May 20: March to protest NATO summit in Chicago!
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The NATO war-makers, fresh from their missile barrage on Libya, are coming to Chicago this month for a summit meeting. We can expect that U.S. politicians and the compliant media will spare no effort to gladhand the NATO representatives on their arrival. But protesters, who are weary of the endless war in Afghanistan and dazed by the attack on Libya, will give NATO a greeting of a different kind. Tens of thousands will fill the streets of Chicago to demand, “No to NATO! No to War and Austerity!”
A mass protest march and rally will take place on Sunday, May 20, beginning at 12 noon at the Petrillo Band Shell in Grant Park. At last count, the protest has been endorsed by over 130 organizations from around the United States and Canada, plus prominent individuals such as the Rev. Jesse Jackson. The Coalition Against NATO/G8 War & Poverty Agenda (CANG8) is organizing the event. The umbrella group was formed last summer by some 80 organizations, including the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC), which put out the initial call for the protest.
Protesters already have won a couple of victories. In March, President Obama announced that the G8 summit, which had been scheduled to precede the NATO meeting in Chicago, would instead be shuffled into the confines of Camp David. The G8, composed of heads of state from the eight “major” industrial nations (without China), will thus be allowed to meet in a fortress in the Maryland woods—far away from protesters and the eyes of the public.
And in early May, after months of waging a vigorous national campaign for the right of free speech, CANG8 was informed by the city of Chicago that they would be given a permit for the May 20 rally to take place