Tuesday, December 13th: Call the Mayor of Chicago: Defend the Right to Protest against the NATO & G8 Summits

[kim defranco]

 

Take Action:  Defend the Right to Protest against the NATO & G8 Summits
Tuesday, December 13th - Call the Mayor of Chicago @ 312.744.5000

The City of Chicago will host the NATO/G8 Summits in May, 2012.  We need the largest, most powerful protests against their wars and impoverishment of people.  The Coalition Against NATO/G8 War & Poverty Agenda (CANG8) has already made plans for two permitted, family friendly rallies and marches, May 15th and 19th.  We are confident that we will win permits – but not without a struggle for our democratic rights.  The administration of Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the Superintendent of the Chicago Police Department, Garry McCarthy, have already sent a message to us that our protests will be met with mass arrests.  CANG8 in Chicago is leading the effort to secure permits.  Up until now, the City has not said that they would refuse us permits.  However, on November 9, we learned of the first denial of a permit application.  Back in June, one day after President Obama announced the summits for next year, Joe Iosbaker of the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) submitted permit applications for the two dates of the planned protests.  After not communicating to Iosbaker for 20 weeks, MB Real Estate Services sent an email that stated that they are not approving any permits for Daley Plaza between May 15 and May 22, 2012 – the exact dates of the NATO/G8 meetings.  MB Real Estate is a contractor working for the Public Building Commission (PBC), which controls Daley Plaza.  The Chairman of PBC is Mayor Rahm Emanuel.  The blanket denial of permits for Daley Plaza – one of the few public spaces in downtown Chicago that can accommodate large gatherings – illustrates a pattern of actions demonstrating contempt for First Amendment rights by the Emanuel administration and its allies.  

 

Take Action to Defend the Right to Protest the NATO/G8 Summit

Please sign an online petition sponsored by the Coalition Against NATO/G8 War & Poverty Agenda.  Join us in demanding:

• The city of Chicago grant permits for protests during the May NATO/G8 summit.
• An end to threats of mass arrests of protesters by Chicago Police Superintendent McCarthy.

 

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Challenge the Wars of the 1% Against the 99% Abroad & at Home!  Say NO! to the US/NATO/G8 War and Poverty Agenda!
March 23-25, 2012  — United National Antiwar Coalition Conference, Hilton Hotel, Stamford, CT—one Metro North commuter line stop from NYC
To register, submit workshop proposals, or plenary resolutions go to https://www.unacpeace.org/

 

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Protest the Joint Summit of G8 and NATO:  Demand Money for Human Needs Not War!
Tuesday, May 15th - May 22, 2012, Chicago, IL
FFI:  www.cang8.org and https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=220503057983391