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US Conference of Mayors Invited Guests: Alberto Gonzalez

This is a recap of an ealier post (please post to the upcoming events), with new information.
Exciting New Details: The US Conference of Mayors, June 10-14 at the Chicago Hilton & Towers, has recently come out with a draft agenda. Among the most exciting details are as follows:

June 11 - 4pm-5:30pm - The Education and Transportation committees meet, a great time to raise concerns about current plans for the CTA service cuts/fare increases and the Ren2010 plan.

June 13 - 8am to Noon - Homeland Security Task Force convenes, followed by addresses by invited guests Michael Chertoff, Secretary for the DHS, and Alberto Gonzales, Attorney General.


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The ISOSI Collective discovers yet another chance for resistance in a sea of power...An activist community can do all of the research in the world, and still miss so many opportunities for resistance. Yet once again, we see an example of this as the U.S. Conference of Mayors lurks into our fair city in mid-June.



Renaissance 2010...
CTA Doomsday Budget...
Minority Contract Scandals...
Cook County mass beatings...

Chicago is a city that is crumbling. As in many other comparable major cities, there is a massive long-term scheme to privatize and gentrify as much of the cityscape as possible, whilst simultaneously our 'imperial' urban executive carries out quick pay-offs in a ring of cronyism and nepotism thicker than Ecoli in South Side beaches.

And we are not alone. As the city plans to shutter up to 60-70 public secondary schools and vastly renovate public education in favor of privatized, militarized and/or non-unionized shools, other districts in major cities observe and begin to surmize similar plans. And while the city threatens to deconstruct the public transit system, eliminating thousands of jobs, vastly reducing services and still somehow having the cajones to threaten increased fares, other major cities execute the same orders, from Pennsylvania to Indiana.

The internal machinations of our city are never isolated from those of other cities' around the nation, be they due to the overwhelming power of a truly imperialist federal government, or the crippling control of corporate capitalist interests, the struggles in all cities are the same overall.

The United States Conference of Mayor descends upon our little city like a dinner party of robber barons divying up the assets of a semi-colony, on June 10-14.

Are you telling us you plan to just sit back and let them?
 
 

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