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Friday, October 7, 2011

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Let's Occupy Chicago Monday

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Let's Occupy Chicago Monday:

Let's Occupy Chicago Monday


Meet at the Board of Trade (LaSalle and Jackson) at 4 P.M.


The Occupy Wall Street protests are coming full-blast to Chicago where Mayor Emanuel and the Civic Committee continue where Mayor Daley left off, with the city as their personal cash cow. On Monday the teachers union and education activists will play a key role in the flowering Occupy Chicago Movement. The CTU is mobilizing teachers, who have a day off Monday for Columbus Day, to meet at the Board of Trade (LaSalle and Jackson) and march to CPS headquarters, to City Hall and the Art Institute to demand and end to the privatization of our schools and asking that the state and and wealthy investors gathering at the Art Institute pay their fair share and adequately