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'Occupy Chicago at Grant Park'... Video now available from Labor Beat on Occupy Chicago arrests at Grant Park and the tearing down of the First Aid tent

Larry Duncan - November, 2011

After two weeks of occupying Chicago's financial district at Jackson & LaSalle, the decision was made to march to Grant Park and occupy it. Meanwhile, Chicago's unions began to formally become involved in the occupy movement, and joined this action, which took place on Oct. 22, 2011. Thousands of students, workers and community activists began at the Federal Reserve Bank and Chicago Board of Trade and walked east through the Loop about a half mile to Grant Park. The Park was the venue for Obama's election night celebration rally in 2008, but tonight no one was celebrating Obama's obedience to Wall Street. Scenes and energies from the march, and interviews focusing on union members and officials who were there. At the Park, National Nurses United set up a first aid tent, but after 2 am later that night some 130 protesters were arrested, including two NNU leaders, and the police tore down their first aid tent. Length - 15:23

Occupy Chicago at Grant Park

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