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Title: Protesters stream into Chicago park for NATO march
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URL Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4749310 ... to-demonstration/#.T7k4NsWIg_9
Published: May 20, 2012
Author: By NOMAAN MERCHANT and RYAN J. FOLEY
Post Date: 2012-05-20 14:32:38 by We The People
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CHICAGO (AP) - A diverse crowd of protesters began streaming into a downtown Chicago park Sunday for one of the city's largest demonstrations in years - a march to the lakeside convention center hosting a historic NATO summit. Peace activists joined with war veterans and people more focused on the economy for the protest, which was expected to draw thousands of participants. Marchers arrived at Grant Park with signs denouncing NATO, including ones that read: "War(equals)Debt" and "NATO, Go Home." They planned to walk 2½ miles to the site where President Barack Obama and other world leaders were meeting to discuss the war in Afghanistan, European missile defense and other issues. "I'll be walking all day and guiding all day, trying to keep tempers calm," said Sue Eleuterio of Highland, Ind., a longtime activist who plans to act as a "peace guide" by mediating problems between police and protesters. "Our goal, believe it or not, is to have a family friendly protest that is peaceful." Organizers of Sunday's rally had initially predicted tens of thousands of protesters this weekend. But that was when the G-8 summit of leading industrial nations was also scheduled to be in Chicago. Earlier this year, Obama moved the Group of 8 economic meeting to Camp David, the secluded retreat in rural Maryland. Chicago kept the NATO summit, which focuses on international security matters but not the economy. That left activists with the challenge of persuading groups as diverse as teachers, nurses and union laborers to show up for the Chicago protests even though the summit's main focus doesn't align with their most heart-felt issues. Advertise | AdChoices "I'm here to protest NATO, which I feel is the enforcement arm of the ruling 1 percent - of the capitalist 1 percent," said protester John Schraufnagel, who took a bus from Minneapolis to Chicago. Sunday's protest followed several smaller demonstrations over the previous two days, including a march Saturday to the home of Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Obama's former chief of staff. Later that evening, hundreds of demonstrators zigzagged through downtown, some decrying terrorism-related charges leveled against three young men earlier in the day. Increasingly tense clashes Saturday night tested police who used bicycles to barricade off streets and horseback officers to coax them in different directions. Eighteen people were arrested. Police Supt. Garry McCarthy said officers would be ready with quick but targeted arrests of any demonstrators who turn violent Sunday. "If anything else happens, the plan is to go in and get the people who create the violent acts, take them out of the crowd and arrest them," warned McCarthy. "We're not going to charge the crowd wholesale - that's the bottom line." Security has been tight throughout the city. As police gathered en masse on street corners, near parks and landmarks, the city's streets remained largely vacant and many downtown buildings closed. "It's strange because downtown is empty," said Gabe Labovitz, an economist out for a walk near his home. "The police presence is reassuring but unnerving." Three activists who traveled to Chicago for the summit were accused Saturday of manufacturing Molotov cocktails in a plot to attack Obama's campaign headquarters, Emanuel's home and other targets. Defense lawyers argued that the police had trumped up the charges to frighten away peaceful protesters. They told a judge it was undercover officers who brought the firebombs to an apartment in Chicago's South Side where the men were arrested. On Sunday, police said two other men were in custody after being accused of planning to make Molotov cocktails to be used during the NATO summit. Sebastian Senakiewicz, 24, was charged with one felony count of terrorism/making a false threat. Mark Neiweem, 28, was charged with attempted possession of explosives. Both men were scheduled to appear in court later Sunday. Advertise | AdChoices It was not immediately clear if those arrests were related to the other three. Kris Hermes of the National Lawyers Guild said the charges seem to be part of a wider effort to scare people and diminish the size of the demonstrations.
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#1. To: We The People (#0)
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Anne Sorock is on the ground at the NATO protests, and sends these photos, which I’ll keep adding as she sends them in: Let’s start with the most important component of any protest, the National Lawyers Guild Observer team: Chicago is taking no chances with the protesters using the Car-o-Potty, and has lined up the alternatives: Che is in the house: As is Code Pink: And the anarchists: And members of the Chicago Teachers Union: Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
Ahh yes, the National Lawyers Guild Observer team, Che, Code Pink, the imbecilic anarchists and the Chicago Teachers Union. A hodgepodge of all of America's finest. /s You can probably smell the sleaze from What? Is Chicago the site for the international ugly contest??
"And don't get smart with me you prick. I know where you live. harrowup posted on 2012-04-30 18:55:29 ET Reply Trace"
Rham bulletin #666. There's a whole series of these BS press releases in the Chicago Tribune thinly disguised as "news". The mayor is providing bottled water and "cooling buses" for the old geezer protesters, etc... No F'n way I'd get into one of Rham's cattle cars! CHICAGO (AP) — Civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson spoke to demonstrators ahead of the NATO summit protest march. Jackson told the crowd in Grant Park along Chicago's Lake Michigan to be nonviolent as they started the more than 2-mile march to McCormick Place. World leaders began the NATO summit at McCormick Place earlier Sunday. Jackson also led the chant "We need a peace machine, not a war machine." The NATO summit runs through Monday. www.chicagotribune.com/ne...sejackson,0,2973772.story CHICAGO (AP) — Forecasters at the National Weather Service say the thousands of NATO summit protesters are marching on the warmest weekend so far this year. Chicago officials are providing water, rest stations and cooling buses along the route on Sunday afternoon. The temperature climbed to the low-90s in Chicago and thunderstorms, possibly severe, are forecast for later in the day. Chicago's first day warmer than 90 degrees this year was Saturday. Sarah Hamilton is a spokeswoman for Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. She says many in the crowd are older, and the city does not want any of them or the other protesters to suffer dehydration or other heat-related problems. The march route is more than 2 miles long. http://www.chicagotribune.com/ne...t-weather,0,6365510.story
Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
Chicago NATO protest photos
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#2. To: hondo68 (#1)
blocks miles away.
"If men through fear, fraud or mistake, should in terms renounce and give up any essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the great end of society, would absolutely vacate such renunciation; the right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the power of Man to alienate this gift, and voluntarily become a slave." Samuel Adams, Rights of the Colonists, 1772
#3. To: We The People (#0)
#4. To: We The People, *The Two Parties ARE the Same* (#2)
Rev. Jesse Jackson preaches nonviolence at NATO protest rally in Chicago
Chicago provides water, cooling buses for NATO protest march on warmest weekend of year
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
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