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Chicago has emerged as a national locus for the cease-fire movement since the violence began October 7 with what have been a seemingly countless number of persistent marches, nonviolent direct actions and other efforts to demand immediate peace and an end to the occupation and system of apartheid in Palestine.
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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Chicagoans should perhaps focus on a cease fire on their own City streets before putting their nose in other’s business…just sayin
Spot on Bender. Let’s start at Innovation High School and march to the south and west sides.
The picture shows a “peaceful” protester with a sign reading “from the river to the sea”. That is NOT a peaceful message. Palestinians are fine with genocide as long as they are the ones doing the exterminating. There will never be peace between these two sides, no matter what the mealy mouthed politicians say.
I’m so old I remember when there wasn’t a Middle East presence in America. Wonder how importing 3rd world types got started? Ted Kennedy (a Dem of course) thought America was too American and desired the country to become unrecognizable. Karma is a bitch though and a Palestinian murdered his brother Bobby.