Occupy Chicago

Type: Organization

Name: Occupy Chicago

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 3 reports

WLS-TV

Thousands rally across U.S. to mark May Day

LOS ANGELES, May 1 (UPI) --The traditional celebrations of the labor movement took on an added urgency as the U.S. Congress considers legislation that could provide a path to citizenship for many of the 11 million people living illegally in the United ... [Published UPI - May 02 2013]

Entities: United States, Los Angeles, Occupy Chicago, WLS-TV

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 1 reports

May Day! May Day! Worker Rallies across the U.S. focus on Immigration Issues

Given the enormous number of organizations that use May 1st as an opportunity to bring attention to issues that face American workers, one needs to make any generalizations about the event cautiously. A Christian capitalist and an atheistic socialist ... [Published SperoNews - May 01 2013]

Entities: Chicago May, Pico, Immigration

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 1 reports

May Day March Chicago 2013

Thousands of demonstrators are expected to take to the streets of Chicago on Wednesday, May 1, 2013 for the 13th Annual May Day March for Workers and Immigrant Rights. In the spirit of unity and solidarity with communities across the country, organizers ... [Published Chicago Now - May 01 2013]

Entities: Chicago May, Occupy Chicago, Chicago, Workers

First reported Apr 28 2013 - Updated Apr 28 2013 - 1 reports

NATO

April 2013 Patriot Award: Joe Scarry

Joe Scarry is a grassroots activist and organizer from Chicago, Illinois. He describes himself as “IT consultant by day, culture consumer by night, anti-war activist all the time.” Scarry is very involved with national efforts to combat domestic surveillance ... [Published People's Blog for the Constitution - Apr 28 2013]

Entities: Chicago, Drone, NATO

First reported Dec 02 2012 - Updated Dec 02 2012 - 1 reports

Chicagoans to Erect Tent City Against 'Fiscal Cliff' Austerity Negotiations

In what might well become a model for popular resistance to the 1%'s "Fiscal Cliff" austerity negotiations happening now in Washington D.C., activists in Chicago are planning a shantytown encampment of Federal Plaza -- a tangible portent of exactly ... [Published Crooks and Liars - Dec 02 2012]

Entities: Fiscal Cliff, Federal, Medicaid, Occupy Chicago

First reported Dec 01 2012 - Updated Dec 01 2012 - 1 reports

Dick Durbin

Protest in Chicago: Durbinville Shanty Town Going Up December 6 against a Fake Fiscal Cliff

The “Fiscal Cliff” is a fake crisis created by Congress so that our Representatives and Senators could agree to cut services to the poor and say that they had no choice. Senator Richard “Dick” Durbin is right at the center of negotiations designed ... [Published Irregular Times - Dec 01 2012]

Entities: Dick Durbin, Fiscal Cliff, Fake

Quotes

"It's a very peaceful crowd. A lot of different groups have come together to both celebrate and protest. So far it's gone very well" LAPD Cmdr. Andrew Smith told the Los Angeles Times

Thousands rally across U.S. to mark May Day [Published UPI - May 02 2013]

"Join us on December 6th at noon to tell Senator Durbin that we won't go back On December 6, we're building a Durbinville Shantytown encampment at the Federal Building to symbolize the dire consequences these cuts could have, and fight to preserve these essential programs. Join us! And bring a tent!"

Protest in Chicago: Durbinville Shanty Town Going Up December 6 against a Fake Fiscal Cliff [Published Irregular Times - Dec 01 2012]

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Thousands rally across U.S. to mark May Day [Published UPI - May 02 2013]
Thousands mark May Day with downtown march, ral... [Published Chicago Sun-Times - May 01 2013]
May Day marches start small, expected to grow f... [Published Chicago Sun-Times - May 01 2013]
May Day! May Day! Worker Rallies across the U.S... [Published SperoNews - May 01 2013]
May Day March Chicago 2013 [Published Chicago Now - May 01 2013]
April 2013 Patriot Award: Joe Scarry [Published People's Blog for the Constitution - Apr 28 2013]
Breitbart Is Here [Published Breitbart Feed - Mar 02 2013]
Does it pay to keep fighting Guantánamo? [Published Waging Nonviolence - Jan 12 2013]
Chicagoans to Erect Tent City Against 'Fiscal C... [Published Crooks and Liars - Dec 02 2012]
Protest in Chicago: Durbinville Shanty Town Goi... [Published Irregular Times - Dec 01 2012]

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April 2013 Patriot Award: Joe Scarry [Published People's Blog for the Constitution - Apr 28 2013] Joe Scarry is a grassroots activist and organizer from Chicago, Illinois. He describes himself as “IT consultant by day, culture consumer by night, anti-war activist all the time.” Scarry is very involved with national efforts to combat domestic surveillance ...
Breitbart Is Here [Published Breitbart Feed - Mar 02 2013] In the course of making the documentary Hating Breitbart, I had the rare opportunity to travel the country with Andrew, bearing witness to some of the most dramatic moments during the last few years of his life. When Andrew was in the early ...
Does it pay to keep fighting Guantánamo? [Published Waging Nonviolence - Jan 12 2013] by Jake Olzen. On January 11, Witness Against Torture activists pose in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, which is covered in a false facade for repairs. (Flickr/Justin Norman) One might think this would be over by now. Four years ago, President ...
Chicagoans to Erect Tent City Against 'Fiscal C... [Published Crooks and Liars - Dec 02 2012] In what might well become a model for popular resistance to the 1%'s "Fiscal Cliff" austerity negotiations happening now in Washington D.C., activists in Chicago are planning a shantytown encampment of Federal Plaza -- a tangible portent of exactly ...
Protest in Chicago: Durbinville Shanty Town Goi... [Published Irregular Times - Dec 01 2012] The “Fiscal Cliff” is a fake crisis created by Congress so that our Representatives and Senators could agree to cut services to the poor and say that they had no choice. Senator Richard “Dick” Durbin is right at the center of negotiations designed ...