Chicago Denies Parade Permit for NATO Summit Protest

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Published on Monday, March 19, 2012 by Common Dreams

Chicago Denies Parade Permit for NATO Summit Protest
Police 'training for urban warfare'

- Common Dreams staff



[font size="1"]Mayor Rahm Emanuel — who has had a battle of words over protest restrictions with activists since the original plans to host the G-8 and the NATO summits were announced last year — has repeatedly insisted that protesters’ First Amendment rights will be respected.[/font]


UPDATE: The City of Chicago has denied a parade permit for the Coalition Against NATO/G8 to protest the NATO summit -- after granting a permit to the very same group to march against the now relocated G8 summit. The parade application was the same as the one the city approved for a Saturday, May 19 protest against the G8 summit, which President Obama has now moved from Chicago to the remote presidential retreat at Camp David, Maryland.

But the Chicago Department of Transportation says that are not enough police to both regulate traffic and protect lawful protesters for a Sunday, May 20 NATO protest. The city proposed an alternative route away from McCormick Place, where the NATO Summit is being held. The Coalition Against NATO/G8 rejected the proposal Monday, but is open to negotiating an alternative route with the city.

The Chicago Tribune reports:

After approving a parade permit for a group protesting the G-8 and NATO summits in Chicago, the city has denied an identical application by the same group seeking to move their parade one day later in the wake of the White House’s decision to move the G-8 conference.

The demonstrators asked to move their march from Saturday, May 19, after word came that the G-8 meeting scheduled to start that day had been moved by President Barack Obama to Camp David. The protesters filed a permit that was identical to the one the city approved for Saturday, except the date of protest was moved to Sunday, May 20, when the NATO meeting is set to start. .................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/03/19-1

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1. Increasingly, we like our Constitution under glass in a display case

We can't be using any of those rights (well, unless you want to blow one of the other proles away - guns for all!), they'll get all smudged and dirty.

[xchrom]

2. Du rec. Nt

[CanonRay]

3. Why should you need a permit to exercise your constitutional rights?

The courts need to slap this shit down.

[Magoo48]

4. You don't need a permit; you need massive numbers.

Without the numbers, sadly, we are easy to control. Occupy huge!! What we have left without overwhelming participation is creativity.......and we have plenty of that thankfully.