Nurse Parade Rerouted
The city of Chicago today yanked a permit for the first demonstration planned for the weekend of the NATO summit in a dispute over where the National Nurses United can hold its rally May 18.
The organization says it has begun talks with American Civil Liberties Union lawyers about a challenge to the city’s about-face. "If the nurses are a threat to Rahm Emanuel, then heaven help the U.S.," said RoseAnn DeMoro, executive director of National Nurses United.
Chicago's Department of Transportation approved the march from the Sheraton Hotel in Streeterville to Daley Plaza months ago, but on Tuesday the California-based group received word the city had changed the terms, according to DeMoro.
In a letter to march organizers, city officials said they needed to move the ending rally of the march from Daley Plaza in the center of the Loop to the Petrillo Music Shell because the nurses' group had recently added rocker Tom Morello, formerly of Rage Against the Machine, as a speaker and performer.
We can only hope he gives Thayer's chain a big yank in the coming days.
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posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
22 Comments:
RAGE !!!!!!! \m/\m/
Long live metal!!!!!!
You're probably right. Intel coming in about the turnout expected has nothing to do with it right?
tom morello is another communist asshole.
Nurses refused to surrender rooms they booked at Sheraton to Obama's crew. Therefore they had to be shown who is the boss.
I went to high school with Tom Morello, he was the only person the entire school hated with a passion (includes the teachers and staff)
My wife has been a nurse for Advocate Healthcare for almost 20 years and I'm pretty sure none of their nurses are union. She's not anyway. Where are all these union nurses working?
if ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face
"Intel coming in about the turnout expected has nothing to do with it right?"
--5/09/2012 12:21:00 AM
"Intel."
Please.
"Intel" has everything to do with it, Andy. The letter from the city said so -- as you know perfectly well.
The more demonstrators, the farther they get shunted off to minimize the damage they want to do -- to keep them out of the hair of the 99% as much as possible.
"Use Any Tactic," remember -- or do you people only say that on RT TV from Moscow, where I see you all the time?
"tom morello is another communist asshole."
--5/09/2012 12:50:00 AM
This RoseAnn DeMoro calls her nurses' union "a clearinghouse for Left politics."
Birds of a feather...
RoseAnn DeMoro,
"RAGE !!!!!!! \m/\m/
Long live metal!!!!!!"
--5/09/2012 12:05:00 AM
Rage.
>pfft<
Oh, thanks for the reminder.
Don't forget your EARPLUGS, everybody. "Demonstrator chants, bucket boys drumming, bands, etc."
...and the aspirin.
Wait a second.
The City of Chicago GAVE Occupy use of the Petrillo Bandshell for FREE, and WAIVED THE INSURANCE REQUIREMENTS.
You could not ask for more "special treatment."
Andy Thayer actually said that they would "grudgingly accept" that which other people have to shell out good money for.
Now, these "nurses" ARE COMPLAINING ABOUT HAVING TO USE THE BANDSHELL -- and the police are being called "hired goons" and marked out as "violent."
How gracious of these uninvited visitors to our city.
...and it's still not enough. They want free housing while they're here smashing things -- as we have already seen happen all over the country.
Unbelievable.
A great story came out of the San Francisco "May Day" assault -- they tried to close down a restaurant, and the restaurant owners, workers, and patrons fought them off until police arrived.
The restaurant stayed open -- just the way the 99% wanted it.
Occupy constantly tries to split the "people" off from the "police." It didn't work there, did it?
Probably no one even noticed that Occupy's "May Day" production in Chicago drew virtually no comment whatsoever here. Just another inconsequential crowd control job that has been done many times before.
Don't get cocky just because you hear some grousing on the police web log about things that don't concern you; what is said over coffee and what is done on the job, on the street in an emergency, are two entirely different things.
The talk stops and the business gets taken care of.
"Fat" and "old" and "decrepit" and so forth are products of Andy Thayer's unpleasant imagination. Don't get hurt because of him.
You act up, and it is a simple fact that this city can -- and does routinely -- produce a sea of blue lights in moments. We're going to have a lot of help, too -- and there's plenty of room for you in the jailhouse.
This is a place in which the doors are steel, and there is no handle on your side. You will not like it.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/07/18/us/18cook_01_600.jpg
Handcuffs are "one size fits all" and you will not like them either.
