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Chicago NATO protests, May 17-22, 2012. Part 3: From the Mayor’s door, back to the streets.

Monday, June 4th, 2012

From a march on Mayor Rahm Emanual’s house in Northern Chicago in the early afternoon, we headed back to the streets of Downtown Chicago to catch up with the anti-capitalist march; along which the police tried all day to enforce seemingly arbitrary route closings violently in an attempt to, at first, keep two large marches separated, then later, to keep them heading in the direction they wanted. At one point a large crowd was kettled into an area on Michigan Avenue and brought out the horses, near an entrance to Grant park, however, once again the crowd broke the line with sheer will and mass of bodies, until late into the night. The march finally disband at its own accord after reaching a China Town train station in front of which a police town truck dropped a car which then caught on fire.

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Chicago, NATO protest May 17-22, 2012 – Part two, Who’s streets?

Thursday, May 31st, 2012

A march set off from the convergence center in northern Chicago on the night the buses from all over the country arrived, taking to the surrounding neighborhood streets. The next morning was the big union nurses rally, with Tom Morello, which turned into an impromptu march through DT chicago when a medic with his face covered was arrested for failing to reveal himself. The march then snaked through downtown before being cut off and dispersed on a bridge. From the bridge the march headed to the FED, before stopping at Grant Park, where a GA was held while a good number of protestors joined an ongoing 9 year old picket line in front of the Congress Hotel on Michigan Ave.

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Chicago, NATO protest, May 17-22 Documentary. Part One;Getting there.

Saturday, May 26th, 2012

I hope to edit down my footage from the Chicago NATO protests of May 17-22, 2012 over the next few days, releasing sections as a serialized documentary as I learn how to edit. So please, check back in every day or so until the story is told.

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