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Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley surprised many in the Chicago peace community with remarks he made in a February speech, lamenting the misallocation of American funds towards war and the presumed paucity of antiwar activism.
Activists quickly decried Mayor Daley for hypocrisy in his remarks, given that since 2003 he has acted repeatedly to suppress, intimidate, arrest, and otherwise block grassroots Chicago peace activists and antiwar protest. Peace activists repeatedly challenged Daley to support his words with actions â including calling for the end of abusive practices by Chicago police and ending the militarization of Chicago peace protests and Chicago public schools.
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CHICAGO â Federal Judge Wayne R. Andersen issued an historic ruling on Friday in Chicago, allowing a lawsuit that charges former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld with authorizing torture to go forward. Rumsfeld argued that, as a high-placed government official, he was immune from allegations of torture and that the Constitution allowed a person in his position to order interrogation techniques that are widely considered by human rights experts to be torture. The Court rejected both arguments and held that high-placed cabinet officials can be held personally liable if they authorize the use of torture. Read more.
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The March episode of Chicago Independent Television features tenants from the Kimbark Housing project taking on Chicago City Hall, commemorative events in Chicago around the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Black Panther Fred Hampton, a trailer from the forthcoming film "Workers Republic" about the famed Republic Windows and Doors sit-in strike, and a short film called "Zombie Apocalypse" about a Chicago perspective of the health care debate of 2009.
Read more about Episode 55 | CIMC TV Podcast | CIMC Video Page | CITV on YouTube
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The February episode of Chicago Indymedia's radio program "From The Trenches" features a report from the Vancouver Media Co-op of Chicago anti-Olympics activist Martin Macias, who was stopped at the U.S. Canada border; Cynthia McKinney, who spoke in Chicago about her involvement in progressive politics and in Middle East activism; and an interview with freelance journalist Jessica Pupovac who spoke about how a story she wrote helped lead to the release of Michael Tillman, a Chicago man unjustly jailed for 23 years.
Download February episode | Chicago Indymedia's radio page | CIMC / FTT Radio podcast feed
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From the newswire: "Martin Macias, Jr., a credentialed freelance journalist who contributes to Vocalo.org, the online and new media outlet for Chicago Public Radio, was turned back from the Canadian border late Saturday night.
"[Macias] was a lead organizer for No Games Chicago, the all-volunteer citizens group that opposed the Chicago bid for the 2016 Olympics. [Macias] was part of the No Games delegations that went to the International Olympic Committee's international headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland and then to Copenhagen, Denmark to deliver materials documenting the reasons why Chicago should not have been awarded the games. [Macias] was an invited guest a conference critical of the 2010 Vancouver games and...
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