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About 300 anti-war activists crowded into the basement of the Teamsters Union’s headquarters in Chicago on Saturday to hear organizers from all over the country describe their plans to disrupt the Democratic National Convention this August.
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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At least the commies were smart enough to wear masks, considering the high amount of communicable diseases their fellow travelers carry.
And Chicago media didn’t cover this newsworthy event?
All masked-up, perhaps for fear of measles and TB transmission, tshirt-clad pudgy American progressives are chanting anti-American slogans in Persian. They’re basically calling for violence towards all Americans; this is not benign “mostly peaceful” planning of protests here in Chicago. Where are the journalists to report what’s happening in basement of teamsters union hall?
Tribune had an article about it. Which however did not say where it was held.
Does this mean Teamsters are joining taxpayer funded CTU as a anti-Israel/ antisemitic organization?
Sure looks like it. Teamsters are all scum anyway
They always look like this: