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As part of the ongoing “fiscal cliff” discussions, Senator Durbin is negotiating behind our backs to gut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid – cuts that could create depression-era conditions for millions of Americans who’ve paid for and earned support from these vital programs.

Come get free soup and bread every day in Federal Plaza from December 3rd - 6th!
Monday, December 3, noon: Soup and Bread line in Federal Plaza
Tuesday, December 4, noon: Soup and Bread line in Federal Plaza
Wednesday, December 5, noon: Soup and Bread line in Federal Plaza
Thursday, December 6, noon: Erect the “Durbinville” shantytown to show the world what these cuts really mean!

Join us on December 6th at noon to tell Senator Durbin that we won't go back! On December 6, we're building a Durbinville Shantytown encampment at the Federal Building to symbolize the dire consequences these cuts could have, and fight to preserve these essential programs. Join us! And bring a tent!

Enough is enough! It's time to stop unnecessary budget cuts and make corporations and the rich pay their fair share!

Demand that Senator Durbin:
Block the "debt ceiling sequester" cuts – say no to austerity!

Reject Simpson-Bowles or any other “Grand Bargain” that attempts to balance the budget on the backs of the poor, working people, the sick or the elderly – protect vital public programs, no cuts to Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid!

Block the extension of the Bush Tax Cuts for the top 2% – it’s time for the rich to start paying their fair share!

Support and fight for progressive sources of revenue – impose a Robin Hood Tax on Wall Street financial speculation, tax capital gains as normal income and close corporate tax loopholes!

Occupy Chicago Education Committee Presents a Reading Group Of. . . Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1 by Karl Marx

June 21, 2012

Dvorak Park (Weather Permitting) in Pilsen (Cermak and Racine)
7 p.m.

In August of 1867, a poor German emigre living in London put the finishing touches on his magnum opus which would change the course of human history. Marx's Capital Vol. 1 has been studied, analyzed, embraced, denounced, rethought and yet it is still recognized as a political, economical, philosophic, historical and revolutionary force brimming with insights for emancipatory policis. In this era of capitalist crises, neoliberal governance, and digitized globalization, how can Marx's text help us understand contemporary class struggle? How is Marx's critique of capitalism important to the diffuse variety of social justice movements today? Does Capital point us in a direction of stronger solidarity as revolutionaries? Can Marx assist us practically as we organize and discuss tactical questions of strategy and long-term goals for the future in and outside of Occupy Chicago?

In the spirit of these questions, the Occupy Chicago Education Committee invites all to join us in an introductory planning meeting where everyone in attendance will participate in collectively designing a long-term schedule and plan for a group reading of Capital Volume 1. We are interested in forming a group that can manage itself through consensus decision making to develop and follow a structure, direction, and schedule for the reading. Marx's Capital will be our starting point, but in our explorations the trajectory might change according to what direction the group decides it wants to go. As such, we would like to see this specific book as a springboard towards fluid and currently unpredictable directions of critical thought and critical action.

We will be using the Ben Fowkes translation published by the New Left Review as well as Penguin Books, which will be made available to all who are interested and in need of a copy. Please join us; all are welcome to attend!

-Occupy Chicago Education Committee

Join immigrants rights, union, occupy, community activists and others to organize for MAY DAY 2012:

1. Origins of MAY DAY & Why We're Mobilizing

2. Hear about struggles Chicago activists are involved in: 

- E-VERIFY, Detention Centers, Deportations, Day Laborer organizing

- Union & Workers Struggles in Chicago

- Defending Social Services

- Trayvon Martin, Rekia  Boyd & the New Jim Crow

3. Discuss Mobilizing plans and goals for the MAY DAY MARCH AND RALLY in our unions, neighborhoods, workplaces, schools and churches

What we Demand:

*STOP THE ATTACK ON UNIONS & WORKERS!
*NO CUTS! NO TO AUSTERITY! TAX THE 1%!
*JOBS FOR ALL & NO TO E-VERIFY
*END DEPORTATIONS, RACISM & THE NEW JIM CROW

Contact us ChicagoMayDay2012@gmail.com

Or Visit the Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/145321642262639/

**Note: this event has been re-scheduled from April 1 to April 8th**

How do societies change? It has long been observed that capitalism develops in forty-to-sixty year cycles, bookended by great crashes and periods of stagnation. Technologies and relations of production are transformed along with modes of government and social reproduction. New patterns of trade and nternational relations emerge on the geopolitical level. Ten or fifteen years later, people look back and realize: "That was a turning point. The world is totally different now."

