Friday, May 18, 2012

US veterans protest Nato's occupation of Chicago


The security operation against antiwar protest in Chicago is more disturbing evidence of the militarised policing of dissent

Amy Goodman
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 17 May 2012

"Veterans of the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan are now challenging the occupation of Chicago.

This week, Nato, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is holding the largest meeting in its 63-year history there. Protests and rallies will confront the two-day summit, facing off against a massive armed police and military presence. The Nato gathering has been designated a "national special security event" by the Department of Homeland Security, empowering the US secret service to control much of central Chicago, and to employ unprecedented authority to suppress the public's first amendment right to dissent....."

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