We would rather not have the hassle -- the 99% need police, fire, and paramedic services on a daily basis. Don't take away from sick people and crime victims and fire protection because you want attention.
First responders have enough on their hands without having to deal with a large temper tantrum.
You want to change things, go shopping for an old person. Teach a kid to read. Hire an ex-con. Help clean up after a bad storm.
The Sixties are not to be found here in Chicago, kids. They were over nearly half a century ago -- and they were not nearly what they were made out to be.
Take it from someone who was here for it all.
Be nice.
Welcome to politics, Shitcago Style.
Just remember, Rham said he moved it for the children!!!! HAH!!!!
Two good posts from farther down the blog --
"You know, that "National Nurses United" has over 100,000 members -- and it is certain that a lot of them joined for reasons other than to be part of a "clearing house for Left politics," as one of the officials calls it.
"The situation reminds me of AARP -- a lot of people joined to get the insurance, prescription coverage, etc., not because of its radical anti-gun, pro-nanny agenda.
"It is sad to see how these NGOs are co-opted and steered from the top, using the money of a broad base of members at the bottom."
--5/08/2012 03:08:00 PM
...and here comes first-hand confirmation.
"My wife is a nurse and is also a part of that union. I was the
one who informed her about her union sending nurses to NATO. She said the funny thing is that they never notified anyone or took a vote about going. This was done behind their backs (sound familiar?)...
"My wife has called her union to complain along with most of her coworkers...Almost every nurse I have meet is 100% pro-police. They know and see the shit we have to deal with. They are just as pissed off at their union as I am."
--5/08/2012 10:25:00 PM
There it is.
Suggestion -- The "800 nurses" who came here to be "a clearinghouse for Left politics" can stay in bed with Occupy.
The other 99,200 members can simply leave and form a union whose leadership reflects their interests.
No elections, no firings, no nothing. You will wrangle forever that way. Easier, simpler, quicker to just LEAVE, and re-organize.
There is nothing the leftists can do to stop that.
Uh oh, looks like a Certain DOC Commander and LT have some explaining to do. Despite warinigns from their underlings, of hey we shouldn't be doing that shit, looks like the drunk and the gimp thought they knew better.
http://chicagoist.com/2012/05/04/chicago_police_sought_assistance_fr.php
Good luck with this one Garry.
Why don't you march wherever and whenever you want have some balls your supppsed to be protesters believe me we do not have the man power, training or equipment to stop you and most of us don't care anyways 19 yr officer working days that will be there.
Why don't you march wherever and whenever you want have some balls your supppsed to be protesters believe me we do not have the man power, training or equipment to stop you and most of us don't care anyways 19 yr officer working days that will be there.
Can't wait to see what these "nurses" look like. Any asshole can put on a doctor or nurses costume and still throw Molitov coacktails at you. Fucking bastards.
hmmm
seems to we it's "test" to see if he can actually get away with it
the nurses should "test" too
just show up in groups and walk down the sidewalk The yellow brick road that ends in daley plaze and
hang out like everyone else?
what can rhambo do?
what can the police do?
as long as no one right of way is impeded and nothing damaged cant do or say anything
what about jesse saying he wants to just walk right down the road
Rhambo and McBlow havent made a squeak about that
and there is NO permit filed you watch jesse and company will over run the place and nothing will be said
the right to assemble peacebly is a just that that a Right
the only thing rhambo and McBlow can hope for is not many show up
a couple hundred they could handle that
a couple thousand and already your outnumbered
Funnel em to the bandshell and then charge them to get in.
Just like for the upcoming taste
To 02:51 - a non-story, asshole.
"a couple thousand and already your outnumbered"
--5/09/2012 06:50:00 PM
bullshit your just a lower-case txt msg illiterate omg lol
"The other 99,200 members can simply leave and form a union whose leadership reflects their interests.
"No elections, no firings, no nothing. You will wrangle forever that way. Easier, simpler, quicker to just LEAVE, and re-organize.
"There is nothing the leftists can do to stop that."
--5/09/2012 02:18:00 PM
I wasn't thinking of the union treasury when I wrote that. Can't let the commmunists keep that. It shouldn't be that hard to get rid of the leadership, though, when you have the vast majority against them.
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