Such a change has been experienced in living memory, with the crisis of the late sixties/early seventies that ushered in neoliberalism. What will happen now? By bringing together various strands of Marxist crisis-theory (the technological innovation school, the regulation approach, world-systems theory) it's possible to show how a distinctly neoliberal society emerged from the political upheaval, long recession and monetary chaos of the sixties-seventies. Once we have identified the full range of neoliberal institutions, we can generate an analytical picture of the status quo around, say, 2005. And on that basis we can see what's changing right now, in many different arenas. Who are the agents of social change? Could we intervene in some of those arenas while everything is still in flux? Why wait fifteen years to discover the solutions that the elites will have arranged for us? The idea of this lecture/workshop is to lay the groundwork for a strategic observatory of the still-unfolding crisis.

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Brian Holmes is an activist researcher and cultural critic. This proposal grows out of a collective seminar carried out last year at Mess Hall in Chicago, under the title "Three Crises: 30s-70s-Today." Archive at
http://messhall.org/?page_id=771.

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Here is the link to the wildly-titled text, "Do Containers Dream of Electric People"?
http://brianholmes.wordpress.com/2011/08/19/do-containers-dream-of-electric-people
 

Dr. Castillo is a Honduran graduate of Cuba’s free international medical school, built hospital in Afro-Honduran community. He believes in health care as a right. He will speak on his experiences starting grassroots clinics in Honduras, the medical needs and responses in Haiti, and on Cuba’s preventative approach to public health and the role of Cuban doctors abroad. Castillo will lead a discussion on the possibilities of implementing people’s medicine.

Dinner 6pm (donation), Program 7pm

This is an emergency event. Your programs are being threatened with cuts and closure. Your tuition is being raised. Your teachers' jobs are insecure. This is not 'just another meeting,' it is not a 'speak out,' (since your administration has declined to listen), it is a chance for YOU to help make the decisions which impact your education and your future. BE THERE. (share widely. bring a friend.)

The GA empowerment proposal passed by GA on Friday means good facilitation will be even more necessary for smooth, happy and productive GA's.  Secretariat will be holding a training this Sunday at 5 pm after our normal meeting.  We especially encourage all regulaf facilitators to attend, but all are welcome.

Democracy Burlesque and WakeUpAndDream Productions present:

Occupy Mary's Attic!

A Political Salon & Cabaret

Improv, Poetry, Music, Comedy, Dialogue… and much more!

Tuesday January 31st & February 7th

@ 7:30pm

Mary's Attic  (above Hamburger Mary's)

5400 N Clark Street - Andersonville

“A Salon is a gathering of people held partly to amuse one another and partly to refine taste and increase their knowledge of the participants through conversation.”

“Cabaret is a form of entertainment featuring comedy song, dance, theatre, introduced by an MC and distinguished by the performance venue: a restaurant or nightclub.”

Hosted by Andrew Ritter

Featuring the interactive political performance ensemble:  The Dynamising Wills      

Also Featuring:

Micah Philbrook as Chester Q. Goodsbee, III, robber baron.
A Mayoral Tutorial by Don Washington
Music by El Colectivo Musical
Stand Up Comedy by Cynthia Levin
Poetry by Eva Pilch
A sneak preview of Stage Left's upcoming World Premiere: The Fisherman
A Special Announcement by W.C. Turck

And much much more!

Join us for an interactive evening of artistic expression and spirited conversation as we examine and explore The Occupy Movement.

Occupy The Arts!

OCCUPY MARY’S ATTIC!

Reserve your $12 tickets now by emailing  tickets@democracyburlesque.com or purchase $15 tickets at the door.  Cash only!

