The last day in a week of planned downtown Chicago protests related
to the NATO summit were non-violent but tense, following a weekend for
which police arrested 60 protesters outside McCormick Place convention center Sunday and the state of Illinois charged four protesters this weekend with plotting terrorist acts.
Sarah
Gelsomino of the National Lawyers Guild claimed “there are almost
60 accounts of police brutality” stemming from yesterday’s violence
outside the convention center, which is hosting the NATO summit that
started yesterday and concludes today. Read more »
Demonstrators at a National Nurses United rally at Daley Plaza in
downtown Chicago today said that they were nervous violence might
overshadow the nurses’ message of economic equality in what was billed
as the second biggest event in a week of NATO summit-relatedprotests.
But
the two-hour event was without much incident, despite a crowd that
likely exceeded the 2,000 people the nurses union said would attend. Read more »
Andy Thayer, a member of the Coalition against the NATO/G8 War and Poverty Agenda, will debate NATO's merits next week with James Appathurai, a spokesman for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
The U.S. Secret Service will let NATO summit protesters go ahead with
their planned parade route – except they will push back where the route
ends, according to the Coalition Against NATO/G8 War & Poverty
Agenda, or CANG8.
The decision is maybe the final chapter in a
saga where CANG8 battled with Chicago and federal officials over
conducting a lawful protest May 20, the first day of the two-day NATO
summit. Read more »
A coalition of advocates that were denied a NATO summit protest permit say they will take an alternate protest route the city verbally
offered on March 19. The Coalition Against the NATO/G8 War and Poverty Agenda, or CANG8, met with Mike Simon, assistant commissioner for the Chicago Department of Transportation today, and said that they were encouraged the city would approve the alternate route by Wednesday, a deadline set by CANG8.
"The city said they had remembered they had offered this at at one point," says Joe Iosbaker, a CANG8 member at the meeting. "It seemed that everything we said sounded reasonable to them." Read more »
The last day in a week of planned downtown Chicago protests related
to the NATO summit were non-violent but tense, following a weekend for
which 
Demonstrators at a National Nurses United rally at Daley Plaza in
downtown Chicago today said that they were nervous violence might
overshadow the nurses’ message of economic equality in what was billed
as the second biggest event in a week of NATO 
The U.S. Secret Service will let NATO summit protesters go ahead with
their planned parade route – except they will push back where the route
ends, according to the Coalition Against NATO/G8 War & Poverty
Agenda, or CANG8.
A coalition of advocates that were denied a NATO summit protest permit say they will take an alternate protest route the city verbally
offered on March 19. The Coalition Against the NATO/G8 War and Poverty Agenda, or CANG8, met with Mike Simon, assistant commissioner for the Chicago Department of Transportation today, and said that they were encouraged the city would approve the alternate route by Wednesday, a deadline set by CANG8.