Transportation to May 20 NATO Protest





TRANSPORTATION TO MAY 20, 2012 NATO PROTESTS

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MAP OF GRANT PARK Petrillo Bandshell Location in downtown Chicago


Petrillo Bandshell is located in Grant Park. It is one and a half blocks east of Michigan Avenue, behind the Art Institute, and then across Columbus Drive. It is between the east-west streets Jackson Drive on the south and Monroe Street on the north. It is just south of the eastern side of Millennium Park.

WALKING: Located in heart of downtown.

BIKES: Bike racks located in locations in park and on Michigan Avenue.

Bike facilities located at McDonald's Cycle Center in Millennium Park near Randolph Street and Columbus Drive. It is #3 on THIS DETAILED MAP OF MILLENNIUM PARK,   near the top left. Bike parking, lockers, showers, bike repair, outdoor eating tables.

CTA TRAINS:

Red Line - exit Jackson and State. Walk east on Jackson 4 blocks.

Orange (Midway), Brown, Green, Purple, Pink Lines - exit Van Buren/ Harold Washington Library, walk east on Van Buren 4 blocks; then one block north.

Blue Line (O'HARE) - exit Jackson and Dearborn, walk east on Jackson 5 blocks.

METRA South Shore Train - exit Van Buren Street. Walk 2 blocks east and one block north.

CTA BUSSES:

Lines 3, 4, 6, 14, 26, 143, 145, 147, 148 - exit Michigan and Jackson. Walk east on Jackson one and a half blocks.

DRIVING: Not recommended.

NATO PROTEST PRAYER SERVICE

 NATO Summit Protest March
Sunday, May 20, 10:00 am
Methodist Temple, Washington and Clark
Prayer Service - Blessing for the March
10:00 am Outside
After the prayer blessing join the march to Grant Park for the NATO Summit Protest.
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Bring your families, children, musical instruments, signs, props, cameras, balloons, bicycles, horns, kazoos,
funny hats and all other merry-making apparatus.
After the prayer blessing join the march to Grant Park for the NATO Summit Protest.
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Why are we protesting NATO?
NATO is a military collective of 28 nations, bound together by an all-for-one and one-for-all alliance, a
policy that provides the rationale for a constant state of combat. NATO action has contributed to an
unprecedented proliferation of weapons and weapons commerce worldwide; increased international
geopolitical tensions and economic catastrophes. Worst of all - the existence of NATO has diminished
commitment to the enterprise of peaceful diplomacy.

The US gave NATO over $800 million in 2011. As the European Nations step up their austerity programs
and cut their defense budgets, we taxpayers in the US will be required to fund even more weapons, more
drones, more wars and more money for the $1 Billion NATO headquarters currently under construction in
Brussels.

Using Chicago as a "Global Crossroads" NATO comes to us to plot their next wars. We gather in protest to
tell NATO to SHUT IT DOWN. Close the doors. We can't afford you anymore. We don't need you
anymore. We want to spend our money plotting peace, not war.

We gather in protest to say WE ARE SORRY to those countries whose innocents have been victimized by
NATO. We are sorry for giving our hard-earned dollars to an organization that has killed your innocent
children, your mothers, your fathers, your sisters and brothers. And WE ARE SORRY to our own children
and grandchildren and fellow citizens because we have been silent about our government funding a war
machine instead of saving our air and water and plants and animals and giving our grandmothers and
grandfathers a secure and healthy dotage.

- MLK, Jr.: "History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident
clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people."

FREE BUS trips to Chicago NATO


FREE BUS trips to Chicago NATO

 THIS WAS IN 2012 -- THIS ALREADY HAPPENED.  

UPDATE MAY 12, 2012:

Free Busses to Chicago NATO.  Paid by National Nurses United.  From various cities - must get 50 people signed up at a city to run the bus.  New York, Los Angeles, Oakland, Washington, DC, Atlanta, Portland, Philadelphia, Boston, San Francisco, etc.

UPDATE MAY 12: Many of the busses are full now, but if interested, check the website for info.

SIGN UP NOW for FREE BUS TO CHICAGO NATO:  
 http://99solidarity.net/chicago/chicago-trip-sign-up/

notes from the 99 Solidarity:

*  The Bus trip is free.

* 50 people from each city must sign up and board the bus for the trip to take place. If a city has less then 50 sign ups, then we may have to cancel the bus for that city.

* Meals will be provided on board the bus to and from Chicago.

* We are working on housing and meals while in Chicago.

There are several direct actions and events that we will participate in while in Chicago including:
 
May 18 – The People’s Summit
May 19 – the 99% Solidarity People’s Convention
May 20 – CANG8 rally and march.

LOTS OF INFO ON HOUSING, WHAT TO EXPECT IN CHICAGO, ETC:
CHICAGO NATO SUMMIT PROTESTS
Transportation to May 20 NATO protest
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