Occupy Movement
A Year Later, Occupy Movement Vows To Push On
The Occupy movement is now a year old and about 125 people celebrated in the rain at LaSalle Street and Jackson Boulevard Monday night.
Occupy Activists Protest Outside Obama Campaign HQ During DNC
About 50 protestors chanted as 10 black coffins were placed on the sidewalk outside of President Barack Obama’s campaign headquarters at Prudential Plaza on Tuesday, each with the words “Hope” and “Change” on the top.
Protesters, Security Consultant Laugh Off Casual ‘Dress Code’ For Workers During NATO Summit
Dress down for the NATO protests if you work downtown? Both protesters and a security consultant for the NATO summit are laughing off suggestions that downtown office workers dress casually to avoid becoming targets of protesters.
Occupy Movement Protesters Looking For Places To Stay During NATO
Occupy Chicago activists are looking for help finding fellow demonstrators find a place to stay during the NATO summit, so they’re asking Chicagoans to let them occupy their houses, apartments, back yards, or churches.
Roosevelt University To Offer Course On Occupy Movement
Roosevelt University is set to offer a course all about the Occupy movement.
Bernstein: The Failed ‘Protest’ Of Tim Thomas
It’s probably a bad idea to protest the trampling of your rights and liberties by…exercising them.
Economist: NATO/G8 Summits Could Be A Disaster
A University of Chicago economist says Antarctica or Guam would be better places than Chicago for the upcoming G8 and NATO summits, now scheduled for mid-May in the Windy City.
MLK Prayer Breakfast Adopts Tone Of Occupy Movement
The annual Martin Luther King observance by the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition took on the tone of the Occupy movement this year.
Clinton: Occupy Movement Has Gotten Out A Message
Former President Bill Clinton was in town Friday morning to sign his new book, Back to Work Barnes and Noble at the Old Orchard shopping center in Skokie.
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