The Education committee is partnering with Occupy the SouthSide to bring a series of bi-weekly teach-ins to the southside of Chicago where the effects of many 1% policies, from austerity to the prison-industrial complex, are strongest.
The teach-ins will all take place at the First Unitarian Church of Chicago, (5650 s Woodlawn) on Thursday evenings after 7pm. The Social Justice Council of the church has officially endorsed Occupy Chicago, and now hosts bi-weekly general assemblies for Occupy the SouthSide at the time time and location on weeks when there is not a teach-in.

The first teach-in will be Thursday, Feb. 2nd at 7:30pm on the topic of School Closings and their impact on the community.

There will be a panel of academic and activist speakers each given a short time to present before the format opens up to allow participants to discuss and ask further questions of the panelists.

Confirmed speakers are: Dr. Kenneth Saltman, Professor of Educational Policy Studies and Research at Depaul and author of "The Failure of Corporate School Reform."

Nathan Goldbaum, Co-Chair of CORE, Caucus Of Rank-and-file Educators.

Rico Gutstein, representing Teachers for Social Justice.

We have invited KOCO but their participation is unconfirmed.

Future SouthSide teach-in topics include the prison-industrial complex, and other issues important to that community.

This might be an interesting way to send a message via chat.  A chat protest?  Why not?

Also, are people planning to attend the event, or get in close proximity?

https://www.facebook.com/events/137018049749136/

This teach-in will focus on Rev. Martin Luther King Jr's 1966 campaign against slums in Chicago and the tenant and Black homeowners movement that was spawned in its aftermath. Between 1966 and 1969 the Chicago Tribune reported on more than 100 rent strikes and tenant actions in Chicago alone and much of this began with King and the SCLC who initiated Unions to End Slums that arose in several West Side neighborhoods. The formation of tenant unions, rent strikes and eviction blockades that became central to the black struggle for housing justice in the 1960's are all lessons we can learn from in today's fight against evictions and foreclosure.

This event is part of Occupy Chicago's MLK Day events. For full details, see here:

http://occupychi.org/2012/01/12/occupy-dream-mlk-day-celebration-and-pub...

Come help WFFLF support the Occupy Chicago Movement by attending this benefit show at The Empty Bottle (1035 N Western Ave, Chicago)!

LINE UP:

Ephemeral Sunrise- 12:00pm-12:25pm
Give Back- 12:35pm-1pm
The Bajas- 1:10pm-1:35pm
Going Backwards- 1:45pm-2:10pm
Waste- 2:20pm-2:45pm
THE CATHY SANTONIES- 2:55pm-3:25pm
WHEN FLYING FEELS LIKE FALLING- 3:35pm- 4:15pm

A Big thanks to the School Of Rock for providing the back-line!

On Friday, December 23rd, join us for a march to the Lincoln Memorial in Grant Park, at Columbus and Congress as members of Occupy Chicago perform OCCUPY MY HEART: A revolutionary Christmas Carol, as we Occupy the Arts. The march will commence from LaSalle and Jackson at 2pm. The free hour long performance will begin at 3pm.  

Based upon the Dickens classic, Occupy My Heart tells the story of Josh, an ambitious Chicago banker, who one cold and snowy Christmas Eve loses his job and girlfriend. Josh happens upon Kay, an old love, protesting with the Occupy movement. Where they once found cause to change the world, Josh is now lost to the greed of Wall Street. Where once he fought for the cause and dignity of every man, Josh’s heart is now indifferent to the suffering around him. But on that frosty Christmas Eve night Josh will be visited by of the three Occupy spirits that will show him that other world, the one that might have been with Kay, a world of hope and decency and dignity for all. But can a cynical heart be changed in a single night? Can that heart be changed enough to ask or beg forgiveness and a second chance with Kay? And can the changing of one heart be enough to change the world?

Set against the backdrop of the Occupy movement, Occupy My Heart is an hour long play written as a celebration of the movement, to bring the spirit and message of this historic moment to a broader audience. There is romance and comedy, politics and regret, heartbreak and hope. Above all this is a story of the 99%, for the 99% and by the 99%. Occupy My Heart, A Revolutionary Christmas Carol is the story of us.

Directed by K. Hannah Friedman, and brought to life by a talented and amazing cast, this family friendly one hour play is a bold, fresh and innovative realization of a holiday icon. Come with friends and family. Come out and march, or just come for the show as we Occupy the Arts!

