From Christmas Carols calling Rahm Emanuel a Grinch to a proposal
that the city pay for mental health care through raising the yacht
mooring tax, the Mental Health Movement coalition has spent months
energetically fighting the city’s plan to close six of its 12 mental
health clinics.
That resistance has escalated. Police arrested 23
protesters at the Woodlawn clinic at 1 a.m., and activists and mental
health patients said at a press conference today outside the Woodlawn
clinic that there might be more confrontations. Read more »
Hundreds of protesters were met by dozens of Chicago police officers
outfitted with riot gear in front of Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s North Side
Ravenswood home Saturday afternoon. While the Mayor wasn’t home, his
house was guarded by a line of officers who created a makeshift barrier
using their bicycles. 
Police arrested several mental health advocates who tried to enter the office of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel this afternoon to discuss the city 
Mental health advocates intensified their opposition today to the city’s plan to close six of 12 mental health clinics by occupying the lobby outside Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s office – even as the city confirmed that they would go forward today with the last four clinic closings. 
