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On the sunny afternoon, the rally amassed a group of more than 100 people in Federal Plaza, attracting curious tourists and passersby. Speakers represented Chicago organizations including the U.S. Palestinian Community Network, the Chicago Torture Justice Center, GoodKids MadCity, Southsiders Organizing for Unity and Liberation and the Arab American Action Network.
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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😂 Wow over 100! What a crowd!
These tribal gatherings of mostly white affluent leftists haven’t been the same since the USAID funds for rent-a-mobs got cut off. Such a small group of lefty extremists. Pathetic.
After watching Chicago and other blue cities descend into chaos in the wake of the ‘defund the police’ insanity, these NPR customers still cling to their narrative. Less of them is a good thing for regular Chicagoans.
Absolutely spot on abut the drop in attendance at the Democrats/Socialists camera staged ‘protests’ now that taxpayer provided rent-a-mob funding has been crushed.
On Memorial Day when are great men and woman of are armed services sacrificed there lives to protect are freedom the leftist news media and others have to bring up this pos looser such pieces of garbage, thank you to all who protect us, thank you my son.
This is ran over Memorial Day weekend, when the focus should be on those who died defending our country. But instead of focusing on local families who have lost a loved one, they focused on a handful of leftists who despise the police and our president. I loathe the Tribune.
George Floyd killed himself via drug overdose, heart failure, and criminality. Derek Chauvin’s railroading is a stain on Minnesota and the USA’s honor!
In a city of millions with important problems to solve and news to report, the tribune choses to report on 100 people with nothing to do.
All who showed up for the rally are a waste of space.
Me thinks most of these people took da short bus to school!!