now!
Following a weekend that saw nearly 100 arrests of protesters at the NATO summit in Chicago, we speak with National Lawyers Guild attorney Sarah Gelsomino, who represents one of the five activists charged with terror-related crimes. Two are accused of attempted possession of explosives or incendiary devices, and three more are accused of conspiracy to commit terrorism, material support for terrorism and possession of explosives. Gelsomino says the so-called “NATO Three” were set-up by government informants who planted the explosives.
Nurses Stand Up to Politicians
by Ellen McClennan, posted on Sunday, May 20th, 2012 at 8:40 pmHe was a shirtless man walking around the crowd of demonstrators holding up a sign that read: “Since you politicians are going to f&#k me, you could at least wear a condom.
While there was understandable frustration like this expressed by some at the rally, most of the signs were directed toward solutions. One read, “Heal America. Tax Wall Street,” and on the back, “An Economy for the 99%. Healthcare for all. Jobs with Dignity. Quality Public Education. A Healthy Environment.” Or, another sign, “Single Payer Healthcare.” Another read, “Real Funding. Speculation Tax,” and another, “Tax Wall Street.”
PDA-IL: Will Guzzardi and Rebecca Reynolds on Illinois’ 39th House district race
by n0madic, posted on Thursday, May 17th, 2012 at 9:00 amfrom Progressive Democrats of America – Illinois
Former candidate for Illinois’ 39th House district Will Guzzardi and his former campaign manager Rebecca Reynolds talk about their very, very close race against incumbent Toni Berrios.
May 14, 2012.
As NATO Meets in Chicago, Activists Condemn “Militarized Arm of the 1 Percent”
by n0madic, posted on Wednesday, May 16th, 2012 at 11:45 amfrom Democracy Now!
Legendary Chicago activists Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers talk about this week’s protests in Chicago, where NATO will hold its largest summit to date. Thousands of protesters from a diverse coalition of organizations including unions, antiwar groups, immigrant rights organizations and Occupy are expected to march in the streets. Chicago is preparing a massive security operation, with the Department of Homeland Security declaring the summit a “National Special Security Event.” Civil liberties advocates have warned it could provide the first public test of a new law that expands the ability of the Secret Service to suppress protests in or around certain restricted zones. “We think that NATO should be meeting in an underground bunker or on a remote island,” Dorhn says. “[Chicago] is being treated as really a practice military zone … [while] we don’t have money here for community mental health clinics, we don’t have money for public libraries or for schools, we don’t have money for public transportation… We want peace and not permanent wars abroad and military war games and [the] national security state at home.”
Part 2 of this report after the jump …
Reasons to protest the NATO Summit
by VideoNewsService, posted on Wednesday, May 9th, 2012 at 11:15 amNATO protest organizer Andy Thayer gives reasons to protest the NATO summit at Elgin Community College on April 12, 2012. The summit will be held in Chicago, May 20-21, 2012.
Found Objects for a Friday Afternoon: The Greening of Chicago
by n0madic, posted on Friday, May 4th, 2012 at 12:00 pm
PDA IL-National Nurses United’s G8/NATO Rally-May 18th 2012, Chicago
by n0madic, posted on Tuesday, April 10th, 2012 at 1:31 pmnew video from PDA-IL
“Cindy Loudin of National Nurses United talks about the hugely anticipated nurse action that will happen this spring and asks for PDA-IL’s endorsement and attendance at their May 18th protest against the global 1% during the NATO summit in Chicago. Find out more at www.NationalNursesUnited.org“
Close Guantanamo. 10 Years Too Many
by VideoNewsService, posted on Friday, January 27th, 2012 at 10:57 pmThis event in Chicago, on January 11, 2011, marks the tenth anniversary of the opening of Guantanamo detention center. Prominent speakers share perspectives on the impact of these ten years on the nature and realities of our democracy. Prominent voices from the occupy movement, from social, humanitarian and immigrant rights movements as well as from a victim of torture bring to light of day information we all need. This demonstration is a ceremony of not forgetting. The NDAA makes all Americans vulnerable to the same treatment given the Guantanamo detainees.
#OccupyChi, The Energy, The Challenges and The Saboteur
by orman west, posted on Thursday, October 6th, 2011 at 9:26 amSo I went to Occupy Chicago yesterday. My company has an office just about a few blocks from what Occupy Chicago is referring to as HQ (Outside the Chicago Board of Trade and the Fed on Jackson and LaSalle), so I worked there yesterday instead of in my standard office, making it easier for me to join them that evening. I could barely focus on work that day, I was so excited.
I spent the bulk of my work day squeezing work in between periods of checking the Occupy Wall St and Chicago Facebooks and websites. It was maddening to try to follow the very sporadic and uninformative updates from Occupy Chicago. There was no information on where they were, how many they were or what they were doing for most of the day. I saw in the comments a woman say there were only 4 people who were there when she drove past.
I was worried I was wasting my time.
Then I saw this on these very same interwebs.
I decided standing up to the 1 percent (those fuckers) would never be a waste of time. So I went (and left work an hour earlier than I honestly should have) and don’t regret a moment of it.
So here is my first hand perspective and play by play, including my account of the saboteur, pics, some helpful links, etc.
