Occupy the Dream on MLK Day!
Here’s where we will be at from Occupy Chi:
MONDAY, JANUARY 16
3:00-4:30pm
Occupy the Dream Action
Location: Jackson/LaSalle in front of the Federal Reserve
Join the Metropolitan Chicago area African-American Faith Community and Trinity UCC to protest fraudulent foreclosures and astronomical student debt. Bus transportation provided at Trinity UCC, 400 W. 95th St (boarding at 1:30pm, departing at 2pm)
4:30pm
Liberate the Southside: Re-occupation of a vacant home
Location: TBA at 3pm Rally.
Following the action at Jackson and LaSalle, we will go directly into the communities hit hardest by the foreclosure crisis and reclaim a boarded up home to give it to a family in need.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 17
9:00am-2:30pm
Defend our right to dissent: Jan 17 Chicago City Council Hearings
Location: Chicago City Hall, LaSalle & Washington
Chicago City Council committees are meeting to consider proposed ordinance changes that will crush basic constitutional freedoms, from free speech to the right to assemble and protest. While the immediate target is NATO/G8 organizing, the changes will be permanent — and gut public expression that ranges from union pickets to Occupy Chicago protests. Send a message to aldermen that Chicagoans oppose Mayor Emanuel’s assault on basic freedoms. Attend the City Council hearings on 1/17, and spread the word!
