After the National Nurses United rally at Daley Plaza ended, a smaller group of protesters moved north to Michigan Avenue... then back south, leading cops in a slow cat-and-mouse game. Read more
Daley Plaza was filled this afternoon by National Nurses United, a rally headlined by Tom Morello and part of an international day of action in support of a "robin hood tax" on financial trades. Read more
Chicago's most famous activist couple talks about the "military arm of the one percent" with Amy Goodman; plus, a handy rundown of what's important inside McCormick Place this weekend. Read more
Memories of 1968 give protesting an association with speaking, writing, performance, and rhetoric. Occupy concerns itself with something less ephemeral: space, and things. Read more
A roundup of guides, events, people to follow on Twitter, livestreams to watch, and more for NATO weekend, whether you want to participate, follow from a safe distance, or just figure out what's going on Read more
What people are protesting—it's not just NATO by a long shot; concerns about NATO and unilateralism; local vs. international coverage; and more Read more
A new paper suggests that big-city subway systems around the world are all converging towards one mathematically modeled shape: a core-and-branch structure that will look familiar to Chicagoans. And it looks an awful lot like what some early Chicago sociologists thought, too. Read more
NATO responds to its ongoing existential crisis by offering "Smart Defense": inexpensive military services for the new austerity. Did they mention their lubrication and fuel nozzle services? Read more
On the agenda at NATO: getting out of Afghanistan and turning it over to the Afghan security forces; getting Pakistan to let us get out through their country; making sure Russia doesn't shoot missiles at the European missile shield, at least before it's done; giving North Atlantic countries something to do besides world war. Read more
