Anger and Hope on the Streets of Chicago (Jerry Mead-Lucero in Labor Notes)

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Thousands are marching Chicago’s streets this week to protest overwhelming corporate power and demand government action to create jobs and reconstruct the nation’s fraying social safety net.

Monday’s march began as five separate marches which converged to form a demonstration of several thousand in front of the Art Institute of Chicago, where a financial trade group was holding its opening-night reception.

The feeder marches were made up of groups raising their own issues—unions, community organizations, housing activists, immigrants rights groups, environmentalists, teachers, and students.

But they all coalesced around the slogan “Take Back Chicago” and quickly adopted the theme of the ongoing Occupy Chicago movement, “We are the 99%.” ...

http://labornotes.org/2011/10/anger-and-hope-streets-chicago