Police Preemptively Raid Apartment & Arrest Activists Ahead of NATO Summit | The Dissenter. National Lawyers Guild reports, “Police broke down a door to access a 6-unit apartment building near 32nd & Morgan Streets without a search warrant. Police entered an apartment with guns drawn and tackled one of the tenants to the floor in [...]
http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2012/05/16/nato-summit%E2%80%99s-impact-chicago Why is Chicago hosting the NATO summit? Who stands to benefit? What are the stakes if things go awry between protesters and police? Carol Marin and her guests have answers.
Bank of America gave its CEO a pay package worth $7.5 million last year, six times as large as the year before. It happened while the company’s stock lost more than half its value and the bank lost its claim as the biggest in the country. via Bank Of America CEO Gets $7.5 Million Pay [...]
Smelly hippy idealists who should get jobs? Not exactly. The occupy movement has shown us that the state–and all the large corporate interests that pull its strings–will go to any lengths to prevent people from standing in the way. Their moving train of crony capital, unaccountable politicians, large banks and influential corporations will not be [...]
6 Ways to Get Ready for the May 1st GENERAL STRIKE | OccupyWallSt.org.
ALEC Ends Push for Stand Your Ground and Voter ID Laws | Connecting the Dots, What Matters Today | BillMoyers.com.
Fault Lines investigates the business of Immigrant Detention in the U.S. http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/faultlines/2012/04/201241081117980874.html
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