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Statement: Why We Got Arrested at the University of Chicago
This article first appeared in the Occupied Chicago Tribune. Four protesters demanding an expansion of trauma care services on the South Side were arrested during a sit-in at the University of Chicago Medical Center
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All Charges from Occupy Chicago Mass Arrests at “The Horse” Dismissed
This post originally appeared over at the Occupied Chicago Tribune. CHICAGO, IL — The mass midnight arrests of Occupiers in October at Grant Park were ruled unconstitutional by a Chicago court on Thursday, September 27.
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Four Reasons Why Chicago’s Teachers Are On Strike
This article originally appeared in the Occupied Chicago Tribune Across mainstream media and through the megaphone of city government, Chicago public school teachers have been consistently demonized and criticized for everything from self-serving greed,
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Supporters Rally Around Teachers Union as Ten-Day Strike Notice Issued
This originally appeared over at the Occupied Chicago Tribune. News of the Chicago Teachers Union’s declaration of a ten-day strike notice spread across the city’s evening news broadcasts Wednesday. As Chicagoans prepared for the first schools shutdown
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People Challenge Banks for Homes in Chicago
This article originally appeared on Waging Nonviolence, and was posted over at Occupy.com. “Where’s the house?” Trisha James asked, leaning forward eagerly. She couldn’t contain her urgency; living each day house-to-house in Chicago’s poorest
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Member of Occupy Boston May Spend Life in Jail
I sent Jared Chase a friend request on Facebook last month, but there’s a good chance he will never be able to accept it. I met him washing dishes in Dewey Square, where we
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The NATO 3′s Silent Indictment
This article was originally posted over at the Occupied Chicago Tribune. Yesterday, at the Cook County Courthouse at 26th and California, the state’s attorney indicted Brian Church, Jared Chase, and Brent Betterly. But the
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NATO Dipsatches: The Other Side of Sunday
The following is a collection of dispatches from May 20, 2012, a major day of protests against the NATO Summit in Chicago. The vision of the protests presented here is solely the view of
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NATO Dispatch 1: This Is What A Police State Looks Like
There is much to take away from the mass actions against NATO in Chicago, but most protesters seem to be talking about the menacing police presence throughout the events. Thousands of ‘security’ personnel, drawn
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Journalists Stopped, Searched, Handcuffed & Interrogated at Gunpoint
This article is form the Occupied Media news wire. It was originally published by Occupy Los Angeles News. Under cover of the night around twelve police cars stopped five journalists when they were heading
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