Lots to come at the NATO summit, but not a lot to look forward to: will France or the U.S. pull out early? Can the NATO nations coordinate budgets around Smart Defense? And what’s “Afghan good enough”?
After the National Nurses United rally at Daley Plaza ended, a smaller group of protesters moved north to Michigan Avenue… then back south, leading cops in a slow cat-and-mouse game.
Daley Plaza was filled this afternoon by National Nurses United, a rally headlined by Tom Morello and part of an international day of action in support of a “robin hood tax” on financial trades.
Chicago’s most famous activist couple talks about the “military arm of the one percent” with Amy Goodman; plus, a handy rundown of what’s important inside McCormick Place this weekend.
Good thing President Obama is a White Sox fan. This morning’s New York Times carries a front-page story about Omaha billionaire and TD Ameritrade founder Joe Ricketts, whose money bought his family the Cubs in 2009, allegedly funding a new advertising campaign aimed at defeating Obama…
Memories of 1968 give protesting an association with speaking, writing, performance, and rhetoric. Occupy concerns itself with something less ephemeral: space, and things.
A roundup of guides, events, people to follow on Twitter, livestreams to watch, and more for NATO weekend, whether you want to participate, follow from a safe distance, or just figure out what’s going on
MIXED MESSAGES: Two reports on public corruption in Illinois and other states are at odds
In The Amateur, a decidedly anti-Obama book released this week by conservative publisher Regnery, author Ed Klein claims to have conducted more than 200 interviews. Barack, Michelle, and the people closest to them in and out of the White House would not talk, but Klein’s interviews with the Obamas’ former pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, and with the Reverend Jesse Jackson were on the record, and they emerge as two of the more interesting figures in the book…
What people are protesting—it’s not just NATO by a long shot; concerns about NATO and unilateralism; local vs. international coverage; and more
