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Protestors gathered as part of a “multi-city economic blockade” opposing the war in Gaza blocked inbound traffic to O’Hare Airport Monday morning. According to a website designed for the April 15 protest, the action aims to “identify and blockade major choke points in the economy, focusing on points of production and circulation.”
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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It would make more sense if the protesters joined the fight, join Hamas/Hezbollah and really take an active role on their homeland. Protesting from afar then retreating to a local coffee house appears hypocritical.
Call them pro-Hamas protesters or pro-terrorists protesters. That’s more accurate.
There WAS a cease fire that Hamas broke on October 7th. Hamas has no honor.
Please please please keep this up until Election Day.
This behavior needs to stop. Prison terms of 10 years or longer should do the trick. Or else just drive over them like a speed bump.
So these young people think it is cute to disrupt other people’s lives – other people not connected to the Middle East, and just going about their business. And no politician tells the cops to immediately remove these jerks from the roadway. Not the mayor, the governor, or the US Senator. Why fund an airport expansion if these politicians do not think it is critical infrastructure to keep open?
DO THEY WORK OR ARE WE SUPPORTING THEM ALSO????
on some news sights it looks like just 15 protesters blocking traffic at O’Hare…ridiculous!!!