Occupy Chicago says thousands of protesters will go to Chicago next week
before the city hosts the NATO summit, May 20 and 21. While Chicago
Mayor Rahm Emanuel views the summit as raising Chicago’s profile, Occupy
thinks the event will call attention to their concerns and invigorate the Occupy Wall Street movement that started last fall.
Andy Thayer, a member of the Coalition against the NATO/G8 War and Poverty Agenda, will debate NATO's merits next week with James Appathurai, a spokesman for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
The U.S. Secret Service will let NATO summit protesters go ahead with
their planned parade route – except they will push back where the route
ends, according to the Coalition Against NATO/G8 War & Poverty
Agenda, or CANG8.
The decision is maybe the final chapter in a
saga where CANG8 battled with Chicago and federal officials over
conducting a lawful protest May 20, the first day of the two-day NATO
summit. Read more »
After a drawn out battle, a coalition of protesters is poised to get a legal permit from the city to march against the NATO summit on May 20.
Joe
Iosbaker, an organizer at the Coalition Against NATO/G8 War &
Poverty Agenda, or CANG8, says that the Chicago Department of
Transportation has conditionally agreed to a proposal by CANG8 to start a
march May 20 at the Petrillo Band Shell in Grant Park and end at the
McCormick Place convention center, the site of the two-day NATO summit. Read more »
Writing “what a difference a day makes” in his decision, Chicago Administrative Law
Judge Raymond Prosser rejected the May 20 parade permit route proposed
by the Coalition Against the NATO and G8 War and Poverty Agenda, or
CANG8, for the first day of the NATO summit.
The city had before
approved an identical protest route for May 19 – when the G8 summit was
first supposed to meet, prior to it being relocated to Camp David. Read more »
The city of Chicago's Department of Administrative hearings will holid a hearing next week on a formal appeal made by NATO summit protesters after the city denied a parade permit for a May 20 protest.
The Boeing protest is underway, with hundreds of protesters arriving and chanting, "Another World is Possible!" 
The U.S. Secret Service will let NATO summit protesters go ahead with
their planned parade route – except they will push back where the route
ends, according to the Coalition Against NATO/G8 War & Poverty
Agenda, or CANG8.
After a drawn out battle, a coalition of protesters is poised to get a legal permit from the city to march against the NATO summit on May 20.