{"id":3530,"date":"2012-05-16T11:45:56","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T16:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=3530"},"modified":"2018-08-16T15:51:04","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T20:51:04","slug":"as-nato-meets-in-chicago-activists-condemn-militarized-arm-of-the-1-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=3530","title":{"rendered":"As NATO Meets in Chicago, Activists Condemn &#8220;Militarized Arm of the 1 Percent&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/\">Democracy Now!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"450\" height=\"259\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/apXIctU_gNM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Legendary Chicago activists Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers talk about this week&#8217;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 &#8220;National Special Security Event.&#8221; 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. &#8220;We think that NATO should be meeting in an underground bunker or on a remote island,&#8221; Dorhn says. &#8220;[Chicago] is being treated as really a practice military zone &#8230; [while] we don&#8217;t have money here for community mental health clinics, we don&#8217;t have money for public libraries or for schools, we don&#8217;t have money for public transportation&#8230; We want peace and not permanent wars abroad and military war games and [the] national security state at home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Part 2 of this report after the jump &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"450\" height=\"259\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tVzpC0yhSOI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Democracy Now! Legendary Chicago activists Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers talk about this week&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[79],"tags":[1018,1015,1016,193,1019,808,667,666,1017],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3530"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3536,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530\/revisions\/3536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}