Over 70 members of Occupy Chicago have filed motions to dismiss the charges brought against them.  Wednesday, December 21st, there will be a hearing at 9:00 AM on an important motion related to the case.

Come show support for those who have been arrested and are involved in a legal battle with the City of Chicago!

Come join us for our tech meeting. We ask that you bring a computer.

We welcome suggestions on the website layout!

Have conflicts?  Bring them to the Peace Cricle!  We will be having  drop in on Thursday from 6-8; come in if you want to talk or if you need a conflicte mediated. 

We will be in a study room at the library on the 5th floor. Look for  the sign!

Wed. 12/14

The impacts of climate change are affecting our planet and its inhabitants in drastic ways. If we refuse make necessary changes it will get far, far worse. The biggest impacts will be on the lives and livelihoods of poor and developing countries, especially small island states. The biggest culprits are the 1% and the developed countries. Progress for solutions has been made, but they are being enacted too slow to prevent future environmental catastrophes. Climate justice proposes ways to solve this by pushing for social and economic equity, a just transition to renewable energy sources, confronting corporate power, and other effective strategies. Come learn about why climate change is occurring, what the effects of it are, how you can fight for climate justice in Chicago, and how we can work together to slow climate change.

The whole world has watched as police have pepper-sprayed, beaten and arrested non-violent protesters from California to New York.
This coordinated assault hasn’t broken our spirits but it does raise critical questions:

December 9 marks 30 years that Mumia Abu Jamal has spent behind bars for a crime he did not commit. Over these 30 years, many people have become aware of the injustices in our prison system through Mumia’s case, his writings, and protests organized for his freedom. 

Around the country, activists are organizing rallies and educational events in solidarity with Mumia on December 9. Mark Clements of The Campaign to End the Death Penalty will be introducing Mumia’s case. Mark has seen the horrors of the criminal justice system as he was a victim of police torture here in Chicago. He spent 28 years of his life in prison for a crime he did not commit. Since his release, he has been a tireless fighter for justice. After Mark speaks for a few moments, we would like to hear the words of Mumia himself. Mumia is an incredible journalist who has written several books, many articles, and hosts a radio show all from his cell. We will be playing one of his recordings at the teach-in as we think his voice is so powerful and should be broadcast. Mumia speaks on a wide range of topics (including the Occupy movement!), so his voice is relevant to our current situation. This will be followed by an open discussion of the prison industrial complex, the politics of criminality, and the fight to free political prisoners. 

A bilingual teach-in presented by Occupy El Barrio and the Education Committee at Occupy Chicago. 

Five years ago, millions of people in America occupied the streets of every major city, their demands were equal working rights for everybody and legalization for the undocumented. Where are these all of these people now? Where is the movement today? And how can the occupation movement help immigrants? From the anti-immigrant state bills to the militarization of the border and the police harassment in our communities; the 1% has launched a war against immigrant communities to divide and conquer the 99%. Join us in a discussion to rebuild the fight against the 1%, which profits from the separation of families, the detention of workers, and the low wages of the undocumented.

Hace cinco años, millones ocuparon las calles en las ciudades más importantes de los Estados Unidos, sus demandas eran el derecho a trabajar y la legalización de los indocumentados. ¿Dónde está toda esta gente ahora? ¿Dónde está el movimiento pro- inmigrante hoy? ¿Y cómo puede el movimiento de ocupaciónes ayudar a los inmigrantes? Las leyes anti-inmigrantes, la militarización de la frontera y el acoso de la policía en nuestras comunidades son las herramientas preferidas del 1% para dividir y conquistar al 99%. Participe en una discusión para reconstruir la lucha contra el 1%, que se beneficia de la separación de familias, la detención de los trabajadores, y los bajos salarios de los indocumentados.

Occupy Your Future is an invitation for every occupation STATE WIDE to join us at Jackson and LaSalle to share ideas, best practices, tactics and information and establish a strong line of communication with one another in addition to the formation of an EXTERNAL COMMITTEE designated to maintain this connection. There will be break out groups to discuss each occupations' techniques as well as discuss what each occupation envisions the future of the movement to be and how it can happen.

