For anyone who bothered to count, it was several times larger than a Tea Party rally held last year at the same location, the latter of which benefited from wall-to-wall advance publicity from The Tribune, Fox News, etc.


Three feeder marches--from the Hyatt, the Bean and the State of Illinois Plaza--converged on the Plaza. The one I was on, from the Hyatt, featured large turn-outs by teachers and HERE-Unite members.




Happening right about on the 43rd anniversary of the public sanitation workers' strike which Martin Luther King, Jr. was supporting before he was assassinated, the feeder march was led appropriately by the MLK Prep School Marching Band.



While much of the rally program focused on solidarity with Wisconsin workers facing down their Republican governor, the real "elephant in the room" was the question of how workers will deal with politicians here in Illinois.

I can't say that I listened very much to the program, but that which I did hear made no mention of how we must confront the coming attacks by Mayor-elect Rahmbo Emmanuel and his Democratic allies in state government.

















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