Labor Beat video highlights First Amendment fights that were part of the NATO protests now available
When NATO Came to Town, a new Labor Beat video, will begin airing tonight (June 7, 2012) on Chicago CAN TV (Channel 19 Chicago; Channel 6, Evanston) and continue for the next week. For those who can't get cable, the video will also be available at You Tube in the near future.
Union and CORE banners were part of the May 20 march against NATO in Chicago. Substance photo by Sarah Chambers.Chicago - CAN TV cable tv Channel 19:
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The successful May 20, 2012 anti-NATO/G8 march in Chicago was the result of months of struggle to defend the 1st Amendment and an historic setting for veterans of the Afghan and Iraq wars to throw their service medals back toward where NATO met.
This video tells the story of the fight for parade permits, against Mayor Emanuel's intimidation with a massive police-state mobilization (including NATO jet fighters), the story of National Nurses United overcoming the City's attempts to deny them a permit to have a rally against G8 at Daley Plaza, the IVAW's struggle to get their opportunity to hold their returning medals ceremony at the end of the march where the NATO Summit took place. Here also are scenes of the massive rally at the starting point of the march at Petrillo Band Shell in Grant Park, and the march itself along the fought-for parade route, with its international, veteran, labor, and community contingents.
Finally, we see and hear the speeches of the Afghan and Iraq war veterans as they throw back their medals. This important and historic gesture was hardly acknowledged by the corporate media, as they instead seized upon sensational images of police/protesters struggles in the street, allowing the central political message of the Coalition Against NATO/G8 War and Poverty Agenda, the organizer of the march, to be obscured. Interviews, speeches, scenes. Length: 24:39.
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