In the Chicagoland area, there are over 120,000 foreclosed homes and 50% of mortgages in Chicago are under water.  With hundreds of thousands of people experiencing the effects of bank malfeasance, the banks themselves still construct the dialogue surrounding the foreclosure crisis- a dialogue that they have managed to keep positive throughout the years of the foreclosure crisis.  In an examination of the marketing used by banking industries, this discussion will examine the utilization of the American Dream and how this dream has profited banks and hurt individuals.  We will discuss the impact of meritocracy and personal responsibility as it pertains to finances and the banks’ manipulation to profit off of being both the problem and the solution to the foreclosure crisis. 

The LGBT community around the globe has faced oppression long enough. It is unacceptable that people and couples are denied rights, simply because of their sexual orientation. Currently Australian citizens are fighting against such repression. The Australian national ALP Platform has yet to pass legislation allowing equal rights for same sex couples. On December 3rd thousands will join together in Sydney, Australia to let their voices be heard and battle against this discrimination.

Occupy Chicago will join Sydney in their action, through a solidarity march. The march will begin at headquarters and end at the Office of the City Clerk. Speakers will be present to show vocal support for the fair and equal rights of the LGBT community not in just Sydney, but globally. This will be an international solidarity action day, with similar solidarity coming from The UK and Germany.


Find out more information on Sydney's Rally here:
http://www.caah.org.au/

If you wish to distribute fliers for this event, you may find them here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?2k3bu39d1lavi0l

John C. from Oak Park, a professional mediator, will present some basic mediation techniques, then our own Lynette D. will present on deescalation techniques.     Meet at HQ and go someplace warm.

This teach-in looks at ways in which video has been used as a tool for political and social means throughout history. Beyond normative video forms, how else can video be utilized as a tool for self-reflection, activism, and artistic means, Gregg Bordowitz, film and video maker, will talk about 1970s and 80s activist video collectives and the different strategies and techniques they employed. Afterwards, there will be a facilitated discussion and brainstorming session with people interested in working with this medium.

FRIDAY: UIC VICTORY RALLY / UNWELCOME JOHN TOLVA STILL ON!
Rahm Running Scared: Mayor 1% Cancels Friday UIC Appearance

From Occupy UIC:

Despite the mayor's cancellation we are still protesting.



THE ISSUES HAVE NOT GONE AWAY AND NEITHER ARE WE!



The speaking event sponsored by UIC is still happening. The cowardly Mayor, unable to face the 99%, is sending one of his corporate cronies, former IBM executive and current City Chief of Technology John Tolva, to speak in his place. 

We see it as a victory that the Mayor refuses to show his face on campus.
 Now lets all turn out for a victory rally and continue to build the movement against corporate greed and for human needs!

Cancellation email to UIC Students:

Dear Honors College Students:

I am passing along this message from the Department of Political Science. Please note that the Honors College will still have reserved seating at the front of the room, and that you are very much encouraged to bring your questions along to pose to Mr. Tolva. I look forward to seeing you there.

Due to schedule changes, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel will not be able to make remarks on campus on December 2nd for the "Future of Chicago" lecture series. John Tolva, Chief Technology Officer for the City of Chicago, will represent the Emanuel administration as the new guest speaker. He will address the administration's vision for the city's future, beginning at noon in the Illinois Room, Student Center East.

As chief technology officer, Tolva has been appointed by Mayor Emanuel to leverage technology to ensure that the city delivers better services at a lower cost to taxpayers. Before joining the city, Tolva worked at IBM for over 13 years. In his most recent capacity, he served as the director of citizenship and technology for IBM where he was responsible for developing new social, educational, environmental, and cultural heritage projects that use innovative technologies in partnership with nonprofit institutions and governmental entities. His team developed programs that performed tasks ranging from contributing idle processing power to the search for a cure to HIV to matching employees with community volunteer opportunities. All of these initiatives align with the goals and interests of Honors College students and faculty.

Mayor Emanuel has agreed to reschedule his appearance for next semester. Both Mr. Tolva's and Mayor Emanuel's appearances are part of the Future of Chicago Lecture Series, co-sponsored by the UIC Honors College Leadership Series (funded through the Caterpillar Foundation), the Department of Political Science, the Institute for Policy and Civic Engagement, the Great Cities Institute and the Office of Social Science Research.

