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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFor those imagining/fearing Chicago convention riots a la 1968...
...the Chicago PD is now 50% non-White (25% Hispanic, 21% African American, 3% AAPI) and Mayor Daley is no longer in charge.
Elessar Zappa
(14,139 posts)Not saying there will be but theres a possibility of trouble.
former9thward
(32,146 posts)The Coalition to March on the DNC has tried three times to secure a permit to march from the citys West Side to the United Center but has been rejected every time, prompting the group to file a lawsuit claiming their First Amendment rights are being violated.
Bill Ayers, the former anti-war activist who was arrested during the convention that year, says the stalling by city officials echoes the infamous 1968 convention when then Mayor Richard J. Daley's "strategy was to keep the protest groups talking and negotiating, and then to deny, deny, deny. It was rope-a-dope plus delay, then deny. The goal was to divert attention and energy from planning a protest, Ayers, who lives in Chicago, recalled.
It didnt work. Protests occurred anyway and became violent when police used nightsticks on the crowd.
Kobi Guillory, a spokesperson for the Coalition to March on the DNC, says protests will happen in August whether or not organizers are able to secure permits.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/democrats-descend-on-chicago-as-specter-of-68-convention-looms/ar-BB1lEnC0
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,517 posts)Fiendish Thingy
(15,707 posts)I could see AOC and other members of the Squad speaking to the protestors, and saying something like this:
Link to tweet
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LeftInTX
(25,783 posts)There will be RW agitators etc.
emulatorloo
(44,268 posts)There were no Free Speech Zones in 68. Brooklynite is also correct about the police and Mayor Dailey, they completely overreacted.
LeftInTX
(25,783 posts)The DPS Riot Squad at UT were basically police brutality.
It could go either way.....
emulatorloo
(44,268 posts)LeftInTX
(25,783 posts)For this reason, I'm glad the Dems didn't select Houston for their convention.
to RW agitators and who knows who else.
Fiendish Thingy
(15,707 posts)As the song says, Que sera, sera.
Milwaukee will have protestors too.
BootinUp
(47,213 posts)emulatorloo
(44,268 posts)LuvLoogie
(7,071 posts)The Chicago lakefront will call. Mayor Johnson should set up free shuttles from the United Center to the museum campus, Buckingham fountain and North Avenue Beach