Occupy Chicago
Occupied Chicago Tribune - Letter to the Editor from CTU President Karen Lewis
Teachers, parents, students and other allies rally downtown in Chicago on September 10, Day 1 of the Chicago Teachers Union Strike. (Photo: Sarah Jane Rhee/Chicago Indymedia.) The Chicago Public Schools (CPS) is so cash-strapped that it plans to close and consolidate under-utilized schools, with rumors that it could be upwards of 120 schools [...]
Occupied Chicago Tribune - Strikebot Makes Rahm's Head Spin
As of midday Friday, there have been no reports of Mayor Rahm Emanuel considering the use of remote-controlled robotic policing devices to clear the streets of the striking Chicago teachers. But just in case Rahm gets any funny ideas, he should know that those teachers have at least one mechanized strike supporter in their corner. [...]
Occupied Chicago Tribune
Chicago Spring Part 1: A Day of Renewal By joe_m • Apr 8, 2012 • Occupy Chicago marches from LaSalle and Jackson to Butler Field. (Photo: Aaron Cynic) On Saturday, April 7, Occupy Chicago began their Chicago Spring: the name of not just a day of citywide action, but everything planned for the [...]
TACTICAL BRIEFING #26
Adbusters Blog TACTICAL BRIEFING #26 MIO CADE PHOTOGRAPHY This article is available in: English Spanish Hey you wild cats, dreamers, redeemers, horizontals, The stage is set for a climactic showdown in Chicago. The crisis of capitalism is deepening. Youth unemployment has reached 50% in Spain and Greece… 30% in Portugal and Italy… 22% in the [...]
Occupied Reports From the Front Lines
by Jennifer Sacks on Mar 19, 2012 • 8:18 pm YOUR WEEKLY ROUNDUP OF OCCUPY MOVEMENT NEWS Looks Like We Made It: A packed General Assembly in Liberty Square on March 17 marks six months since Wall Street was first #occupied. Screengrab: TimCast This week in Occupy, we turned six months old – and law [...]
Occupied Reports From the Front Lines
Bryant Park, Manhattan: #Occupied. Photo: Eric Walton This week in Occupy, more than 80 Shut Down the Corporations actions on #F29 signaled a spring resurgence, student activists across the nation marched for an affordable education and the Occupy movement introduced the mainstream media—and the country—to the American Legislative Exchange Council. The NYPD: Keeping Zuccotti [...]