Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase all have their own slice of downtown Chicago, but the grassroots occupation movement Occupy Chicago has yet to find a permanent home.
Since Occupy Chicago's attempt to start an encampment at a swathe of prominent Grant Park on Saturday ended with a mass civil disobedience in which 200 activists were arrested, the movement has been offered a meeting with Emanuel.
But organizers say that Emanuel's tactic does not aim to accommodate the protests but to diffuse them before Chicago becomes the central point of anticorporate anger when the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the G8 hold their summit in the city next year and Obama begins his re-election campaign out of Chicago.
"The Chicago Police Department and the city of Chicago itself are playing a different game than we are seeing around the rest of the country," said Matthew Camp, an organizer with Occupy Chicago. "They are not trying to physically repress the movement, but instead, they are denying it the chance to exist as an occupation."
2 comments:
These protest are tiny they have about 1000 in New York...The Tea Party had about 600,000.
These protest are tiny they have about 1000 in New York...The Tea Party had about 600,000.
October 19, 2011 4:05 PM
lol. You need to get on the internet and check your numbers, you're way off on both counts.
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