Best wishes,
Dean Hall

This event is planned by the National Nurses United as Solidarity Rally for UK nurses and public sector workers.  A link to the flyer is below.

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A severe housing crisis is gripping families and communities across the United States. Since the fall of 2008, the US Government purchased millions of foreclosed properties from banks through the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). The concrete result has been the transfer of $1.5 trillion in public wealth into the hands of private institutions and individuals to preserve their fortunes. While taking money from everyday workers and handing it over to huge, too big to fail, financial institutions helped forestall the collapse of the world's financial markets, it has not prevented the displacement and dispossession of millions of ordinary families. The banks have been saved, but the people have been abandoned. Because billions of dollars in public funds were used to buy these homes, we assert those homes are now public housing and must be used to solve the housing crisis by providing homes to millions of families and individuals. The Take Back the Land Movement has directly challenged those laws which allow banks to reap record profits while millions of families face eviction and homelessness. Challenging unjust laws requires a protracted direct action campaign of civil disobedience designed to prioritize people over profits in a tangible way. As such, the Movement focuses on defending families against eviction and “liberating” vacant government owned and foreclosed homes, moving homeless people into people-less homes. Learn the strategies and tactics that have been successfully utilized in the struggle to reclaim for the 99% the open spaces withheld from them by the 1%.

THIS EVENT IS HOSTED BY OCCUPY CHICAGO & COMMUNITIES UNITED AGAINST FORECLOSURE AND EVICTION

A flier for the event is here. 

Every morning, the CPD comes and helps solve childhood obesity and heart disease by making the Occupiers walk around in circles while chanting slogans such as "Whom do you protect, whom do you serve?".

(This event is only a test of the new committee event system, and the content is meant to be taken as a joke)

UPDATE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED FOR NOW, AND WILL BE RE-SCHEDULED VERY SHORTLY. 

Jose is a local activist that was crucial to the immigrant right marches of 2007 and 2008, the work against deportations, and the continuing fight for justice in the immigrant community, especially fighting the polimigra in Cook and surrounding counties.  Rigo has been central to the radicalization and organization of young immigrant students here in Chicago and as a participant in the DREAM movement nationally. His own case against deportation was an important victory not only locally but nationally against the criminalization of immigrants. Both will tell of their experiences and the immigrant rights movement and lead a discussion on immigrants and the 99%. 

Ideology is a term frequently used in conversations about/within political movements.  It has been a recurrent concept in previous teach-ins, with many ideas forming and circulating regarding what exactly we understand ideology to be. Using some of philosopher Slavoj Žižek's analysis of ideology we will focus on unpacking some of this term's complexity.  Our explorative mapping will range from: critiques of ideology as a matrix that generates notions of what is considered, permanent, changeable, necessary, contingent to the notion of  a 'lying in the guise of truth' to an idea of ideology forming around a series of moments;  doctrine, belief and ritual. As we discuss some of these facets and dimensions, we will look to some of our experiences we have had thus far at Occupy Chicago to explore how we might reflect on our past and ongoing actions and ideas.

In 1957, a group of artists and intellectuals who called themselves The Situationists formes in a small town in Italy. This teach in is an examination of this group's rhetoric, art, and most importantly their influence in the May 1968 student protests in Paris. First, we will go over key terms: Baudelaire's 'flaneur', Debord's idea of 'derive', as well as some of the key notions behind The Society of the Spectacle.  Lastly, we will look at some common graffitti slogans used in Paris in May '68 (http://www.bopsecrets.org/CF/graffiti.htm).

