Chicago Police Ready for NATO Summit Protesters With 'Sound Cannon'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/05/11-8
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Occupy Chicago Takes on the War at Home
Yana Kunichoff, Truthout: ''In a week of action before the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) summit hits Chicago, activists are connecting the war abroad waged by NATO and its associates with the war at home, waged by some of the 1 percent that are welcoming and profiting from bringing the summit to Chicago. 'What we have is a war in our communities and that war is done by the global 1 percent,' said Brian Bean, an activist with Occupy Chicago. 'The same people that will be meeting in McCormick Place [for the summit] in a couple of days drop bomb in Afghanistan and destroy our homes here in America. That is why we are here to fight back. Today we take back our homes, tomorrow we take back our world.'''
http://truth-out.org/news/item/9205-occupy-chicago-takes-on-the-war-at-home
NATO Protesters Held Without Charge After Raid as Chicago Steps Up Police Activities
Yana Kunichoff, Truthout: ''A pre-emptive raid by the Chicago Police Department (CPD) on the home of two Occupy Chicago activists may have happened without a search warrant, said the National Lawyers Guild (NLG), and led to the disappearance of nine activists into police custody without charge for almost 24 hours. According to witnesses, the raid was conducted by the Organized Crime Division of the CPD and a warrant produced at the site didn t have the signature of a judge. The use of pre-emptive arrests is troublesome, said lawyers following the proceedings.''
http://truth-out.org/news/item/9235-nato-protesters-held-without-charge-after-raid-as-chicago-steps-up-police-activities
Nurses Gather at NATO Summit to Demand Government Fund Health, Not Death
Allison Kilkenny, Truthout: ''Around a thousand individuals gathered at Chicago s Daley Plaza Friday afternoon to demand the US government start properly funding health and stop funding death with an ever-expanding military budget. Casey Hobbs, a registered nurse for 37 years, traveled to Chicago in order to protest for the creation of a Robin Hood tax on Wall Street?. '[It's] less than half a penny tax on financial transactions. With the billions of dollars we d get from that, we re gonna heal America..'''
http://truth-out.org/news/item/9242-nurses-gather-at-nato-to-demand-government-funds-health-not-death
Why Protest NATO?
Sam Jewler, Truthout: ''In many ways, Afghanistan is worse off under NATO s Groundhog Day-like reign of terror than it was before?. Civilian deaths have become a hallmark of NATO interventions, in which forces rely on so-called precise aerial campaigns so as not to risk their own soldiers' lives. Even in the Balkans, NATO s first and signature so-called 'humanitarian war,' it s estimated that there were thousands of civilian deaths and that tens of billions of dollars worth of damage was done.''
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/9234-why-protest-nato
Occupying Different Worlds: NATO and Its Citizens
J.A. Myerson, Truthout: ''[Author] Michael Hastings [said]: 'We are spending $700 billion a year on defense ... We spent $120 billion in 2011 in Afghanistan. The takeaway I got from the protesters was that this money could be better spent at home than on these different foreign policy adventures. The adventures have turned out not to be very beneficial for most Americans or most Afghans either.'''
http://truth-out.org/news/item/9257-occupying-different-worlds-nato-and-its-citizens
Whose Firebombs? Inside the Alleged ''Conspiracy''
Curtis Black, NewsTips.org: ''Chicago police have a long history of infiltrating peaceful protest groups and fomenting violence and infiltration of protest groups seems to be standard operating procedure for 'national security events.' That seems to have been the case, in just the past month ... Sometimes you wonder whether such efforts are directed at keeping us safe or 'putting points on the board' or, when big protests are planned, generating scare headlines.''
http://truth-out.org/news/item/9258-whose-firebombs-inside-the-alleged-conspiracy
Thousands March With Veterans for Peace in Chicago; Police Respond With Brute Force
Allison Kilkenny, Truthout: ''Thousands of protesters marched beside Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans Sunday to accompany the vets as they marched, hoping to return their service medals to NATO s generals.... 'These medals once made me feel good,' said [veteran Scott] Olsen, adding, 'I came back to reality. I don't like these anymore.'''
