Tag: #OCCUPYCHICAGO

  • The 99% Spring

    It’s coming: From April 9-15 we will gather across America, 100,000 strong, in homes, places of worship, campuses and the streets to join together in the work of reclaiming our country.  We will organize trainings to: Tell the story of our economy: how we got here, who’s responsible, what a different future could look like,…

  • Businesses Get the Old Yes No on the G-8/NATO Summits

    Well which is it? Mayor Rahm Emanuel was asked Thursday whether businesses located within the inner-most security perimeter will have a process to recover lost profits incurred during the May 19-21 events at McCormick Place. “The [NATO and G-8] Host Committee is working on it. They’ll have a process for that,” he answered.   ……

  • Lawyers for Occupy Say Crackdown was Practice

    Lawyers for dozens of Occupy Chicago protesters arrested in Grant Park said Wednesday that the mass arrests amounted to a “dry run” by the Emanuel administration for handling protests during the G-8 and NATO summits in May. “This was Mayor Rahm Emanuel being Mr. Tough Guy to show the world that they could come to…

  • Occupy Chicago Gets a Home

    Occupy Chicago has secured a new home base to coordinate its winter activities.  The group is leasing two units on the fifth and seventh floors of Riverfront Work Lofts at 500 W. Cermak Road.  … The fifth-floor unit is nearly 3,400 square feet, while the seventh-floor unit is about 2,500 square feet.  Kaunert said protesters…

  • #OCCUPYCHICAGO

    I found a post on Second City Cop about the madness coming this spring.  SCC was concerned that the kids were going to “live without dead time for a month in May and see what happens.”  Hardly a threat. What I found interesting was their claim that: On May 1, 50,000 people from all over…