February 2012
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what the chicago cops are talking about: →
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Chicago: #SaveOurSchools Use your Voice
MORATORIUM ON SCHOOL CLOSING NOW!!!
Sen. Martinez will ask the State Senate Education Committee to take up Moratorium Bill SB 3239 at their next meeting - TUESDAY, FEB. 28th! Please let others know! Let’s be sure that the State Senate Education Committee HEARS the voices of parents and students!
CALL YOUR STATE SENATOR NOW! WILL THEY STEP UP and CO-SPONSOR the MORATORIUM? Find your...
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Tonight! Chicago: Occupy Chicago Rebel Arts...
Do you enjoy, make, or want to make revolutionary art? Then JOIN US for the launch of the Rebel Arts Collective and discover the possibilities throughout this incredible art-packed night! Friday, February 24 at 6:30 pm at Wicker Park Arts Center (2215 W. North Ave, Chi)
For an $8 cover, you support Occupy Chicago, enjoy a cash bar and… Homegrown rebel music acts including: ...
Call to action: Occupy Chicago
JOIN US AT THE RALLY AGAINST SCHOOL CLOSINGS THIS AFTERNOON AT LAKE VIEW HIGH 4015 N. ASHLAND AVE. AT 4:00PM
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Tonight! Occupy Chicago 5 pm: Occupy 4 Prisoners... →
This action is part of a national call—initiated by California death row prisoner Kevin Cooper. This demonstration is in solidarity with those behind prison walls, their loved ones, and formerly incarcerated people. Prisoners are part of the 99% and we stand together! We will meet up at 5pm at the Chicago Board of Trade to call out the racist system that puts profits over people and...
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Occupied Piccolo School media roundup:
Occupy Chicago joined forces with parents of Piccolo Elementary students (@TBOurSchoolsChi) for a brief occupation of Piccolo School in order to force the Chicago Public Schools Board of Education to appear for a meeting about Piccolo’s proposed turnaround. Occupy Chicago and the parents were successful in this initial goal, arranging a meeting with the entire board on Wednesday, 2/22. Stay...
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Occupy Jane Adams today →
Chicago: Stand up, fight back!
Today! Protest Mayor 1% closing of essential public services: meet at 1030 W VanBuren at 4:30pm for a silent walk to the now-closed Jane Adams Hull House at 800 S Halsted 5pm for rally, vigil, and speakers. #OCHI #OccupyJaneAdams
For more updates, see Occupychi.org or follow on twitter @occupychicago or search #occupyJaneAdams
Education is a Human Right
Support Occupy Chicago as they join Piccolo Elementary’s anti-turnaround fight. Meet at 1040 N Keeler in Chicago right now.
Bring people, your vision of a better world, warm clothes, your desire for social equality, flashlights, and your smartest pro-education and anti-Mayor 1% rhetoric. Take a stand for education and empowerment.
Join us as we fight for our future.
Desire // Destroy: Reportback From the Valentine's... →
desire4destruction:
On the evening of February 14th, 2012, a group of anarchists, nihilists, and other people who are upset with and infuriated by the conditions of modern existence gathered outside the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown Chicago for an anti-prison noise demonstration. People brought bucket…
Occupy the Court: →
As Above, So Below: Pulling Down The Pyramid →
aaroncynic:
Through generation after generation of living in authoritarian structures, we have been bred to believe the only way to govern ourselves is through hierarchies or States. All systems look like the great pyramid, with a single person or small group at the top, who delineate small pieces of power to…
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Anonymous asked: Hi -- The proposal includes this above the Chicago Principles: "Occupy Chicago is a non-violent movement dedicated to peaceful protest." I don't see that on the page. Should it be there?
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Occupy Chicago Tonight!
Tonight! Prison Society Breaks Our Hearts: A Valentine’s Day Anti-Prison Noise Demo
Join Occupy Chicago as we demonstrate against the capitalist prison industrial complex that enslaves its citizens by keeping them uneducated, impoverished, and incarcerated. There are better ways to establish and maintain society.
from http://www.facebook.com/events/187997224631966/
at 7 until 10 pm...