http://truth-out.org/news/item/9269-thousands-march-with-veterans-for-peace-police-respond-with-brute-force
From Pride to Shame: Vets Return Their Medals
J.A. Myerson, Truthout: ''The transition from pride to shame was a common theme among the more than forty veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan who publicly hurled their medals in the direction of the NATO summit in Chicago on Sunday as part of a reconciliation ceremony. One by one, they explained their decision, many describing themselves as remaining proud to have served with what they considered courage, integrity and selflessness until a sense of unease about the missions' aims and tactics set in ...''
http://truth-out.org/news/item/9284-from-pride-to-shame-vets-return-their-medals
Is This What Democracy Looks Like? Reflections on Chicago
Molly Knefel, Truthout: ''But while we may not be a totalitarian regime, the numerous incidents of police repression surrounding the NATO protests highlighted specific, tangible and important ways in which we do not resemble a truly free country.... It is the nonviolent protest that is condemned as violent; people leave the crowd covered in blood as the ones holding the batons are credited with keeping things peaceful. The question is not necessarily, 'Is this what a police state looks like?' but rather, 'Is this what a democracy looks like?'''
http://truth-out.org/news/item/9461-is-this-what-democracy-looks-like-reflections-on-chicago
Why I Returned My Medals
Graham Clumpner, Truthout: ''I could see things deteriorating every day. Our contact with the locals only isolated us and made things worse. Our treatment of the prisoners was what changed me. When they were blindfolded and handcuffed, it was easy to see them as less than human. So, we treated them that way. The medal I returned outside the NATO summit was the Global War on Terrorism Medal or GWOT. I refer to it as the Global War OF Terrorism. That s what we are, the purveyors of terror to the people of Afghanistan and Iraq.''
http://truth-out.org/news/item/9545-why-i-returned-my-medals
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How FBI Entrapment Is Inventing 'Terrorists' and Letting Bad Guys Off the Hook
In all these law enforcement schemes the alleged terrorists masterminds end up seeming, when the full story comes out, unable to terrorize their way out of a paper bag without law enforcement tutelage.
http://bit.ly/J6MELX
The Nato Summit Template for Policing the 'Other Chicago'
Mayor Emanuel is spending millions entertaining Nato and millions more to stifle protest at Chicago s dire levels of poverty.
http://bit.ly/KvjSS0
Nato Talks Security and Peace, Chicago has Neither
By Gary Younge
The paradox of such a city hosting this summit lays bare the brutal way in which inequality is globally maintained and locally replicated.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31383.htm
U.S. Veterans Return War Medals at NATO Summit
Daily Dispatch From The NATO Protests
Video
A collection of video reports by grassroots journalists who are covering the NATO Summit in Chicago.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31384.htm
Welcome, Nato, to Chicago s police state
The Nato summit will come and go, but Mayor Emanuel has authorised a 'new normal' of militarised social control in Chicago.
http://bit.ly/KxUwTd
Chicago police frame antiwar activists on ''terrorism'' charges
The bogus character of the charges is demonstrated by the fact that the five men are charged for three separate incidents, linked only by the involvement of two undercover police provocateurs, who instigated or concocted each of the supposed ''terrorist'' plots.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/may2012/terr-m21.shtml
Obama hails police state methods in Chicago
President Barack Obama on Monday praised the performance of Chicago city officials and the Chicago Police Department after a week of violence, repression and frame-ups directed against antiwar demonstrators in the city.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/may2012/pers-m22.shtml
NATO Summit A Show Of Force
By Paul Heise
The NATO summit put on display how we can and do conjure up foreign and domestic threats to justify government control of our society.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31415.htm
From Information Clearing House
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American war veterans renounce the wars and throw their medals at NATO Summit
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