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Civilians Get Hit by Police During NATO Protests

THIS IS FUCKING IMPORTANT. Multiple reports and video of a police van driving through civilians tonight.

Adbusters Issues New Call to Action: Occupy Chicago for G8/NATO Summit

Adbusters Issues New Call to Action: Occupy Chicago for G8/NATO Summit

(Source: socialuprooting, via fuckkyeahchicago)

occupyallstreets: Mayor Rahm Emanuel Seeks To Limit First Amendment Last month, while introducing draconian amendments to sections of the Chicago code and a wholesale rewrite of the parade permit ordinance, he in effect said, “Don’t worry, this is just for those ‘bad people’ coming to Chicago to disrupt the G8 and NATO summits. This won’t affect the good people of Chicago. Go back to sleep.” But when the actual language of the proposed legislation was produced, there were no evidence that the measures were “temporary”. Under the proposed new parade permit ordinance, 10-8-330, minimum fines for violations would jump 20-fold, from $50 to $1000.  The maximum fine would double to $2000 and potentially include 10 days in jail.  Virtually every street protest in the downtown would be designated a “large parade” requiring $1 million liability insurance and for organizers to “agree to reimburse the city for any damage to the public way or to city property arising out of or caused by the parade”;Large parade or not, organizers would be required to provide the city with “a description of any recording equipment, sound amplification equipment, banners, signs, or other attention-getting devices to be used in connection with the parade” at least a week in advance of the march. Under a wholly new section of the municipal code (10-8-334), even gatherings on sidewalks, with no presence in the streets, would now be subject to demands that they get permits, giving the City extraordinary latitude to dictate what union and other pickets occur or get shut down by police action. Conceivably, each General Assembly meeting of Occupy Chicago would require a separate City permit, each with its $50 application fee, weeks’ long application process, etc. Thayer reacts to this provision: “Given Rahm’s belligerence against protesters and hostility to the Left in general – which he infamously labeled as “fucking retarded” — this clause is unfettered license for him to sneak a lot of BS in the back door without the formality of a City Council vote.” Source

occupyallstreets:

Mayor Rahm Emanuel Seeks To Limit First Amendment

Last month, while introducing draconian amendments to sections of the Chicago code and a wholesale rewrite of the parade permit ordinance, he in effect said, “Don’t worry, this is just for those ‘bad people’ coming to Chicago to disrupt the G8 and NATO summits. This won’t affect the good people of Chicago. Go back to sleep.” 

But when the actual language of the proposed legislation was produced, there were no evidence that the measures were “temporary”.

Under the proposed new parade permit ordinance, 10-8-330, minimum fines for violations would jump 20-fold, from $50 to $1000. 

The maximum fine would double to $2000 and potentially include 10 days in jail. 

Virtually every street protest in the downtown would be designated a “large parade” requiring $1 million liability insurance and for organizers to “agree to reimburse the city for any damage to the public way or to city property arising out of or caused by the parade”;

Large parade or not, organizers would be required to provide the city with “a description of any recording equipment, sound amplification equipment, banners, signs, or other attention-getting devices to be used in connection with the parade” at least a week in advance of the march.

Under a wholly new section of the municipal code (10-8-334), even gatherings on sidewalks, with no presence in the streets, would now be subject to demands that they get permits, giving the City extraordinary latitude to dictate what union and other pickets occur or get shut down by police action. Conceivably, each General Assembly meeting of Occupy Chicago would require a separate City permit, each with its $50 application fee, weeks’ long application process, etc.

Thayer reacts to this provision: “Given Rahm’s belligerence against protesters and hostility to the Left in general – which he infamously labeled as “fucking retarded” — this clause is unfettered license for him to sneak a lot of BS in the back door without the formality of a City Council vote.”

Source

(via my-little-underground)