AnonMedics: "How do I become a street medic?" →
anonmedics:
Since opening an ask box on this site, the main issue people have seemed interested in is how they can become a street medic. Our apologies for not answering sooner and on a more individual basis, but the issue seemed important enough to warrant a larger post. Following is some information you may…
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American Stats
propagandatimes:
Chicago Settles Class Action Suit Over 2003 Iraq... →
aaroncynic:
The settlement isn’t only a victory for the participants in the class action suit, it also affects future demonstrations. According to the People’s Law Office, the court opinion holds that the City cannot arrest peaceful demonstrators without warning, solely because they do not have a permit, and will apply to future demonstrations. Rachael Perrotta, a member of the class action...
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Chicago Principles
Chicago Principles
• Our solidarity will be based on respect for a political diversity within the struggle for social, economic and environmental justice. As individuals and groups, we may choose to engage in a diversity of tactics and plans of action but are committed to treating each other with respect and working towards a common goal of peace and justice.
• As we plan our actions and...
FACING REALITY: To Be Fair, He Is a Journalist: A... →
facingreality:
By Don Gato
It was a little weird to wake up today to an article by Chris Hedges on a website called “Truth-Out” when “truth” is in such short supply in the piece. Hedges was trained as a journalist and worked for years at such luminaries of lies like the New York Times, so it shouldn’t be a…
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Understanding BlackBloc Tactics:
Blocs, Black and Otherwise
As one middle-aged mother observed while members of the Quebec Black Bloc hugged each other before going off to battle the cops, “I always thought this was going to be sinister, but these are just brave kids!”
Materials:
Matching clothing that conceals the wearers’ identities
Trust and communication
A mission
Optional Materials:
Provisions: water (plenty,...
January 2012
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“How OPD is treating protesters is shameful, but in light of how we’ve seen them...”
– Oakland PD Before and After Occupy
In case you ever wondered just how fucked up Oakland PD is, here’s a nice little article.
(via nemophilablues)
“If the government told you tomorrow that it was going to choose for you where to...”
– Everyday Anarchy, Stefan Molyneux. (via lendahandandliftme)
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The Infectious Escalation of Occupy Oakland
Article by Natalie W
An unofficial count of 400 Occupy Oakland demonstrators were arrested Saturday, January 28, after being fired upon, beaten, kettled, and trapped by Oakland riot police. The Occupy Oakland social movement is rooted in the lower-income, ethnically diverse Bay area city and has been a previous site of violent police repression. Oakland has been a nexus of social unrest long...
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“Poor people have shitty lobbyists”
– Jon Stewart (via anticapitalist)
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“You lit yourself on fire on December 17, 2010, exactly nine months before Occupy...”
– In light of the 1-year anniversary of the Egyptian revolution, read Rebecca Solnit’s letter to Mohammed Bouazizi. (via motherjones)
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Local nonprofits sponsor youth-centric education...
Becoming We The People // BecomingWeThePeople.org
Local nonprofits sponsor youth-centric education panel for public
Chicago 1/23/12 - Becoming We The People in conjunction with Social Justice Council of First Unitarian Church and special guest Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC, will host 2012’s first panel discussion on Monday, January 30 at 7-8:30 pm at First Unitarian Church 5650 S....
Rachel Corrie, Politics, and Being-Alone
forgottenness:
In Being Singular Plural, for instance, Jean-Luc Nancy’s corrective conception of Mit-sein/être-avec revises the singularity of being to that of being-with so that it constitutively co-opts the other in the condition of a co-extensive being, thereby restating ontology as ethical in its relation to imagined others. If Corrie’s insights are plainly juvenilia, and therefore ...
Shawn Stutler : Horror's next innovator.
nerdonista:
Nerdonistas we’ve got something fun for those of you who love a horror movie!
Have you ever been at a party and had someone say “Let’s watch this movie”? I’m sure you have, we all have. Well I was at one of those parties when I was in college, and the movie in question was made by friends of the host. the movie in question was “Dead at the box office” an independent horror film...
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New Year's Revolution
Image via Wikipedia
Article by Natalie W
We’re breathing the very last gasp of the holiday cycle. First it was the overeating celebration, where we shoved every last delicious morsel of multiple dinners in to our mouths and tried not to nap in front of the football game. Then, it was the winter holiday, where we all spent too much money or were upset that we couldn’t spend more money to...
Tell Rahm and his aldermen: We won't 'Sit Down or... →
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