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From left to right, Daniel Annussek, Daniel Murphy, Colin Momeyer, Vic and Robert LaMonte, all activists detained in raid and recently released, sit outside the jail where they were in solitary confinement. (Photo: Mario Garcia-Baeza)

The NATO Raids and Arrests: This Is What Jail Solidarity Looks Like (0)

May 19, 2012 • News

By Yana Kunichoff; Reprinted with permission from Truthout. Hours before their fellow arrestees were pinned with terrorism charges, and only a few hours after they were released from solitary confinement, some of the activist arrested in a Wednesday evening raid on a Chicago home were happy to be eating something that wasn’t the baloney sandwiches ...

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NATO Invades: We Can’t Feed The Poor, But We Can Fund Wars? (0)

Protesters in Chicago greet the 99Solidarity buses (Photo: Occupy Chicago)

When NATO released a video earlier this month introducing Chicago to the visiting heads of state, it was full of so many errors and missteps—that the city is the capital of Illinois, that President  Obama grew up here, that the Trump Tower is an architectural treasure—it made one ask, just what city were they talking ...

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Editorial: Tom Morello for Mayor (0)

Tom Morello in NYC on May Day

Editors’ note: The Occupied Chicago Tribune, like the Occupy movement generally, has viewed the political arena with a great deal of suspicion. While sections of the movement and, to a greater extent, those outside the movement have encouraged Occupy to funnel their efforts to the ballot box, so far, Occupy proper has mostly maintained an ...

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No School, No Work… But in Chicago, No General Strike (1)

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Before there was the NATO summit or the Occupy movement, there was May Day, born and bred in Chicago. This year, with leftists across the country crossing their fingers for an American Spring, Chicago’s May Day will be the opening act in a month of anger at the 1%. But Chicago is one of the ...


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