Holding the LaSalle Street Bridge... Labor and Occupy mark November 17 day of actions
As part of national actions on Nov. 17, 2011 several thousand mostly labor activists marched from the Thompson Center (State of Illinois Building) to briefly take over LaSalle St. Bridge. The police arrested 46 people who had sat down on the bridge. Afterwards, the marchers went over to the Occupy Chicago site at Jackson and LaSalle, then the combined forces went on to other locations in the Loop.
The November 17, 2011, sit down on Chicago's LaSalle Street bridge. Photo Labor Beat.First using in the planning stages the slogan "Jobs Not Cuts", the event organizers added: "Resist Austerity, Reclaim the Economy, Recreate Our Democracy!" as Medicare and Social Security became targeted by Congress and the White House. This was also during the week when the Chicago City Council and the Mayor voted for huge cuts and layoffs in city services.
Marking the growing intersection of unions with the Occupy movement, the day represented interesting processes going on within the growing national movement against the dictatorship of the %1. In an extended interview enhanced by choice street videography, AFSCME 2858 President Steve Edwards assists in sorting out these developments. Length - 19:22
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Comments:
By: xian barrett
Call your Senators
The bill is currently on the Senate side. You can track it here:
http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/billstatus.asp?DocNum=405&GAID=11&GA=97&DocTypeID=SB&LegID=55200&SessionID=84
Please call your State Senators. You can look them up here:
http://www.elections.il.gov/districtlocator/districtofficialsearchbyaddress.aspx
There's never any money when it's time to pay us fairly for our work, but the Rahm and friends are always happy to give students "the shaft" to send money the way of our their corporate cronies.
By: Jean Schwab
Bill SB 405
Currie's office said that it had another name. Madigan's office said that was because there is a Senate Bill and a House Bill. Anyway, I called.
By: John Whitfield
KILL this BILL ! (Occupy Chicago)
SB 405, tax breaks for CME / CBOE to be vote on in IL on 11/29/2011
Please call today and DEMAND your elected representatives work for the PEOPLE, not the
1 % of job-killers ! Tell them to
KILL THIS BILL !
Currie 773-667-0550 Quinn 217-782-0244 Madigan 217-782-5350 This bill would cut taxes of electronic trading profiteers by a third.
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange group is trying to turn a $200,000 campaign contribution to Rahm Emanuel(who used toi be on their board of directors)into more than $60 million dollars in tax breaks ! That's a
shocking 30,000% return on their investment--it really pays to buy a poilitician in Illinois!
the Chicago Board of Options Exchange is on board too for their own tax dodge, and this bill will pass unless YOU CALL and let them know you won't stand for this open corruption !
TOP FOR REASONS THIS BILL IS BUNK:
1. We can't afford it. Illinois has a massive deficit
2. It doesn't benefit anyone in Illinois.
E-trading has lost Illinois jobs over the last 10 years. This money that comes from taxpayers goes to the fat cats and we never see it again, till they lose it in Greece and order a bailout. When congress had a tax holiday, not a single job was created. Corps bought stock.
3. The threat to leave is a lie. CME is building a new facility in Aurora for tens of millions. They can't leave without spending and losing hundreds of millions.
4. It is open corruption. CME makes 37% profit and doesn't do much, so they 'lobby'.
They gave Rahm, Quinn and Madigan a combined $440, 000.
SHAME ON RAHM !
SHAME ON QUINN !
SHAME ON MIKE !