Debord's work The Society of the Spectacle can be found online here

A veteran and a representative of We are Not Your Soldiers will speak for 10-15 minutes. We Are Not Your Soldiers is a project of World Can't Wait that visits high schools and colleges to talk with young people about why they should resist being recruited into fighting and dying in U.S. imperialist wars. Veterans give first hand accounts of their experiences in the military life and war, and a representative of We Are Not Your Soldiers gives an overall picture of what these U.S. wars are about and why young people have a responsibility to resist fighting in immoral and illegitimate wars. We will then open it up for question and comments. More information on We Are Not Your Soldiers can be found here: http://www.wearenotyoursoldiers.org/

This discussion will also provide an opportunity for Occupy Chicago to discuss the intimate relationship between the economic crisis and contemporary forms of imperialist warfare, to link the so-called 'civilizing mission' of American interventions abroad to their underlying initiative, which is the control over new markets and the accumulation of capital. 

Chicago has demolished nearly all of its public housing through the Plan for Transformation, which began in 1999. While new housing is being built in mixed income communities, overall, Chicago will lose 14,000 units of public housing through the Plan in a moment when the country is experiencing a housing crisis. We will discuss the ideology behind the Plan in Chicago and nationally, its execution, and current debates surrounding ongoing redevelopment.

This workshop will explore how Occupy Chicago can become a more inclusive movement and a safer space for transgender and gender non-conforming folks. We plan to explore this topic with the group by doing a trans* 101, a deconstruction of the gender binary, and discussing strategies on how to be a gender affirming ally to trans* and gender non-conforming people interested in contributing their voices and talents to the movement. We will also connect how capitalism and corporate hegemony have a vested interest in reinforcing the gender binary. Similarly, we will discuss how being trans* or gender non-conforming can affect your labor opportunities and job security.

Interactive Model: We hope to break the group down into smaller discussion circles of people, each with a discussion facilitator present from Feminist Front. We believe that smaller groups help to facilitate more egalitarian practices of communication with regard to who is speaking and whose ideas are being put forth on behalf of the movement. We hope that this format will cause the attendees to consider the power dynamics of speech within the Occupy Chicago movement and how that relates to identity politics and gender.

In this interactive workshop participants will:

1. Explore the reach of the Prison Industrial Complex (PIC) into our everyday lives. Critical Resistance has defined the PIC as a term we use to describe the overlapping interests of government and industry that use surveillance, policing, and imprisonment as solutions to what are, in actuality, economic, social, and political problems.
2. Examine currently and formerly incarcerated peoples' movements including the recent prisoner hunger strikes in California and Palestine as well as the Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted Peoples Movement (FICPM) National Platform.
3. Articulate the relationship between currently and formerly incarcerated people to the Occupy/Decolonize movement and how the 99% can stand in solidarity with communities most affected by the PIC.

Seen around the world, John Carlos and Tommie Smith’s Black Power salute on the 1968 Olympic podium sparked controversy and career fallout. Yet their show of defiance remains one of the most iconic images of Olympic history and the Black Power movement.

Come hear the remarkable story of one of the men behind the salute, lifelong activist, John Carlos, who will appear along with the co-author of his recent autobiography, Nation sports editor Dave Zirin.

It is no secret that student loan debt in the US has ballooned over the past 20 years, recently surpassing credit card debt.  This bubble has increased in lockstep with spiraling school costs and a worsening job market. It is no coincidence that in addition to being the most lucrative, student debt is also the most punishable of all forms of debt. This teach-in has three aims: first,  to highlight the political and economic modalities of the student debt bubble; second, to discuss the lived consequences students (current and former) face, and third, to open up a dialogue about building a citywide radical campaign to mobilize against the escalating immiseration that faces anyone who wishes to educate themselves in an increasingly privatized, neoliberal system of university education.

Note: DePaul Students will be meeting at 4:30 PM sharp in the Quad to head down together to the Occupy Chicago site for this event. All are welcome to join.

Occupy Chicago is hosting a teach in about non-violent direct action at our HQ (in front of the Federal Reseve Bank at Jackson and LaSalle).

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Jeffrey Haas, author of The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther, will give a historical teach-in at OccupyChicago. On December 4th, 1969, Chicago police raided Fred Hampton’s apartment and shot and killed him in his bed. He was just twenty-one years old. Black Panther leader Mark Clark was also killed in the raid. While authorities claimed the Panthers had opened fire on the police who were there to serve a search warrant for weapons, evidence later emerged that told a very different story: that the FBI, the Cook County state’s attorney’s office and the Chicago police conspired to assassinate Fred Hampton.